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Tonyso Credo: "Look for a pattern, and solve it for everything"
Blogs Have "Tipped"?
A few months ago, internal discussion revolved around IT Pro customer perception of the information...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/19/2006
Using the RDP Console session
My team has access to a Windows Server 2003 server in the test organization that is built...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/19/2006
Ronma moves to STB, Microsoft has a new CIO
My old boss Ron Markezich has moved into the same group as my new boss, Bob Muglia. According to...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/18/2006
Tonyso Blogjuice
Kevin pointed out a new service that lets you check the "juiciness" of your blog at...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/12/2006
How to Handle 0 Day Response
The Microsoft.com operations blog has a fantastic post here describing how they put together a...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/11/2006
Message Received and Understood
My manager attended a conference for technical content creators last week and brought back some...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/09/2006
Windows PowerShell Jumpstart
Here are some resources to get you started learning about PowerShell: Materials to read PowerShell...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/05/2006
Cool things to teach kids
A colleague asked for resources recently to help prepare for a presentation to school kids about...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/03/2006
SWOT as a best practice
My team recently conducted a "post-mortem" analysis of our recent milestone performance. There are...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/03/2006
PowerOffVM: Script to stop a VM
Came across this today, handy little script for stopping a VM:...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/02/2006
PowerShell RC 2 Install Points
VMM Beta 1 has a dependency on Windows PowerShell RC 1.0. You can find the bits on the Connect site...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 10/02/2006
Performance Optimization for VMs
Collating together best practice tips for getting best performance from your VMs: 1. Software...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/18/2006
How Microsoft IT Does Patch Reporting
The screen shot below shows an example of a production report for Microsoft IT patching, clipped...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/15/2006
VM Additions Update
It is not clear from the download location (the date on the page didn't change) but the latest VM...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/14/2006
How much free space is on my drive(s)?
Windows PowerShell guru Jim Truher has just blogged a nifty PowerShell way to check remaining free...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/08/2006
About Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service
Here is some information from the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 FAQ on the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 09/01/2006
Why Words Matter
First, the Exchange boffins have done a cool thing. They have decided to call themselves (and selves...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/30/2006
How to Turn on Discussion in IE 7
My team uses the "discuss" a web page feature constantly for technical reviews of content we are...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/23/2006
Canary in a Coal Mine
Passion for Success notes an interesting beneficial side-effect from blogging: "Ever since I started...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/22/2006
Why You Need SCVMM
This report from the LinuxWorld conference down the I-5 corridor in San Francisco explains why you...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/21/2006
We Are Here To Help
In this article about a recent change to Small Business Server ship date, an un-named Microsoft...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/21/2006
What's the Difference Between Virtual Server and Windows Server Virtualization?
System Center Virtual Machine Manager is the product I am working on. It is a management application...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/21/2006
Principles
I found it useful recently in talking with some business colleagues, and most especially with my...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/17/2006
VMRC Ctrl+Key Combos
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 has a cool feature called Self-Service. This allows...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/11/2006
SCVMM Can Manage 64-bit Hosts
More updates queued up for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 FAQ, your feedback is...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/09/2006
SCVMM Beta 1 is not supported on a DC
It's usually a sub-optimal choice to install Beta software of any kind on a DC, even in a lab...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/09/2006
VMM Beta 1 System Requirements
We posted the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta 1 bits to the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/07/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta 1 (SCVMM) Documentation
All the content for Beta 1 is hosted on the https://connect.microsoft.com site, which requires...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/07/2006
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Beta 1 Ready for Download
I am happy to announce that System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Beta 1 is ready for...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/07/2006
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
Coming soon to a betaplace near you...Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Here's how to...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/03/2006
Tweaking Virtual Server Performance
Some architectural choices you can make in setting up your virtualization can improve your VM...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 08/03/2006
Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1
Some preview content about System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 concepts: Virtual Machine...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/28/2006
Innovation: Tortoise or Hare?
This week there has been intensely interesting conversation on a-mail about some of the new...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 07/16/2006
Microsoft Opens the PII Kimono
CNET News reports that Microsoft will soon publish its internal dev guidelines on protecting PII....
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/26/2006
Bill Gates Career Transition
Yesterday Bill announced to the company and the world that he's giving two years notice. How many...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/16/2006
Bill Gates Announces 2 Year Transition
I am watching the webcast right now in which Bill Gates is announcing his transition to full time...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/15/2006
Impact of Blogging
Joe Wilcox wrote yesterday on microsoftmonitor.com: "I would contend that blogs are now Microsoft's...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/12/2006
Home Office Security Checklist
Any day Microsoft publishes a checklist that will make the life of the IT Pro easier is a good day....
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/07/2006
Help Find the Cure for World's Top Diseases
A biochem researcher at the University of Washington here in Seattle has gone public with the...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/06/2006
Scripting Guys on the .NET Show on WMI Scripting
Check out the excellent .NET show episode featuring the Scripting Guys on WMI scripting. The script...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/06/2006
Virtualization Webinars in June
How to Virtualize Infrastructure Workloads (Level 200) Thursday, June 08, 2006, 11:30 AM Pacific...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/02/2006
Beyond OLED, Behold Nanocrystal Displays
Cool new nanocrystal display (will the the acronym be NCD?) technology is revealed in this...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/02/2006
Virtual Machine Manager Requires Active Directory
Alessandro's blog quotes Mike Neil (MN), Virtual Machine Technologies Product Unit Manager at...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 06/01/2006
VMRC Keyboard Combos
While working on some draft content for Virtual Machine Manager, I have compiled the list below of...
Author: tonysoper_MSFT Date: 05/31/2006