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Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:29 PM

Hyper-V RTM Release !!!

Guess it will be on a lot of blogs today, but here goes anyway. Hyper-V, Microsoft's hypervisor based virtualization product that is part of Windows Server 2008 went RTM today. In terms of public availability, it sould be available for download later
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:39 PM

Testing network performance with NTttcp

NTttcp is a multithreaded, asynchronous application that sends and receives data between two or more endpoints and reports the network performance for the duration of the transfer. It is essentially a Winsock-based port of the ttcp tool that measures
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:34 PM

Understanding Hyper-V networking

Those of us who came from the Virtual PC/Server world will have quickly realized that setting up your NICs and the host's setup is a bit different under Hyper-V, nice quick explaination of hyper-v netowrking (with pictures!) from the Virtual PC Guy's
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:16 PM

Windows SteadyState 2.5

Windows SteadyState is the successor to Shared Computer Toolkit, it allows creater control over shared access computers (schools/internet cafe's/libraries/etc or even a shared household computer) with the ability to limit access to functionality and bascially
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:46 PM

Silverlight updates

Of course we all know by now that the Olympics will be broadcast over the web this summer using Silverlight, but a few updates ... Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:09 PM

Windows Server 2008 Performance Tuning Guidelines updated to include Hyper-V

This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that can result in improved performance for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. Each setting and its potential effect are described to help you make an informed judgment about its relevance
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:00 PM

Powershell V2 CTP2 Preview

Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 introduces several significant features to Windows PowerShell 1.0 and Windows PowerShell V2 CTP that extends its use, improves its usability, and allows you to control and manage the Windows environment more easily and comprehensively.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:25 PM

MSN Music DRM extended

Good news for MSN Music buyers (before there was Zune Marketplace) Microsoft has reversed its decision to pull the plug on MSN Music's authorization servers, according to an e-mail sent out to customers this afternoon. Customers who bought music from
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:51 AM

Sysinternals on Live

Access Sysinternals tools strait from a web folder here
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:38 AM

PowerShell on Windows 2008 Server Core

Dmitry Sotnikov has published a walkthrough to show how to install PowerShell on Server Core, for those of us who aren't aware, Server Core does not support the .Net framework at this point, hence normally no PowerShell, Dmitry however has a way. Article
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:23 AM

I'M iniative extended to Hotmail

The i’m™ Initiative from Microsoft™ makes helping social causes easy. Every time you use Windows Live™ Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail®, our free webmail service, we'll share a portion of our advertising revenue with some of the world's most effective
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:13 AM

TCP/IP Fundamentals eBook

Thanks to Sean again for a good find -> download free eBook here This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite, how the most
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:56 AM

Linux under Virtual PC

Getting Linux to work under Virtual PC usually is a bit of a challenge, but got some good links to walk you throught the process Virtual PC 2007 SP1 download (free) here Sean's blog showing how to install Fedora/Ubuntu/Suse under Virtual PC here
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