Archive for March, 2009
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Friday, March 27th, 2009I just saw this great post at Virtual PC Guy’s WebLog. If you are looking for Windows Server 2008 virtual hard disks for your testing environment, you can download them from Microsoft’s web page. Here is the list of Hyper-V based Windows Server 2008 virtual machines with an evaluation period of 60 days, but if [...]
What do you expect from Windows Server 2008 Foundation edition?
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009I see many visitors of this blog came here searching for information about Windows Foundation Server 2008. In my post Windows Server Foundation edition, I wrote something about this version. As I said, it is going to be used on low-cost servers, for those companies that don’t need full Windows Server 2008 installation and for [...]
How to enable Automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009In my previous post about Windows Server Core, I wrote how to change the IP address of server running Windows Server Core. In this post I’m going to describe the process of enabling automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core. The whole process is quite simple, you have few commands to enable/disable automatic, install an [...]
Apple sales are going down
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009By the records of the company NPD, number of sales of Apple computers dropped in February 2009 by 16% comparing to February 2008. In the same time, number of sold Windows computers increased by 36%. Is it because customers are not “buying” Apple’s story about “so cool” OS, or is it because customers do not [...]
Changing the IP address in Windows Server 2008 Core
Monday, March 16th, 2009In my previous two posts Windows Server 2008 Core option and Why should anyone use Server Core option? I wrote something about Windows Server 2008 Core. As one of disadvantages I mentioned that there is no GUI, and administration tasks must be done in command prompt. It requires some extra learning, but it is not [...]
Using NewSID to change SID
Sunday, March 15th, 2009As part of MCITP Self-paced Training Kit: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator, which was given to me by Microsoft Croatia for learning for MCITP exams, I got 2 Windows Server 2008 installation disks (one is x86, other is x64). I need them for practice tests, and I will use them as virtual machines in Microsoft [...]
Virtual Windows XP SP2 won’t start
Saturday, March 14th, 2009I’m using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for managing my virtual machines. Few days ago, while I was giving my presentation about Windows Server 2008 security technologies at Student technology day, I forgot to plug in my laptop to power source, and at the end of the presentation my battery went dead. I thought it is [...]
Student Technology Day was great!
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Yesterday we had first Croatian Student Technology Day organized by Microsoft Student Partners at my college FESB. We had day filled up with great lectures about tehnology, and the speakers were Tomislav Tipuric from Microsoft Croatia, Microsoft MVPs Ivan Saskor and Vladan Strigo, Marko Matijevic from Cygnus, Ivan Macek, MSP and me.
Student Technology Day
Thursday, March 5th, 2009On Tuesday, March 10th, Microsoft Student Partners from my college are organizing first Student Technology Day in Croatia. The purpose of this event is to present newest technologies to students, and show them how they work. This is first Student Technology Day in Croatia ever, and as project manager I hope it is going to [...]
MSP Croatia team building
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009This weekend, Microsoft Student Partners from Croatia had team building in Stubicke toplice resort. I was also one of student partners who was there, and I have to say it was the best team building I ever had. I went there with four other student partners from Split, and together with around 30 other MSPs [...]
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