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Sunday, May 31, 2009 9:12 PM

How would you like to tell Snake Doctor “The Unit” is cancelled?

Not me. Thanks to Matt Hester for bringing this to my attention and ruining my weekend.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:38 PM

Summer is here and so is laptop heat !!!

I finally found something that might make my Dell Latitude D820 or Apple MackBook Pro tolerable to use on the couch.  You see, both of those machines generate a pretty significant amount of heat, and if you are already hot natured, you aren’t going
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:08 PM

What do you use for URL and keyword blocking?

Today I trekked down to the local Fry’s and picked up a couple of items I’ve been wanting and needing.  The first item was the Netgear FVS318 ProSafe VPN Firewall .  On paper this firewall has everything I need, except one thing.  Throughput. 
Posted by Keith Combs | 17 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:51 PM

Sony PSP Go coming to E3 next week?

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Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:05 PM

The Death of Twitter and Short URLs ???

The first time I saw twitter and the little URL converters that shorten big long URLs into tiny undecipherable URL thingies, I just knew this was a technology looking for a problem. I was right. Sure enough, the bad guys have already started using Twitter
Posted by Keith Combs | 4 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:22 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Active-Office Systems Ltd.

Your name: James Hunter-Paterson Company name: Active-Office Systems Ltd Your geographic location (country): UK Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) YES Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:17 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Ginger Grady

Your name:    Ginger Grady Company name:  Your geographic location (country):    USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No)   Name only, not company Objectives of the project:   What problem
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:11 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – O’Sullivan Consulting – Windows Server 2008

Your name: William V. O'Sullivan Company name: O'Sullivan Consulting Your geographic location (country): Illinois USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) Yes Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve?
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:05 AM

IT Pro Momentum Results – O’Sullivan Consulting – Windows 7

Your name: William V. O'Sullivan Company name: O'Sullivan Consulting Your geographic location (country): Illinois USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) Yes Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve?
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:59 AM

IT Pro Momentum Results - Professional Computer Services

Your name: Warren M Pierro Company name: Professional Computer Services Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) Yes Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:52 AM

IT Pro Momentum Results – Anon Company 9

Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) No, thank you. Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to solve? Research and see if implementing Windows 7 would be a viable option for my customers.  In
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Saturday, May 30, 2009 8:46 AM

IT Pro Momentum Results – Anon Company 8

Country: United States (Tennessee) Public Disclosure of your name and Company name allowed? No Objectives of the project: We evaluated Hyper-V and SCVMM as a viable enterprise-level virtualization solution to run some critical machines and reduce TCO.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:13 AM

Bueller? Bueller?

Remember this house from the movie?  It’s for sale .
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:46 PM

Zune HD Announced

See the Press Release details at http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/may09/05-26ZuneHDPR.mspx .  Zune HD is the next iteration of the Zune device family and brings a new level of listening and viewing experiences to the portable media player
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:14 PM

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP2 – now available

Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards, and includes all updates delivered since SP1. SP2 simplifies administration
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:02 PM

Revisiting Application Compatibility in Windows 7

Blogging is funny.  Like all writers you go through dry spells on things to write about.  I never really worry about it because like you, I actually have a day job and it keeps me plenty busy.  Another reason is because good topics tend
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, May 22, 2009 2:10 AM

Dual Boot from VHD Using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Executive Summary Boot from VHD is a new technique for installing and maintaining operating system environments.  Unlike virtual machines, the operating system that is running from a “boot from VHD” environment is using the actual hardware instead
Posted by Keith Combs | 36 Comments
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:38 PM

We have mice!

