Just a guy – talking about technology … in an uncomplicated way.
A bootable USB stick – AGAIN? This has been covered in many places, but I am still surprised that not everyone knows how to do this. First off: find yourself a large enough and fast enough USB stick to use as your bootable media. I prefer my OCZ Rally 2 myself – 8 GB and…
After mulling things around for a while, consulting anyone who had an opinion on the topic and consuming various beverages over time – I finally sat down and planned out my portable demo lab for Windows Server”8” things. I’ll be using it to create demos to share with the community and showing them off at…
Come on now – admit it. We all like geeky things on the walls of our cubicles and offices. Well – a cool poster came out for the Windows Server “8” Beta Hyper-V Components and it’s available in High Detail saved as a PDF from the Microsoft Download Servers. Cool new additions from previous versions…
As we’re now winding down the week and with 7 days under our belts with the Beta product – I thought I’d quickly share some awesome reading material that can go along with your Beta Evaluation of WS8. I love troubleshooting things – it’s the challenge of getting things working again after some other “IT…
Call me crazy. Sometimes I want to shutdown my servers. After loading up the Windows Server “8” beta on some of my test systems, I was a little perplexed as to how I should be shutting them down – either logged on locally or remotely. Humm…. From a command line – I can always run…
Part of my role at MS includes the creation of content for “The Edge Show” currently hosted at http://edge.technet.com. Well with last week being the beta milestone release for Windows Server “8” (I’ll use this notation and possibly the shortened WS8 going forward) I decided to do the smart thing and have a Special Edition…