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Lost in the hoopla of the announcement that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 has been released, was that their ‘Express’ counterparts have also been updated to Beta 2 and are now available to download from here: Visual Studio 2008 Express Downloads This is great news for us part-time coneheads and there’s a whole bunch […]

As far as I’m aware, Microsoft have been keeping very quiet about Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Paul Thurrott even theorised that Microsoft may never release a SP3 for XP. So it was interesting to read two posts on the TechNet Blogs site, mentioning the “forthcoming XP Service Pack 3.” This is the first […]

Now that I have a new Server Core installation ready for setup, I read through the Step by Step guide a bit more and continued on to the initial setup. Change the admin password As I mentioned in a previous post, when you create a new Server Core installation you are greeted with a logon […]

Well this is interesting – my first, first-hand experience with Server Core. There’s only one command prompt window rather than the two that was present in previous betas. There is still a GUI, and you can run several apps such as Notepad, Task Manager, Regedit, which are probably the three most useful GUI apps I […]

Big news this week was that Microsoft have had to drop postpone some key features from their new virtualisation software currently in development. Mike Neill, GM of virtualisation strategy went on the defensive with a lengthy blog post detailing all of the cool things about Microsoft’s new virtualisation platform, codenamed Viridian. But if you kept […]

Any Microsoft Infrastructure consultant should be subscribed to the main TechNet Blogs feed. It can be a bit too much at times as there are hundreds of posts per day, but you can pick out some gems in there if you look carefully. It’s also quite interesting watching the feed as a new beta is […]

I’ll be posting lots of Longhorn related stuff over the next couple of weeks so feel free to keep an eye on my Longhorn tag to keep up to date with the latest beta. You can also keep up to date by subscribing to my Longhorn feed.

Microsoft Links: Tech Center Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” Beta 3 Reviewer’s Guide Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” Technical Library Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” – Learning Portal Longhorn Features: Windows Server “Longhorn”: Server Manager Server Core Installation of Windows Server “Longhorn” Windows PowerShell: Now Part of Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 3 Terminal Services in […]

UDATE: Longhorn Beta 3 has now been released to web. Ian McDonald first broke the news. Longhorn Beta 3 evaluation page on Microsoft.com Download search on Microsoft Download Center Windows Server Team blog post For those of you who are eager to finally get your hands on Longhorn server, the wait is almost over… Rumour […]

Just found this article via the Digg site: Web users ‘only visit six sites’. Interesting that I read this just after posting an article on my beta @ amanzi website called: “Best, new web services available.” There’s eight sites there that I visit all the time, but only another few that I would visit on […]