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I sit on a lot of conference calls and Live Meetings with Microsoft. Now you know what’s happening in ‘the snap’ before the conference:
Bet you’ll never look at being on hold before a conference call the same way again 😉
Props: Thanks to ‘grandpa’ (Grey Lancaster) for the link!
While troubleshooting Exchange Active Sync for a client today, I spun up a WM6 virtual Pocket PC to test the certificate & server settings. After troubleshooting was complete, I noticed a pop-up for the Customer Experience Improvement Program.
For most folks with WM6 this is a big ‘whoop-dee-doo’, but since I’m still on WM5 with my personal Pocket PC, I was kind of surprised to see this message.
Anyway, these pre-built Windows Mobile 6 virtual Pocket PC devices are really awesome for training and troubleshooting:
You can download them for FREE: click here
Note: To connect the WM6 VPCs to your existing Network Interface Card, you should also download either the Virtual Machine Network Driver for Microsoft Device Emulator (1KB) or Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (30.4 MB). Virtual PC has the VM network driver baked in.
The book that everyone’s talking about:
I want a PDF of this, but for now the flash-based version will have to do. 🙂
UPS arrived today with a package from Redmond. That’s always a good sign.
“What’s inside,” you say?
Is it a beta?
Perhaps a shirt?
A box of squishy stress-balls?
Vista Ultimate?
Nope, nope, nope & another nope!
Nice, and yet again you ask, “What’s inside?”
Behold…
Um, that ain’t me folks! LOL! 🙂
So, congratulations to Richard Seroter, BizTalk Server MVP for 2008 – wherever you are… 😉
P.S. Actually, I did send Richard and my MVP Lead an email, so we’ll get things straightened out. I just had to share this humorous moment with everyone.
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Tucked away in a hidden location inside the FunCave (can’t tellya, hafta killya) is a new project code named:
“TruckFullOfNinjas”
TFON (I call dibs on the acronym, Chris) has been tasked with resolving an issue known simply as; “The Biggest Problem With Windows“.
“Sounds like hype” you say? Well, don’t be too quick to judge. After all, have I ever steered you wrong, gentle reader? And before you say anything, “The Cave” was so a good movie, as was “Stealth“. Eh, well, there was that time I recommended “Sabrina” and I never lived that one down (I blame the Shiraz). But that was before your time, so it doesn’t count.
Anyway, I digress.
To find out more about TruckFullOfNinjas, you *definitely* want to surf over and follow the instructions to get on the early list to get a beta invite when it’s announced.
Seating = limited. You + late = sad. You get the idea.
You can thank me later. Dr. Codec
Ping me if you’ve seen this one before.
29 network icons in the system tray. Machine is Windows XP, SP2, fully patched, AV & AS up to date, and is only 2 weeks old:
All icons point to the same NIC, and they all work (not screen artifacts).
Only client applications running are:
Event logs are clean. Wow. That’s all I can say. 🙂
Well, it’s been almost two weeks since I got the news of the SBS-MVP award for 2008 (my first). Yeah, I was shocked too.
It’s been pretty cool so far, with lots, and lots, and LOTS of email to read. They call it ‘The Firehose’. And they’re not kidding.
In fact, here is a video of what it’s like to be a new MVP:
Seriously, I do wonder how folks keep up with this level information flow.
Anyway, tonight I got the credentials to finally upload my MVP profile. There’s no HTML or fanciness allowed, just plain text. Hopefully the Microsoft folks have a good sense of humor and won’t veto my content. Also, if you speak Portuguese, I could use some help with the grammar. KTHX. 🙂
Today Microsoft TS2 presenter
Charles Van Heusen tips Microsoft’s hand a bit to show a little more information about Windows Small Business Server
(Codename “Cougar”), a.k.a. SBS 2008.
What’s to know?
Check out Charles ‘Are You Ready for SBS Cougar‘ post for the details:
Click here
Great news, especially for folks in Kentucky!
Matthew Snoddy (NetworkTherapists.com) has announced the launch of a new SBS group, and the first meeting is next week after the Microsoft TS2 event in Lexington.
Here are the details:
Lexington SBS User Group
Location: Lexington, Kentucky USA
Website: http://www.lexsbs.com
Launch date: Thursday January 17, 2008
Everyone is invited, (KYSBSUG & CiNPA, that means you too) so let’s help Matthew make this launch a great event!
Ever wonder how many pages it would take to print out the Registry in Windows XP? Really? Me too.
Well, today I was talking to a customer while making some registry changes, and the topic of just how big the registry is came up. After hours I decided to export the registry of my corporate Windows XP SP2 desktop machine to a TXT file (139 MB). Then I tried to open that registry.txt file with Microsoft Word 2007. The result?
How many pages is that?
32,767 pages of plain text, and it died.
Just for giggles, I decided to try and open the same 139 MB TXT file in the PortableApps version of OpenOffice.org Writer running on a USB flash drive.
The result?
Windows XP was not amused.
But you know what? Writer actually got further than Word:
38,306 pages. Actually, it was 38,307 pages, but when I tried to change the 3/4" margins to 1" margins to see if it would increase the number of pages, it dropped down to 38,306 and threw the fault error in the status bar.
So, if a page is 11" long / 63,360 inches in a mile = 5,750 pages per mile.
Basically, we’re at 6.6 miles long, and that’s not even the complete registry.
Update: I actually got OpenOffice Writer to reach 39,721 pages before it ran out of virtual memory. Anyway, enough fun for now.