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[UPDATE] We Want to Come Train You - Maybe for Free
Mon, 3/11/08 – 12:58 | Comments
Greg and I are looking to put together some classes in 2009 - public, in-person training on Windows PowerShell, What's New and Changed in Win2008 (which will help set you up for Win7, too, of course), and Terminal Services. They'd be delivered in a week-long format of expert-led training. To Read the full story »
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Greg Now Moderates the Minasi Terminal Services Forum
Mon, 17/11/08 – 8:00 | Comments

If you’re the papparazi and need more of your daily Greggo, you can now check him out answering questions and generally causing trouble over at the Minasi Forum, moderating the Terminal Services forum.

The Minasi Forum is growing to become one of the central clearinghouses for good information needed by IT administrators everywhere. What I particularly like about the forum is the kindheartedness of its denizens. Unlike many places for help that are either replicants of other forums or places where the answer to every question is “RTFM!” or “RTF-rest-of-the-forum!”, these guys and gals are there to help for even the most basic of questions. This is good, because everyone has to start somewhere, and there’s nothing more irritating to having an honest question that no one wants to answer.

So, if you’re involved with Terminal Services or any of the other technologies that make up Microsoft Windows (and who isn’t these days), surf on over to http://web2.minasi.com/forum/ and participate.

These people are so into helping each other out that they’ve even created their own conference so they can meet in person! Now that’s quality…

(Cross-posted from www.realtime-windowsserver.com because…well…you just need to know!)

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PowerShell: Dates and Times
Mon, 17/11/08 – 19:16 | Comments
There's often times when you'll need to work with dates. Perhaps you're archiving information and need to establish a cutoff date, or perhaps you're examining dates from AD and need to calculate how many days it's been since a certain date. PowerShell generally makes it pretty easy to do. Need
Greg Now Moderates the Minasi Terminal Services Forum
Mon, 17/11/08 – 8:00 | Comments
If you're the papparazi and need more of your daily Greggo, you can now check him out answering questions and generally causing trouble over at the Minasi Forum, moderating the Terminal Services forum. The Minasi Forum is growing to become one of the central clearinghouses for good information needed by
Episode 5
Sat, 15/11/08 – 7:07 | Comments
In this special "FESTIVUS" edition of our podcast (yeah, we know it's a bit early - a hallmark of Festivus is flexibility) we talk about malware, Drobos, cheesy taters, and, of course, Festivus.
 
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Server Core : Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2
Fri, 14/11/08 – 13:15 | Comments
From the Server Core team's blog... Now that a build of Windows Server 2008 R2 has been released, I can start talking about what we have been working on. In a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core installation we have: · Active Directory
Who says Microsoft doesn’t like Macs?
Thu, 13/11/08 – 10:56 | Comments
Proving that they're out to help IT professionals with all of their challenges, Microsoft TechNet Magazine this month has a special interoperability issue, which includes an Mac interop article authored by yours truly. You'll find: Mine: Managing Macs in a Windows environment Interacting with Windows from a Mac environment Authenticating
Reluctant DBA: The Transaction Log
Thu, 13/11/08 – 6:56 | Comments
The transaction log is at the heart of what SQL Server is all about. It's basically a list of changes that have been made to the database, with each change referred to as a transaction. This list is physically stored in a file with an .LDF filename extension, and in
New Blog Comment System
Wed, 12/11/08 – 7:04 | Comments
I've installed a new commenting system, powered by Intense Debate (which is now part of the company that produces our blogging software, WordPress). The new system does not require you to register (meaning you can still post ad-hoc), but does provide extra features if you do decide to register. Other
Don’t Fear the Shell (Exchange)
Wed, 12/11/08 – 6:06 | Comments
The always-super Ilse Van Criekinge, author of Managing Exchange Server with Windows PowerShell, is now appearing in a video from Tech-Ed Europe. Watch it.
Terminal Services Part 7: Positioning TS Servers
Tue, 11/11/08 – 8:00 | Comments
The positioning of your Terminal Servers is also another important consideration when planning your rollout. Client/server applications tend to assume that there is a high level of network connectivity and bandwidth between their “client” and “server” halves. When that is not the case – like what happens when users attempt
Enough Pottymouthing
Tue, 11/11/08 – 7:47 | Comments
Greg Shields has blogged about an article on InfoWorld; the basic gist of the blog post is that Vista is terrible, Windows 7 will be terrible, and only InfoWorld can provide you with "testing" software to determine if your computer can run Windows 7 (they suggest that even your "quad-core
PowerShell: Here-Strings
Mon, 10/11/08 – 19:22 | Comments
Sometimes you need to work with really long string data - and it can seem like a pain in the neck. For example, suppose you want to construct an HTML table, and you want to use a template: $template = "<tr>`n" $template += " <td>{0}</td>`n"$template += "<td>{1}</td>`n" $template += "</tr>`n"
SAPIEN Technologies prepping new tool releases
Thu, 6/11/08 – 16:21 | Comments
SAPIEN Technologies has apparently been busy, and are now prepping three new tools for beta testing - on top of the free PrimalForms GUI builder I blogged about earlier. PrimalSQL 2009 appears to draw upon the SQL query builder in PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise, adding additional features to make it a
Your Opinion: What is the Very Best Anti-Malware Solution Available Today?
Thu, 6/11/08 – 9:41 | Comments
After a strong start to the site, we've of late had a dearth of comments. Totally understandable. We're getting close to the holiday season, so if you're thinking turkey and stuffing more than PowerShell and Terminal Services today, we won't dock you any participation points. That being said,
App-V: Architecture
Thu, 6/11/08 – 7:31 | Comments
App-V can be a pretty complicated beast. Heck, anytime you see the word "System Center" in a product name, you usually know it's not as simple as just running Setup.exe! So an important part of this article is going to be making sense of the various App-V components. First off,
Windows Server 7 2008 R2
Wed, 5/11/08 – 13:41 | Comments
Ok, cobbling together everything that's been posted following Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC), here's what I think the deal is:"Windows 7" is being used internally at Microsoft to refer to both the client and server codebase. While the two obviously have different functionality, they are born of the same base