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Windows 8 To Go Gottcha to watch for!

Windows To Go was a new feature introduced in Windows 7, it is really handy way to carry a secure copy of the operating system around with you. You just plug your boot-able thumb drive into a handy computer, reboot it and all your private information...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Tue, Oct 2 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Announcements, How To, Win7, Cool Tools, Win8
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is Free

The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is a free, centralized code sample library driven by developers’ needs. The goal of the All-In-One Code Framework is to provide typical code samples for all Microsoft development technologies, and reduce developers’...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Wed, Jul 20 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Community Chatter, Announcements, Community News, How To, Cool Tools
Wondering what a SBS DSRM System State Restore looks like

So I am starting to think my server does not like me leaving town. The day after returning home from SMB Nation she crashed. CHKDSK got it to boot but lost a few thousand files in the process. Decided to do a System State Restore as too many services...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Tue, Jun 14 2011
Filed under: Filed under: SBS, How To, Cool Tools
Looking for the Hands On Labs for SBS 2011 Family

Here are the links to the various Hands On Labs or HOL’s as Microsoft calls them for the various flavors of SBS 2011 http://online.holsystems.com/portals/sbs/standard/ http://online.holsystems.com/portals/sbs/essentials/ http://online.holsystems...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Fri, May 13 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Community Chatter, SBS, How To, Cool Tools
Puzzled about activating Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 System?

First let’s make sure we are talking about the same thing, there are different way to purchase MultiPoint (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/) I am talking here about the version you purchase though Open License. When you install it you can...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Wed, Apr 6 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Announcements, SBS, How To, Cool Tools, WMS
Finally we can talk, Storage Server R2 Essentials Announced

Well it has been the best kept secret at Microsoft for years, but this morning they announced Windows Storage Server R2 Essentials, what is it you ask, think Windows Home Server backup functionality capable of joining a domain and you get the basic idea...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Mon, Nov 8 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community Chatter, Announcements, SBS, Community News, Cool Tools
Potential iPad Killer Sighted DownUnder

The more I read about the TEGA-v2 the more excited I got. Read More...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Sun, Oct 3 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community Chatter, Announcements, Community News, Win7, Cool Tools
LIDNUG: What’s new in C# 4.0 with O’Reilly author and MVP, Joe Albahari

The Linked .Net Users Group is putting on a huge range of “shows” in the next couple of months – starting with an absolute kick-ass presentation by Joe Albahari ( www.albahari.com ) the author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell and the upcoming of C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, plus not to forget he’s the creator of one...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Jan 19 2010
Filed under: Filed under: C#.Net, Code Gurus, Cool Guys, Cool Tools, Linked .Net Users Group, LiDNUG
MSDN AU Book club, Big algorithms made easy with F# (presented by Joel Pobar)

Microsoft Australia is really kicking off this year – seeing more and more this year – and it’s only January!!!! Now, the fellas are going all out and throwing the MSDN Australia team in gear by launching the MSDN Australia Book Club – this event is organised by Andrew Coates . First up is Joel Pobar...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Jan 11 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys, Cool Tools, Cool Toys, MSDN Australia
Visual Studio tips and tricks – the work goes on

One of my great friends, Zain Naboulsi , has taken up the gauntlet and is continuing Sara Ford’s work with the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks series. Find the first 9-10 tips here: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/archive/tags/Tips+and+Tricks/default.aspx It’s good to see Zain pump out the T&T’s as fast...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Jan 11 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Code Gurus, Cool Guys, Cool Tools, Cool Toys
LIDNUG: A lap around Telerik Developer Tools for Web Developers

First event for LIDNUG in 2010 – Telerik is sending their very best: Todd Anglin. A fellow MVP and also Telerik Chief Evangelist, Todd Anglin’s known for his huge contributions to the community as well as his book “Introducing Silverlight 1.1” which was released in June 2009. As usual, this is a Live...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Jan 5 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys, Cool Tools, Linked .Net Users Group, LiDNUG
GFIMAX can tell you when the server reboots

Remember that notification that SBS 2003 sent you whenever the server rebooted Do you miss it on your SBS 2008 and Windows Home Servers? GFIMAX can give it back to you and I will show you how easy it is to add. Read More...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Sun, Jan 3 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Community Chatter, Announcements, SBS, How To, Cool Tools
GFI WebMonitor Reviewed by Mitch Tulloch

Hi Gang, Mitch Tulloch, one of my favorite geeks, just did an independent review of the recently released GFI WebMonitor. Take a look at his impressions of the new release HERE. He also does a nice walk through of the installation in the article, including...

Posted to Kicking and Screaming I am Bloggin by on Tue, Dec 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Uncategorized, Community News, Cool Tools
www.itspecialist.com – excellent mashup source for IT news and info

It’s sometimes hard to find your way around the blogosphere, with literally thousands of blogs appearing each month. I was referred to a site today which has done a pretty good job at gathering sources for you so you can get it all in one go! www.itspecialist.com is a Technical Media Mash-up for IT Professionals...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Fri, Apr 17 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Blog Fun, Awesome Stuff, Cool Tools
Free 500 page PDF on the Entity Framework

Sometimes you get this one shining community star that just goes above and beyond…and sometimes something good comes out of it too :) Well, Zeeshan Hirani , from the C# UG in Dallas, released a 500 page PDF on the Entity Framework . 500???? pages??? After having read through it I was pretty amazed –...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Thu, Apr 9 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Code Gurus, Cool Guys, E-Books, Awesome Stuff, Cool Tools, Entity Framework
Australia’s very own Visual Studio Tools Product Manager is blogging – Welcome Joerg Lindner

So this is how we put Australia on the developer tools map!! Joerg Lindner, who recently joined us from Germany, is blogging – yeps, Australia’s very own Visual Studio Tools Product Manager is blogging. Needless to say, it’s coming on a good time, with Visual Studio 2010 just around the corner. I think...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Mar 30 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, Cool Guys, Visual Studio Team System 2010, Cool Tools
Thirteen23 releases “blu” a WPF twitter client..

yeah i know – we’ve seen tons of twitter clients out there – some has had some fizzle and delivered an experience, but most really just did what it’s meant to do, tweet. Does this new client do anything else but…tweet? not really…but it does deliver it in a neat and pleasant experience – oh, and it doesn...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Feb 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys, Awesome Stuff, Cool Tools
David Lean shows us how to use conditional formatting in SQL Reporting

wow i say!! David Lean has just released an in depth, 4 part series on how to use conditional formatting in SQL Reporting. This is probably the best and most in depth blog post i’ve seen on this topic! seriously worth the read if you’re working with SSRS and wants to impress some narky execs with some...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Feb 17 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys, SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, SQL Server 2008, Awesome Stuff, Cool Tools
TDD for SharePoint - TypeMock releases Isolator

Sezai (Perth's newest SharePoint MVP...and only SharePoint MVP too) blogged this tidbit about 21apps and their latest release, Isolator for SharePoint. I haven't had a go at it yet, but i can definitely see this spreading like a bush fire - testing code for SharePoint, WITHOUT SharePoint installed...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sun, Dec 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Tools, SharePoint Development

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