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With the recent release of Hyper-V the big question is "Am I using the latest version?". Especially since you can't easily upgrade to the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version in some scenarios (without having to recreate your Hyper-V-based
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Douglas Adams once said: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Microsoft has been scrutinized by many for not delivering on time, but this time it's the other way around. Microsoft promised to release Hyper-V within 180
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Domain Controller Stickiness is a problem which prevents Active Directory clients to be connected to the best Domain Controller they can be. The root cause of this problem is once an Active Directory client found a Domain Controller (using DNS) it would
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This time of year is the longest day of the year. (or the shortest night, depending on your habits) The Solstice triggers me to write a post. Since I've started blogging on June 22nd, 2006 today means I've been blogging happily on DirTeam for a period
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As some of you may recall I presented a one-hour session at Microsoft's Dutch Windows Server 2008 Launch Event, dubbed the IT Herolympics. This happened roughly three months ago. Microsoft put together some resources on my presentation, which are available
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Guy Teverovsky is an Israeli Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), who blogs on the Israeli Microsoft Blogs website as WindowMaker. He is the author of CoreConfigurator. About CoreConfigurator CoreConfigurator is a tool that aims to configure most
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It's easy to tell whether Windows Server 2008 is installed as Server Core. I know what you're thinking: " Duh! it only shows a command prompt window after you log on ", but that's not what I wanted to show you today. What if you wanted to find
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All you need to know is... ... What you already know. In our society information is the greatest good. Microsoft has decided not to release a lot of information on Windows 7 for a reason. It was one of the mistakes admitted with Windows Vista. Some features
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I know I'm not the smartest guy around, but sometimes I can only conclude I'm a complete and utter donkey. This is my version of how to get pwned on your own XBox 360 by a Microsoft employee in 10 easy to follow steps. Step 1 Go to a Microsoft in-person
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One of the fun things I get to do is co-organizing the Flaming Dog Lanfestival, where my main responsibility is to design, build and manage the networking infrastructure. About the Flaming Dog Lanfestival Last year Michiel de Jongh and I organized the
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Microsoft is definitely making progress on its Virtualization line-up. Yesterday they released the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) bits for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to supersede the Release Candidate 0 (RC0) bits, many of us might already be running. Now
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Look no further. Quest Software’s Dmitry Sotnikov has got .Net Framework 2.0 and Powershell 1.0 running on Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008. I know this is something a lot of people have been asking for, but the best way to describe
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It's more likely you're going to implement your Server Core boxes inside a legacy environment, than implement them inside a new Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 only environment. I'll try to explain the 'Next Generation IP Stack' which was introduced
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A server running a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 could behave flaky from time to time. Monitoring it gives clues towards this behavior and/or provides insight in why it behaves flaky. I've taken a closer look at monitoring Server Core
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There are a couple of ways to install Windows Server 2008. When you're lucky enough to get your hands on a physical copy of a Windows Server 2008 DVD you can use that, but what if your target system doesn't have a DVD player? What if you want to install
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