Josh is asking what I’m sure a lot of people are also wondering, given the recent excitement around our next version of Windows.. Wow! A two-parter! Short answer to your first part: No. Don’t wait to start the migration. Longer explanations and reasons: The many and varied ways that Windows 7 surpasses Windows XP … Continue reading Should I just wait for Windows 8? (So many questions. So little time. Part 28)
Thanks for the request, Howard. Here are some good ones: Site: Scripting with PowerShell – videos, guides, wiki articles.. a great starting point. Site: PowerShell.com – “The Community for PowerShell People” Book: Automating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows PowerShell 2.0 – co-authored by my good friend and former teammate Matt Hester. Blog: Windows … Continue reading Powerful PowerShell Resources (So many questions. So little time. Part 27)
At our TechNet Event in Columbus, OH recently, Andy asked: There is no limitation, Andy. I think some of the concerns people have are related to licensing. Can I really take a live virtual machine and move it freely between nodes in a cluster? The answer is, yes. Absolutely. Assuming you’re already licensed to run … Continue reading Limits on Migration? (So many questions. So little time. Part 26)
Amy asks: This question was in the context of our discussion on “Offline Domain Join” (djoin.exe). For those of you not familiar with it, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 support the ability to join a machine to a domain, even while there is no network connectivity between the joining machine and a domain … Continue reading Can DJOIN fix this? (So many questions. So little time. Part 25)
Yes, I’m back (finally) with another in my series of expanded-answers to questions I have received during TechNet Events and IT Camps I’ve facilitated. But for these next blog posts I’m going to have a little fun by actually showing you the written question. Our question today comes from Timi, who asked me: Great question. … Continue reading Are you abandoning 32-bit in Windows 8? (So many questions. So little time. Part 24)
As usual, here is the online version of the event resources I’ll be handing out to my central U.S. IT Camp Event attendees for the next several months. It is likely that this online version is even better, because A) it contains even more than what I could fit onto one page, B) items may … Continue reading Kevin’s “Being What’s Next in I.T.” Event Resources
Alex M asked several questions about Office 365 at our TechNet Event in Kansas City: “Do we need to purchase Office 365 for resources (for example: conference rooms)?” ”Can the user access Office 365 from work PC as well as his personal PC from home?” ”If we are using cloud services, why do we need … Continue reading Can I do that with Office 365? (So many questions. So little time. Part 23.)
We got this question at our TechNet Event back in January. The person didn’t give their name, so let’s call him Jooblety-Goop. “Dynamic Memory and Exchange 2010 - What happens in that scenario?” Well JG, I assume you’re asking about how Exchange Server 2010 works as a virtual workload (Short answer: Just great!), and more … Continue reading Does Exchange play well with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory? (So many questions. So little time. Part 21.)
In Saint Louis at our TechNet Event several weeks ago now, Chuck S. asked about AVIcode… “App Insight - performance data? Component timing? Event Logs? Database events? (what is tracked in AVIcode?)” That is a very good question. For those of you not already aware of what AVIcode is; it is a product that enables … Continue reading What does AVIcode do? (So many questions. So little time. Part 20.)
In Saint Louis a few weeks ago at our TechNet Event, John B asked us: “We are only running System Center Configuration Manager 2008 and now want to run SCOM. Should we install 2008 or 2012?” Well, first off, John.. that’s a pretty cool trick that you have SCCM 2008 while the rest of the … Continue reading Which SCOM Should We Install? (So many questions. So little time. Part 18.)
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