New mouse's (mice's?) have been discovered. I’m a lefty so I would probably opt for the one below since I am mousedextrous. For more information on the new mice and keyboards, checkout the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/may09/05-19BlueTrackPhaseIIPR.mspx
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:45 PM

Lust on Wheels

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Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:35 AM

Windows Server 2008 Interop with Linux and OS X

We’re a little over halfway done with the Interop Road Show I helped create. Last week Matt Hester did a simulcast of the live event from Chicago. Although he did a great job, I wanted to capture the demos with Camtasia v6.0.2 and provide some high quality
Posted by Keith Combs | 4 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 12:50 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 7

Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (No at present; maybe Yes after PR/Legal verify) Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to solve?   We currently use DeepFreeze to protect our Student Desktops however
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 12:40 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 6

Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) No Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to solve? Solve inefficiencies and improve our virtualized server and VDI  environments. Are you piloting or deploying
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 12:33 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 5

Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? No Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve? Too many of our servers are running at poor utilization. Whether it be to many server
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 12:29 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – OldCastle Materials

Your name:   Bob Hinton                Company name:   OldCastle Materials Your geographic location (country):   USA Public disclosure of your name and company name
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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:22 AM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 4

Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed?  No Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to solve?   The objective was to reduce the dependencies for the onsite technicians, and to completely automate the OS
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:43 PM

SparkStart – registration now open

SparkStart is a full day of business and technology discussion (open format) and learning event for startups (“startup bootcamp”).  This event will also be a networking opportunity for those startups who are new to the BizSpark program and not yet
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:02 PM

Interop Road Show – webcast playback and downloads now available

Last week I took off for vacation.  It was one of those marathon honey due vacations and I am happy to say I accomplished most of what I set out to do.  The house is painted.  The trees and bushes are trimmed.  The pool is in top shape
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, May 11, 2009 8:33 PM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 3

Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No)   NO – at least at this point. Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out to solve? Mainly just to stay current and not
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, May 11, 2009 7:59 PM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results - Logikworx

Company name: Logikworx Your name: John Obeto Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) Yes Objectives of the project:   What problem did you set out to solve?: Create an orderly
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, May 11, 2009 7:49 PM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Choctaw Electric Cooperative

Company name : Choctaw Electric Cooperative Your name :  Derek Martin Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) Yes Objectives of the project:  What problem did you set out
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, May 11, 2009 6:34 PM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 2

Company Location - Pennsylvania Objectives of the Project -  “We need to be preemptive on Evaluating Windows Server 2008 R2   and windows 7 to  address remote access and security concerns.” Are you piloting or deploying the products?
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, May 11, 2009 5:41 PM

IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 1

For those of you that read my blog and have come to my live events lately, you’ll recall I mentioned a program we call the IT Pro Momentum Program.  It’s one of the best, if not the best programs I’ve seen us come up with in a rather long time. 
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:05 AM

Does the Kindle DX make you drool ???

I really like my Kindle 2.  So needless to say I was more than interested in the announcements today by Amazon. But after reading up on the Kindle DX , I am not drooling for the new bigger device.  First of all, the new device is more expensive
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:21 AM

Remote Server Admin Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 RC – now available

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on remote computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2 (and, for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008 or Windows
Posted by Keith Combs | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:14 AM

Windows Server 2008 R2 – DirectAccess RC Step-by-Step Guide released

DirectAccess is a new feature in the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems that enables remote users to securely access intranet shares, Web sites, and applications without connecting to a virtual private network (VPN). This paper contains
Posted by Keith Combs | 6 Comments
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:19 PM

Hardware Virtualization and Planning for Windows Virtual PC

Many of you have started to study the new features and additions available for Windows 7.  The virtualization group in Microsoft took the covers off a new product called Windows Virtual PC .  Windows Virtual PC has some fascinating features
Posted by Keith Combs | 5 Comments
Monday, May 04, 2009 10:31 PM

I spy the Windows 7 RC download !!!

Both the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 RC are available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish. Just choose the version that fits the system you'll be using for the test, pick your language and click go to register for
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:08 PM

Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

Windows 7 sure got the attention of a lot of you this week, but let’s not forget big brother, Windows Server 2008 R2 also shipped the release candidate.  Considering Hyper-V is a core tool for me and many of you, I was eager to download and install
Posted by Keith Combs | 5 Comments
Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:38 AM

Interop Road Show Webcast - live this week on 5/6/2009

On Wednesday May 6th, we’ll be broadcasting the Interop Road Show .  Actually it’s going to be a bit of a simulcast.  Matt Hester will be in Downers Grove, IL doing a live delivery of the sessions, and we’ll pick up the audio and demonstrations
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