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Monday, October 06, 2008 8:18 AM
Yet Another Article On Data Loss
Our TechNet Events team in the US have been talking about using BitLocker to encrypt and protect your data for the past year. During our sessions I always try to give examples of real-life scenarios of data loss or theft of laptops and drives and have
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Monday, October 06, 2008 6:45 AM
Windows Vista Zero Touch Deployment: A Customer's Story
This is a great interview with Alan McBurney of New Horizons in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He discusses how and why they used System Center Configuration Manager to deploy Windows Vista SP1 in their environment. Its about 10 minutes, but well worth the
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Friday, October 03, 2008 12:30 PM
TechNet Events: Windows Vista SP1 Promotional Kit - PIN Expired Problems
Many of you have attended our live TechNet events around the country. If you did, you know we gave everyone a promotional kit that contains a NFR ( MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS ) copy of Windows Vista SP1. In that kit is a PIN that you
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Friday, October 03, 2008 11:25 AM
SQL Server 2008 Roadshow
Register now for the SQL Server 2008 Roadshow starting in October!!! Come and learn more about SQL Server 2008 and the new enhanced capabilities of the product. We will be exploring security and database management, how to best manage your data,
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:16 PM
Screencast: Ways to Improve Your Computer's Performance
I decided for my first screencast that I would leverage the Windows Vista Help and How-to website. After reviewing the content available there, I thought it would be useful to do a quick run through of Performance Information and Tools in the control
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:00 AM
US TechNet - Live Events in November
Join us at a TechNet event for some great sessions on Windows Vista, PowerShell and Group Policy Preferences!! Where Are The Events? COLORADO - Denver - 11/18/2008 CONNECTICUT - Waterbury - 11/5/2008 FLORIDA - Orlando - 11/18/2008 FLORIDA - Tampa - 11/20/2008
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:00 AM
InformationWeek: Microsoft, Washington State Launch Legal Assault On Scareware -- Spyware
I found this interesting article in InformationWeek. You've probably had those Registry Cleaner XP pop-up ads appear on your screen. They look like a "real" Windows system message - they pop-up and tell you a critical system error has occurred and you
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Monday, September 29, 2008 2:19 PM
Follow-up: Microsoft Virtualization Launch
I did a post back in August about the Virtualization launch. At the time the full city schedule wasn't there. Well now it is!!! Find out how Microsoft Windows Server 2008® with Hyper-V™, Microsoft System Center--including Virtual Machine Manager 2008—and
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:00 PM
In Small Business? Need To Create a Website? Use Office Live Small Business!!!
Are you running a small business? Need to create a professional-looking Web site? FREE!!! Want to reach new customers and stay connected with the existing ones? Want to stay on top of your business with simple online tools? Then you need to take advantage
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Friday, September 26, 2008 2:10 PM
US TechNet - Live Events in October
Join us at a TechNet event for some great sessions on Windows Vista, PowerShell and Group Policy Preferences!! Where Are The Events? CALIFORNIA - San Francisco - 10/7/2008 CONNECTICUT - Stamford - 10/2/2008 INDIANA -
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Friday, September 26, 2008 8:00 AM
Windows Hyper-V: Now supports up to 24 Processors!!!
JUST RELEASED!!! This is an update to enhance the Hyper-V role's support for processors and virtual machines. Hyper-V will now support support up to 24 logical processors and 192 virtual machines !!! Where Do I get the Update? It's on the
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Friday, September 26, 2008 7:00 AM
Windows Home Server Toolkit V1
The Windows Home Server Toolkit is a collection of tools that help you troubleshoot issues with Windows Home Server. The toolkit has the following components: The Error Reporting tool collects log files from your home computer and sends them to Microsoft.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:27 PM
Just Released: Windows HPC Server 2008 - Get the 180 Day Trial Version
If you're looking at utilizing high performance computing in your environment, then take this opportunity to kick the tyres with Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS). Windows HPC Server 2008 combines the power of the Windows Server platform with rich, out-of-the-box
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:00 AM
Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Home Computer Backup and Restore
This Technical Brief describes how you can you use your Windows Home Server to automatically do daily backups all of your home computers, up to 10 of them. Obviously you'll need a decent amount of disk space on the server to do this but what you'll
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:00 AM
Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Remote Access
Following on from yesterdays post about Home Networking with Windows Home Server, I thought this Technical Brief on how to remotely access your system would be useful. The thing is I'm not just talking about you remotely accessing the shared
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