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Internet Explorer 8 RC1 available....
You can grab it here - Internet explorer 8 RC1. If you are running a beta of Windows 7, don't...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/27/2009
New Org, Same Role.....
As of Friday of last week, I am part of the DPE - Developer and Platform Evangelism team at...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/26/2009
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 01-09-2009....
Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Microsoft Office Live Meeting...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 01/20/2009
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 12-19-2008....
Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Microsoft System Center Mobile...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/28/2008
Are you and IT Manager looking for info on Microsoft products and technologies?
If so, we have a new portal just for you! (wow....does that sound like a marketing blurb or...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/22/2008
New Posting to TechNet Radio.....
Hiya Folks! A couple weeks ago I had a discussion with Edward Bell, one of the guys in charge of...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/22/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 12-12-2008....
Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Microsoft Exchange Server 2007...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/22/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 12-05-2008....
Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · HPC Pack 2008 Fix for SOA Job Issues...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 12/09/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 11-21-2008
Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Active Directory Migration Tool v3.0...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/26/2008
Cleaning up my network.....
I am trying to consolidate my hardware and virtualize as many of my physical machines as I can right...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/23/2008
Windows Firestarter event coming up at the Microsoft Campus....
On December the 12th (Friday) we are going to have a Windows FireStarter event at the Microsoft...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/23/2008
Guitar Hero for Disabled Gamers.....
Reading SlashDot this morning and ran across this great article. Researchers are developing new...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/21/2008
Uncompressed HDTV....over USB?
Wow! Imagine a day when you can buy a hard drive or other USB type device that is jam...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2008
Are you getting my keys good side?
I was reading some tech news articles this evening and this little tidbit caught my eye. It seems...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/19/2008
Interesting Sownloads for Week Ending - 11-07-2008
Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/13/2008
Resources for MDT 2008 from Windows Connections....
Here are some additional resources for the Deploying Vista with the MDT 2008 sessions I am...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/11/2008
Stop stealing my blog posts.....
There has been some discussion recently on some DL's here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/06/2008
More P2V Conversion FUN with SCVMM2008...
I still can't believe how easy and dare I say....fun....converting my physical machines to VM's with...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/04/2008
Four machines down and one to go!
subtitled.....Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager to help reduce my physical machine...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 11/03/2008
Slides and additional info from Technet Presentation....
if you would like to grab the slides from the Technet presentation, you can get that at the Technet...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/30/2008
The PDC Buzz....and stuff...
There are so many posts out there repeating everything already that I am going to skip linking a...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/28/2008
Speaking about System Center and Forefront tomorrow....
I am in Austin and will be speaking at the InnoTech Conference tomorrow. I was tapped on short...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/15/2008
Great news for Technet Event Attendees...
For those of you that have attended recent Technet Briefings and picked up the complimentary copy of...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/14/2008
No email....day number 4....
subtitled - I wonder if MSIT reads my blog..... I am on Day #4 of no inbound email. I am still...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/13/2008
Texas State Fair Day!
<Imitating a big booming voice> Hoooooowdy Folks! Welcome to the Texas State Fair! That would...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/12/2008
Read this if you care about creativity....
I just finished reading a fantastic article by Lawrence Lessig. If you have ever posted anything to...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/11/2008
No Email is like a vacation.....sort of....
My corporate mailbox has been homed to a "dogfood" server for many, many months now. Even...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/11/2008
I am not a Wii evangelist....but....
...you still have to check this out. I could care less about the game they are showing, it is the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/10/2008
I played a Wii for the first time tonight....
Setup - My daughters live in Texas with their mother. They have a Wii. I am visiting my daughters....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/10/2008
Did my mouse just jump a shark?
I just sat down at my laptop and realized I don't have my external mouse plugged in. As I am going...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/09/2008
Nice article about power management/savings myths...
I came across this article tonight over at InfoWorld and I like the way it is written. Most of what...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/08/2008
Interesting Downloads for the Week Ending - 10-03-2008
Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 - English ·...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/06/2008
Zune software coming to Windows Mobile?
According to a post over at wmpoweruser.com, Steve Ballmer confirmed the Zune software will be...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/03/2008
Interesting interview with founders of The Pirate Bay...
This article is an interesting read. I really appreciate that these guys don't hide under rocks and...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/02/2008
Will Windows end up in "the Cloud"?
Yesterday, Steve Ballmer made mention of a project/product called "Windows Cloud", while...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/02/2008
How many images can I run at the same time with Hyper-V?
I have spent the better part of today building out a temporary Hyper-V server. It is sort of a proof...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 10/02/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 09-26-2008
Infrastructure Development & Operations · Windows HPC Server 2008 · Impact of Groove...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/30/2008
What would you recommend?
You may have noticed that I haven't posted any updates on the home network lately. I decided to halt...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/30/2008
I'm moving to Japan....
....well....this would be a good reason to anyway. Was perusing the news today and ran across this...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/27/2008
Lots of tech news today....
This afternoon I started typing up a post with links to a bunch of interesting tech stuff. Then I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/26/2008
Well it's about time!
I went to Windows Update tonight to patch up a new Vista VM I recently installed and got the shock...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/25/2008