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The Virtualized Windows XP Mode Add-On (Windows XP Mode (XPM) will be included. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132119&intsrc=news_ts_head Basically, they are including a free licensed copy of Windows XP SP3 within Windows 7, that will run as a virtual machine and the applications running in this ‘compatibility space’ will be ‘published’ to the desktop of the host (Windows 7) …

Someone asked this on Experts Exchange today, so I posted my 2 bits. As someone who daily runs into a ‘gosh, that’s weird or new’ in technology, I find this simple but effective technical troubleshooting/research technique very useful. As simple as my comments might be, if you aren’t doing this ‘method’ when googling/investigating errors, etc. …

So, I discovered a weird issue tonight with Windows Server 2003 DHCP Services, and thus far, haven’t found it documented – but was able to reproduce it and did discover the cause. So being that is what blogging is all about in the tech community, sharing knowledge, I’m going to: Issue When Windows Server 2003 …

How is it possible that 140% of my email can be spam? Does that mean my spam is somehow ‘thicker’, or more ‘dense’ than other emails?   Yeesh, couldn’t let this go without posting it … somewhere.

We all have our loves and hates about Vista. Mine are pretty simple (why is the Telnet client not installed by default? Why isn’t it faster than it is?). But for the most part, if I find something I don’t like, I figure out how to shut it off and I move on. The latest …

Ok, I’ve run across this a few times and while I’ve never (bothered) to (worry about/research) fix the issue permanently, here’s your workaround for the situation where you are trying to launch your Windows Vista VPN connection (PPTP, etc.) by choosing ‘Connect to a network’. Here’s what it looks like when it happens   Lame, …

If you have played with VMWare ESXi for a while and tried to monitor the underlying hardware with any degree of success (SNMP), give it up.  Although the future looks a little brighter with HP providing some functionality with ‘their’ version of ESXi, the reality for us, as a business, when recommending VMWare virtualization to …

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

First off, apologies to the original author of this content… I had tucked this away in an Outlook note probably 8 years ago (I’ve updated it a little as it references modems, thankfully of which, I haven’t touched one in nearly that long). I didn’t note the author at the time and if they want …

Never mind the Shaw issues of late, keep in mind that the idiot George W and his ‘gosh, I like to muck with father time so we can find and sell more oil’ DST change the other day, may well be having a larger impacting/sweeping effect.   So, here’s my quick hit list for how …