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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:12 AM

Windows PowerShell – excellent screencast now available

Jeff Alexander is perfecting the art of screencasting and his latest adventure with Windows PowerShell is certainly well worth watching. He stole my intro but it’s all good matey. I think in return he needs to tell us where he snagged that cool spinning
Posted by Keith Combs | 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:06 PM

Pity OS X doesn’t like 8GB of memory in my MacBook Pro

I received a flurry of questions via email when I posted information the other day that I had 8GB of memory in my Apple MacBook Pro .  At the time of my post, I had only intended to boot the OS and see that it appeared to work correctly, recognize
Posted by Keith Combs | 7 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 | 5 Comments
Saturday, July 05, 2008 5:40 PM

Testing My Apple MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM

Anyone out there have an Apple MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM? No? Don’t tell me you are going to let a Microsoft Windows evangelist totally beat you to the finish line on this one!!! All kidding aside, I decided to pull the two Kingston 4GB SoDIMMs out
Posted by Keith Combs | 19 Comments
Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:29 PM

Loading a HP 6910p with 8GB of RAM

As you probably are already aware, I received a couple of 4GB 200pin DDR2 SoDIMMs from Kingston for testing with my ThinkPad T61p. Almost immediately I received requests to borrow those SoDIMMs so they could be tested with other machines. Phat chance.
Posted by Keith Combs | 3 Comments
Saturday, July 05, 2008 12:31 PM

Fixing Silverlight for Firefox 3 Users

About a week ago I started an internal thread about the incompatibility I was seeing on my Windows XP image with the recently released version of Firefox 3. In short, the Silverlight videos would not play. I did of course check the Silverlight requirements
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, July 04, 2008 8:52 PM

Does your Virtual PC 2007 VM seem choppy or sluggish?

For those of you that are using Virtual PC 2007, there are lots of performance tip and tricks that come up from time to time that are pretty straightforward.  You know, using more than one hard drive, setting the global settings, the easy stuff.
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Friday, July 04, 2008 4:17 PM

Meet the MAP Program Managers - Assess Your Hyper-V Readiness

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) makes it easy for you to perform assessments for the following key scenarios: Identify computers capable of running Windows Vista. Identify servers capable of running Windows Server 2008. Identify computers
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:49 PM

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac Released !

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 features a redesigned user interface, improved customization options, and the ability to connect to multiple Windows-based computers at the same time. The following table lists the latest improvements
Posted by Keith Combs | 7 Comments
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:52 AM

Did you survive BSOD Monday?

I saw a lot of reports of people having issues with Windows Vista SP1 that were still on the release candidate as it expired 6/30/2008.  Of course I was heads down doing yearend data entry so I didn't get a chance to see what was happening on the
Posted by Keith Combs | 3 Comments
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:15 AM

Springboard Series – Security Virtual Roundtable Today at 9am PST

With all of the activity last week at TechEd, I totally forgot about the next roundtable happening today.  Join Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich and a panel of IT professionals and security MVPs as they discuss Windows Vista deployment,
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Monday, June 16, 2008 11:26 AM

Lenovo ThinkStation S10 Workstation – a nice review of the goods

Lenovo recently sent me a Lenovo ThinkStation S10 Workstation all tricked out with an Intel Extreme Quad processor, wicked fast video card, 15,000rpm SAS drives, etc. I took a look at the opportunity and thought to myself I need another pair of eyes on
Posted by Keith Combs | 0 Comments
Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:20 PM

What I learned at TechEd 2008 this week

The annual pilgrimage to Orlando was fun and busy as usual.  This year I spent nearly 20 hours helping man the booth for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 team.  On the opposite side of our booth was the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Posted by Keith Combs | 4 Comments
Saturday, June 07, 2008 1:16 AM

Running A Bunch Of Vista SP1 VMs on Hyper-V With A Single Laptop

In this case, a picture is worth a thousand words.  I spent some time this afternoon and evening setting up for a fun little test of the Lenovo ThinkPad T61p I have.  As you’ll recall from my previous post, my laptop is loaded up with
Posted by Keith Combs | 15 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:07 PM

My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Kingston Technology was kind enough to sent some evaluation 4GB SoDIMMs to me for installation and testing. They arrived a little later than expected this week but were sitting on the front porch when I got home tonight. They are now installed and I thought
Posted by Keith Combs | 15 Comments
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