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November 2007 - Posts

RTM News: Visual Studio 2008

"Here you go again, Kevin... talking about stuff for Developers and not just for IT Pros." Yep.  And I do so unashamed.  I will never forget, and look back fondly at my own Software Engineering days.  So once in awhile I'm going Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 1:03 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Best of Questions and Answers from our TechNet Webcast: Internet Information Services 7.0 (Part 3 of 4): Performance Optimization

Happy weekend! Below are the questions I pulled out of the Q&A log from the TechNet Webcast: "Internet Information Services 7.0 (Part 3 of 4): Performance Optimization" , along with extended answers (especially to those I didn't get to answer Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 4:05 PM by KevinRemde | 1 Comments

Resources for TechNet Webcast: Internet Information Services 7.0 (Part 3 of 4): Performance Optimization

Webcast Resources: Here are some resources relating to the webcast I presented on November 16, 2007, entitled “ Internet Information Services 7.0 (Part 3 of 4): Performance Optimization ”. I hope you find them useful. Kevin PS - The landing page for this Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:35 PM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

WSv has a new name, too.

From the "I knew this was coming a long time ago, but wasn't allowed to tell you" department: Windows Server virtualization - or WSv as we've been calling it - is now called something different.  The new, official name - announced at TechEd Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:10 AM by KevinRemde | 1 Comments

"Centro" now has a name. And a mission.

First of all - This news is a week old.   I apologize for not putting it here sooner.  Too busy to blog lately (as usual).  I still think this is too cool not to share, though.  "Windows Essentials Business Server?  What Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Microsoft Deployment (MD) is Released!

Wow! Seems like just the other day I was talking here about the release candidate for this, and now here it is, RELEASED ! Very cool. Here is the Microsoft Deployment download .  And you may want to check out the Microsoft Deployment Team Blog , Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 7:48 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Tune In! Geek out! Another Podcast on Unified Communications

A couple of weeks ago (Wednesday October 24, specifically) I was driving like a madman from Dallas to Houston.  "Why so fast?" I had a deadline.  At 2:00pm I was scheduled to interview Sukhvinder Singh Gulati, a Sr. Lead Program Manager Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:05 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Search for Free! Search Server 2008 Express Announced

Today Microsoft released a new Search offering - Search Server 2008 Express .  This is on top of the recently announced Search Server 2008 , and of course Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 . "Express?  Does this mean, like in so many Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:25 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Another Video Test

  This time I took my original AVCHD file and rendered it as a high-quality MPEG-2 file before rendering it again for Silverlight using Expression Encoder. It looks a little better in my opinion.  Not so many interlacing effects visible.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:55 AM by KevinRemde | 4 Comments

HD Silverlight Stream Test 2 - even higher quality

HINT: Double-click to show fullscreen. The first test I did (I've removed that post - it's annoying when all these videos start playing all at once in each blog post) rendered it down a little - more like DVD quality than true HD. This later one is a Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 9:10 AM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

TechEd 2008 Breaking News: Big changes to TechEd U.S.

Big news: They're splitting it up. "Huh?  What do you mean?  Are they having one conference for boys, and another for girls?" <sigh>  Don't be silly.  And anyway, that (unfortunately) would be extremely lopsided.  Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 8:38 AM by KevinRemde | 4 Comments
 
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