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November 2005 - Posts

News of my death is highly exaggerated...

Yep… I haven’t been blogging much lately. But I’m still here. “What’s up, Kevin?” Well… last weekend after celebrating Thanksgiving here with my in-laws, I and the whole family flew out to San Francisco to celebrate my brother Carl’s wedding. He married Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:29 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 037

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 037 This question was asked at our event TODAY in Des Moines, IA. “Can the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) aslo tune databses running on SQL 2000?” Short answer. YES! And in fact, something I didn’t mention Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:13 PM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

Korean Rap - Visual Studio Team System Excitement!

If you haven’t seen this yet, you really need to. It’s fantastic! And if you don’t speak Korean, it’s okay. The text of the video is printed below the video. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:11 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036 Credit for this one goes to Chris Avis , who had this asked of him in an event recently… “With ‘instant file initialization’, what is it really doing?” Here’s a document that describes it well . From the document: In SQL Server Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:57 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2003 Administration Webcast Series (Part 8 - DNS) Q&A

Here is a “best of” Q&A from our webcast we did today on an overview of DNS . This was part 8 of the 12 part Windows Server 2003 Administration series I delivered earlier this year. BIG THANKS to Mr. Bryan von Axelson for helping out as our sole Q&A Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 2:21 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Resource Page for TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of DNS in Windows Server 2003

Yep… another day, another webcast! I’m presenting this “TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of DNS in Windows Server 2003” today. Here are some resources relating to this session’s topic. I hope you find them useful, and that you are either joining me Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

TechNet Virtual Labs

TechNet Virtual Labs “Ever wanted to test Microsoft's newest software in a sandbox environment? Wouldn't it be great to be able to test new servers immediately, without formatting hard drives or dedicating one or more computers to the project? Now you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:14 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 035

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 035 Credit for this one goes to Chris Avis , who had this asked of him in an event recently… “What is the max number of filegroups supported as part of a single database?” Well… it’s a nice big binary number: 111111111111111 (or Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Best of Q&A from our TechNet Webcast: Successfully Implementing a Complex Active Directory Design (Level 200)

Earlier Today I delivered a webcast (content number ADD-03 ) on considerations for planning a complex AD design . I thought I’d post some of the Q&A here, and maybe expand on some of the answers also. Thanks again to Blain Barton , Chris Avis , and Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 10:32 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 034

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 034 The following question was asked at a Recent “Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch” TechNet Event in Kansas City (Overland Park Kansas, actually. Had a lovely time there, thank you! …and although it was a bit of a dive, the Karaoke Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 6:13 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Resource Page for TechNet Webcast: Successfully Implementing a Complex Active Directory Design (Level 200)

Resource Page for TechNet Webcast: Successfully Implementing a Complex Active Directory Design (Level 200) Here are some resources relating to the TechNet webcast topic presented on November 21, 2005. I hope you find them useful. Kevin — This session’s Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 6:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 033

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 033 The following question was asked at a Recent “Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch” TechNet Event in Kansas City (Overland Park Kansas, actually. Had a lovely time there, thank you! …and although it was a bit of a dive, the Karaoke Read More...
Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 5:41 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Look 3P0! It's Virtual Server 2005 R2!

I just now saw on Jeff Alexander’s blog that Virtual Server 2005 R2 has RTM’d (Released To Manufacturing). It’s shipped! The announcement was made at IT Forum in Barcelona. Here’s the Press Release that followed this annoucement, and here’s the Virtual Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:25 PM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 032

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 032 “I want to program against and/or use table and database configuration information. Is there a way to access the metadata associated with those? Could I add my own metadata or comments into that area?” This gentleman was looking Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:33 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Big list of RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators

Today finds me sitting in a hotel room in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It’s getting cold outside, so sitting in here doing work in a quiet location is quite enjoyable. And as you see from the number of blog posts I’ve made today, I’ve been quite productive. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:27 PM by KevinRemde | 6 Comments

Finally! Cable HD to Media Center PCs!

