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Volume 10, Issue 2: January 23, 2008
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Note from the Editor
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Greetings and Welcome to TechNet Flash,
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If you are fan of Sysinternals (and who isn't, once they check it out?), be sure to see the Autoruns startup monitor utility, which was recently updated in Autoruns for Windows v9.02. I'm going to borrow an extra hand and give this one three thumbs-up for its ability to ferret out those sneaky, third-party, auto-starting images that mysteriously show up on your computer. While you're there, catch Mark Russinovich's Blog The Case of the Missing AutoPlay, where he shows how he used Process Monitor to track down why AutoPlay wasn't working in his ReadyBoost demonstrations. You can also find Mark on Channel 9, where he talks about working at Microsoft, the Windows Server 2008 kernel, MinWin versus Server Core, Hyper-V, and application virtualization.
According to a recent report commissioned by reseller CDW, the number of organizations evaluating and testing Windows Vista increased from 29 percent in February 2007 to 48 percent by early November 2007. If yours is among them, here's some recommended reading:
And now for something completely different...
Accused by your family, friends, and neighbors of being a boorish geek? On the verge of getting that Windows Home Server but wondering how to break it to the kids? Check out "The Stay at Home Server".
And just to further prove that servers can be funny, The Lone Server video is a tragic tale of the last server at Microsoft.com running Windows Server 2003. Even the best eventually hang up their cables.
Speaking of sendoffs, this one has already been making the rounds but if you haven't seen it yet, check out Bill Gates, Jay-Z, and other celebs in Bill's hilarious Last Day video, which debuted at his CES keynote address. See what it might be like for Bill on his last day at Microsoft.
Thanks for reading,
Mitch Irsfeld
Editor, TechNet Flash
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Thursday, January 24, 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Join us for an informative discussion on the new capabilities of Windows HPC Server 2008 and how it takes advantage of Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect to deliver computing performance that addresses the productivity and scalability needs of current and future high-performance computing platforms
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Friday, January 25, 11:30 AM Pacific Time
In this webcast, we cover a number of topics regarding the interoperability between Windows and Linux. We look at using Kerberos and Active Directory to provide single sign on in a mixed world. We also discuss scripts and explore ways to migrate scripts from Linux to Windows. Sign up for the rest of this series.
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During these webcasts, we show you how you can use the new features in Windows Server 2008 to improve your organization's networking infrastructure and security, server performance and reliability, remote resource access, and client deployment. Our subject matter experts break down what these upgrades mean for your environment and how to take advantage of them.
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