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Ever wonder what’s in the WinSXS directory?

danbrinkmann — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:58:15 +0000

If you know what this directory is it’s probably because you tried to figure out where all the free space on your PC went…and found out the WinSXS directory was the culprit.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/08/06/should-you-delete-files-in-the-winsxs-directory-and-what-s-the-deal-with-vss.aspx

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows

Imaging technology differences

danbrinkmann — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:52:26 +0000

It’s a 2 part blog post on the different technologies for disk imaging…good read.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/stephenrose/archive/2010/07/17/improving-your-image-sector-based-file-based-and-sysprep-what-makes-the-most-sense-part-1-terms-and-windows-tools-primer.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/stephenrose/archive/2010/08/12/improving-your-image-sector-based-file-based-and-sysprep-what-makes-the-most-sense-part-2-the-pros-and-cons.aspx

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Guest failover clustering on VMware

danbrinkmann — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:47:50 +0000

This comes up weekly in customer meetings, I’m sure many of you have been looking for this document too.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/puneetvig/archive/2010/08/14/guest-failover-clustering-with-vmware.aspx

Filed under: Microsoft, VMware, vSphere, Windows

What does $5 bucks get you these days?

danbrinkmann — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:37:03 +0000

How about a really big mailbox?

http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/08/17/cloud-email-has-the-market-stabilized-at-5-mailboxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MspMentor+%28MSP+Mentor%29

Filed under: Microsoft, Online Services

Microsoft Online Service BPOS deployment guide

danbrinkmann — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:31:42 +0000

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f5bca9c4-36a3-4589-b9e3-9593a8435022

Filed under: Microsoft, Online Services

Generating a Windows blue screen on VMware…on purpose

danbrinkmann — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:12:37 +0000

This can be very helpful when trying to troubleshoot Windows operating system issues. If you haven’t ever used the Windows debugging toolkit you should.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1009187

Filed under: Microsoft, VMware, vSphere, Windows

Live mesh for Mac…Live Sync

danbrinkmann — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:32:37 +0000

I have used Live Mesh on my Windows 7 boxes to share data and connect remotely…now given my next laptop will be a MacBook the sync software I use will be a more difficult decision. Please Please Microsoft make OneNote sync like Evernote does…

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VMware vSphere Client – Can’t Connect When Windows Firewall is Disabled on Windows 7

djlaube — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:40:10 +0000

This probably affects other programs as well however for me it was trying to use the VMware vSphere Client to connect to a VMware vCenter server. For the life of me, I couldn’t get it to connect. The vCenter services were all started, networking looked good, I could ping the vCenter server, everything that I tried didn’t work.

After calling support, we determined that the workstation we were using was running Windows 7 and that the Windows firewall service was disabled. The support dude said that by default, Windows 7 will block all traffic when the firewall is disabled. Huh..

So the fix was to perform the following steps:
1) Enable the Windows Firewall service
2) Open up a command prompt and type: netsh advf set allp state off

That command will turn off the Windows firewall without disabling the service (so that it doesn’t block traffic). It worked great for me and the vSphere Client could now connect!

Filed under: vSphere, Windows

Add a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2010

danbrinkmann — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:51:14 +0000

oh yeah, my presentations just got better… you’d be surprised how often a good video is on YouTube…or Microsoft Channel 9.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/hub/archive/2010/06/21/add-a-youtube-video-in-powerpoint-2010.aspx

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Microsoft TechEd North America here I come!

danbrinkmann — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:15:51 +0000

Just finished packing…leaving in a few hours for TechEd in New Orleans. If you’re going to be there say hi!

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