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Microsoft Solution Accelerators are great tools that help you plan, securely deploy and manage new Microsoft technologies, and they are all free! Read more about Soltion Accelerators here. Recently a new solution accelerator to convert VMWare VMs and disks to Hyper-V was released. So now you really have no excues not to move to Hyper-V! …
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I just started a new blog, hosted on Windows Azure. This blog will deal with cloud computing and related topics. Check it out: cloudpower.no. Morgan
So I thought I would put together a list of the stuff I use. Mostly as sort of a memo to myself, but if anyone finds this useful, so much the better.
Name Description Audacity Sound file editing Paint.NET Image editing HashCheck Checksum verification/creation MyDefrag Defragmentation VirtualDub Video edition Foxit Reader PDF Reader/PDF Ifilter 7-Zip File archiver Putty Telnet/SSH client FileZilla FTP client Simp Instant messaging encryption VLC Media player Wireshark Network protocol analyzer Notepad++ Text editor Bullzip PDF Printer CDBurnerXP CD/DVD Burning Application Folder2ISO ISO file creation Exact Audio Copy (EAC) CD Ripping Nmap Network mapping MailSend SMTP command line sender VHD Resizer Resizes VHD files VMDK to VHD Converter Convert VMware VMDK disk files to VHD Angry IP Scanner IP address scanner WinSCP SFTP, FTP and SCP client Fiddler HTTP Debugging proxy Stellarium Planetarium TFTPD32 TFTP client and DHCP, TFTP, DNS, SNTP and Syslog server RawWrite Disk image writer WinTail Tail application for Windows Cygwin Linux environment for Windows Free Download Manager Like the name says… uTorrent Tiny BitTorrent client MediaCoder Transcode files for portable devices
My last post provided a list of all Microsoft server products supported on Hyper-V (and other hypervisor platforms covered by Microsoft’s certification program). Today I bring you the list of which Microsoft Server products are supported in Windows Azure Virtual Machines: Microsoft server software support for Windows Azure Virtual Machines: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721672 Quite shorter than the …
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Thank you to everyone who attended my session at the Norwegian Partner Kickoff event for Windows Server 2012 today. A special thanks to everyone who took the time to evaluate the session. My slide deck is available for download here. It will also probably be made available by Microsoft at some point in time.
If so, wonder no more! The Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC), a 140-page checklist, lists all the requirements a Microsoft product must fulfill before it can ship. One such requirement is “Must support Hyper-V”. So if you cannot support Hyper-V you cannot launch! Microsoft has been kind enough to list all its server software and …
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For all of you living in Norway who are interested in learning more about Windows Azure; you can sign up for one of the four free Windows Azure Training Camps I will give at the Microsoft offices in Oslo. We will do one training camp on the first Wednesday of each month for the rest …
Due to the modular nature of the Windows platform, it is actually possible to move features between SKUs, and even between server and client. A user at the My Digital Life forum has experiemented with this and has extracted the necessary packages to run Windows Server 2012’s Data deduplication feature on Windows 8 Pro! If …
While out to dinner the other night we got to talking about name resolution in Windows, as one does while out enjoying a fine meal with friends… During the discussion we found that one of us had experienced some strange behavior with regards to the prioritization of DNS servers and failover. Specifically the issue was …
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