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March 2008 - Posts

Nitro Power!

So after spending long hours in building 43, guess what we do in the weekends? Check out one of my favorite toys.  My Nitro-Methanol powered Revo monster truck.  CJ took this video the other week.  Couple of cool features worth talking Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:47 PM by nking | 1 Comments
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Networking Basics - Subnet's

Recently I've had a couple people pick up on my notation style for IP subnet's.  I thought I would take a minute to talk about subnet's, and break down CIDR notation. Subnetting seems to be a skill that is rapidly being lost.  A standard Class Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:46 PM by nking | 0 Comments

Big Dog Beta - Swt Robot Skillz - part 2

Ok this was too funny not to share.  You may have caught my post earlier this week about the Boston Dynamics robot.  I came across this today. Still laughing! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:48 PM by nking | 0 Comments

Hyper-V Remote Management now RTW

One of the things I noticed about RSAT was that Hyper-V management was missing.  After a bit of digging I found out the today the Hyper-V team also released their remote management tools. Read the blog post here Vista x64 Edition: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=450931F5-EBEC-4C0B-95BD-E3BA19D296B1&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:27 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) go live

If you've recently moved to Vista SP1 you may have noticed that some of the management tools were removed.  Specifically the Group Policy management tool. Today the RSAT went RTW (Release to Web) You can download from here; · Microsoft Remote Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:15 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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Introduction to SBS 2008 Webcast

I'm running a Webcast this week on SBS 2008 as part of the 5w/50 Webcast series in the US.  I've planned it to be a good look at SBS 2008, what's changed, why we changed things, and how SBS 2008 will change the way Small Businesses operate today. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 7:16 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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Would the real nicholas.king@hotmail.com please stand up

So it seems that every three years or so I go through some form of online identity metamorphosis.  So far I can count my gmail conversion once I joined Microsoft, and more recently the transition to my Small Business Server 2008 identity. This lead Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 12:42 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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Sean talks on Small Business Server 2008

Sean Daniel one of our illustrious PMs recently did a talk on Technet EDGE on SBS 2008.  It's definitely worth checking out. Since then he's also done a post on some of the questions he has received since then. Definitely worth checking out if you're Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:13 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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What type of Geek are you?

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Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:32 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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Boston Dynamics - Swt Robot Skillz

Ok so I caught a glimpse of this on youtube this morning getting ready for work.  I've seen lots of robots before but this one really impressed me.  Apparently these are funded by the US military.  The most interesting piece is when the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:49 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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Work Efficiencies - Part 2 - 9 Simple things

So after plowing through a ton of email, the next thing I do is follow 9 simple steps that I read sometime ago but was brought to my attention not so long as in Digg post .  I'll let you read the article, but summed up; Start with the hard stuff Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:43 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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Work Efficiencies - Part 1 - Uber email management

Last month marked my third year working for MS, and I was doing some reflection on how my work style has changed over the last three years.  Now I'm working at Corp with an email influx in the 100s per day.  Now granted a portion of this is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:38 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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EBS Private Beta accepting more applications

Eric Watson updated the details on how to apply for the private beta program for Essential Business Server 2008. Check it out here Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:53 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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An inspiring day - Trip to NASA

So yesterday I thought I'd take a break for a few hours and go check out NASA.  I have to admit, it was one of the most inspiring trips I've ever been. This all started the night before last when I got to see the Shuttle launch from my hotel room.  Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:51 AM by nking | 0 Comments

Converging on Florida

  This week I'm in Orlando, Florida, attending Convergence .  The annual Dynamics show.  I haven't seen much of it so far as I've been setting up our demo on the HP C3000. As you can see it's all glamour prior to the event, but this does Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:57 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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How to add a Windows 2008 Server to an SBS 2003 network

This document describes how to join a computer that is running the Windows Server® 2008 operating system to a Windows® Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) network. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServerSolutions/SBS/en/library/eca2caef-d7be-41c1-8cf8-02cf8681e84f1033.msp Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 09, 2008 7:38 PM by nking | 0 Comments

Information Technology Lifecycle Management for SMB

A good friend of mine NickMac from NZ blogged about this a while a go and I thought I would do my own post talking about some of the applicability to this type of management to the SMB. The slide below comes from Microsoft's own IT team.  Now this Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:17 PM by nking | 0 Comments
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Internet Explorer 8 - Beta 1

Check out IE8's readiness tool kit here New features Activities - Activities allow users to lookup/send information in a right-click contextual menu, such as retrieving an address map from Windows Live Maps, submitting a story to Digg, sharing a page Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:41 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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EBS - What do you mean predictable?

As I've mentioned earlier on in previous lives I worked as a consultant and ran my own consulting business. Even working for Microsoft in the subsidiaries I came across this time and time again. IT departments in sub 250 tend to get busy and need to do Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:04 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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Ok, so where else can I go to get information on WESS

So it's about time we talked about where you can go to get more information on Windows Essential Server Solutions.  It's still early days yet, but there's one really good place to go to get a good overview of what the products aim to do and who this Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:12 AM by nking | 0 Comments
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Back and recovering from Windows Server Launch LA

Last week was a manic week, with a trip down to LA to attend the Windows Server 2008 launch at the LA convention center.  All in all it was a really successful event.  Our team got to meet dozens upon dozens of partners, all pumped about Windows Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 10:03 PM by nking | 0 Comments
 
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