Musings of an IT Pro Evangelist

Random musings of a Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist in Redmond, WA.

Free Windows Server 2008 R2 E-Book

Hey folks!  Just wanted to remind everyone you can download a FREE Windows Server 2008 R2...

Author: txsnow Date: 11/03/2009

Better Experience and Faster Response Times for Your Web Sites!

Ever wanted to “warm-up” your IIS web site by pre-loading processes at the start of the web server...

Author: txsnow Date: 10/14/2009

Choose Your Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Deployment Strategy

Like any IT Pro, you have what appears to be million tools and strategies to get your desktops...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/11/2009

Microsoft Surface combined with Business Intelligence

The Microsoft BI team showcased a very cool application known as Falcon Eye at TechEd which takes...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/10/2009

Simplify configuration of Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core using SConfig

While at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, I was asked by a couple of different attendees if we had plans...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/08/2009

Get your Windows 7 Application Compatibility Questions Answered!

Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Windows 7 Application Compatibility: Your Questions Answered...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/05/2009

Power Management and Windows Server 2008

Green IT is a a phrase that's buzzing all around the various publications and being uttered by those...

Author: txsnow Date: 12/09/2008

IIS Media Pack 1.0

A couple of weeks ago the guys over in the IIS team delivered a new set of media tools for those of...

Author: txsnow Date: 12/08/2008

Virtualization and ROI

You only need to work in IT about five minutes before someone comes in and asks you to cut costs and...

Author: txsnow Date: 12/05/2008

The future of the Data Center

Running out of room in your data center?  Want to be greener in you data center? Why not just...

Author: txsnow Date: 12/04/2008

More on Hyper-V and SQL Server

  Last week I posted this video interview with Joe Yong talking about virtualization of SQL...

Author: txsnow Date: 12/03/2008

SP2 Customer Preview for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista now available.

  Customer Preview Program (CPP) availability for Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and...

Author: txsnow Date: 12/02/2008

Web Platform Installer hits RC Milestone

The folks over in the Web Platform have released a RC (Release Candidate) version of the Web...

Author: txsnow Date: 11/24/2008

Windows 7 from the engineers

There has not been much public information about Windows 7 (code name for the next version of the...

Author: txsnow Date: 09/04/2008

Feature of the Week: URLScan 3.0 for IIS 7.0

Back in April there were reports that surfaced stating that web sites running on Internet...

Author: txsnow Date: 08/29/2008

Hyper-V Hits RTM

Well folks it's here!  The highly anticipated Hyper-V has shipped!  We've got the early...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/26/2008

Hyper-V and Bitlocker

At my sessions at TechEd I tell a fictional story of the domain controller stored underneath the...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/26/2008

Powershell to the rescue

It's been a couple of weeks since TechEd and I'm finally getting caught up.  A good friend and...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/24/2008

It's the last week...

I am sure you've seen the headlines on the interwebs about this being Bill Gates last full time week...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/23/2008

SQL Server 2008 Auditing

Once a year you get that email or knock on the door from the auditor. It didn’t used to be...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/19/2008

Hyper-V Performance Tuning

Last week I presented three different sessions at TechEd and used my laptop to run at five different...

Author: txsnow Date: 06/18/2008

SQL Server Backup Compression

If you’ve played in the IT Pro playground long enough, I’m sure that you have seen the...

Author: txsnow Date: 04/09/2008

Upgrading Active Directory to Windows Server 2008

Back when I was supporting a large enterprise Active Directory environment, I was tasked with...

Author: txsnow Date: 03/27/2008

Active Directory Migration and Windows Server 2008

About two years ago I was the lead on an Active Directory migration/consolidation project where we...

Author: txsnow Date: 03/10/2008

Solution Accelerators for Virtualization announced!

The guys over at the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Team (MAP) Blog have a great post today...

Author: txsnow Date: 01/22/2008

Deploy Silverlight with Windows Server Update Services!

So you want to deploy Silverlight?  Well, David Tesar wrote in his blog a few months ago about...

Author: txsnow Date: 01/19/2008

Windows Server 2008 Security Guide - Beta now available

One of my favorite documents for Windows Server 2003 is now available in beta form for Windows...

Author: txsnow Date: 01/12/2008

Mommy, why is there a server in the house?

I have heard quite a bit of buzz from those who attended CES about how this book was one of the...

Author: txsnow Date: 01/11/2008

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