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OT: You can get certification for Home Server, Media Center and other sundry topics - awesome!

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 2:34 PM by Ken
Well, I'm writing a blog post on IIS application sandboxing, and this item crosses my inbox. It appears that all the time spent mucking about with Windows Home Server , and Windows Media Centre might now actually result in MCTS certification . So, Read More...
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Review Dell XPS M1330 (compared to Sony SZ48)

Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 9:04 PM by Ken
Well Frank's posted the various gadgets he's accumulated , as IT Pro, I've been accumulating a few things in the last month (a new LTO2 tape drive, a 5GB Toshiba PCMCIA hard disk, a Dell 24" monitor, and other boring stuff). One thing Read More...
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What is Volta?

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:47 PM by Ken
Good question. I saw this today in my RSS reader: http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/archive/2007/12/05/volta-redefining-web-development.aspx Can someone who knows something about development tell this IT Pro what this is all about? I asked around today, and Read More...
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Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 ships

Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:06 PM by Ken
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) shipped earlier today. It incorporates a myriad of enhancements , which arguably should have been in the RTM product. I'll be installing this at home as soon as I can! Be sure to check the system requirements Read More...
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A tablet with Windows Server 2008? Review of the Wacom Bamboo tablet

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:20 PM by Ken
My current preferred PC is a specced out Toshiba Portege M400. It's Core Duo, 4GB of RAM, two 7200 RPM disks, and a high res (1400x1050) screen. All in a compact 12" form factor, and it's a Tablet PC as well. Recently Avanade upgraded my Read More...
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Upgrading the home "data centre"

Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:17 PM by Ken
At home I have a small virtualised lab running a number of server services. Unfortunately when provisioning my server, I didn't really consider the space needs of the virtualised Windows Home Server. Originally, I bought 2 x 500GB disks for my server, Read More...
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Windows Home Server arrives

Posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:48 PM by Ken
Well, it's been a very busy couple of months for me. The Professional IIS 7 book is only a couple of months away from being available, and it's been hectic getting that wrapped up. In addition I presented some talks at Tech.Ed Australia (on the Read More...
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Publishing Operations Manager 2007 Web Console with ISA Server 2006

Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:36 PM by Ken
Having just deployed a test Operations Manager 2007 server at home, I wanted to publish the Web Console site externally, so I wouldn't have to continually TS into my box at home, and use the regular console. My only problem is that I have a single Read More...
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Review: the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000

Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:31 PM by Ken
Andrew Coates already has a review of his Microsoft Wireless Presenter Mouse 8000 , so I'll add to his comments in my review. I've been using it for about a week now, and have formed the following impressions: The Good It seems to work well with Read More...
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Vodafone VMC comes to Vista

Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:41 PM by Ken
If you have a Vodafone 3G card you may have been a bit frustrated that v7 of the VMC software doesn't work under Vista. It's particularly annoying since " 3 " seems to use the same Novatel Merlin U630 card and their Mobilink software Read More...
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Monitoring IIS 6.0 Metabase Changes with MOM 2005

Posted Sunday, March 25, 2007 7:50 PM by Ken
In a previous FAQ we covered enabling Metabase Auditing which allows tracking of metabase changes. If you'd like to get alerts on these changes in MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, instructions are in this new FAQ . Just in time before the end Read More...
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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Released

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:54 AM by Ken
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 has been released (RTM). Get it here for 32bit and 64bit (x86-64) . SP2 for Itanium (ia64) will be released shortly. Read More...
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Use Windows Live Messenger and give to a good cause?

Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 4:57 PM by Ken
An interesting proposition from Microsoft - start an IM conversation with Windows Live Messenger v8.1, and if you opt-in, Microsoft will donate to a cause of your choice (from the range available ) Read More...
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Vista's WMDC and syncing your Smartphone over bluetooth with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack

Posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:04 PM by Ken
EDIT: I made a mistaken in the path below. The key name should be HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows CE Services only. Underneath that key (in the right-hand pane in Regedit) there should be a String called SerialPort. You need to change the value of that Read More...
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New downloads - IIS Download Center, Windows Mobile Device Center 6 for Vista RTM and Changes in Longhorn Server docs

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 8:41 PM by Ken
Amongst all the hoopla around the Window Vista and Office 2007 launches, there are a few more downloads out there worth checking out. The new IIS Download Center has been launched by the IIS Product Group. Here you can download add-ons and extensions Read More...
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