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When Microsoft announced the Server Core functionality of Windows Server 2008 a lot of people got very excited. Server Core is essentially the functionality of a server OS without any of the bloat of either a regular server or workstation OS. ...
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I was looking for an e-mail from years ago when I came across this letter I wrote to the Senior Editor (Careers) for TechRepublic.com nearly six years ago. Although the circumstances hardly apply to me anymore it may be interesting for IT Professionals...
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New Years Eve… December 31st, 2008. We left our hotel at 1pm and did not stop having an incredible time for over twelve hours! I started to blog when we came home last night, but it was a lost cause. It is now New Years Day, and I have...
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Actually it was our first full day in the city to be sure… but that’s just a technicality. We drove in yesterday – after sitting in traffic waiting for the Lincoln Tunnel for two full hours; boy are we glad that we drive a hybrid! It took...
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Until last year I had spent most of my life living in apartments, condominiums, and warmer climates. Couple that with my travels and it is not so surprising that I had never really shovelled a driveway before. Now that I am married and own...
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I cannot remember exactly when I started using Microsoft Office Outlook over the free Outlook Express product, but I do remember preferring it over OE, at least when I got used to it… and when I really started using it. I do remember that when I installed...
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For the past few months I have been using Windows Home Server (WHS) to backup my workstations at home… two laptops, one desktop workstation and my Media Center PC. The WHS box has 650 GB of hard disk space, about half of which is dedicated to file...
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This is an oldie but a goodie… thanks to my man in Dallas Larry Lentz for reminding me of it! Tech Support: "Sir, something has burned within your power supply." Customer: "I bet that there is some command that I can put into the AUTOEXEC...
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Over the past few weeks I have been in front of a number of audiences discussing Essential Business Server. As promised, here are the scripts I discussed to create your WindowsPE to deploy the OS portion of the EBS servers over the network: ...
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Although it is not something I am proud of, I have failed a number (the exact number is quite secret!) of certification exams. I am not proud of this fact, but the reality is I have taken a number of exams that I have been unprepared for, and that...
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I really should be more careful of what I say to who… but in conversation with Friday Funny Guy I mentioned a possible song lyric (he writes parodies, you see) and this is the result: http://landofsilly.mypodcast.com/2008/11/Dead_Cisco_Sketch_Im_and_IT_PRo_Song...
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Theresa and I bought a new car recently. It's Green . To be specific, it is actually a colour called Aloe Green Metallic , which to me sounds like a pretentious way of saying it's green. The car was actually available in one of seven...
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In September I gave a lecture at the Toronto IT Professionals Community on different deployment technologies available to small and medium business – specifically Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 4.1 , Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK...
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So now that I have a day or two to play (and need it up already!), I decided to start installing my Essential Business Server environment today. This is not my first kick at this can (I have installed eight or nine previous iterations in either...
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So this may be hard to believe, but I carved my first pumpkin today… ever. My mother might counter this with a failed attempt in 1980, but this was my first real go at it. I told Aaron that he could draw a face on the pumpkin for me to carve… He...