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I had the chance to interview Mark about the future.. One thing he answers is - do you think we should or need to just scrap the windows code base and start over? A breakdown of everything which was covered can be found on Edge. Interview with Mark
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The Midori I'm talking about is not an alcohol; it's an "incubation software project" at Microsoft research to try and address the upcoming trends with technology and inherent limitations with the current Windows code base. For instance,
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As far as I can tell, there isn't anywhere on Microsoft's sites or documentation which state DFS + Bitlocker is supported or works in Windows Server 2008. The DFSR FAQ mentions DFSR does not work with EFS, but does not mention Bitlocker. This
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There are a number of enhancements to DNS in Windows Server 2008. There are already some lengthy articles on the features, so in this post I hope to give a quick “why you care” on each of the features and some nuggets of wisdom / insight. Here we go…
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With the launch of the 1 st public beta for Forefront Stirling on April 8 th , I thought it would be relevant to do a post this week on it. This release proves that the Stirling vision scenario in my previous blog article is becoming a reality. “Stirling”
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Ok, I had the chance to meet up with the friend, Jeff Toews, who has known Lone Server for about 7-8 years now (yes, he really does exist). Lone Server does indeed exist, however, it probably won't be much longer before he starts to hit the gym (aka upgraded)
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I hope this post will act as a good reference point to be able to quickly understand the good and bad about new AD auditing enhancements and then enable you to dive deeper at will using the links in this article. There’s nothing more exciting than auditing
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Would you like to learn about or use Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, or the next version of Forefront Edge? If you're based in USA and 'fit the bill', I'll get you an invite to the IT Pro Momentum portal. If you're in Ireland - contact Dave Northey
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I recently found out about some big news inside of Microsoft here. There is something called "Edge" coming out in the future. Unfortunately at this time, I can't really say any more about it - other than it's going to be really sweet! Technorati tags:
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This feature is currently known as the “Database Mounting Tool” (DMT), which is better than the previous name of “Data Mining Tool”. Who knows what we’ll end up calling this at RTM, but I like the previous name “Snapshot Viewer” the best so this is what
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This guide is intended for any organization who would like to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Silverlight in their environment. Some of the things you can find in this guide are installation switches, update behavior, value proposition on why to deploy,
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That's right it's Stirling, not Sterling like silver. I'll cover the background behind the name perhaps in an interview with the product team. Forefront is categorized into three categories: Client, Server, and Edge. Currently, the client and server forefront
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What does this mean? You'll be able to try out using hypervisor. The biggest advantage of hypervisor is that you can run multiple virtual machines on the base hardware (not on top of the OS). For more information about hypervisor, check out this webcast:
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I finally went through all of the stuff I got at TechEd 2007 and came across a soft copy of those cool Server 2008 color diagrams or posters you may have seen around. I tried searching for them on Microsoft's site, but couldn't find them. So, you can
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In Server 2003 or R2 one of the major limitations was the ability to only have one password policy per domain. The product team realized this was a major pain point for many customers, so they hooked Server 2008 up with some new password policy functionality
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