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December 2005 - Posts

I hope you're having as much fun as I am!

I love the week after Christmas. When I was a kid, it wasn’t getting all the presents on Christmas eve or Christmas day that was the best part of the season. It was the days immediately AFTER Christmas when you could actually PLAY with your new toys. Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:33 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments
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Best of Q&A from Webcast: SQL Server2005 Management and Administration

Greetings! Below I’ve pasted an edited and cleaned up copy of most of the Q&A from today’s webcast on SQL Server 2005 Management Administration. Big BIG thank you to Bryan von Axelson for handling the Q&A on the backend, and who’s work this really Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:38 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

A little System Administrator humor for your Wednesday...

The System Administrator Song. I hope my employer forgives the fact that my friend KJ found this for me on Google. (Thanks DeadTroll.com .) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:47 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Webcast Resources: Managing and Administering SQL Server 2005

Merry Christmas! or Happy Holidays! As promised, here are some related resources and helpful web pages for the content delivered in my webcast today – Managing and Administering SQL Server 2005 I hope you find them useful! -Kevin — Official Resource Page Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:56 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Resources for "MOM 2005 for Active Directory" Webcast

As promised, here are some resources relating to the webcast topic presented. I hope you find them useful. Kevin — Management Webcast Series http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.mspx MOM Sizer Tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=93930640-FA0F-48B3-8EB0-86836A1808DF&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:06 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Branch offices are tough to manage

I was e-mailed about an online chat happening tomorrow. Actually, the email begged me and probably a couple hundred other Microsoft Bloggers: “Would you mind placing this live chat announcement on your blog to let readers know:“ Okay. I can do that. It’s Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:59 PM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

A New Year of TechNet Webcasts Begins!

Yes indeed! The January TechNet Webcast Schedule is Live! We’ve got lots of great content for you this month; especially the two sessions I’m doing on Exchange Server Security. TechNet Webcast: Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 1 of 2): Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:49 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Wow... AOL to use MSN Search instead of Google?

If it happens, that’s really gonna hurt Google. Of course, it’s not a done deal, but this Reuter’s article sure is interesting. I think we (Microsoft) should just buy AOL – but what do I know. At least we’re trying to work out some advertising cooperation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:55 PM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments
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I love Vista, too! (But maybe not THAT much...)

Incredible… I can’t believe he did this… The two guys in this video are famous at Microsoft these days for a very well-done series of video-blog postings around Windows Vista. Lots of cool video demos that I’d likely be fired for telling you anything Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:26 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2003 R2 is RELEASED TO MANUFACTURING

R2! Yep. Windows Server 2003 R2 is RTM. (RTM stands for “Released to Manufacturing”) “So what? What’s in it for me?” Good questions. If you want big improvements in identity management, branch server management, and storage configuration (local and remote Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:00 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

A Quiz to Die For

“I’d know the difference between an inventor of a programming language and a serial killer if I saw one!” Oh? Really? Team mate and friend Matt Hester sent this link out to the team. I don’t know of anyone yet who got them all correct on the first try. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:15 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 039

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 039 I have talked about and demonstrated the new SQL Server Upgrade Advisor in my live events recently. When showing that you can include a profiler trace file for the sake of the analysis, I was asked, “But what events should we Read More...
Posted Monday, December 05, 2005 1:19 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 038

SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 038 The MSDN web site has links to some SQL Server 2005 Virtual Labs . “What’s this ‘virtual lab’ thing of which you speak?” Virtual labs are hosted sessions on a pre-installed virtual machine, along with lab notes to work through Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:34 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments
 
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