Archive for March 23rd, 2009


Mar 23

Hyper-V and Legacy Server Applications – Part 2

In the first part of this series, mentioned that although Windows NT was not officially supported in a Hyper-V environment, this post will discuss how to install Windows NT on a virtual machine. In order to perform installation, you are actually going to need four different versions of Windows: 1) Windows Server 2008 running on the server that
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Mar 23

How to find what changes going on in Active Directory?

Herbert here. Here are some common questions asked by AD Administrators: - Why has my AD database size increased by 500MB in the last three weeks?  - I see lots of AD replication in Domain Controller monitoring. What are all these changes? Both symptoms can be severe enough to impair the operations of your AD forest. Here
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Mar 23

Experience Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Virtual Launch

Check out the new Virtual launch site of Office Communications Server 2007 R2.  The site is packed with useful and entertaining content for you to explore: Watch the Keynote session hosted by Stephen Elop; Discover the new product capabilities in the Product Discovery area; Download product, partner and case study collateral through an electronic Backpack; Sign up
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Mar 23

Microsoft Paladin = Automated vulnerability analysis

Microsoft is hard at work building a technology previously referred to as “Vigilante” designed to streamline and speed up the process associated with vulnerability analysis. Paladin was introduced at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, will be included into the next version of Forefront with Network Inspection System, extending the solution's capabilities. “The motivation behind this work
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Mar 23

Build a virtual SQL Server 2008 clustered environment with Hyper-V

1. Install your virtual clients running Windows 2008 Enterprise and make sure they have basic connectivity to each other.  I used the node names and joined them to the contoso domain:  NODEV2 and   NODEV32. Install a free iSCSI SAN software to emulate a iSCSI SAN on host machine or new virtual machine, there are many
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Mar 23

IEEE begins work on two new heterogeneous 1900.4 standards

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announces that work has begun on two new heterogeneous wireless network standards, under 1900.4 category. The first project, 1900.4a, looks to utilizes white space, also known as unused wireless spectrum. The second project, 1900.4.1, deals with interfaces and access points, to make sure that both the network side
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Mar 23

Glimpse of future web technologies

Philippe Le Hegaret has created an uber-demo, that ‘ glimpse of future web technologies ’, all in one document is pretty nifty one HTML document. Lots of different web stuff in there, including rotated html videos, SV, MathML, RDF, fancy CSS, and DFXP captions for videos
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Mar 23

Windows XP to Windows 7; XP to VHD

This post guide you through on “how to go from having Windows XP installed to having Windows 7 installed in the primary partition with Windows XP encapsulated into a VHD?”. 
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Mar 23

New Hyper-V Content on TechNet

Check out the newest content in the TechNet library for Hyper-V,
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Mar 23

Windows 7 and VDI

Today’s VDI is just SBC to single-user VMs instead of multiuser Terminal Servers. So in today’s world, VDI’s use case is not too much more broad than Terminal Services. However, there are four technical capabilities that I feel will be ready for prime time in June 2010, and once these are here, VDI (or the “New
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Mar 23

Windows still fails at locking concurrent file updates

When one program has opened a file for the purpose of updating it, no other program should be allowed to update the file at the same time. Managing concurrent updates is not an operating system task, it's a database task.
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Mar 23

Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP2 RTM Escrow build to testers; Download on Torrents

Sources say that the RTM Escrow build of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 has been released to a group of internal testers. The build number of this pre RTM build is 6002.17506.090313-1730, compiled on March 13, 2009. The RTM build numbers are also finalised and would be 6002.17507.090319-1515 and 6002.17508.090320-1600 At the same
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Mar 23

TechNet Magazine April 2009 Available

This issue introduce you to new features and enhancements in the latest version of Internet Explorer, help you manage multiple Active Directory forests, explore Office Communicator Web Access, explain voice conferencing in OCS 2007 R2, and discuss a real world implementation of Windows HPC Server 2008
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Mar 23

Browse web services and social networks anywhere with RoamAbout extension

Vysr has launched a new browser-based application extension called “RoamAbout” for Firefox, Linux and Internet Explorer, which allows you to integrate your favorite apps like Gmail, and social networks like Twitter and Facebook within the browser and then interact with the apps contextually while on any web site. Now you have not only a Gmail app but also Gmail
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Mar 23

Media Giants complaints to top Google Search Results

Major media companies, members include: “BusinessWeek, ESPN, Hearst, Meredith, The New York Times, Time Inc. and The Wall Street Journal,”  are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the search engine's undifferentiated slush of results. Complaints include: Google’s search algorithm in general, which they say “penalizes paid content”; PageRank specifically, because it places too much
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