February 2008 - Posts
A few questions have come up as to why when you go out to download Windows Server 2008 there is a "without Hyper-V" option. Further, if Hyper-V is only offered on the 64-bit version, why is there a "without Hyper-V" option for
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I'm just linking to the article posted by Bink. Lazy I know, but I have been presenting on these for weeks and promised to communicate when they get posted. Well he beat me to it (he usually does). http://bink.nu/news/group-policy-preference-client-side-extensions-are-now-available-for-download.aspx
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I have seen a flurry of Email over the past two days on volume license keys for Mac Office 2008. It seems that information has not been made clear on whether you need a volume license key and where to get it. I do not work for the MacBU so I cannot
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The documentation for volume activation 2.0 has been updated today for Server 2008. You can find it here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75674 Running KMS on Server 2008 is functionally very similar to running it on Vista RTM. You
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Actually you've already got it. Since Server 2008 is the same codebase as Vista SP1, it technically already is SP1 as it ships RTM. So the first service pack for Server 2008 will be SP2. For full details and a great backgrounder on how this
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I've been wanting to test this out and finally had some time this weekend. I am meeting with a school on Tuesday to POC this so I wanted to prove it to myself first. Imagine you open your team site or web portal (whatever you choose to name it)
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A new project for a video hosting platform called Video.Show has been announced by some of our developer evangelists. The code doesn't cost anything, in fact it is offered as an open source project. It also appears to be ready for usage, not
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When I went off to college I sold my dirt bike and drum set to by a laptop. Sad, sad state of affairs... So I was protective of my laptop, I didn't take it to class and rarely took it to the library. I typically kept it on my desk for
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While many, many, many people from our field have made the trek to Seattle this week to attend one of our bi-annual internal technology briefings I am attending from home. I log in via the web and organize my Outlook calendar with the sessions I
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