- Posted by ploft on October 3, 2008
Finally the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server is landed, gotta check it out. I’ll expect to do some posts about it in the near future.
Get it here...
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
- Posted by ploft on September 30, 2008
So Microsoft announced the 8th of September the Hyper-V Server would be ready within 30 days... as of now there are only a couple of days until the this deadline is up, so I hope Microsoft won't let us down with a notice of delay.
For those of you who might have missed the fuss about the Hyper-V Server and the Hyper-V feature in Windows Server 2008, this is a dedicated server only for hosting Hyper-V machines. Now you might say, yeah but we have the same opportunity with Windows 2008 Core server with the Hyper-V feature enabled – yes, but Windows 2008 isn't free - the Hyper-V Server is going to be free of charge, and has a built in console application for administrating the most simple things of the server-setup. The Hyper-V server should have an even smaller footprint than the Windows Core edition, and should feature wise it should match the same options as if you were running a Windows 2008 Standard edition with Hyper-V.
As soon as it ships I'll be testing it, and I will post my experience here as soon as possible.
- Posted by ploft on September 30, 2008
Our guys in Redmon has revealed some of the extensive enhancements for the next versions of Visual Studio (codename Rosario) and the .NET Framework 4.0. Sentences like efficiency in simplified application life-cycle management, improvement in the capabilities and scalability of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio, and futher sneak peeks at some of the new areas for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.
Check out the Press Release at Microsoft.com
- Posted by ploft on July 25, 2008
July 25th, 2008 (Last Friday Of July) - is the official Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
Today I was introduced to a new event that I – as an System Administrator – didn't know existed, but I can defiantly appreciate the concept of System Administrator Appreciation Day. Read more on sysadminday.com
- Posted by ploft on July 23, 2008
Any Danes going to “TechEd for IT Pros” in Barcelona this year? If you would like some companionship feel free to ping me.
I’ll be staying at the “Confortel Barcelona” hotel...
See ya’ in Barcelona the 2nd November (which by the way is my Birthday ;-)
- Posted by ploft on July 17, 2008
Here is a small trick to avoid the Remote Desktop Connection client (RDP/mstsc) from saving the latest computers you’ve established connection to.
If you are afraid of tinkling with regedit and have to look up what ACL stands for, I wouldn’t recommend trying this.
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- Posted by ploft on July 3, 2008
As some of you may know the final release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology has been released. I’ve used the last few weeks reading up on some of the changes and other people’s experiences with Hyper-V. I tried the Hyper-V then it was still in beta and at this time it was clear that Microsoft had made a great product – and I’m saying this, with a slight chance of being called a Microsoft-fan boy, but the specs I’ve seen with Hyper-V should really kick ass.
We’d talked about the possibility of running all our virtual machines and pc’s of a dedicated host-server rather than using them locally on the development workstations where I work. No further detail should be needed, and to make a long story short we decided to take it up for a test, so a HP ProLiant DL 185 was ordered for this purpose.
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- Posted by ploft on June 27, 2008
Just came across this today – maybe it's only me being buried under a huge rock, but I think this small feature need a lot more credit and advertising – so this is me advertising for a parameter – yay!
For those of you who think the whole procedure of setting custom service accounts when configuring Internet Information Server is just the most fun you could ever imagine, don't read any further. If you - like me - think it's quite boring to do this a lot of times, there is a nifty little feature in the aspnet_regiis tool that comes with the .NET 2.0 Framework.
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- Posted by ploft on August 31, 2007
Hi again. Like I said ... it’s not your must-blog-everyday-author you’ve got here... sorry for that fact :-)
...but like the subject says (tada-da-daah) Gallery Extension!
Yes... That’s what I’m working on right now, and my plan is to use the build-in post-system, but attach a special tag, so that the ordinary BlogEngine.NET don’t act if it’s a normal blog post – that would kind ‘a ruin the whole idea.
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- Posted by ploft on August 10, 2007
Not in particular pleased with the original themes for BlogEngine.NET, I’ve decided to make my own. Here is the result! A bit more graphical and experimenting than my usual clean minimalistic style that I’m known for, but also a test of an idea of how to mix this artistic-freedom-mosaic-like-design to somewhat more businesslike.
I hope you like it as much as I do. I plan to do some further development on this design as time go by. I also have some thoughts about a gallery-extension to BlogEngine.NET so that it would be possible to show some of my photography work.