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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:26 PM

Grrrrrr.....

Have you ever spent hours and hours and hours trying to resolve something and ultimately it could have been resolved in just a few minutes?  That is the experience I had over the past couple of days. I was working with a couple of virtual machines
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Monday, July 21, 2008 5:01 PM

Post #1 of 365... (some BitLocker stuff)....

And so it begins.....this is the first post of the 1 year test that I am doing to make at least one post a day for the next 365 days. At first I thought I would shoot for just business days but I figure I can get the other 104 posts in as well. I don't
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:07 AM

The Darkness....

Not that I should have to point this out, but I have not been very active since my screencast posting on FTP(S) about a month ago. If you read my post on June 16th you will get a feel for why. It has been and continues to be a busy time for me. Add in
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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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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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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
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
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
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
Posted by chrisavis | 5 Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008 8:57 AM

Great new Microsoft Spoof video.....

There have been some funny spoof videos over the years, but this is one of the best. It is also the single most star studded video (that I have seen us do). And it is long! Clear the next 7 minutes.....and laugh out loud...it's good for you! Bill Gates’
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 3:03 PM

Session Resources and Slides from Nov 15th Redmond Event...

I have had several people email about additional resources for the sessions we delivered in Redmond. We have a standard landing page for all sessions resources over at http://technetevents.com/resources . In fact, we have archived much of our content
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 12:09 PM

Managing Mobile Devices....

Another question from a customer -- Do you have any info on locking a Mobile 5 device? Particularly the web access capabilities so that the client cannot access any web sites outside of the corporate network. Basically, protection against virus’s
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 10:32 AM

Active vs Passive Mode Command Line FTP....

I recently received the following question from a customer (and I have received this many times over the years)....   Do you happen to know if the command line FTP program in Windows 2000 Server supports Active and Passive FTP or just Active FTP?
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:12 PM

Sockets Programming for Vista...

subtitled..... "What the Hell?  Developer stuff on Chris' Blog?!?!?!?!?" Yeah.....well I would love to avoid the developer stuff but in the interest of assisting people with their questions I am making my inaugural post with the "Tech
Posted by chrisavis | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:49 AM

Tech Support Tag...

I get a LOT of email. Most of the email is asking for support or guidance or how to find something. An astounding amount of that email is also repetitive. So I have added a new Tag called " Tech Support " to the blog and will start answering
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