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Savings. TechNet Subscriptions. What could be better?

Whenever I present a live TechNet Event , I ask my audience to raise their hands if they are a TechNet subscriber . Usually about 1/3 of the audience raises their hand. Considering that this is typically a Microsoft-friendly audience, I'm a little shocked Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:59 AM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

Mongo-Cool Screencast on Slipstreaming IE 8 into a Windows Vista SP1 Image

My teammate Matt “Mongo” Hester just posted a pretty cool demo screencast on the process of adding bits (in this case, the currently-in-beta next version of Internet Explorer) into an offline image of Windows Vista .   Yes.. “offline” because Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:47 PM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

PowerShell 2.0 - Gonna be SWEEET

A friend and board member of a local user group pointed me to a recent article in BetaNews , talking about some cool new capabilities in the next version of Windows PowerShell .  According to the CTP 2 download page (yes, you can download a Community Read More...
Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 2:05 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Breaking News: Microsoft Essentials Server Solutions Announcements (Wanna know how much SBS 2008 will cost?)

Multiply your power!  Today Microsoft announced newly available Public Previews, plus the pricing details, for Windows Essential Server Solutions . "What is that?" For those of you not aware of it - this is what we're calling the options Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:00 AM by KevinRemde | 0 Comments

Breaking News: Hyper-V "RC0" Now Available

Those of you tracking the progress with great enthusiasm (as I am) of the new Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server 2008 will be excited to learn that we've just released Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of Hyper-V.  Installation Instructions can be Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:03 AM by KevinRemde | 2 Comments

Best of Questions and Answers from the TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture

Greetings! Below are the best of the questions and answers that occurred during our TechNet Webcast entitled, " 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 02 of 24): Server Virtualization with Hyper-V Features and Architecture " John Weston , Keith Combs , Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:55 AM by KevinRemde | 6 Comments

Here... Go buy a Zune with the $100 you just saved...

Whenever I present a live TechNet Event , I ask my audience to raise their hands if they are a TechNet subscriber . Usually about 1/3 of the audience raises their hand. Considering that this is typically a Microsoft-friendly audience, I'm a little shocked Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:22 AM by KevinRemde | 14 Comments

January-February 2008 - TechNet Event Resources

Kevin’s “Save the Day” TechNet Resources January-February, 2008 Kevin’s Blog “ Full of I.T. ” – Additional Resources and Discussion http://blogs.technet.com/kevinremde E-mail Technical Questions: Kevin Remde – Kevin.Remde@microsoft.com Feedback e-mail Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:03 PM by KevinRemde | 1 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

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

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

Remember BDD? Well.. forget BDD. Remember MD.

  "Huh?" For a couple years now I've been singing the praise of "these three little letters that, if you remember nothing else from my presentation, I want you to remember: BDD!"  Business Desktop Deployment. BDD is one of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:31 PM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments

Special TechNet Subscription Promotion - Save $100!

"$100?  One-hundred dollars?  Really?" Yes, you read me right.  From now through May 2008 you can save $100 on any TechNet subscription.  ANY TechNet subscription.  All you need to do is use this special promotion code Read More...
Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 6:59 PM by KevinRemde | 3 Comments
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