Yeah! I know a lot of people have been waiting for this. (Not me, however.. I don’t yet have a Media Center. <sigh> They are so cool…) Previously, if you wanted HDTV to play or be recorded through your Media Center, it had to come from an over-the-air Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:58 PM by KevinRemde | 1 Comments

December 2005 Microsoft Webcast Schedule is LIVE

The schedule of Microsoft Webcasts (TechNet Variety) for December is ready to go. I’ve posted the entire TechNet Webcast schedule , complete with breakdowns by topic or product/technology, as well as full descriptions, as an article HERE . [Shameless Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:30 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Exchange 12 News coming out of IT Forum

Eileen Brown has posted on her weblog the news coming out of IT Forum this week that the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server – “Exchange 12” – will only be available for 64 bit platforms. (Yes, she said “only”.) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:06 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Dude, I'm pretty sure that's gonna void the warranty...

The folks at AnandTech have posted their first looks at the XBOX 360 – from the INSIDE! Yep. They tore apart one of these babies, and have posted a bunch of photos and discussion on the various innerworkings. Makes for a fun, interesting, geeky read. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 9:06 AM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 031

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 031 We got 31 flavors of tidbits for ya… “I’d like some more information on the requirements for online defragmentation and indexing.” Well, first of all… The new online index operations are only available in the Enterprise edition Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 030

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 030 30 tidbits. The bit “3 oh”. Our list is not a young list anymore. This tidbit as a result of really good questions (aka questions I didn’t have a sufficient answer for or that I wanted to research more thoroughly) at our TechNet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Windows Live Safety Center is... LIVE!

beta Yes indeed… your PC can be more secure and healthy. The Windows Live Safety Center is a place where anyone can quickly tune up their PC. There are three “Service Centers” where you can Protect Clean up and Tune up your PC. There is also an online Read More...
Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 5:55 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 029

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 029 Another tidbit? It’s been awhile! FAR too long. My apologies. This tidbit is about a new flexible security feature in SQL Server 2005: SQL Server Agent Proxies. In the past, if you wanted a job to have access to some secured Read More...
Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 4:18 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

A Virtual PC Puzzler for You

This question was asked recently of our team, and it was just interesting enough of a question to see if someone reading this blog might like to play with this scenario on their own. Yes.. you are finally being encouraged to “try this at home”. Here’s Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:00 AM by KevinRemde | 8 Comments

Windows AntiSpyware now officially called "Windows Defender"

Yes indeed… It has been announced that Windows AntiSpyware… Is to be now and forevermore called Windows Defender Will be included in Windows Vista Will start showing up with updates via Microsoft Updates, and WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) in a Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 12:25 PM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

"IT Heroes" Web Radio Show is LIVE

Mr. Michael J. Murphy , coworker friend of mine, has produced his first in what I’m sure will be a long series of web radio shows (okay… some call them podcasts. I prefer just “casts”). The show is called IT Heros. You can read his blog entry about it Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 11:41 AM by KevinRemde | 1 Comments

American SQL Server 2005 Chopper Videos!

These are GREAT! The SQL Server Chopper contest is over. And today (Nov 7, 2005) they’re going to announce the winners at the SQL Server 2005 Launch event in San Francisco. Paul Sr. and Mikey (for President!) are even going to be there at the Launch party Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 7:00 AM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

SQL Server 2005 - READY TO ROCK THE LAUNCH!

Yeah baby! That says it all. Today in San Francisco Steve Balmer will keynote the offical launch event for SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk 2006. And all over Microsoft, all over the world, we are “READY to ROCK the Launch”. Today (if Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 6:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Kevin's Microsoft SQL Server 2005 "Best of SQL Launch" Resource Page

In preparation for our series of “Best of SQL Launch” events , I put together a page of resources that I hand out to my event attendees. I figure that it beats having to try and quickly write down URLs as they fly by in the slides… and it gives you something Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 1:22 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

So much to blog. So little time. So much SQL Server 2005

Yeah… that’s me, working hard. For the past several weeks (several months, really) the team has been focused on learning and presenting SQL Server 2005 in all it’s glory… and doing a pretty good job of it (if I can brag a bit on my team here.) This coming Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 9:28 AM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

Oh yes! Microsoft is bundling in my favorite video editing software!

Confession : I’m a digital photography nut. I’m the guy at every family gathering or team function with either a digital camera or DV camcorder. Or both! (Those of you I work with, or have worked with, or LIVE with already know this.) I post my photos Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:20 PM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments
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Announcing: Windows Live (TM)

Microsoft took a big step into the Software Services world today, with some major announcements. Here’s the Press Release on the subject… To summarize – we announced a number of new, free online services. Some are still in the planning stages, and others Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:01 PM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments
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