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Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:03 AM

Linux on Hyper-V

As you have probably seen on every blog under the sun, Hyper-V has released . Rather than rehash the announcement, I thought I would try something fun. How hard is it to get various Linux distributions up and running in Hyper-V? The official list of supported
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Monday, June 23, 2008 4:25 AM

Made My Day

If you haven't seen any of the " Where the Hell is Matt? " videos, do yourself a favor and check them out, especially his new video that came out yesterday. The locations he visits are absolutely epic. http://www.vimeo.com/1211060
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:59 PM

Sometimes the error message means what it says

I'm in the process of setting up a new Hyper-V server, and for some reason I was unable to connect via Terminal Services to the server... I had properly enabled the "Allow connections from computer running any version of Remote Desktop (less secure) option".
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:38 PM

24 Hours of SQL Server 2008

With the SQL Server 2008 release coming next quarter, now is a good time to start ramping up on the skills that you will need to deploy and take advantage of the new features of SQL Server 2008 . I see over on the Data Platform Insider blog that there
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:51 AM

Feeling Blue

If you have used Windows for a few years, you have likely encountered a Blue Screen of Death .  Fortunately, as reliability has increased with each new release of Windows, BSODs have become progressively less common.  What causes these Blue
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:05 AM

Performance Tuning for Hyper-V

It looks like the Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 document has been updated to include information on Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers.  As the Hyper-V RTM release is getting closer, this is good information to
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:27 PM

Visio Bonanza

WOW. This is an AWESOME resource.  So much so that I capitalized, bolded, italicized, AND underlined AWESOME.  I just found a page on Technet with TONS of Visio diagrams for every type of SharePoint Deployment/Topology/Project. Head on over
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:41 AM

TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows

Download the eBook here . There is nothing particularly fundamental about this book, unless you are a CCNP or otherwise live and breathe packets. Surprisingly (to me) however, the book remains quite readable. Written by Joseph Davies (aka The Cable Guy
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