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Readers of my blogs know how much I dislike the use of the command line, no matter how adept I am at it, hence my affection for VistaBootPRO ( Windows Vista BCD Editor ), FullArmor Workflow Studio ( PowerShell GUI ), and now….tada…. CoreConfigurator ...
Why? Actually, why not? In the Windows Server 2003 era, quite a few of us used it as a quasi-primary workstation operating system. With Windows Server 2008 allowing you to define roles for it, I guess it was just a matter of time before it became the...
When Microsoft and Cisco announced an agreement last year to co-ompete, people wondered if it was real or fluff. I lauded the agreement as two giants letting their constituencies know what the planks in their relative platforms were. (Hey, it's the...
In the short Windows Vista™ timeframe so far, one of the ways Microsoft has helped ease the appraisal and architecting processes for migration to the new operating system was the creation of the Solutions Accelerators program, of which I have blogged...
Earlier today Microsoft released Windows Vista™ SP1 beta to a limited number of testers. My NetworkWorld.com blog post on Windows VistaSP1 is here, with included links to Nick White’s announcement, and Brandon LeBlanc’s experiences with it on the Windows...
For beta 1 of this mid-market product, we tested on 3 discreet systems. We will be testing the CTP on both the same three systems, and in a virtualized environment as well. I am stoked about this product!
In a report yesterday, Netcraft revealed that parts of Microsoft.com was running on Windows Server 2008. Was that a surprise to me? No. Listen, Microsoft is used to dogfooding , and to all, it signals faith in your product if you would run the second...
Read-Only Domain Controller. Lost in the noise over the release of the beta 3 build of Windows Server 2008 was this gem: the read-only domain controller, or RODC. Created especially for branch offices or other environments where the physical security...
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