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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 10:43 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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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
Posted by chrisavis | 2 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?".
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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 | 4 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
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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
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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
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,
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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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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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