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Monday, June 16, 2008 10:04 AM

No TV service for a year.....

I canceled my cable TV service today. Later this afternoon I am going to drop off the HD DVR and since I have consistently overpaid my bill for the last year they actually owe me money when all is said and done. People that know me real well might think
Posted by chrisavis | 8 Comments
Monday, June 16, 2008 8:27 AM

What I am working on....

Normally this time of year is slow and I enjoy the downtime by doing summery stuff. I will still get that fun and leisure in, but I am working on a few projects right now. I am writing a session for our Q1 content tentatively called "Why Vista?".
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:55 PM

How to configure FTP over SSL (Secure FTP) on Windows 2008 in less than 10 minutes....

Lots of reasons why I like this post! 1) I like the content I am delivering in this one. Short, Sweet, to the point. This is the kind of stuff I want to do! 2) How many people even know when have a Secure FTP server service in Windows now? 3) This is
Posted by chrisavis | 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:13 PM

BitLocker Interview is finally online.....

BUT! You won't be accessing it directly from my blog. Instead, I have posted it through the Technet EDGE portal . Why?  Because the file is 325 megs in size and hosting it at home really isn't an option. Also, I am limited on storage space for where
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:37 AM

Get the fact about Vista from Technology Wizards.....

Technology Wizards is a group of independent IT consultants with a strong focus on small business. I have delivered some Windows and SBS sessions for their group in the past. Ken Shafer leads the group and he let me know about an independent "Get
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
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
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
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
Posted by chrisavis | 2 Comments
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,
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
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
Posted by chrisavis | 0 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
Posted by chrisavis | 0 Comments
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
Posted by chrisavis | 6 Comments
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
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
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
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!
Posted by chrisavis | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:49 AM

Thank you Seattle!

Great turnout in Seattle yesterday! The weather stayed in check and we had a great event. Great questions from the crowd during the sessions and breaks too. I have had a few people email me questions as well. Feel free to let me know what I  can
Posted by chrisavis | 4 Comments
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