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To start off with, I took off on Wednesday and boy was that fun. I have not had a day that I just did nothing but the basics at home in a very long time. I mowed the yard in preparation for my son's 3rd birthday party on Saturday. Then Thursday, my wife (Martha), my oldest son (age 7 - Nate), my only daughter (Age 4 - Abby) and my youngest son (just turned 3 - Cole) headed to St. Louis for a trip...

I have been wanting to change the theme on the main blog for sometime now...and since the upgrade to CS 2007.1 , I thought I would make the blogs more like the other pages of myITforum.com . So, enjoy the new theme.

Below are changes available in Community Server 2007.1 Enhancements Updated caching framework, performance updates, added locking support for several of the application-wide collections SQL performance updates and best-practices updates Added CreateEditWeblogPostForm, DeleteWeblogPostForm, and associated sub-form controls from CS2008 to support creating/editing/deleting blog posts in the front UI using...

Let's see what happens.

Blogs will be down while getting upgraded to Community Server 2007.1 starting at 9:30 CST

We added more RAM to the server today.

DataSchenk Rocks Nationwide Microsoft Customer Satisfaction Survey Smyrna, TN, USA — August 22, 2007 — DataSchenk, Inc. has announced that its customers have boosted it into one of the highest-ranked organizations in the Microsoft Partner program in the U.S., according to an independent third-party customer satisfaction survey. DataSchenk achieved a Net Satisfaction Score of 199 out of a possible 200...

Microsoft unveiled the plans for its new application virtualization interoperability with SMS/SCCM, third party ESD systems and standalone clients at VMworld. The MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization is a solution accelerator which enables the distribution of virtual applications without streaming. Instead, it is using Windows Installer (previously known as Microsoft Installer) -- a...

The forum RSS Feeds have been fixed. Sorry everyone. I had a typo in the function.

I found a website that had some Google Job Interview questions on it…so here they are… The website also has some answers or solutions in the comments posted… The link to the site and answers is below all the questions. 1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? 2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then...

http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/archive/2005/04/03/396941.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/bryansampica/archive/2007/09/06/becoming-a-microsoft-mvp.aspx http://www.mvps.org/about/mvp.html " I get lots of questions on how to become an MVP, so I thought I'd make a blog entry about it. My most recent inquiry involved asking how to "obtain the Microsoft MVP Certification". I always enjoy requests...

This trial guide walks you through a step by step creation of a Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization system including the Sequencing of two applications. Once you have completed these setup steps, you will be able to test the benefits of Microsoft SoftGrid in your own environment. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6da21c58-2436-4722-af15-6157ff3b9d0e&displaylang...

Configuring Software Updates - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633119.aspx Before software update compliance assessment data is displayed in the Configuration Manager 2007 console and before software updates can be deployed to client computers, the software update point must be installed and configured, and the configuration settings for other software updates components should be considered...

The myITforum sites got upgraded this weekend. Nothing fancy...just the standard upgrades for Windows and such. I did do some Community Server DB work over the weekend...so hopefully things are a bit faster in that area. Have fun... Continue to blog!