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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:15 PM

TechNet Radio - How MSIT uses Application Virtualization (SoftGrid)...

Last week I recorded a Technet Radio session with Michael Gallegos on how Microsoft IT uses Application Virtualization/Softgrid for virtualizing applications with the Microsoft corporate network. As usual, I learned a few things and my interest level
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:13 PM

Time to create a Guitar Hero tag....

I just ran across an article announcing Guitar Hero World Tour . I am guessing this is actually Guitar Hero 4 since they talk about the addition of the drum kit and vocals. I think the battle of the band feature sounds cool though I would like to see
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:35 AM

What do you need to know more about?

I am in San Diego today where I will be chatting with Partners about our Response Point offering. Way cool product for small business and I think some partners are going to do very well offering solutions around this product. But that is not why I am
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:41 AM

Home network update #2

I have received a fair amount of email about my home network upgrades, particularly on the virtualization side of things. One of the most frequently asked questions is "How do I convert physical to virtual?". That is usually followed up with,
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Monday, May 19, 2008 9:01 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program - Helping you test/pilot Microsoft Technologies...

Need some help to test/pilot the latest Microsoft infrastructure technologies list here? Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 IIS7 Forefront Edge (ISA) Forefront Client & Server Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or Windows Server Virtualization Windows Vista
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Monday, May 19, 2008 7:56 AM

SQL 2008 Scaling webcasts scripts....

A little late getting the scripts posted (and I received a few emails letting me know!). Thanks for keeping me on my toes! Btw...there are only a few more webcasts in the SQL 2008 Series. If you have missed any  of them, we record and archive them
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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:38 AM

Guitar Hero 4....

I am a BIG Guitar Hero fan. I have been playing about a year now ever since I stumbled onto the game at a Microsoft training seminar. I started with Guitar Hero 2 for the XBox 360. It took me about 6 months to get through the whole game on Expert. I never
Posted by chrisavis | 2 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:57 AM

Home Network Update......

As a part of upgrading my home network , I decided to re-purpose one of my machines as a WSUS server. Sleestak was going to end up as a second DC and a test machine. Now is is a DC and a WSUS 3.0 server. I had an old version of SUS that I wasn't using
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:49 AM

Using Windows 2008 as a workstation....

As a part of upgrading my network, I am toying with the idea of using Windows 2008 server as a Workstation. It has most of the same features as Vista and what it doesn't have I don't really need anyway. I mentioned this in a seminar a couple weeks ago
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Friday, May 02, 2008 4:42 PM

Rebuilding the home network....

I have spoken about my home network at a  few presentations and during the breaks there have been plenty of "oh yeah!?!?! well I have....." conversations. I think some of the most interesting conversations are around how we name our machines
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