No, not me :-P , this blog, my personal blog, is being retired as all my blogging energy will now be pouring like a firehose into my newest creation... the Private Cloud TechNet Blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud This probably won't...

In my first post on Hyper-V VLANs, I talked about the most common scenario for VLANs with Hyper-V, which is using VLAD IDs on the Virtual Machines or the Hyper-V Virtual Switch. Now that I’ve been around the block a few times working with enterprise customers...

Here's my obscenely vast list of resources that I actually do reference and send to customers on a very regular basis. Hopefully it's at least catagorized in a reasonable enough manner to make it useful to you! Assessment / Downloads...

(please note part II to this post which covers other advanced scenarios) If you are interested in this feature, it’s assumed you are familiar with the basic concept of a VLAN. Therefore I’ll focus just on using VLAN IDs with Hyper-V here. A VLAN...

Ok, at this point I'm honestly impressed with the dedication Microsoft has shown for interop in the past couple years. Ever wonder how to get Macs working on your Windows network? Ever want to have your *nix boxes authenticating with Active Directory...

Since it's October 1st, I thought this may be a timely post. Not-so-coincidentally, I'm one of the authors in this issue. :-) (please forgive the shameless self-promotion) Virtualization: An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 The...

I was browsing the blogoshpere today and ran across some posts that erked me. So I emailed the below to Bink over at HyperVoria and he posted it, and I figured I may as well post it too. The Virtualization RDP (Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program) has...

Here's a simple script for moving mailboxes, I talked about how to schedule an Exchange 2007 script in the last post. Here's what it does: Reads user aliases from a text file in the local directory (MoveMbx1.txt) Moves the mailboxes to a specified...

Because this information was so unbelievably hard to track down I thought I'd post this. This is so strange to me, I mean, isn't the idea of most scripting to run jobs unattended at specific times? Whew! Basically, the process is you have to call powershell...

Adam’s unofficial Exchange 2003 troubleshooting tips All items are listed in the order in which I usually reference/perform them. This is general guidance based on my 8 years working with Exchange, not prescriptive Microsoft Guidance. As always...

Microsoft Surface - watch the videos, imagine the possibilities! http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/317737_msftdevice30.html http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

I had some training recently that got me excited about the upcoming release of the next-gen Windows Server platform, 2008 aka Longhorn. I thought you might like a no-marketing take on what I think are the most exciting new features and reasons to check...

Recently it has become apparent that perhaps the most overlooked aspect of a shop is its own staff’s capabilities. These are the aspects of an organization that are seemingly uncomfortable to discuss, but are arguably the most vital to our own success...

Lest we forget the impact our operations have on our users, and in some cases, the world. More to come soon on this topic ....

This article was written based on experiences at a previous company. I think it's such a common scenario, I wanted to get this published. Maybe I'm not the writer I thought I was because no one picked it up, so I'll just publish it here myself! If you...

Well, of course! Who wouldn’t secure their most exposed servers, right? Well, here’s the situation which I’m very sympathetic to since it was my situation for many years. You’ve heard the slogan “do more with less”? Well that applies to people, too. In...