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Monday, August 31, 2009 10:19 PM

Halo 3 ODST Gamestop Tour Underway

  This looks like a fun promotion and the tour is coming within five miles of my house later this week.  See http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/h3o/default.aspx for more information or a list of the dates and cities .
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Monday, August 31, 2009 7:25 PM

The Fall Cell Phone Parade Begins

It’s an interesting time of year.  New cell phones are launching.  T-Mobile launced the HTC Touch Pro 2 a week or two ago and now Sprint has announced their model will be available for order on September 8th.  Here are a couple of snips
Posted by Keith Combs | 1 Comments
Sunday, August 30, 2009 2:00 AM

Apple OS X Snow Leopard – the first 24 hours

On my way to meet the wife for dinner last night, I stopped by the local Apple retail store in Southlake, Texas to pick up a copy of OS X “ Snow Leopard ”.  The packaging and even the website for the OS proudly claims this version of OS X is “ The
Posted by Keith Combs | 28 Comments
Saturday, August 29, 2009 5:25 PM

Captcha Arrives for TechNet Blogs – feedback welcome here

As you can see from my blog and all of the other blogs on the technet.com and msdn.com areas, comments now require using the captcha codes.  This is of course to fight off the spam bots and other nefarious creatures of the web.  So what do you
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:16 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 – RTM and download

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 RTM is now available for public evaluation download. VMM 2008 R2 RTM is the latest upgrade to VMM 2008, Microsoft’s comprehensive management solution for the virtualized datacenter which enables consolidation
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:07 AM

How do you pick your next laptop or technology?

Criteria.  Each of us weigh our wants and needs differently.  Wants are different than needs.  Matt wanted a slim light weight machine.  Who doesn’t?  The more advanced a computer user, the quicker you can reach a decision. 
Posted by Keith Combs | 8 Comments
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:42 PM

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 RC - now available

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the release candidate of MDT 2010.  This release contains numerous bug fixes since MDT 2010 Beta 2.  MDT 2010 RC has been tested and will work with Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:53 PM

Exchange Server 2010 RC – now available for download

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications. Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:25 PM

Brush your teeth and shave – LifeCam Cinema HD on the way?

I have not seen an official announcement so I have no idea if it’s real or a mock-up. But if it’s real, I want it. Especially if it works with Camtasia, Expression Encoder 3 and Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition 9 and above. My screencasts will never
Posted by Keith Combs | 7 Comments
Monday, August 17, 2009 12:20 PM

Vote for my SXSW Panel – Screencasting Lessons Learned !!!

I submitted a panel proposal to this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference.  The title is, “ Screencasting Lessons Learned ” and I’ll try to do the subject justice with the knowledge I’ve accumulated over the past four or five years.
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Monday, August 17, 2009 12:19 PM

SouthCentral invite errata on the Q1 Azure events

I noticed this morning that some SouthCentral district marketing folks had some old and therefore erroneous information in some event invites. The events I am referring to are at http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2009/08/05/technet-events-presents-real-world-azure-with-microsoft-it.aspx.
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Friday, August 14, 2009 11:22 PM

Who’s up for some nine ball? Bring cash. Lots of it.

WARNING: I grew up on pool tables.  Not quite like this one, but I’ve been know to sink a few balls. Want more information on the Predator pictured above?  Head on over to http://hurricanebilliards.com .  My kind of place.
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Friday, August 14, 2009 11:10 PM

Get some Tru Blood for those late nights

HBO’s hit show is freaking weird.  But if you can beat em, join em.  Here’s a case of Tru Blood for your next watching “party”.
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Friday, August 14, 2009 10:19 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 now available on TechNet Plus Downloads

The Windows Server 2008 R2 .ISO images are now on the TechNet Plus subscribers download area .  The English DVD is also on the Top Downloads area so you can use the high speed multi threaded AKAMAI download client.  Enjoy.
Posted by Keith Combs | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:08 PM

Outlook for Mac Announced

Well, it looks like my MacBook Pro is going to have some fresh new software to run pretty soon, courtesy of the Mac Business Unit here at Microsoft.  Pre-orders start later this week on August 18th. There are some pretty interesting developments
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:05 PM

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

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 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 Server
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:44 AM

T-Mobile Launches the HTC Touch Pro 2

The HTC Touch Pro 2 has been a pretty heavily anticipated device.  T-Mobile is selling them now on their website at http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=HTC-Touch-Pro-2 . The fine folks at engadget.com give you a
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Friday, August 07, 2009 11:41 PM

Get your Windows 7 RC kit keys fast – 8/20 is the deadline

For those of you that have received a Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) kit at a loadfest event, or have downloaded the bit from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx , be sure to request an activation key.  After 8/20/2009
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:03 PM

technetevents.com has been updated !!!

As you’ll recall over the years we’ve used the http://technetevents.com area to list the content descriptions and links to events happening in your area of the USA.  We just updated the events listing there.   But I want to draw your attention
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:02 PM

Windows 7 RTM is now available for TechNet subscribers !!!

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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:52 PM

TechNet Events Presents: Real World Azure with Microsoft IT

TechNet & MSDN Events Present: Real World Azure with Microsoft IT Come spend a day with us to explore Windows Azure, Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying cloud based applications from a real world point of view!  During this event,
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:42 PM

Netflix Culture – should this be your Culture?

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:02 PM

Windows Virtual PC and Win XP Mode RC - now available

Microsoft is pleased to announce   the availability of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode Release Candidate. RC is an important milestone in our path to final delivery of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode. Please make sure to read the Release
Posted by Keith Combs | 15 Comments
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:43 AM

How important is marketing?

I wonder if the Palm Pre electrical engineers and software developers ever see comments like the one in the article at http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/04/palms-ad-agency-loves-that-youre-creeped-out-by-new-tv-spots/ where Gary Koepke is quoted as saying,
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Monday, August 03, 2009 10:02 AM

Windows Native VHD Boot Deployment Scenarios

I trade email with a lot of people inside and outside the company.  Unfortunately I am not Sir Richard Branson so I don’t have an airline and unlimited funds to travel the globe and meet the folks I converse with.  With that in mind I use the
Posted by Keith Combs | 1 Comments
Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:28 PM

Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide – download now available

Remember that cool blog post a little over a month ago where I show how to build a dual boot machine?  Remember each of those operating systems were contained in a single .VHD file on the hard drive?  Confused by all of the terminology and techniques? 
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Saturday, August 01, 2009 3:03 PM

Security Audit Events for Win7 and R2 – download now available

You can use Windows security and system logs to record and store collected security events so that you can track key system and network activities to monitor potentially harmful behaviors and to mitigate those risks. You customize system log events by
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Saturday, August 01, 2009 2:17 PM

Looking for an external 2.5” SATA enclosure? Check this out

My stash of mobile 2.5” hard drives keep growing.  I still have a number of PATA drivers, but the SATA drive pile is growing at an exponential rate.  The primary reason is that the drive capacity goes up right about the time I need more capacity
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