I was e-mailed about an online chat happening tomorrow. Actually, the email begged me and probably a couple hundred other Microsoft Bloggers: “Would you mind placing this live chat announcement on your blog to let readers know:“Okay. I can do that.It’s entitled “Live Branch Chat: Administering and Maintaining the Branch Office Technologies”, and it’s happening … Continue reading Branch offices are tough to manage
Yes indeed! The January TechNet Webcast Schedule is Live!We’ve got lots of great content for you this month; especially the two sessions I’m doing on Exchange Server Security.TechNet Webcast: Implementing Exchange Server 2003 Security (Part 1 of 2): Securing Services and Messaging Protocols (Level 200)Monday, January 16, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time … Continue reading A New Year of TechNet Webcasts Begins!
R2!Yep. Windows Server 2003 R2 is RTM. (RTM stands for “Released to Manufacturing”) “So what? What’s in it for me?”Good questions. If you want big improvements in identity management, branch server management, and storage configuration (local and remote), then this is an upgrade you should seriously consider.“Upgrade? You mean I have to pay for this?”Yes, … Continue reading Windows Server 2003 R2 is RELEASED TO MANUFACTURING
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 039 I have talked about and demonstrated the new SQL Server Upgrade Advisor in my live events recently. When showing that you can include a profiler trace file for the sake of the analysis, I was asked,“But what events should we trace? What trace would be the most useful for the advisor?”And the … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 039
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 038 The MSDN web site has links to some SQL Server 2005 Virtual Labs.“What’s this ‘virtual lab’ thing of which you speak?”Virtual labs are hosted sessions on a pre-installed virtual machine, along with lab notes to work through various scenarios on the installed software.“But, can’t I just do that on my … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 038
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 037 This question was asked at our event TODAY in Des Moines, IA.“Can the SQL Server 2005 Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) aslo tune databses running on SQL 2000?”Short answer. YES!And in fact, something I didn’t mention at the event, but is also quite useful in the new tool; the new … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 037
TechNet Virtual Labs“Ever wanted to test Microsoft's newest software in a sandbox environment? Wouldn't it be great to be able to test new servers immediately, without formatting hard drives or dedicating one or more computers to the project? Now you can, with the TechNet Virtual Labs.”For those of you not already aware of these, I … Continue reading TechNet Virtual Labs
Yep… another day, another webcast! I’m presenting this “TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of DNS in Windows Server 2003” today. Here are some resources relating to this session’s topic. I hope you find them useful, and that you are either joining me live for the webcast, or will be viewing it at some later date. Kevin — “Deploying DNS”http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/dnsbd_dns_overview.asp“How … Continue reading Resource Page for TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of DNS in Windows Server 2003
Earlier Today I delivered a webcast (content number ADD-03) on considerations for planning a complex AD design. I thought I’d post some of the Q&A here, and maybe expand on some of the answers also.Thanks again to Blain Barton, Chris Avis, and Rob Westover, for helping out in a pinch to handle Q&A for all … Continue reading Best of Q&A from our TechNet Webcast: Successfully Implementing a Complex Active Directory Design (Level 200)
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036 Credit for this one goes to Chris Avis, who had this asked of him in an event recently…“With ‘instant file initialization’, what is it really doing?”Here’s a document that describes it well.From the document: In SQL Server 2005, data files can be initialized instantaneously. This allows for fast execution of … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036
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