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I'm a Windows Home Server user (I've got one of the HP EX475 machines) and it's great - it just quietly sits there backing up my data, keeping an eye on my machines' status etc. However, an important update has now been released - called "Power Pack 1"
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I see that we now have an exam in the making for testing knowledge of "Windows Internals". The exam is available for taking now, in beta form, and if you pass then you won't have to take it again once the final version is released. You can read more about
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My esteemed colleague Mr Michael Clemens put together a very handy list of IIS diagnostic tools and add-on components. As Michael has not yet joined the blogging fold I'm taking this chance to publish it for him as it is very useful... SSL Diagnostics
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An interesting video to watch if you need an introduction to Live Mesh. Now in technical preview, to me it is like a coming together of FolderShare and Skydrive. With tight desktop integration, it allows you to synchronize files and folders between different
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An update is now available (via Windows Update, 'custom scan', high priority updates) which is highly recommended for anyone running Windows Server 2003 SP2. You can read all about it here . HTH Doug
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Here is your chance to nominate a colleague who you consider to be an "IT champion" - maybe even yourself ( :-) ) ! Microsoft UK are running a program to recognise IT champions . At the time of writing, nominations for the first round close in 15 hours.
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Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 Now that's handy. Must remember that the next time I have a semi-broken installation that I am trying to remove. Doug
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My job role is "escalation engineer". You can hopefully get a flavour of what I do from reading my blog posts but a colleague of mine Nico came across this interesting 10 minute Jobcast by Jeff Dailey, one of my peers in Microsoft US. Cheers Doug
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This is a fairly generic principle but it is not always widely known or remembered. But it is one that often causes support issues.. Here is an example scenario: You set up a Windows Server 2003 server from the original RTM (a.k.a first release) media.
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The developer support team I belong to needs you. If you have fluent French, good English (written and spoken), preferably live within a commute distance of the south of Paris, have a passion for Microsoft's web developer technologies, have great customer
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I came across this interesting profile of Scott Guthrie. It covers some of the history of how ASP.NET came about as well as how ASP.NET was the first product to take a big bet on the CLR. If you don't subscribe to it already, I would strongly recommend
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I've blogged before about how I use Windows Server 2003 x64 as my day to day desktop operating system. Well, not any more! I have finally made the switch to using Windows Server 2008 (a.k.a.Longhorn) x64 beta 3 instead! I've wanted to do this for some
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One of my machines wasn't responding this morning so I switched my switch box to it and saw this: Keyboard failure Press F1 to continue or F2 to run setup Hmm. Doug
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Tess told me about this. I think you can figure out what is going on even if, like me, you don't understand Swedish. I think I need to implement this too .
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In my job I have to regularly install, uninstall and reinstall various things, including Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 and I have hit the above error many times. I previously relied on Heath's blog posting about this but my colleague Phil kindly brought
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