A list of items I’ve come across recently that I found potentially useful, interesting, or just plain funny:
- Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool v2.0 – Updated with support for Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (as well as System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and , System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1).
- OS file/folder limits (Windows/Mac) – A reference for the limits of various file systems (including minum/maximum volume/file sizes).
- Configure Hyper-V Remote Management in seconds – John Howard had some leave to use up… so he wrote a tool to configure a Hyper-V host for remote management.
- Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management uses virtualization – Is this Microsoft's answer to VMware Stage Manager?
- Installing the evaluation version of WUDSS 2003 Refresh and the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target Version 3.1 on a VM – Jose Barreto describes how to install the Microsoft iSCSI target on a VM (by extracting it from an evaluation edition of Windows Unified Data Storage Server).
- Example domains – Certain domain names are not available for registration and are reserved for documentation purposes.
- Server Core changes in Windows Server 2008 R2.
- YouTube – How RedDog (Azure) Werks – A few Microsofties explaining how Windows Azure scales to cope with demand… using a few treadmills as props…
- Let me google that for you – Have you ever been asked a question that a simple Google search would have answered? (via Garry Martin).
- Steve Jobs’s Face, Meet John Curran’s Balls – Microsoft sets up stall outside the Birmingham Apple Store!
- ShutdownGuard – interrupts Windows when shutting down, rebooting or logging off and prompts to continue (for those times when Windows Update insists on rebooting, regardless of its configuration) (via Garry Martin).
- Internet Map – Fascinating maps showing the connectivity of the Internet based on router configuration.
- PacketLife.net – Loads of technical information about networks. I mean loads. This should be a first port of call for all sorts of things including cheat sheets, example captures, tips, Visio stencils, default passwords and more.
- Stanford University Network Diagnostic Tool – A Java applet to test the reliability and operational status of a desktop computer and network connection.
- Using Wireshark to Display DNS Requests – Simple command line to log all of the DNS requests seen on a network.
- AVG Resident Shield Disabled, Inactive or Not Loaded Error – My Digital Life explains how to fix a problem where AVG Anti-Virus will fail to load the Resident Shield component.
- Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Enterprise Deployment Guide.
- VIA Technologies ARTiGO Pico-ITX Builder Kit A1000 – A kit to build tiny (ultraportable) PCs.
- Hyper-V RTM and SCVMM 2008 RTM: Hyper-V host ‘needs attention’ – Matt McSpirit explains why Hyper-V needs a couple of updates to work with SCVMM 2008.
- V-Mailer – Free 32-bit Windows command-line mailer with SMTP authentication.
- 10 top tips for using Microsoft Office Communicator – A few tips for getting the most out of corporate IM solutions.
- Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment – Best Practices and Performance Recommendations – Whitepapers – White paper on running SQL Server on Hyper-V.
- Microsoft knowledge base article 888794: Considerations when hosting Active Directory domain controller in virtual hosting environments.
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager demonstration – Silverlight demonstration of SCVMM 2008.
- Scheduling a Hyper-V snapshot using PowerShell – James O'Neill provides a PowerShell script for scheduling Hyper-V snapshots – as well as explaining some of the gotchas with such an approach.
- ADMT v3 migration guide – Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool (v3) migration guide.
- Best practices for NT to Active Directory migration – As should be expected with a white paper from Quest Software, this includes plenty of references to their products but it's also full of good advice for NT to AD migrations.
- Software + Services: The Greater Sum – Microsoft's Software plus Services microsite.