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Yesterday marked the start of the Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 - Sydney was the beginning. The was plenty of buzz at the event with Deeps running around with a video camera interviewing people, there was a Twitter feed and
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Recently I downloaded and installed a Fedora Core 6 installation on my Hyper-V machine. Actually I have two now. Theres my normal AMD superserver and now theres my Lenovo T61p running Hyper-V. Now I have to say - Im normally a SuSE Linux person. Yesterday
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Finally its released! I've been waiting for this for a long time now to try in my server and AMD has kindly provided one for me to review :) For now I'm leaving the discussion of the "who's got a true Quad core" aside as I'm sure you already know that
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This came across my email today - we have released a lot of new training courses all totally free and much of it using Virtual machines. Theres SQL Server, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint, Office Communications Server 2007, Exchange 2007 UM, Developer,
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I like Media Center and Ive done a few posts on it now. I am running Vista's Media Centre version now and I do several things to it to make sure it runs fit for purpose as a Media Centre. Heres my assumptions: 1. I want to watch DVB-T (digital TV) on
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I got the privilege of seeing this recently - Im very impressed with it and like Ive blogged previously, Jeff and I will be spending the rest of this year just talking about Longhorn Server including WSV. Arlindo Alves blogged about the video of a live
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Finally!!! I've blogged about these tools so many times now and have done screencasts about them too . Finally you too can play with them and download them . Heres what the email I got says: "...Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 has undergone many
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Last night I bit the bullet and decided to try out Vista Media Center as part of the Vista Ultimate SKU. Jeff was warning me against it with claims of slowness and driver support and given the wife acceptance factor has to be high in any decision around
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For those of you that love to know where youre going....Windows Live Local now has Aussie maps that even shows you the Driving Directions! http://local.live.com/?v=2&rtp=pos.9bp568xm0xpf_Origin~pos.9bhjvfxkzjwh_Destination
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Well I said to Brian Tucker that I'd do it. Here it is! Ive done a short three part blogcast on Exchange 2003 SP2's mobile device setup. This includes the Exchange Server, the ISA Server 2004 configuration and the Windows Mobile 5.0 device. 1. Setting
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I originally wrote this article on the use of Webservices as open standards and interfaces towards the goal of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a submission to a conference. In it I had a whole bunch of diagrams and for this publication I re-edited
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For those of you that are fans of the Foxtel show American Chopper (like myself), heres a short clip of their move to Microsoft featuring Paul Sr, Paul Jr and Mikey. Enjoy!!
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Shaji Firoz, an Exchange guy in Singapore, emailed me recently to ask me what I thought of his new community website http://www.MessagingTalk.org . In short....IT ROCKS SHAJI!!! WELL DONE!! This is a great resource for anyone in the AsiaPac region and
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Here is something interesting: Mauro Meanti, the Microsoft EMEA Server & Tools Business Group General Manager, revealed an initiative that demonstrates the extremes to which the company is prepared to go, to improve its connection with customers.
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Poor Nigel...he planned to do a Hardware Evolution presentation at TechEd Australia with a view to the future - Only part of his presentation got reported on and now there some concern with the ire of the worldwide technical community upon him . Even
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