TechEd 2012 North America is almost here, and Twitter will be a great resource to stay atop of all of the great news and announcements.
You can find a list of TechEd Twitter hashtags and also see the official hashtag ttp://www.hashtags.org/msTechEd
Official TechEd 2012 Twitter account: @TechEd_NA
Related hashtag: #msTechEd
Official Windows Azure Twitter account: @WindowsAzure
Related hashtags: #Windows… Read the rest “TechEd 2012 Twitter & Streaming Feeds”
Are you evaluating Windows 8?
Are you running it on a Lenovo machine? Looking for drivers?
Here is a neat page on the Lenovo support site where Windows 8 beta drivers can be downloaded.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=WIN8-BETA
Note that the drivers are provided for testing purposes, as mentioned in the site’s disclaimer… Read the rest “Lenovo Windows 8 Drivers (Beta)”
Introducing Windows Server 2012, by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for your free download!
This is one of the first books on Windows Server 2012 and provides a high level overview of the next generation of Windows!
You can download it here:
PDF Introducing Windows Server 2012 PDF ebook
EPUB Introducing Windows Server 2012 EPUB ebook
MOBI Introducing Windows Server 2012 MOBI ebook
Alternatively go to TechE… Read the rest “Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012”
This tool has been out for a while, but have seen multiple customers not leveraging it on their Hyper-V servers as it is not installed by default on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts.
It is particularly useful for ensuring that the integration components inside the VM are the correct version. Note the Best Practices Analyzer section at the bottom of this screenshot:
You can use Hyper-V … Read the rest “Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)”
The SkyDrive team have just released the updated SkyDrive and the associated clients for various mobile devices.
I just finished downloading and installing the Windows Phone 7.5 client from the Marketplace. The settings showed me that I had a total of 7GB of storage space. What happened to the 25GB of previous space? This is discussed over on thi… Read the rest “SkyDrive Updated Quota And Clients”
The polyester packing virtualization sales guy from the past is back! You may have seen Tad in his inaugural video over at VM-Limited.
Now the second instalment of his genius is live. I wish that I could get it on VHS, Betamax or maybe even VHS 2000 (points for those who remember that format!). That would be cool 
For those in the UK, Tad’s look screams C & A on the high street. They were the… Read the rest “VMLimited – More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van”
On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory. I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even though the server had a single connection which was on the internal corporate network.
A fix was released on this issue and can be downloaded from Microsoft.
The n… Read the rest “Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location”
Previously the list of updates for Hyper-V was stored and maintained as part of the regular TechNet documentation.
Customers asked to have an RSS feed that they could subscribe to and for the list to be maintained in a more rapid fashion.
Thus the update list was moved from TechNet to a new location on the TechNet wiki.
You may subscribe to the RSS feed for the Windows 2008 R2 update list here.
After seeing several posts in the TechNet Exchange forums, where people are posting an overview of their environment as part of the problem statement, it is clear that multiple customers are not maintaining the correct service pack level on their Exchange servers.
I previously blogged about this for Exchange 2010, and this time lets focus on Exchange 2007.
The Exchange 2007 lifecycle can be viewed h… Read the rest “Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required”
EDIT 8-2-2013: A new update KB 2744129 has superseded the original KB 2526776
Please note that this new update now applies to Hyper-V 2008 and 2008 R2 -- the original was only for R2.
If you are testing out Windows 8 as a VM which is hosted on a Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 Hyper-V server, then you will need to install the following update.
An update that enables the Windows Developer… Read the rest “Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 or 2008 R2 Host”