The question posed in part 1 was Is the cost of ownership of your Microsoft client systems rising? Are you looking for ways to reduce the costs associated with deploying Windows and managing it thereafter? There are two solutions available to help combat...

Is the cost of ownership of your Microsoft client systems rising? Are you looking for ways to reduce the costs associated with deploying Windows and managing it thereafter? There are two solutions available to help combat these costs. In this 3 part post...

On Thursday, September 24, Mark Russinovich will host a virtual roundtable for IT Pros worldwide to discuss Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization. This is a chance for IT Pros to learn all about Windows 7 Application Compatibility...

The SQLServerFAQ site has some new content posted on SQL Server Certification, Data Mining, Analysis Services and SQL Server toolset. LiveMeeting recording of the An Evening with the Microsoft Learning Team - Understanding SQL Server Certification and...

Do you find yourself looking at your machine room and wondering “Why are there so many machines in there?” Often it’s just a question of having to run legacy applications or applications that are just too time consuming and expensive to consolidate onto...

You are invited to take beta exam 71-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. The 71-xxx identifier is...

After what seemed an age of waiting the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit is here. Now, is it worth the wait? Actually it is. Until now the best publication on Hyper-V was SAMS Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed, but this guide now takes that...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 RC helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility...

One problem I have using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V that I didn’t using VPC was the ability to point the differencing discs to one parent. This is a trick I use to share one Parent disc with multiple child discs within Hyper-V is to use a Hardlink. On...

As you may have noticed, there haven't been many entries on this blog for a while. I was having a minor break from blogging due to work. But I'm back now and will start posting again.

Getting up to speed on the latest Microsoft operating systems can be a challenge, lots to wade through and so little time. To help you, TechNet has put together a series of webcasts on Windows Server 2008 R2 to bring you the important information. This...

With the release of Windows 7 heading towards us rapidly, this is a great time to get skilled on the new features. To help with this, Microsoft TechNet is running a series of webcasts on Windows 7 covering the key feature changes and enhancements. These...

The company’s resident IT professional extraordinaire has just returned from a much-deserved vacation but, in a temporary spell of relaxed judgment, has jeopardized their reputation with a poorly placed email and forwarded personal holiday snaps to the...

This demonstration shows how to configure various user roles that have access to perform different tasks in Operations Manager. It also reviews how to deploy Operations Manager agents through the Operations Console. Configuring User Roles and Deploying...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 brings a new and rich set of technologies, features, and services to the Exchange Server product line. The List below lists many of the new features and functionality that are included in Exchange 2010. The list isn't comprehensive;...

I came across this the other day. A perfectly good working machine running Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. PowerPoint then started to fail when closing down. The event log showed the failure to be in MSO.DLL. This was the latest version for Office 2007...

We often get asked about the slides we create for the many presentations TechNet does around the World. For a trail basis the most recent versions are being posted on http://www.slideshare.net/TechNetEvents/slideshows We are also looking at posting the...

So here is something I found out the other day about the Sidebar and the Gadgets. You can drag the Gadget from the SlideBar and onto the desktop and thus minimise the Sidebar all together. It’s as simple as that. So now I’ve got the 3 clocks for the 3...

The TechNet Event Content team have posted 3 new videos and supporting materials covering Group Policy Preferences and scripting as well as a look at Windows and Open source running together to the TechNet Site The three session are:- Group Policy Preferences...

The TechNet Event Content team have posted 4 new Vista videos and supporting material to the TechNet Site The four session are:- Managing Windows Vista with Windows PowerShell We will show how Windows PowerShell command line options can be used to interface...

The Biggest SQL Server Conference in Europe 28 Sessions 28 Speakers In one place on one day Manchester Metropolitan University 28 th March 2009 And its FREE Registration is Now Open Places are limited so register quick

This 15MB E-Book is over 400 pages long, so it is quite comprehensive. It covers all current Microsoft Virtualization technologies  even the newest, such as the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), and VDI. Definitely a worthwhile...

There is a fix for this worm, the details are on our security site at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx Please read the above bulletin for the full details, the patches to prevent this worm are on that page.

Written by industry expert Mitch Tulloch with the Microsoft Virtualization Teams, Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions will teach you about the benefits of the latest virtualization technologies and how to plan, implement, and manage virtual...

A team of IT Pro Evangelists from the US including:  Kevin Remde , Matt Hester , Chris Avis , Chris Henley , and Yung Chou is delivering a 20-part webcast series on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions starting January 14, 2009. The objectives of this...