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April 2008 - Posts

DAY TWO at MMS

So what are the announcements on Day to of MMS? Well today it is all about Microsoft System Center Config Manager (used to be SMS). Key announcement are:- Config Manager SP1 which will come later this Quarter which will contain great support for Intel Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:53 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

DAY ONE at MMS

Adam and Joey are at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas to cover things happening at the event. Here is the coverage from day one. First, Larry Orecklin gives a brief overview of the MMS announcements around Operations Manager and Virtual Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:54 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

MMS - System Center and Virtual Machine Manager Go Cross Platform

One of the key announcements at MMS today was System Center and Virtual Machine Manager going cross platform. Adam spoke with Robert Reynolds about this announcement as asks him "Why do cross platform now?". Robert Reynolds talks System Center Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:26 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

What Happens in Vegas stays in The EDGE

Adam and Joey in Vegas for MMS ( Microsoft Management Summit) this week getting a back stage view of what is happening at the event and providing details about the keynote ( and hopefully videos of the cool demos ). For those of you who do not know Joey Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:33 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008

Matt Hester placed a screencast on EDGE which steps you through how to install Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008. MOSS is supported, but you need to take a few clearly defined steps to make this work. There are a few blogs Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 11:23 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Microsoft Demo's Live Mesh

We formally demonstrated our synchronization framework, Live Mesh, at the Web 2.0 Expo. Amit Mital gave a quick demonstration and played a video showing the Live Mesh technology at work. Fundamentally with Live Mesh, all your devices work together, your Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:49 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit RELEASED TO WEB

We have just released the .NET 3.5 Enhancements toolkit. The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training kit builds on the success of the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit and provides developers with information on ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:49 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

PhluffyFotos.com

Ryan Dunn in the team has just finished off the finishing touches to a services application which uses SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) to store the content in the cloud. This has all being placed onto a site so that you can get details about the LINQ Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 8:29 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Upgrading to SQLServer 2008

Joey on the team spoke to Joe Young for EDGE about the work that he is doing to help ITPRO's plan the upgrade from SQLServer 2005 to SQLServer 2008. Joey asked a number of questions. Here is what I heard What can I do now to make sure that the transition Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:56 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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AMD to cut jobs

I guess it was inevitable, but after a lot of denial, AMD announced that it would remove 10 percent of its work force by the third quarter of 2008. For someone who runs AMD machines at home and loved the work they did to bring 64bit computing to the masses Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 6:07 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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EDGE Sidebar Gadget Goes Live

I have a new gadget on my desktop which provides feeds to the EDGE site, so that it makes it easier for you to keep up to date with all the ITPRO stories and technical content that is happening in Microsoft.   To down load it, go to the following Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 6:10 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Announcing `ITPRO BOT` - The Robot to Support the Datacenter

We have all seen the iRobot Roomba which helps clear the floors in your home, robots to keep your pets happy while you have gone, but we have been working on how robotics could help support personnel in the datacenter. So we were really excited when a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:25 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
 
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