Watch the Microsoft 2015 Virtual CIO Summit, streaming LIVE from the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA! Date: Tuesday, October 6th Time: 8:00am – 2:45pm PDT Hear from industry thought leaders, key Microsoft experts and your peers at this year’s CIO Summit. The Summit will cover key topics ranging from how […]
Many more details to follow. Registration is open Event Date Location Event link 18-May Best Buy Theater, New York City https://newyork.build15.com/ 20-May Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta https://atlanta.build15.com/ 29-May Moody Theater, Austin https://austin.build15.com/ 10-June Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago https://chicago.build15.com/ 15-June Universal Studios, Hollywood – LA https://losangeles.build15.com/ This event series […]
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process. It is one of many solution accelerators from Microsoft. Solution Accelerators […]
New Meetup Group created to simplify reporting and management of event notifications. Please take a couple minutes to join the group at http://www.meetup.com/NEITPro/ Date Where / Registration Time Event Description 2/26/2013 Farmington, CT Microsoft 9a-4pm IT Camp – Server 2012 (Hands On) Most Monday’s Office Hours with ITProGuru Dan Stolts […]
We are pleased to announce that the Boston Area Windows Server User Group will be providing an Installfest and Full day of training on Windows Server 2012. The Event will be held November 16th 2012 at the Microsoft offices at 1 Cambridge Center in Cambridge, MA. On the MIT map […]
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I have been in the technology industry for more than 25 years now and I have dealt with my fair share of connectivity issues. In the last decade or so a good 85% or more of the issues I have encountered have been DNS issues. There is a very easy […]
In my post Out of Disk Space on Drive C–How To Increase Space on Drive C of a Virtual Machine Running Windows Server 2003 I showed how to expand a drive but these instructions do not work if you have a differencing disk or chain of disks. If you want […]
In a scenario where you have physically removed hardware from a machine you can no longer see it in device manager. This does not mean that it is gone. Evidence of that is, if for example you had a network card that had a Static IP address set and you […]
I messed up. It happens to everyone from time to time. In my case, I was playing around with my system boot manager because I wanted to setup Boot To VHD. Well being tired and not thinking to clearly, I made the changes to the {current} boot item instead of […]
This post in in response to questions on how to turn maintain remote connectivity to a server running Hyper-V with the firewall enabled. The first thing to consider is what inbound traffic you want to enable on the server. If it is a Hyper-V server you should consider if you […]
A quick update on Virtualization Group Boston’s, “All About Storage” event. Thanks to our Community Sponsors: PerfectDisk, and StarWind Software. We had a great turnout with strong presentations from two big names in the industry, StarWind Software and PerfectDisk(Raxco Software). One of the topics we discussed and I wanted to […]
Most of the content I use for webcasts and live events have virtual machines that have been created either by someone on my team or by someone at Microsoft corporate. The virtual machines are not created with trial versions of the operating system but with fully licensed product. For obvious […]
I had a customer ask me today if it was possible to download SQL Server 2000 x64. I am posting here so others can benefit from the answer. If you have an MSDN or Technet subscription you can download the ISO image of the CD/DVD’s. If you do not have […]
If you do not have Group Policy Preferences installed see Install Group Policy Preferences. This link tells you how to do it in a 2003 domain. In a 2008 domain it is much easer as all you have to do is enable the feature. See “The Steps” section below if […]