Several months back I did bunch of Microsoft Virtual Labs which they give out little MSDN dolls for participating, I highly recommend checking out the labs and the web casts there is a ton of great information out there you just have to reach out!...

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About one year ago I was fortunate enough to be invited into the Vista beta program thru Connect, Microsoft’s private testers group and began my beta testing of Windows Vista the next generation of the Windows operating system. One year later I find out that after all the hard work and troubles...

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That is the question, in shared hosting ASP.NET 2 Here is my problem, we run many web servers with many domains in a shared hosting environment and have experienced server crashes or slow performance from either clients just forgetting to turn off debugging in there ASP.NET 2 applications or trying to...

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Well tonight for fun I installed CommunityServer 2.1 on Windows Server 2007 "Longhorn" I downloaded the latest release (build 5600 32bit) of Windows Server 2007 Codename "Longhorn" from Connect this afternoon and then tonight after work I burned a DVD and installed in on my test server...

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I thought I would share some screenshots with everyone, over time I will add more! Desktop Desktop with Start menu Performance Diagnostice Console My Computer ControPanel ControlPanel (classic view)...

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I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet . It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com "Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful...

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Well I decided to add a Unix Box to the network here at the house and start brushing up on that, so now I have a Windows 2003 .Net Server and Unix Box and 2 XP Pro workstations all on a wired network, than I have a 54G wireless network with my laptop and the one of the neighbors all sharing my wonderful...

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I cannot stress this enough! Make sure you always have the latest windows critical system patches which you can get from Windows Update and PLEASE get yourself some anti-virus software the free ones are ok but not updated as quick as some of the full paid for versions, believe you me it's worth way more...

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So Incase you don't already know I now work at the Help Desk at the Wand Corporation in Eden Prairie Minnesota. Wand is a software company that creates, sells, and supports POS(Point of sale systems - Fancy name for cash registers) for the Quick Serv(Fancy name for fast food) Industry. I get this call...

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