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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:00 PM

TechNet Azure webcast - now available for viewing

In Q1 we did a number of events in the Central Region of the US on the topic of Azure.  Budgets being what they are these days, we can’t go everywhere but fear not, we recorded the sessions from the Nashville, TN event.  Here are the links to
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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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Monday, February 09, 2009 10:00 AM

Windows 7 Screencast – BitLocker To Go

Lets face it, we all make mistakes.  Fortunately there’s a new Windows 7 feature that might just save your bacon if you misplace a USB drive with sensitive information on it.  You’ve probably heard about BitLocker.  It’s the drive encryption
Posted by Keith Combs | 7 Comments
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:16 PM

Storage Manager for SANs Step-by-Step Guide - now available

With Storage Manager for SANs, you can create and manage logical unit numbers (LUNs) on Fibre Channel and iSCSI disk drive subsystems that support Virtual Disk Service (VDS) in your storage area network (SAN). This guide provides server and storage subsystem
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Monday, December 01, 2008 9:37 PM

Is the Lenovo ThinkPad W500 SATA 300 speed?

One of the questions that has come up from time to time about the ThinkPads is the speed of the SATA interface.  Usually the question is about the Ultrabay hard drive adaptor.  But more recently this question came up about the T400, W500 and
Posted by Keith Combs | 10 Comments
Monday, August 04, 2008 1:01 PM

Looking for a poor mans Windows Server 2008 backup

I am considering moving to Windows Server 2008 as my full time production environment.  One of the hurdles to doing this has been lifted.  I am referring to the fact that up until recently, Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition didn’t run
Posted by Keith Combs | 11 Comments
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:01 AM

My Favorite Windows Vista Runtime Improvements (RTI)

There’s an acronym from the past for you. Run Time Improvements (RTI). I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista . In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and it made a very real
Posted by Keith Combs | 11 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 7:51 PM

Hitachi 320GB 7200rpm 2.5” laptop drive received

It’s always Christmas around here.  I ordered and received one of the new Hitachi Travelstar 320GB 2.5” laptop drives and I am in the process of filling it.  It’s scary how fast that can actually happen these days.  This particular drive
Posted by Keith Combs | 8 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 2:57 PM

Pure Microsoft

I’ve been listening to our customers a lot lately.  I get a lot of good feedback here, but it’s no substitute for the direct frank conversations we’ve had at the live events, launch events and conferences like MMS or TechEd. One of the complaints
Posted by Keith Combs | 6 Comments
Sunday, June 01, 2008 6:49 PM

The Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guide list is getting big

Every time I go back and review the list of step-by-step guides for Windows Server 2008 I am surprised to see it get bigger and bigger.  This evening is no exception.  Get any of the following guides @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&DisplayLang=en#filelist
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Monday, May 19, 2008 1:27 AM

How much does your AV product impact performance?

This time last month I pitted Windows Vista against several desktop operating systems.  One of the longer tests I ran was a file copy test to see who was the I/O king.  Over the past few days I've run some additional tests. One of the tests
Posted by Keith Combs | 8 Comments
Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:18 PM

24 Hours of Windows Server 2008

We're a little less than halfway through the series we started on Windows Server 2008.  So far, nine of the 24 parts are available for on demand viewing.  Here are the links to the on demand parts that are available, and the sign up links for
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:44 PM

Server Unleashed

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Monday, February 11, 2008 11:13 PM

Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 Guides now available

Getting Started The Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 Getting Started Guide provides quick access to tasks required to protect and recover your data, and includes a Quick Start Guide that provides scaled down instructions for installing and configuring
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Friday, January 25, 2008 10:19 PM

Here's a kewl hard drive dock

Are you sick and tired of buying disk enclosures for every drive you have?  It gets expensive.  Well, here's a great idea for your 2.5" laptop SATA drives AND your mongo 3.5" SATA screamers.  It's a drop in and use "rack"
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