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Virtual Memory Survival Guide
At customer events a few years ago we started handing out one-page "Survival Guides" (printed both...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 02/22/2011
Why Wiki? Case Study #2 AD Domain Svcs Event ID Map
Wouldn’t it be great if you had a visual representation of all the event IDs for a service, let’s...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 02/22/2011
Translate the TNWIKI
The TechNet Wiki now has a Bing translator widget on each page, no charge. Free-as-in-beer....
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 02/22/2011
IT Pro’s Pal - BGinfo
My gear-fixation probably started when I was a Boy Scout. There was a tool called the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 02/15/2011
TechNet Wiki Tags-onomy–The Hidden Differentiator
You can find some common TNWIKI tags at:...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 02/08/2011
CrowdStrategy: Help Define Quality Technical Content
There is a new page on the TechNet Wiki “What's Considered Quality Technical Content?” that offer...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/31/2011
What’s Happening on the TNWIKI?
The TechNet Articles page on the TechNet Wiki shows a table of contents for the wiki *above the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/27/2011
TechNet Community: Profile Now Shows Wiki Activity
Just in time for Mid-Year Reviews here at Microsoft the TechNet profile now shows your TechNet Wiki...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/27/2011
Ordinateur Virtuel Stocké
If you don’t read French, I can explain that the title of this post “ordinateur virtuel stocké “...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/26/2011
Why I Love This Company
Thank you comrades. “Microsoft Employees gave US$96 million to charity, including corporate...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/14/2011
Troubleshooting: Hyper-V W2K3 VM Lost Network Connection
Problem: Hyper-V VM guest (Windows Server 2003) on a Windows Server 2008 R2 host “randomly” loses...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/07/2011
Accept No Substitutes, How to Spot Fake Hotmail Log in Pages
Some Hotmail users have recently been confused by fake login pages, like this one: How to spot a...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/04/2011
TOC Becomes TOC?
IT Pros have long asked for a “change log” on technical information from Microsoft. For example, the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 01/04/2011
Happy Holidays
I love my job. Actual e-mail from my manager…. “Where Santa Stores His Elves in the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 12/18/2010
Answers to Top Support Calls
One wishes that what the SQL Server Tech Center has done would be replicated throughout TechNet, no?...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 12/16/2010
Happy Holidays from the Scripting Guys
For grins: Hey Scripting Guy blog: https://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/ Watch the blog for a...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 12/10/2010
Protect Your Hotmail Account Now
Hackers, such as the one that posted this YouTube video “How to Hack any Hotmail,” are...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 12/10/2010
The Case of the Pending VM Snapshot Merge
The case of the pending merge. Guest post from reader Jeremy Hagan Recently I had a virtual machine...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 11/25/2010
Worm:Win32/Visal.B Inoculation
Recently (9/3/2010) a new worm called Worm:Win32/Visal.B was spotted in the wild. As an IT Pro, you...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/10/2010
Poster Guy Poster New Release: RDS
The Poster Guy has released a new poster: Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture Poster....
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/08/2010
2 Great Tastes…
In ancient days (back in the 1970s) the Hershey Company ran a series of tv commercials for...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/25/2010
The Poster Guy Strikes Again
The Poster Guy’s latest, the “Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture”...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/23/2010
Gamerzrul: Why the Wiki Will Win (part two)
The killer app for user-created content is games. Game devotees are invested in the experience to...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/18/2010
The Poster Guy Always Rings Twice
You IT Pros have appreciated the posters colleague Martin McClean puts out. He now helps you find...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/17/2010
Script to Validate Virtual Switch
Do you need a script to validate that a virtual switch is configured correctly? Using WMI you can...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/14/2010
RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory in R2 Sp1 (Beta) Demo
Colleague John Savill has put together a great 20 minute demo showing how (and why) to use ...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/13/2010
Hyper-V How to: Manage Hyper-V VMs from Windows 7
Here’s how to manage Hyper-V from a Windows 7 system. 1. Download and install the Remove Server...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/13/2010
TechNet Wiki (Beta): Why a Wiki?
One of the things customers asked of us when we met at TechEd 2010 is summarized as: “It would be...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/13/2010
All About Dynamic Memory in Hyper-V
My colleague Kathy Davies has published a quick demo of DM in the SP1 Beta on YT: Principal PM Vijay...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/13/2010
TechNet Wiki (Beta): The Future is Stubby
On the TechNet Wiki (Beta) we encourage IT Pros and Devs to start a wiki article, even though they...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/13/2010
Whither Wiki? Troubleshooting content on the TechNet Wiki (Beta)
One of the things a wiki should enable is great collaboration on troubleshooting. This kind of...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/12/2010
SBS Router Setup Community Content
Colleague Jim Holtzman is doing a very interesting (and helpful) thing over on the TechNet Wiki....
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/07/2010
The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed…
…saith Wm.Gibson. The future of IT Pro documentation is here – colleague Jim Holtzman shows you how...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/21/2010
Just the diffs. Finally!!
When you use the RSS Feed for a TechNet Wiki article, on change you get an email notification with a...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/21/2010
Understanding Hyper-V Backup
Great buzz around Soumya’s TechEd preso Hyper-V Backup Deep Dive: A Look Under the Hood. Check it...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/17/2010
TechNet Goes all customer service-y
TechNet has launched a beta on the MS Connect site that allows you the “early adopter experience”...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/15/2010
Customer Feedback Requested: Canonical Topic TOC
Please check out a proposed new innovation for IT Pro content “Customer Feedback Requested:...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/15/2010
How to Monitor TNWIKI Content
There is a wiki how-to to topic on tools you can combine to help you stay on top of wiki content of...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/14/2010
TechEd 2010 Foodgasm
One of the more pleasant lunches I’ve had in a long time – cochon muffalleta at cochon swinebar 3...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/08/2010
Making Breakfast
Toasters are in the air today. I had two separate conversations about toasters with attendees at...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/07/2010
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and Remote FX Demo – TechEd 2010
I have a chance to record this short booth demo of Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and Remote FX with...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/07/2010
TechEd 2010 – The Journey Continues
Posting this from 37K feet, 14.5 hours into my epic journey to TechEd 2010. Southwest Airlines has...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/06/2010
TechEd 2010 Bursting at the Seams
TechEd 2010 starts tomorrow – oversubscribed with more than be over 10,500 guests, speakers and...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/06/2010
“free” as in Free WiFi at Denver Airport ain’t exactly free
It is “no cost to you as long as you first watch this ad…and log in every 30 minutes…and watch the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/06/2010
Why Wiki Ninjas Rule
Traditional media images of ninjas depict them as solitary and good at doing things some (especially...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/06/2010