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This last week I received an interesting question via email. "I occasionally do offline defragmentation of Active Directory of my Windows server 2003 and 2008 boxes, the process is painful with the shut downs and restarts. Do you really
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One of the cool new features that can be utilized in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is the ability to boot from a Virtual Hard Disk. My friend and co-worker Keith Combs has done a great video of how the process works. He even takes the
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Let's begin with the fact that I am a huge fan of Netflix! I love that this company has had the vision to see the future of movie distribution channels and the guts to stand in the face of the Blockbusters and Hollywood videos of the world and move
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I have been thinking about an idea for a video around Bitlocker To Go for a while now. I finally got around to actually making it. Hope you enjoy the video!
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Last night while watching an amazing basketball game between Memphis and Missouri I saw the commercial I have been dreaming about making for a long long time. So here's the deal, I hear all the time how "cool" Apple is, and no one seems
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Last week Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 8. This updated edition of the browser is very good indeed. I have used and recommend using it as your primary browser. It has some great intuitive functions. Search is simpler that it has
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Yes! Finally!
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There are three main options for integrating server virtualization and high availability: •Failover clustering of virtual machines. Hyper-V enables the option to create a failover cluster, and then configure a virtual machine as a clustered application.
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One of my hobbies is fly fishing. I do it year round. Recently I have been asked what it is like to fish in the winter. I took along my HD camera and shot some footage. I used Expression Encoder 2 SP1 to do the encoding and
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We have talked before about some of the cool new features of Active Directory in Windows Server 2008. John Baker has recorded a great video on how to configure the central store for ADMX files. He actually walks through step by step the process
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When Charles M. Shulz wrote his now famous Halloween story " Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown " which was later made into an animated short I'm sure he had no idea that he would spawn a new genre in competitive gardening. Pumpkin contests
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First there was this posting on Keith Combs Blog. http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2008/10/09/we-are-giving-away-a-lenovo-thinkpad-t61p.aspx Then on Friday there was this from Matt Hester's blog. http://blogs.technet.com/matthewms/archive/2008/10/10/do-you-want-to-win-a-lenovo-t61p-thinkpad-or-xbox-360-pro-with-60-gb.aspx
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Since the release of Windows Server 2008 I have been focused on showing IT administrators how some of the changes to Windows Server can really make their lives better. One key area of change is in the world of Group Policy Preferences. Group Policy preferences
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Since I published the video on creating custom WinPE images I have received a whole bunch of questions centered around deployment tools. Many of you have asked how to customize the contents of the actual .wim image. I recorded a quick video
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My friend Matt Hester is passionate about technology and the way it changes peoples lives for the better. He has been working with the Internet Explorer 8 folks lately. The browser is something we all interact with on a regular basis.
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