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Mon, Oct 12 2009 10:44

Moving (and we lost our "skin")

If you noticed that the blog suddenly went back to basic ugly, that was an unfortunate and unanticipated side effect of preparing to move my blogging to a new location . We'll be moving to http://msMVPs.com/blogs/russel shortly, but in the process...
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Thu, Sep 10 2009 10:53

SBS 2008 – a 64-bit OS to Love

As many of you know, I wrote the book on Windows Small Business Server 2008, as well as earlier editions. It’s an operating system and a good deal more, giving most small businesses (up to 75 users or devices) pretty much all the infrastructure and enterprise...
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Sat, Aug 8 2009 16:41

StarWind Software iSCSI Target

This is just going to be a quickie. I’m busy working on a new book for Microsoft Press, and as part of that I needed to set up a failover cluster to test Hyper-V’s new Live Migration. Well, the folks at StarWind Software were nice enough to send me an...
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Fri, Mar 6 2009 18:45

Connecting Your Zune

A few months ago, I wrote about how to connect your iPod to your TS RemoteApps Server running under Hyper-V , which really simplified my life and made it simpler to keep everything in one place. I made that even easier by running FabulaTech's USB...
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Wed, Dec 31 2008 17:00

iPods and iTunes with Hyper-V and TS RemoteApps

One of the problems I have working on many different computers and constantly rebuilding even my main workstation for whatever beta build of Windows happens to be available, is having a "stable" environment for some of the little things that...
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Tue, Dec 9 2008 14:10

Windows Home Server Saves Another User

As I was rebuilding my main workstation again (life running pre-beta OS's is always fun), I was very much appreciating the simplicity of Windows Home Server. I have my main workstation set up as an 80 GB OS drive (C:) and data drives of D: and E:...
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Wed, Aug 6 2008 7:59

DQSD 4.1 64-bit Beta Releases to Web!

Old timers here will know that I simply love Dave's Quick Search Deskbar (DQSD). And that there was a semi-custom solution to running it in 64-bit that I used. Well, with a lot of hard work and persistence, we now have 64-bit support built into the...
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Mon, Aug 4 2008 6:39

DQSD v4 - With Support for x64

As anyone who has known me for a while will tell you, I can be qute passionate about applications I really like. Well, one of those little gems is an opensource project called "Dave's Quick Search Deskbar" or DQSD as it's commonly known...
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Wed, Jul 16 2008 17:24

USB in Hyper-V Child?

It's still early days yet, but I think I've found a simple and very satisfactory solution to the problem of no USB support in Hyper-V. FabulaTech's USB Over Network product is simple to install - you install the Server side of it on whatever...
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Thu, May 1 2008 13:33

MS Non-Support

One of my favourite fellow MVPs, Barb Bowman , posted a rant today about the latest Microsoft product to ship with no support for 64-bit users. In this case, a "professional" photographic tools application, Pro Photo Tools v1 . For shame, Microsoft...
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Thu, Apr 3 2008 10:52

Finally - Adobe to support 64-bit in next version of PhotoShop

Adobe has finally announced that PhotoShop CS4 will have a 64-bit version. Gee, took them long enough. The C-Net article on this is here . Charlie.
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Mon, Mar 24 2008 10:22

Unwanted Services when installing iTunes (for SHAME, Apple!)

OK, we've all complained about unnecessary services and silent installs, but to give them credit, Microsoft has done a pretty good job of cutting back on that sort of thing. Heck, they even allow installing a server without a GUI, finally. So I recently...
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Wed, Mar 19 2008 7:13

Hyper-V Release Candidate Released

For those of you testing or using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, the good news is that they appear to be on track for a final release by the end of the summer. Microsoft has just announced the release of the Hyper-V RC. This update adds Vista...
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Tue, Jan 8 2008 12:05

iRotate Utility

I've got a dual monitor setup, running off an ATI 1650 video card. Not exactly hot stuff, but adequate for most of my (non-gaming) needs. But the ATI software is the PITS. It keeps losing track of which monitor is which, turning off the older SGI...
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Mon, Jan 7 2008 13:02

Windows Home Server - x64 Support Announced

The Windows Home Server Team Blog announced that Microsoft will soon be releasing (H1, 2008) a free, automatic, upgrade to Windows Home Server called "PowerPack 1" (PP1 for short.) PP1 has lots of new features I think are important, including...
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Mon, Dec 31 2007 9:33

Disable UAC Prompt for a Single Application

A useful KB (946932) just got posted on support.microsoft.com. It describes how to disable the User Account Control (UAC) prompt for a specific application, without disabling it for the machine as a whole. Now THAT's useful. There's no way I'm...
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Tue, Nov 6 2007 6:13

PowerShell v2 CTP Is Here!

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I'm a big fan of PowerShell, the new shell and scripting language from Microsoft. Well, they've just released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of what the next version will look like. See the PowerShell...
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Tue, Sep 25 2007 23:45

HyperSnap

OK, we all have favourite little utilities that we would have trouble living without. As a computer writer, screen shots are my life, and I've been using HyperSnap for at least 12 years now. My original license cost $25, and at some point I paid for...
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Fri, Jul 27 2007 19:18

Two Factor Authentication

I spent last night installing the latest version of AuthAnvil and RWW-Guard on our network. Between the two, we now have a far more secure environment that enforces Two Factor Authentication (TFA) for access to critical accounts and resources. Normal...
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Mon, Jul 2 2007 6:16

Acronis True Image Enterprise

As some of you know, I've been fighting to live with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Virtual Server - without much success, I might add. I strongly suspect it's related to networking, but whatever the cause, it's been a disaster here. After losing...
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