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One thing I mentioned a few times on the HHH tour in Canada was the ability for you to download a build guide to set up your own lab and follow the steps to do all the demos on your own in your virtual lab. Well it is finally done! Before I shared it
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A while ago I posted a couple of entries related to High Performance Computing (aka HPC). You can read them here ( Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 ) but I wanted to share a real world example of how HPC is being used and how it impacts the mining industry,
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(cross post from http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2008/02/11/managing-a-smooth-windows-vista-sp1-deployment.aspx ) Earlier this month, both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 were released to manufacturing (RTM), which is great news
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Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) I have been enthused about WHS ever since it became available as a beta program. As an MVP we enjoy the privilege of MVP beta programs where, because we are under a NDA with Microsoft, we get a little closer
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So this morning at 5:50AM PST Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 were released to manufacturing. Over the next few weeks and months you will see them become available through OEM and Volume license channels, retail channels and Windows Update (SP1 only).
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Yesterday, I blogged about the fact that Windows Home Server was released and you soon could buy an HP MediaSmart Server powered by Windows Home Server . It seems that HP is not yet shipping these units in Canada or the United States as their shopping
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As anyone who has talked to me, or attended a TechNet event over the last few months can tell you, I am a big fan of Windows Home Server . I even blogged about how during my vacation I got my geek on and got it up and running at our house to ensure the
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I was catching up on my RSS reading and noticed a post by my fellow IT Pro Advisor, Ruth Morton , on the Canadian IT Managers blog . It seems that the time is nearing, time for another round of DST "fun". She posted some great links which I'll share here...
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Hero Pronunciation: 'hir-(")O Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural heroes Etymology: Latin heros, from Greek hErOs There are a lot of heroes in day to day life. Fire, police, paramedics, armed forces, system administrators, network engineers, systems
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Sean Kearney (Toronto, Ontario) Windows 2000 and 2003 Sean Kearney is showing his serious side again. This is a great tip (and much easier than a post I wrote years ago ) on converting dynamic disks back to basic. As a field technician with more years
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I do! I am the first to admit that licensing can be really confusing but there are some tools that can help you (including the CanITPro team) navigate the waters so to speak. In the virtualization realm there are some calculators which I linked in a previous
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Licensing. It can be a headache, it is often misunderstood and things are different in the virtual environment. There are some great virtualization specific licensing resources I wanted to share to help you navigate these waters. First of all there are
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So Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 was released a while ago and with that the Virtual Server Resource Kit was also sent to the printers. This is all very well and good, but I know a lot of you are already playing with Windows Server 2008 and would like to
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So Day 2 of the HPC labs is wrapping up. I finally got a chance to actually run some tasks on the cluster I built yesterday. One very cool application I installed and run was Visual Molecular Dynamics (I feel smarter just saying that) which is an OSS
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We wrapped up Day 1 of the HPC Workshop yesterday and it was been an interesting day learning about the fundamentals of HPC (Linux and Windows) and got to the point where we have each built up our 4 node HPC cluster. I have to say that there are much
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