June 2007 - Posts
R2-D2 working for the postal service now?
Transformers Cake
WOW...just in time for my son's Birthday. Now I just need to find out how he did this!!
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Demo Video
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1aa23c1c-82a0-4bde-81c0-15dafd2c7756&DisplayLang=en Virtual Server 2005 R2 Demo Video Brief Description Demo Overview of Virtual Server 2005 R2
Launch a Virtual PC without the console
Ever wanted to launch a VPC without going through the console? You can through the command-line: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual PC.exe" -pc <VPCNAME> -singlepc
Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report
http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_6_month_vulnerability_report See the full report - http://www.csoonline.com/pdf/6_Month_Vista_Vuln_Report.pdf
International Space Station and Shuttle
I just watched them fly over us...way too cool. Check out http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ to see when you will be able to see them for yourself.
AdminPak for Vista
The word is NO they will not be releasing an AdminPak for Vista. The recommended process is to RDP into the server and use the tools within the Server. More on this issue here - http://msmvps.com/blogs/ad/archive/2007/05/28/adminpak-for-windows-vista.aspx I personally think this sucks. Sorry, but I do. It's just more clicks I have to make in order to do something. Microsoft...if you are listening...
SoftGrid Support for Non-English Based Configurations
SoftGrid Support for Non-English Based Configurations http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2007/06/20/softgrid-support-for-non-english-based-configurations.aspx
Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Now Available
http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2007/06/20/microsoft-softgrid-4-1-sp1-now-available.aspx The following taken directly from the above link: We recently released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1. The release notes and download locations are documented in Knowledge Base article 938497 . So now that you have Service Pack 1, what's the best way to go about performing the upgrade?...
Animator vs Animation
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf Nice video!
Guess The Google
http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/ You get 20 small images that pop up and you have to guess what googled word brought up those images. you have 20 seconds to do it.
Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D826B836-59E5-4628-939E-2B852ED79859&displaylang=en Overview This download contains the following documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007: • Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide: This guide steps you through the deployment process for System Center Operations Manager 2007. • Active Directory Management Pack Guide for Operations...
Virtual Labs are a great way of getting your hands on a product
Virtual Labs are a great way of getting your hands on a product - here's what is available for play! 2007 Microsoft Office System BizTalk Server Branch Office Enterprise Search Exchange Server 2007 Forefront Security Identity and Access (IDA) Internet Information Services (IIS) Microsoft Antigen Microsoft Business Intelligence Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 Microsoft Internet...
Some New Microsoft Virtualization Tools and Docs
Windows Server Virtualization Calculator (Version 2) has been released. This calculator allows you interactively build virtual machines running multiple Microsoft server products to estimate the licenses and costs for Windows Server by edition (Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter) and many Microsoft server products. It starts with configuring your server based on virtualization technology, sockets...
Impressive stats about Microsoft.com
Got the following post from Ann Liu's blog "MSCOM is made up of more than 20,500 URL's and hosts 16 million pages and is available in more than 30 languages. According to available metrics, http://*.microsoft.com received 35.4 billion page views in FY06. On average http://*.microsoft.com receives 229 million unique users per month . The Australian site alone generates more than 2.2 million...
Configuring CommunityServer for YouTube Videos
First you need to modify your CommunityServer.config file. Winin the Markup section you will need to find the HTML section. Now past the following code at the end of the HTML section. Just before the < / html > line. <embed style="true" type="true" src="true" quality="true" bgcolor="true" scale="true" wmode="true" salign...
So...you want to add a YouTube Video to your blog?
After your site has been configured to allow YouTube videos (I'll discuss in another post) then all you need to do as a blogger is: Past the Embed code into your HTML of your post. For example: I would start typing my blog... Then click on the HTML in the Blog Text menu bar and then you will see your HTML code. Then within there you will past the code from YouTube. Which looks like: <object...
I added a new feature to the blogs tonight
New Feature added to the myITforum blogs. See if you can see what it is? http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rcrumbaker/archive/2007/06/13/labron-james-on-an-etch-a-sketch-amazing.aspx (Hint -YouTube embeded)
Lebron Etch A Sketch - AMAZING
WOW...simply amazing! This guy is unreal! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYM__s3R5q0
Softgrid - Chad Jones demos and overviews
Chad Jones has got a nice demo and overview up on the web. Microsoft SoftGrid® Application Virtualization See it now (1 hour, 3 minutes) With Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, you can turn Windows applications into centrally managed, virtual services that are never installed, and can be instantly streamed to any desktop or laptop. In this one-hour video, learn how SoftGrid's virtualization...
A SMS Blog to watch - Dan Conley's SMS/SCCM Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/dconley/ Dan Conley a Program Manager on the SMS/SCCM Sustained Engineering team and should be posting some great info about SMS and other information as well.
VHD Mount
Chris Wolf wrote this great article on a tool with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. Original Article: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=1793 "Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Treasures: VHD Mount - Use VHD Mount to mount and edit the contents of VHD virtual hard disk files. By Chris Wolf Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about some of my favorite features in the recently...
I hate it when...
my shoe strings break. Now I have to go find some that are close which sucks because there are never any that are close...they are either way too long or way too short. Oh well, if this is all I have to complain about in life...then life is going great!
