So Philipp asked . Now its here. DFS-N is DFS Namespaces. It's available in Windows Server 2003 Standard SP1 and up to Datacenter. Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard through the Datacenter adds a new and much better management UI to it but essentially...

Take a look at this - its the best Christmas lights display Ive every seen! :) Over at Mike Hall's blog... http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2005/11/22/495906.aspx

Really excited to announce show 9 with A.C.M. Turing Award winner and Microsoft Distinguished engineer Dr Jim Gray . In this show, Jim discusses the future directions of SQL Server, LINQ, T-SQL and his interests in spatial data. Now available for download...

For those of you that are fans of the Foxtel show American Chopper (like myself), heres a short clip of their move to Microsoft featuring Paul Sr, Paul Jr and Mikey. Enjoy!!

Shaji Firoz, an Exchange guy in Singapore, emailed me recently to ask me what I thought of his new community website http://www.MessagingTalk.org . In short....IT ROCKS SHAJI!!! WELL DONE!! This is a great resource for anyone in the AsiaPac region...

For those of you that attended the TechNet Update in Perth earlier this month and wanted the Windows Futures deck that Joshua MacLennan presented you can download it here . Its 5MB to download. Cheers.

I had a question today around how the memory management works in Windows Server 2003 and whats supported. So hopefully this clarifies. Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) and Physical Address Extensions (PAE) only work with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise...

Hey everyone! Next week I am doing a TechNet Update in Adelaide next Monday 21st November covering: Title: Windows Server 2003 R2 – DFS-R Implementation and Guidance Windows Server 2003 R2 provides an improved DFS service with a new block mode replicator...

Hey! Come join us in our celebration of the Visual Studio 2005 and SQL 2005 launch festivities! Each state is holding a community launch event and you're invited! Theres food and drink and an opportunity to speak with the event presenters and ask the...

Wahoo! This has me well pleased. You know how it is....you wanna try out and learn something and you run up a Virtual machine but cant quite work out how to do it. TechNet have just released the Virtual Labs at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert...

In my previous post on this topic , I talked about a function called Cross File Remote Differential Compression (CF-RDC). What I wasnt clear on was the server requirements for it. To enable this scenario, you need only one end of the replication partnership...

Hey guys - November/December online issue is out today. Check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/

So in my last few posts about Media Center I talked about reducing bottlenecks in the system etc. On Friday last I bit the bullet and decided to get a Western Digital 200GB SATA 150 Drive and as part of the upgrade, decided to flash the BIOS to the newest...