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Another TechEd Vodcast: Interview with Werner Kasselman
Time for another Vodcast on Teched Australia 2008!   This time I’m talking with Werner Kasselman who is one of my speakers in the Server track at Teched this year.  In my last post i talked with Martin Gregory to get a business view of Teched.  Read More...
Screencast: Using Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell in my opinion is the most important tool for administrators that we have released in many  years.  It helps to automate the tasks that administrators are faced with every day.  I’ve been talking with customers for awhile Read More...
TechNet Magazine: August 2008 Edition
The August edition of TechNet Magazine is now online.  Here are some highlights. SQL Server:  Top Tips for Effective Database Maintenance Windows Administration:  Taking Your’s Server’s Pulse System Center:  Windows PowerShell in System Read More...
Windows Server 2008 as a workstation..
This topic has been floating around a few blogs for awhile now and I decided to give it a go on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61P.  After all it’s 64-Bit; has 4GB of RAM and supports Hyper-V.  And as I begin to prepare my sessions  for TechEd Australia Read More...
Sydney Windows Infrastructure Group: July Meeting
This month at the Sydney Windows Infrastructure Group we have a great lineup of sessions.  So if your in the Sydney area and want to hear some great content on Windows Server 2008 then get along to the next meeting to be held on Tuesday July 15th Read More...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Release: July 2008
  Please see details of this months Security Bulletin Release. Bulletin Number Maximum Severity Affected Products Impact MS08-037 Important Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008. Spoofing MS08-038 Important Windows Vista Read More...
New Environment Websites
At Microsoft we have a number of initiatives at work now to help reduce our impact on the environment and help to stop global warming.  I know through talking to many of you in the IT sector that there are a wide range of opinions on this issue.  Read More...
Quick Poll: HPC 2008 Session at TechEd 2008
A few of us internally have been discussing whether we should have a session at TechEd 2008 on High Performance  Computing 2008 or HPC 2008 for short.  So we wanted to throw this out to the community and get your thoughts.  So this is the Read More...
New Content from the IT Showcase team..
More new content available from the Microsoft IT Showcase team. Deploying Microsoft Forefront Client Security at Microsoft Microsoft IT details the planning, deployment, and ongoing management of the largest current deployment of Forefront Client Security Read More...
I’m on RTM Hyper-V..Are you?
Just upgraded my main demo server with the RTM of Hyper-V.  It was just a matter of applying the update package and then the Hyper-V Management tool on my Vista SP1 client and I was done.  All good!  So this is what I’ve got now. Technorati Read More...
The Server is Unleashed..Hyper-V is here!!
Today is a good day!  We have officially announced the availability of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.  This is a huge milestone in releasing a hypervisor based virtualization technology as a key role in Windows Server 2008.  We believe that Read More...
Microsoft Security Advisory Alert: SQL Injection Attacks
Microsoft is aware of a recent escalation in a class of attacks targeting Web sites that use Microsoft ASP and ASP.NET technologies but do not follow best practices for secure Web application development. These SQL injection attacks do not exploit a specific Read More...
Wanna speed up Vista? Get Windows Search 4.0!
One of the great features of Windows Vista is it’s integrated search engine which allows you to find all those bits and bytes on your computer.  But in the last week I found this interesting little tidbit.  Windows Search 4.0 was quietly released Read More...
New IT Showcase Content: SCCM and NAP
I’ve been waiting for this one for some time.  Microsoft IT has finally released details of how we are using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Network Access Protection in Windows Server 2008 to extend network health of client machines Read More...
New IT Showcase Content on Visual Studio 2008
  Never thought I would be doing a post that included Visual Studio 2008.  But here I am posting about how our own Microsoft IT team is using Visual Studio to improve software development.  Check out the details below. Using Visual Studio Read More...
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