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Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:53 PM

I'm Warning You, I Have a Smartphone and I Am Not Afraid to Use It

Think of it as fire-and-forget ammo for those afflicted with "I am my brother's keeper" syndrome. Splogbane: If you are reading this on a blog other than http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso , why not stop patronizing a splog and come over to the original?
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:27 PM

Hyper-V How To: Script VM Functions

Check out the TechEd video Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Scripting & Programmatic Management for Fun & Profit (VBS & PowerShell ) by John Kelbley , and Alexander Lash. Some of John's example script are newly posed in the Official Scripting
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:54 AM

How Community Content is Supposed to Work

There is something interesting going on WRT "community content" at Microsoft. See the example over in Official Scripting Guys forum : A customer asked for scripting help to check the OS version on his XP client machine and install patches . The next day
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Monday, October 27, 2008 8:51 AM

9:00 A.M. - Do You Know Where Your Brain Is?

The November?December issue of Technology Review shows a new image:
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Friday, October 24, 2008 2:43 PM

Video: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

There is a new TechNet Edge screencast from Jeff Alexander demonstrates Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 . OBTW, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is free-as-in-beer.
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Friday, October 24, 2008 9:36 AM

Hyper-V How To: Manually Patch Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

By default, the free-as-in-beer Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is configured for manual updates. In other words, it is NOT configured out of the box to go fetch automatic updates. This is desired behavior for most installs. However, if there are critical
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:39 AM

Springboard Blog

The Springboard content series on TechNet has a blog . AFAIK this is the first time a content series has started a blog, as opposed to a product group. Check it out and keep an eye on it around the PDC timeframe for announcements and information about
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:48 AM

Virtualization Twitter Feeds

Twitter http://twitter.com/Virtualpath http://twitter.com/govirtual http://twitter.com/STBNewsBytes http://twitter.com/latelier http://twitter.com/TechmemeFH http://twitter.com/MacReeg
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Monday, October 20, 2008 11:07 AM

Hyper-V ResKit

Provides in-depth technical guidance and best practices on how to deploy, install, configure, administer, and support Hyper-V, along with drilldown into advanced configuration options; development and testing tools; migration, management, and scripting
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Friday, October 17, 2008 1:46 PM

I Love This Company: Take the RoboChamps Urban Challenge

The RoboChamps is similar to the DARPA Urban Challenge, only it is a SIM. Participants must program a robotic car to navigate to a series of checkpoints in an urban environment. Check out the website for the software, challenge kits, training materials,
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:05 AM

Social + Virtual - No Not Second Life

The TN and MSDN social platform , including the new bookmarking apps , just went virtual to improve perf as more and more IT Pros and Devs twig to what's going on. Read about it on Chris's blog post. 24 VMs and growing...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:41 PM

GTD: Take a Penny Applied to Outlook

You know those little dishes beside cash registers marked " Give a penny, take a penny "? It is one manifestation of the " pay-it-forward' meme. I give an extra penny from my transaction change now when I don't need it, and I take one later when I do.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:12 AM

Free-as-in-beer 10MB Silverlight Streaming Media

I am currently the pathfinder for Windows Server UA checking into "alternative media for IT Pros" - alternative meaning "other than text on the web". I have been doing some podcasts (check out the latest podcast on TN Social Platform ), and will soon
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:22 AM

IT Pros Get a Bailout Offer From Microsoft

Microsoft's Second Shot program let's you retake a certification exam you failed for free-as-in-beer. From October 15, 2008, to December 31, 2008, if you pass a Microsoft Certification exam on your first try, you get a 25% discount on a different exam.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:02 PM

What is the value of social bookmarking to IT Pros?

I recently recorded a podcast with TechNet's Social Platform team , discussing the social platform, and the new TN social bookmarking in particular. Listen to the podcast, and then leave feedback here. Some points to think about: Build authority: I'd
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:34 PM

IT Value for Money

In the coming months it will be even more important for IT to show how it adds value to the company. One way to add value is to shave costs, Microsoft can help: Get Virtual Now - Reduce server hardware acquisition and maintenance costs with Windows Server
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:47 AM

MAP 3.2 Beta

You already read my blog post about MAP 3.1 , right? The beta of the newest version Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit (3.2) is available on Connect, including new modules: SQL Server 2008 Migration Proposals and Reports Security Assessment
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Monday, October 13, 2008 3:26 PM

IT Pros - 1, Marketing- 0

Well we can claim it anyway - the next version of Windows is named... Windows 7 :-) Read about it on Mike Nash's blog post: Introducing Windows 7 .
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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:58 PM

Cure for IT Pro Anti-Social Behavior

Watch Chris Slemp's video* for an overview of TN/MSDN's "social platform" that includes: Social Bookmarking Community Content (ak.a. "wiki") - for example see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753637.aspx Forums - for example, did you know
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Friday, October 10, 2008 11:02 AM

Hyper-V How To: Plan HA VMs

Here's another guest post from Jeremy Hagan , thanks again Jeremy! If you are planning on using High Availability for Hyper-V there are a number of things to keep in mind while planning your deployment and there are a number of best practices that will
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Friday, October 10, 2008 9:02 AM

How To: Optimize Your Search Engine Results

Review the preso Search Friendly Web Design Have a listen to this podcast on SEO with Rob Veliz , then check out these tools: Keyword Research: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Keyword Research: tools.seobook.com/keyword-list/generator.php
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:04 PM

Hyper-V How To: Shrink a VHD File

Our first guest post ( http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2008/10/07/your-hyper-v-blog-post-here.aspx ) comes from Jeremy Hagan . Thanks Jeremy! Background: One problem I have had when trying to do my first round of P2Vs for my Hyper-V implementation
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:34 AM

TN Search Goes Social

Did you notice that the URL for search on TechNet changed recently? It is now social.technet.microsoft.com/search. Check out the new "refinements" (that work like "filters", only, I guess "filters" sounds too prole...) and the "Related To:" listings that
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:16 AM

Hyper-V How To: Change the HAL on your vm

When you migrate your Virtual Server or Virtual PC virtual machine to Hyper-V, you: remove the VM Additions move the VHD create a new VM install the Integration Services in the new VM If you have trouble in this process, and it looks like the integration
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:50 AM

Free: Microsoft IT Employee Training Material

John's blog post describes free-as-in-beer training materials you can download and reuse with your users, including an intranet SharePoint site so users can self-serve. These are based on the materials Microsoft IT provides to Microsoft employees. http://blogs.technet.com/john_westworth/archive/2008/10/08/everyday-productivity-education-epe.aspx
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:23 PM

Hubba Hubba: Live Search Images Rock (3rd from Sun)

Live search continues to rock the "free-as-in-beer images while you search" game. Wow!
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:20 PM

Your Hyper-V Blog Post Here

Think of it as a contest. Have a Hyper-V blog post you want to share with the world, but no place to post it? Send it to me, I'll post the best ones here and send the lucky blogger a prize from the vast pool of Microsoft swag we keep in a room on the
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:05 PM

Hyper-V How To: Script AzMan Scopes for RBAC

In the scripting forum someone :-) asked: "Can anyone suggest the way to create AzMan scopes for VMs (I can assign VMs to scopes) with Powershell/WMI/VBScript?" 4 scripts are provided for managing your AzMan scopes in Hyper-V : CreateVMInScope DisplayVMScopes
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:42 PM

Hyper-V How To: Make Hyper-V Install on Core Easier with HVCONFIG

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is out . Read about Hyper-V Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx . One of the differences between Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 core, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is that Hyper-V
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