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In March we’ve organized the Heroes Happen {Here} event in Ghent, this event was completely sold out and we had to disappoint some of our customers / partners by closing registrations early. We have recorded the event and placed it onto our TechNet Chopsticks
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A few weeks ago we've released Hyper-V Release Candidate we've made quite some improvements read them on the virtualization blog , the one I want to focus on are the additional guest OS support and how to upgrade your beta environment. Additional Guest
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I had this in my inbox for quite a while now but finally found the time to share this with you. Group Policy preferences are made up of more than 20 new Group Policy client-side extensions (CSEs) that expand the range of configurable settings in a Group
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In my previous post I've talked about how to use base images to quickly deploy new servers in my Hyper-V environment. In this post we will configure the shared storage based on the microsoft iSCSI target software, in a real life environment you could
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Remember one of my previous posts around Configuring Windows Server 2008 Server Core with the inbox tools, now if don't like using commandline tools then this will definitively be your tool: CoreConfigurator Features: Product Activation Configuration
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A few days ago we released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to the web. RSAT is the collection of Windows Server 2008 management tools which enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their PCs running
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Last week we kicked of the Microsoft DreamSpark student program , this program ( http://channel8.msdn.com ) makes available, at no charge, a broad range of development and design software for download. The program is now available to more than 35 million
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Last week I gave a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 session for a Belgian partner and I had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT Pro's who attended my session and here is an excerpt of a mail I received from one of those IT Professionals
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The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. This series aims to clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, each addressing a unique infrastructure
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During the roadshow I delivered a few days ago I've received a lot of questions about the upgrade path for Windows Server 2008. Now the "Ask the Performance team" blog posted a very interesting article about the upgrade path and resource limitations
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Busy times over here, the last weeks, months I have been doing a lot of stuff, delivering a roadshow around Windows Server 2008, planning an Academic roadshow but most of all I've been working onto the agenda of our two upcoming events or is it one event.
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Filed under: Dev & IT Pro days, Event, Licensing, SQL Server 2008, Technet, Virtualization, Windows Server, MOSS 2007, Security, Vista, Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008, TechDays
The RPC Group, a packaging supplier with almost 30 plants in continental Europe, wanted to consolidate IT operations across multiple facilities. To streamline financial reporting and provide high availability, RPC decided to virtualize its environment
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There has been quite some noise around the talk that Eric Traut (Distinguished Engineer) give at the University of Illinois. During his talk Eric showed something is called MinWin which is a stripped kernel of Windows 7 that will be the basis of our future
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Since a few months now we see a shift and a decreasing adoption of Apache servers and Microsoft IIS gaining market share. Does this mean people are moving from Linux boxes to Windows Servers with ISS? Or do we just have more websites running on our install
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The DPM website has been updated ( www.microsoft.com/DPM ) - with new information on the upcoming release of DPM 2007, pricing/licensing details, and best of all - new downloads. We have a release candidate for DPM 2007 - and now everyone can start to
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Filed under: Announcement, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, System Center, Windows Server, Windows XP, Virtual Server, Vista, Exchange, Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008