Tag: Windows
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Microsoft 2015 Virtual CIO Summit, streaming LIVE from the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA!
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 the digital age is changing…
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Best of Microsoft Build Coming to a City Near You!
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 brings the Build experience to…
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Assessing Current IT infrastructure with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) AND BONUS-Evaluate for Migration to Azure Cloud
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 are free, scenario-based guides and…
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Huge Wave of Technology Events Coming to the North East
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 8am-9am Please RSVP 3/5/2013 Providence,…
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Windows Server 2012 Installfest Nov 16, Cambridge MA
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 it is listed as NE18 …
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How to Solve Connectivity Issues Connecting To SCOM, SCVMM, AD or Any Other Service–Here is the Easy fix
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 solution to fix the problem…
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How To Merge a Chained Differential VHD Disk So It Can Be Extended and Expanded
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 to expand a disk, you…
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How to Find a Lost, Missing, Hidden or Removed Network Card (NIC) or Other Device and Even Remove it
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 remove the card and add…
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Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 System Will NOT Boot After Making Changes To Boot Manager Using BCDEdit
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 the new one I had…
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Allow Remote Desktop Services and Ping Through Firewall on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7
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 are just going to use…
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iSCSI SAN for VERY Easy Storage Virtualization All About Storage From Virtualization Group Boston
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 explore more is iSCSI Storage…
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How to Extend Your Activation Grace Period on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (Activate Now Message)
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 reasons they are not activated,…
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Where To Download ISO Images For The Latest And Past Versions Of Microsoft Software Including SQL Server 2000 x64
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 either of these, you can…
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Disable Adding USB Drive and Memory Sticks via Group Policy and Group Policy Preferences
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 you need a step by…