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Virtual Active Directory domain controllers

Considerations when hosting Active Directory domain controller in virtual hosting environments. Some of these may seem obvious, but it’s still worth reading.

Zune HD review by Joe Wilcox

Zune HD: The best portable media player you may never buy.

Clearing out pagefile effect

Clearing the Windows page file and its effect on server performance.

Windows 7 RTM’ed

Windows 7 has been officially RTM’ed with a release date of August 6th to Technet and MSDN subscribers, and October 22nd as the official release date.

System Center Management Pack catalog

System Center Management Pack Catalog. I didn’t realize that they had management packs for that many products.

Suck it up, Apple

Apple can dish it out, but can’t take it?

Google Voice app released

Google has released their Google Voice App for both Blackberry and Android. I tested it out on a local call, and it sounds great. You can download the app by visiting m.google.com/voice on your Blackberry or searching for “Google Voice” in the Android Market. If you don’t have a Google Voice account, you can request an invite here.

WordPress app for Blackberry

WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta. I’ve installed this and it looks pretty good. I was able to login without any problems, but some of the commenters seem to be running into issues.

PSTs unsupported over network

Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link. I never knew this.

TechNet’s Active Directory poster

TechNet Magazine Active Directory Component Jigsaw Poster.

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is available for download.

Windows 7 UI changes from Beta to RC

Side by side: UI changes from Windows 7 beta to Windows 7 RC.

Installing Exchange 2010

How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Beta.

Sys Admin apps for iPhone

12 great iPhone applications for sysadmins and webmasters.

Converting VDMK to VHD

I recently installed Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate at home on a spare machine, and wanted to convert my VMWare virtual machines to Hyper-V. I used VMToolKit’s VDMK to VHD Converter to do the conversions. After my first conversion, I got the dreaded BSOD. After searching around the web, I came across this comment that offered a fix to the route that I was taking. I’ll try out the suggestion tonight and see if it works.