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Everything you ever wanted to know about VHDs

Posted Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:33 AM by davidzi
The Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide is 61 pages of great info outlining all the relevant scenarios, configurations, and options for using VHD files. This was release about 3 weeks ago but I missed it at the time due to training and TechReady9. Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 4 and 5 Wrap-up

Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:46 PM by davidzi
Day 4 and 5 of TechReady were action packed, I didn’t even have time to post yesterday. I skipped the first session timeslot on Thurs to prepare for the double session I was presenting with Citrix. The double session format basically allocates two sessions Read More...
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Networking and Remote Desktop Technical Resources

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 1:15 PM by davidzi
The links below lead to a series of technical whitepapers on DirectAccess, BranchCache, and Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2. Networking Resources: DirectAccess and BranchCache Remote Desktop Resources: Kerberos, User Profiles, RemoteApp Read More...
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Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 4:56 PM by davidzi
So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very cool app built on Adobe Air. Today via @EverythingMS I heard about sobees , a .NET app that aggregates Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed (yeah!), and many other Read More...
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC

Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:24 AM by davidzi
The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been updated for the Windows 7 RC build. I’ve been using a combination of the RSAT and the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta console on my Windows 7 machine to manage my Hyper-V lab machines and its Read More...
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Are Solid State Drives in your Windows 7 Future?

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:15 PM by davidzi
The E7 blog has an interesting article on SSD performance and optimizations made in Windows 7 to take advantage of them. The E7 post also links to an in depth AnandTech article that goes into more detail on SSD’s and has some benchmark comparisons between Read More...
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Running Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Laptop?

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:18 AM by davidzi
Robert has a good post up for folks wanting to run Windows Server 2008 R2 on their laptops. A lot of us do that so that we can run Hyper-V for demos or development purposes. If you enable the Desktop Experience feature along with Wireless LAN and a few Read More...
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Windows 7 RC Available: What a day for my MSDN to expire!

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:33 PM by davidzi
By now you’ve probably heard that the Windows 7 RC is available for download for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Unfortunately for me, my MSDN subscription expired in the last couple days #%$! and won’t be renewed for another day or two. Fortunately, with Read More...
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