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In compiling my experiences on the board both in reviewing and interviewing candidates and deliberating their certification outcomes, the experiences I gained from achieving the certification myself and the lessons learned from George’s presentation, I thought it would be wise and useful to publish some additional material regarding certification from architects wishing to attain the certification.
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I found out a bit more from the product group. It seems some legacy operating systems, like Windows NT 4.0, bugcheck if they perform a CPUID and have more than three leafs returned. The checkbox is there to allow us to try and get them working. So I was
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In this post I discuss how you can determine:
1. If your operating system is running on a hypervisor,
2. The processor feature differences presented for an operating system running directly on hardware versus a parent partition operating system on a hypervisor,
3. The processor feature differences presented for a child partition operating system running without LPF set versus one that does.
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Recently I became rather intrigued with Hyper-V's Limit Processor Functionality (LPF) function. One little checkbox became such an obsession that I start wasting hours of my time trying to find out exactly what it does. The dialogue says, "Limit processor
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Just a quick post today. Good news! The RC for the Hyper-V MMC has finally been released. It's designed to work on Vista x86 and x64 SP1. SP1 is required. Check out the Windows Virtualization Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization for more
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My latest, most favourite tool on the web has to be Office Live Workspace Beta. It's an interesting extension to Microsoft Office and effectively allows one to create a free SharePoint repository for Word, Excel and PowerPoint document. It also provides
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So things are starting to get more than a little exciting. RC0 is finally here, and pretty much bang on schedule! Not so long ago I posted about installing Windows Server Virtualization on Windows Server 2008 RC0, now I'm posting about installing Hyper-V
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In the many years I've been consulting as a Lead Technical Consultant, Architect and Engagement Manager there are a number of things I've learned from the school of hard knocks. Many things are obvious, and some less so. We can often find methodologies
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So the day finally dawned, and RC0 was released. That same day I got word it would be okay to blog and show screenshots of Windows Server Virtualization. So I went and bought a new laptop first because mine didn't quite make the grade. While I was waiting
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So here it is, my first blog entry, finally! Last week I got certified as a Microsoft Certified Architect: Infrastructure. It's quite an honor, especially considering just how different it is to other exam-based certifications out there. In the case of
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