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Windows 7 & Server 2008 Has Been Released to Manufacturing
Hot off the presses!  Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 have hit the RTM Milestone!  From the Windows 7 team blog… I am pleased to announce that Windows 7 has RTM’d! As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What Read More...
Microsoft Fixit – Fixing Your Problems for You!
  Sasha Krsmanovic from the MVP team is back with another guest blog post on Microsoft Fix It.  I saw this on a KB article a while ago and gave it a whirl and loved the fact that I could run a verified MSI to fix the problem I had rather than Read More...
Guest Blogger – Searching with PowerShell
Sean Kearney has been doing some work with PowerShell as of late and sent in this little write up about searching with PowerShell! Enjoy, and remember if you have any tips you want to share email us! ------------------------------ A post I threw onto Read More...
Vista and Server 2008 SP2 – What You Need to Know
Wow they are busy down in Redmond! Yesterday Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 was released and today Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 were completed! I’ve been doing some digging to find out what is new and noteworthy as well as Read More...
Conficker… Threat? Or April’s fool?
Regardless… Like Murphy said… “He who laughs last probably made a back-up”. In this case “He who laughs last probably applied MS08-067 to all his systems”. I’ve received a lot of questions from enthusiasts & customers about the latest version of Conficker Read More...
A Few Sleepless Nights
A while back Ruth did an interview with Cameron McKay about an upcoming infrastructure project he was in the planning stages on.  While the planning is done and the implementation also complete, I thought it was time to revisit with Cameron and talk Read More...
My Core box. How to turn a near obsolete PC in a Lab Domain Controller.
Hello folks, I was reading Mohamud’s post and it made me think of my own lab environment. I had been thinking about writing about it for a while now, but something always came up. So, this morning I gathered the documentation i had kept when i setup my Read More...
Hyper-V in the Lab
I met Mohamud Ashoor in my travels to Vancouver at various VanTUG events and we regularly chat on IM as well. A few weeks back he was telling me about his home lab setup and how he uses it to sharpen his skills, keep up with technology. In our discussions Read More...
Windows 7 Boot From VHD
I posted this to my other blog, thelazyadmin.com but thought it might be useful to post here as well. One of a new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is the ability to boot from a VHD. It is pretty simple to enable this feature and have Read More...
Oh Yeah! Windows Server 2008 R2 is out too!
With all the news about the release of the first public look at Windows 7 something might have slipped past you and that was the release of Windows Server 2008 R2.  As you might imagine there are quite a few upgrades and improvements and there is Read More...
Mission Impossible? Not with Hyper-V
  Louis-Philippe Gauthier (Sherbrooke, Quebec) We’ve all been there, boss calls you in at the last minute for your input on a project that has been brewing for months but all of a sudden needs to be implemented ASAP.  Louis-Philippe from Centre Read More...
TechDays Infrastructure Track Resources
Building High Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Cluster Team Blog: http ://blogs.msdn.com/clustering Clustering on Microsoft TechNet: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107273 Clustering Webcasts: http://msevents.microsoft.com Read More...
Deploying a Small Business (Part 2)
If you read part 1 of this blog post you are aware that a SBS 2003 R2 Server was deployed and the next step was to deploy a terminal server to host the Jonas Construction Software. While Synergenics did design a very suitable server to run terminal services Read More...
Deploying a Small Business (Part 1)
With all the announcements, release of new products and technologies and changing business needs it is hard to keep up.  VMWare releases a free version of ESX, Hyper-V is released, Hyper-V Server is announced and will be available shortly, Small Read More...
Cameron McKay: Rebuilding from the Ground Up
Energize IT 2008 has come and gone. I had a great time talking, rocking, and connecting with the GTA community. Ruth shared this interview she did with Cameron McKay from McKesson Canada about their total network rebuild around Hyper-V, SQL 2008, OCS Read More...
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