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June 2008 - Posts

Monday, June 30, 2008 1:15 PM

It's Official Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is now backing up Windows Server 2008

My buddy Jason just let me know that the DPM2007 Rollup Update offering WS08 support is now available for download: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 - Rollup Update - x86 System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 - Rollup Update - x64 You can
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Friday, June 27, 2008 2:00 PM

Breakout, Silverlight Style!

Happy Friday, check out this fun Silverlight application, by Nikola Mihaylov , there is also a ton of great Silver Light applications on his site here: http://www.nokola.com/   Enjoy!!!!!!! Click the link or the picture: http://www.nokola.com/shock
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:51 PM

New book on SQL 2008: Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

One of my teammates Lynn Langit , just finished a new book on SQL.  Very cool stuff Lynn!  This book covers SSAS (OLAP cubes and Data Mining Structures), SSIS, SSRS and more.  The target audience is .NET and database developers. Learn more
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:21 AM

Microsoft Environment :: Innovating to Improve Our Planet

I recently got on email from, Michael Walsh, in response to some of the postings I did for the imagine cup.  If his name looks familiar you may have read his article.  He wrote on one of my favorite technologies, group policy , can be used to
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Monday, June 23, 2008 4:53 PM

Where are they now?

With all the articles talking about Bill Gates last day, I found this one from Newsweek very interesting.  The group decided to reconvene.  Take a look at brief and interesting article: Return of the ’70s Weirdos
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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:51 PM

Announcing some key changes to the way Microsoft supports User Groups

I do not know if any of work directly with Culminis directly, but you may want to check out the recent announcement on Graham Watson's blog: User Groups and Community : Announcing some key changes to the way Microsoft supports User Groups In a nutshell
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:33 PM

Hot Off the Presses: New Search Case Study

This case study presents the key decision points, architecture design and definition, and test criteria and results from a scalability and performance test conducted at the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) in Redmond, Washington. It is intended
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Monday, June 16, 2008 9:22 AM

Lenovo ThinkStation S10 Impressions

Getting to evaluate a FANTASTIC high end workstation like the Lenovo ThinkStation S10 is a one of the great things about working with great teammates.  Even though Keith Combs , will not share his 8GB of memory with me he did send me a very simple
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Friday, June 13, 2008 10:10 AM

Books of the Month June 2008: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Okay I admit it, I went through Harry Potter withdraw.  I enjoyed reading the books but no new ones.  So as I was waiting for a flight, and I  wandered into the airport bookstore.  I saw the 4th book The Battle of the Labyrinth , as
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 1:09 PM

A picture is worth 8GB of Memory

My buddy Keith has way too much time on his hands and not too mention way to much memory for his laptop. Keith recently got 8gb for his t61p and he got bored. Take a look at what he did to that poor little laptop, when he loaded Server 2k8 and Hyper V
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Friday, June 06, 2008 7:37 PM

Available NOW!: Windows Search 4.0 and the Multilingual User Interface

The next generation of Windows Desktop search is now available!  This release signifies a fantastic step forward with common code!  The version will be the same for Vista and XP.  I will have more information on another post on speed and
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:05 AM

Windows Technology gives Hugs and Kisses to Caitlin

As I posted last month, we have welcomed Caitlin to our family! Having your 3rd child is as exciting as having the first two and I like my family have fallen in love all over again!  However I do have to admit there is a lot of been there done that. 
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