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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:15 AM

Network Utilization between Vista and Windows Server 2008

I love the next-generation TCP/IP Stack and SMB 2.0 . It makes for quite zippy transfers :) More on the new networking features of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726965.aspx
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:59 PM

Installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008

I am in the process of installing SQL Server 2005 on a new Windows 2008 Server, and ran into the following warning about missing some required components of IIS: - IIS Feature Requirement (Warning) Messages IIS Feature Requirement Microsoft Internet Information
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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
Posted by smearp | 7 Comments
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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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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Friday, May 30, 2008 4:30 AM

Evalu'08

I just ran into the following contest on a banner ad of all places... It looks like if you try out any of our current line of products (Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, DPM, and the like), you are entered to win some killer prizes! https://www.microsoft.com/Infrastructure/Evalu08/
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:00 AM

TechNet and MSDN- Running on Hyper-V

If you were at MMS 2008 , or if you read executive keynotes in your spare time, you heard Bob Muglia mention that we are running MSDN and TechNet virtualized, in production on Hyper-V . MSDN and TechNet are full virtualized right now with Hyper-V, and
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Monday, May 19, 2008 5:41 AM

Security within Microsoft's own IT department

In case you are curious what it is like to be in charge of Security for IT at Microsoft, you get to deal with an environment where there are: Approximately 100,000 intrusion attempts each month. Approximately 1 million infected or malicious e-mail messages
Posted by smearp | 1 Comments
Friday, May 16, 2008 4:00 PM

2008 Certification Posters

I was playing around with Trika's skydrive (wait a minute, that sounded better in my head)... and see that she has uploaded three very nice looking posters showing the various courses, tests and certifications available for SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:07 PM

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer update released. Now with 64-bits!

I see over on Matt's blog that MBSA 2.1 has been released, with the following new features: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 compatibility New revised user interface 64-bit support Improved Windows Embedded support Compatibility with Microsoft Update,
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:48 AM

Group Policy Documentation Survival Guide

The latest version of the links below can be found here , or download a PDF version here . Don't ask me where they got that US-Army-looking-font in the PDF... it probably wouldn't have been my first choice ;) Group Policy Documentation Essentials These
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:20 PM

May TechNet magazine is out

...and awesome as always!  Check it out here . Windows Administration: Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 and the new Windows Server Backup utility bring many changes and welcome enhancements to backing
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Friday, March 14, 2008 4:12 PM

Network Shell (Netsh) Technical Reference released

Aaaaah... to come full circle.  Microsoft's OSs started at the command line, went GUI, and you can now do more from then command-line than ever before.  Between PowerShell , the Windows Command Reference , and now the Netsh Technical Reference
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:34 AM

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide Released

Not sure how I missed this, but the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide has been released! It is available online here , and for download here . As an IT professional focused on security, you know firsthand how essential your servers are to keeping your
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:25 PM

Inside Windows Server 2008 Kernel Changes

Great Stuff from SysInternals (and Mark Russinovich): Inside Windows Server 2008 Kernal Changes : Mark goes deep inside the Server 2008 kernel to describe enhancements to memory management and I/O processing, as well as how Server 2008 implements new
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