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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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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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Thursday, April 24, 2008 7:59 AM

I can fix that slow WiFi for you....

*** Updated *** - Corrected the command for enabled autotuning. I travel a fair amount which means I live on WiFi connections to stay connected. When I first started using Vista I noticed that I had problems with some WiFi connections. The issues could
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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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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:21 AM

Links to Keith's IIS/PHP/Open Source Screencasts

Here is the link to Keith's screencasts on installing PHP, MySQL and Wordpress to a Windows 2008/IIS7 Core Server.     Cheers!
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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 12:58 PM

Why my email alias is missing an "s"....

chrisavi@microsoft.com -- That has been my email alias at Microsoft for over 10 years now. You would think that I could have had chrisavis@ or cavis@. But nooooooo. They had to drop the "s" and make me sound like a video file. I don't know for
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Friday, March 28, 2008 7:53 AM

What machines should I virtualize?

Yesterday, in Spokane, I mentioned a tool that can be used to evaluate physical machines and help make determinations on what machines would be good candidates for virtualization. There are some reporting features built into System Center Virtualization
Posted by chrisavis | 2 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 7:22 AM

Windows Vista Remote Server Admin Tools (RSAT)...

Here are the links for the Vista RSAT tool as well as the Windows 2003 Admin tools Windows 2003 Administrative Tools Pack RSAT Tool for Vista SP1 (x86) RSAT Tools for Vista SP1 (x64) Cheers!
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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 8:29 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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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:37 AM

Launch Time....

Yeah, yeah, yeah..... Chris Henley beat me out by presenting in Los Angeles last week, but nothing is like New York (btw...that is me sinking the putt if you click the previous link). I am sitting in the green room at the Sheraton Towers on 7th Ave, just
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:57 AM

Speaking of content....

What do you want to know about in June when we switch content again? Should we continue talking about Windows 2008? IIS 7? Vista SP1? The next version of SBS? I suspect that we will have at least a brief discussion about that today and I would love to
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:21 PM

Has it really been 3 weeks since my last post?

Wow. I took advantage of some hardware issues and hectic travel to take a break from blogging but I didn't expect it to be 3 weeks. It is amazing how easy it is to relax (be lazy...) and stay relaxed (stay lazy...). A lot has happened in the past few
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:49 PM

Join the Windows 2008 Server Security Guide Beta...

Interested in taking a look at a new solution accelerator? You can sign up to join the beta for the Windows 2008 Server Security Guide and be one of the first to preview this solution accelerator and its components. One of the goals of this solution accelerator
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