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Friday, July 25, 2008 10:31 AM

PowerShell 2.0.....

I have been playing around with PowerShell more and more lately. I have even loaded up the PowerShell 2.0 CTP . Today at out IT Evangelist meeting I discovered a new community site for PowerShell at http://powershellcommunity.org that looks interesting.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:43 AM

TMSAM02 gets you 15% of NEW TechNet Subscription....

When you sign up for a NEW TechNet Subscription over at the TechNet site , at some point you will get prompted for a discount/promotional code. Use TMSAM02 and it will net you 15% off. This only applies to NEW subscriptions at the moment and it it should
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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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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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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:56 AM

Second Life and a Windows 2008 Launch....

Not everyone has been able to make it to one of our Live Windows 2008 Launch events. So a small group of us here at Microsoft are heading into Second Life world to deliver our launch content. We will be "in world" on April 26th to deliver our
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:30 AM

New TechNet Radio session posted....

While at the Seattle Windows Server Launch event this week, I sat down with Michael Cooper, a Microsoft TS here in the PacWest area and we had a casual conversation about technology. We spoke quite a bit about virtualization and how it has impacted organizations
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Friday, March 28, 2008 7:19 AM

Updated locations for Group Policy settings spreadsheets....

It seems we can't keep things in one place for more than a couple of months. Back in January I posted links out to the aforementioned spreadsheets. We have moved them and made a few updates which you can find below. I also rounded up a couple of other
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:55 AM

Cutting the wires....

subtitled......Oh Tesla, oh Tesla....where art thou? Trapeze Networks is on stage right now at the Angelbeat conference and he is talking about the 802.11n wireless spec. The promise of super high speed wireless connectivity is finally becoming a reality.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:29 AM

Angelbeat in Hartford, CT...

Back on the east coast again!  I am in Hartford, CT speaking at an Angelbeat conference. Today. There have been some interesting talks by SonicWall, ArcMail and IronPort so far. Cisco is on stage right now with Packeteer and NetApp scheduled just
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Monday, March 10, 2008 4:36 PM

Download the Windows 2008 Evaluation now....

For those of you that are not able to get out to a  Launch event, you can still get Windows 2008 Server to evaluate.  Just click the graphic to head out to the download site. I would also recommend you go download (for free!) Virtual PC or Virtual
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:42 AM

UltimatePC.com

I ran across an announcement in email this morning that we (MS) recently brought a new website online that caters to higher end PC enthusiasts. Particularly those who are running Windows Vista Ultimate. I verified the site came up and started down the
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