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TechNet 2.0 – Episode 7 – The Homepage
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The TechNet 2.0 release is nearly here and soon you’ll be able to see the homepage displayed at technet.microsoft.com. The TechNet homepage has been challenging to use in the past because the IT Pro audience is so large and diverse. TechNet never...
4G is here. What are you waiting for?
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over 3 years ago
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Last week I had the pleasure of testing 4G cell phone speeds for the first time. I must say it’s pretty impressive and just like the start of the internet, it’s only a glimpse of the future. I say that because I still remember making the jump...
TechNet 2.0 – Episode 6 – Wiki
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Each of you has likely used one of the world’s most popular Wiki’s known as http://wikipedia.org . The English section of that site has 3.2 million articles and there are many more supported languages. An excerpt from the mission of the site is “to empower...
Dual Boot on a stick? Kingston launches 256GB DT310
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Kingston Digital, Inc., today announced the release of DataTraveler® 310, the first 256GB USB Flash drive in the United States. DataTraveler 310 Product Features and Specifications: Capacity: 256 GB Fast: data transfer rates of 25MB/sec. read...
It’s Alive !!! – TechNet 2.0 Search and Profiles Launch !!!
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This afternoon we turned on the new TechNet 2.0 Profiles. In addition to that, we also lit up the new TechNet 2.0 Search. If this is new to you, let me recap briefly from TechNet 2.0 - Episode 3 – TechNet Search and TechNet 2.0 – Episode 5...
TechNet 2.0 – Episode 5 – Videos and Profiles
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TechNet has recorded thousands of videos in the past ten years in the form of webcast replays, screencasts on blogs, and in the product TechCenter “ How Do I ” areas. Video is the fastest growing content type on TechNet and I see no slowdown in growth...
Windows Phone 7 Series Announced
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What is this?
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Click me to find out.
You know you are a developer when…
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Scott Hanselman was doing an experiment and got sucked into a motorized Dell laptop. Developers, can’t live with em.
SIIG 2.5” Hard drive SuperSpeed USB 3.0 enclosure rocks!
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over 3 years ago
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Do you store pictures, video, music or other large blobs of data on an external hard drive? Sure you do. Many of you that read this blog also store virtual machines and I’m guessing you have quite a collection of data. Isn’t moving all that...
TechNet 2.0 Is Getting Smarter – Join the Conversation
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Yesterday was a fascinating day. We broke the snowfall record in Dallas. I think we broke another record at my blog with the interest in TechNet 2.0. Many of you came here after reading the TechNet Flash. So here’s the scoop on what is happening...
Largest Snow on Record for Dallas/Ft. Worth
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Here’s Casa de Combs at about 3:15pm CST on 2/11/2010. At this point I have about 9 inches of snow depth. It reached over one foot. That’s impressive for Texas and it’s the largest single day snow fall in recorded history here. Sorry...
TechNet 2.0 – Episode 4 – Troubleshooting and Download Finders
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over 3 years ago
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Have you ever received an error message or number in some software product, and wonder what it means or how to resolve it? Where is the first place you search? In my case it really depends on the browser I happen to have launched. The vast majority of...
Security Compliance Manager - beta signup now available
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs
The Security Compliance Manager will enable you to plan, deploy, operate, and manage your organization’s security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. Centralized Management and Baseline Portfolio: The...
TechNet 2.0 Is Coming – Join the Conversation
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The TechNet team is hard at work rolling out a brand new set of platform features code named TechNet 2.0 (or TN20 ). We started blogging about those features and you can keep up with them here on my blog. I made it easy to see via the TN20...
Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510
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over 3 years ago
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I am testing one of the new Lenovo ThinkPad W510 models. If this machine is going to be considered for future purchase, it really needs to be able to run Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. In order to do that, certain minimum requirements must be met...
System Center DPM 2010 RC – now available for download
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over 3 years ago
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Continuous data protection of Windows application and file servers to seamlessly integrated disk, tape, and cloud — with support for a growing list of Microsoft technologies, such as: Windows Server from 2003 through 2008 R2 SQL Server 2000 through 2008...
TechNet 2.0 - Episode 3 – TechNet Search
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over 3 years ago
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If you've been reading my blog about TechNet 2.0, you know we have some great new improvements coming. One of my favorites is the improvements we've made to the TechNet Search experience at the http://technet.microsoft.com website. I think the reason...
Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages – update from the Engineering Windows 7 blog
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“Over the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and batteries, specifically the new Windows 7 message “Considering replacing your battery”. Since this is related to the engineering of Windows 7 we’re going to...
Lenovo ThinkPad W510 – first impressions
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over 3 years ago
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Friday afternoon I received two Lenovo ThinkPad W510’s. The one I decided to look at first is the model with the 1920x1080 Multi Touch screen. Let me first say I am not a big fan of this high a resolution on a screen that is 15.6”. I have...
Windows 7 Valentines Day Theme – now available
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over 3 years ago
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Now you have a nice desktop to go with all of your Hello Kitty gadgets!!! Go get it @ http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/f/2/7F2F0382-FAA4-4CBE-B567-AB49ED8A3F24/LacyHearts.themepack Perfect for that rad new Quad Core Calpella laptop. Grin. Ok,...
TechNet 2.0 – Episode 2 – The New TechCenters
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over 3 years ago
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Welcome back to another installment of our podcast series on TechNet 2.0. As you’ll recall from Episode 1 , we discussed some of the core scenarios that drive many of the services and features we are putting into the technet.microsoft.com platform. You...
HP Elitebook 8540w – now available for config to order
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over 3 years ago
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Another of the top end machines on the market is now available for your config to order enjoyment. I am referring to the eagerly awaited HP Elitebook 8540w . This machine has it all and if you want it all, be prepared to drop some coin for the privilege...
TechNet 2.0 – Episode 1 – Core Scenarios and Branding
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The TechNet team at Microsoft is planning some big changes to the website over the next few months – they call the project “TechNet 2.0” or “TN20” for short. John Martin leads the TechNet team, (he’s also my boss !) and he and I decided to partner on...
TechNet 2.0 – the big reveal starts tomorrow
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over 3 years ago
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Tomorrow I’ll be releasing Episode 1 of a series of blog posts and podcasts on TechNet 2.0 . TechNet 2.0 (TN20) is the project name for a series of improvements we are making to the IT Pro services at http://technet.microsoft.com . It would be helpful...