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Two Webcasts Today – Storage Server and DPM Disaster Recovery

As an updated reminder, we have two TechNet Webcasts today from Storage Solutions: Introducing Windows Storage Server 2008 8AM Pacific / 11AM Eastern US time: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032410705 For background – check out my blog on WSS08 from earlier this week. In… Read more

MS SystemCenter, Storage, Videos and Webcasts, WIndows Server, Windows Storage Server

May 7, 2009
XBOX DAD post — the power of Windows Home Server with an Xbox 360

As you may have seen in some of my other gaming posts, I love it when my favorite things overlap – e.g. Star Wars and Video Games. In this month’s Xbox Dad article, my Windows Home Server hooked up… Read more

WIndows Server, Xbox

June 5, 2008
Why is Windows Server 2008 called SP1 ?

If you go to the ‘about’ for Windows Server 2008, you’ll see the box to the right, showing Windows Server 2008 as ‘Version 6.0 Service Pack 1″. I’ll admit to never having noticed this before … But, Iain McDonald (in… Read more

WIndows Server

April 3, 2008
HEROES happen here

In case you are of the very few IT professionals who haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has an exciting launch coming up next month: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 And I am very jazzed to get to… Read more

DPM, Microsoft, WIndows Server

January 25, 2008
You gotta get a Home Server!

My first “home server” was in 1992 – it was NetWare 3.11 and I distinctly remember paying $1,000 for the 1GB 5.25″ full-height SCSI drive that would hold all of my data. I was working on my CNE certification and… Read more

WIndows Server

January 22, 2008