Lovely wheather in Amsterdam on our second day at Microsoft TechEd 2012. Unfortunately I missed the second keynote (will have to catch that on video later). Since I really like IPv6 I chose Edward Horley’s talk WCL324: IPv6 Bootcamp: Get Up to Speed Quickly as my first item of business. Ed, whom I have not …
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TechEd 2012: Day 1
First day of the conference proper and we are, to use a Microsoft term; superexcited. First item of business was the keynote delivered by Brad Anderson and a few others. Much attention was given to the upcoming launch of Windows Server 2012 and the new System Center 2012 Suite. Microsoft has a great story here …
TechEd Europe 2012: Day 0
Today was pre-conf day. A whole day of focusing on a single subject. John Craddock delivered the goods in my selected session: Building Federated External Access for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The TechExpo and the Hands On Labs areas were not open yet, so the conference hasn’t really started yet. Very much looking forward to tomorrow, …
TechEd Europe 2012: T -1
Hello again 1 day until @teched_europe starts! Another nice day in Amsterdam, although it rained a lot today. Went down to the @AmsterdamRAI conference center to register for the event. New this year is self service registration, Microsoft taking lessons from the airline industry I guess. The RAI seems nice, but everything was pretty much closed, will …
TechEd Europe 2012: T -2
Hello all! So it’s time for the long awaited return of the @teched_europe Conference here in Europe. This time in the wonderful city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It has been a long wait for us techno geeks since Microsoft decided to push the conference back to the summer timeframe instead of autumn. 18 months to wait …
RAXCO Offers free version of PerfectDisk Defrag
Get it here: http://blog.raxco.com/2012/03/29/perfectdisk-free-defrag-beta/
Some nice one-liners
Restart the computer you are logged on to immediately, forcing all applications to close: shutdown.exe /r /t 0 /f The same for a remote computer: shutdown.exe /r /t 0 /f /m \<computer> Add someone to the local Administrators groups: net localgroup Administrators /add <user or group> Enable Remote Desktop on a remote system: reg add …
Windows Live stuff #1
Here are a few tips I picked up regarding using the Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite and the Hotmail mail service. I use Hotmail to host my email with my own vanity domain, which I think works great (and it’s free!). Don’t know if these things work exactly like this if you use another mail …
Poor sound quality in Spotify
I love Spotify, but recently I have been plagued by poor sound quality. Specifically I experienced clipping, popping and variations in volume level during playback. As far as I could tell this affected all the songs I played in Spotify. At first I thought the problem was specific to Spotify, but after doing some tests …
Remote Desktop on Linux?
With the momentum behind desktop virtualization; both with VDI and Remote Desktop Sessions (formerly Terminal Services), more and more people are looking for ways to access the Windows Desktop from platform other than Windows. Citrix offers the Citrix Receiver which supports virtually all platforms, but if you want to use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) …