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February 2007 - Posts

Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:32 PM

Microsoft IT Showcase: How We Deployed Vista

Hi everyone! I want to invite all of you out there to join Microsoft for a live webcast on March 27th, 2007 to learn how Microsoft deployed Vista within the company. It will give all attendees a great 300-level view of the process as well as an inside
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 3 Comments
Friday, February 23, 2007 2:51 PM

Microsoft IT Whitepaper on Virtualization

I'm sure many of you have seen this, and though I linked to it in response to one of my TechNet emails, I thought it should warrant a separate post. The whitepaper is an interesting read on how MSIT has done planning and deployment of virtual servers
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 0 Comments
Friday, February 23, 2007 11:52 AM

TechNet Emails: Zooming Utility, Exchange 32-bit, TechNet Laptop Specs

So I received a lot of emails congratulating me on a well received presentation, but of course after reading the comment sheets I saw a good many of you were put off by the sound quality. Rest assured future events will address this issue. I'll be answering
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:06 AM

I'm Famous Now...in Ontario...

So even though my first solo event didn't run flawless 2 demos crashed , I met some amazing people and interacted with the local tech community. I even got some press attention ! Unconfirmed, I was on the front page of the business section of the Inland
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:59 PM

And There Was Much Rejoicing: Office Migration Planning Manager

For people who wanted to convert all their MS Office documents to the ECMA OpenXML file format * soon to be ISO ratified* in a batch process, this download will speed up your organization's migration. IT'S FREE!! like beer! Don't worry, it wont modify
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:29 PM

Vista, Office 2007, BDD, Exchange, Infrastructure Protection Oh My!

Test Windows Vista and 2007 Office system for your organization http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx Download the free Business Desktop Deployment 2007 solution to get all the deployment tools http://microsoft.com/desktopdeployment
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Friday, February 16, 2007 11:45 PM

Next Week is Gonna Be Fun!

I am finally going to be presenting solo at a Microsoft Across America event! Next week, I'll be presenting in front 400 people in Riverside and 500 people at the San Diego Convention Center! If that wasn't enough, the following week, 1000 people in Anaheim.
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Friday, February 16, 2007 10:56 PM

Apple iPhone Ad Leaks, Only $399 and First-born

Okay, so I fudged the truth like Rob Weir does about Open XML a little, but we are still talking a huge sum of money for the buyer. Considering most people are not currently on any sort of data plan, Daddy won't be too happy that precious is going to
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Friday, February 16, 2007 10:08 PM

Google Study on Harddrive Failure Released

Google Labs is known for periodically releasing internal statistics and research to the general public. Just released a few days ago is a study showing the rate of failure for Google's harddisk infrastructure in their insanely huge data centers. Surprisingly,
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:11 AM

Halo 3 vs. Real Life - Bungie's Up But Not by Much

I was thinking, there are a lot of things that make life worth living, but then I think that if I could play "God" and do it all over again hehe Populous , I would code in a few improvements and maybe hire a Bungie programmer or two. Let's break it down
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Monday, February 12, 2007 8:41 PM

What if Apple Made the Wii?

While I was testing out MSN's Soapbox Beta , a YouTube competitor, I found that someone had uploaded a video that would make every Wii Borat lover out there exclaim, "very nice!" Unlike Apple however, this ad didn't have resort to misinformation to make
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 2 Comments
Monday, February 12, 2007 6:23 PM

IBM Discovers the IT "Ark" with Open Desktop Platform

I read this article and thought to myself, "Cool!" Then reality set in. I've been waiting for Apple to enter the enterprise space for a while, though, knowing full well that there are a plethora of manageabilty issues related to deploying and securing
Posted by Viral Tarpara | 2 Comments
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:03 PM

OpenXML, ODF, and Drinking the Kool-Aid at Microsoft

So I've finally embraced this blogging thing. I told myself that after Techready4, which is a MSFT conference for the field, I would blog about all the non-confidential stuff I learned about. So far the topics I've gone to have been nothing short of amazing!
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