Clustered Hyper-V Between Two Mid-Range Laptops Using iSCSI and Consumer-Grade 100MB/sec Networking… Some Remarkable Results… I'm in the process this week of authoring my monthly "Geek of all Trades" column for TechNet Magazine. For this month, I'm attempting to put together the absolute simplest configuration possible using the poorest-possible hardware for constructing a Hyper-V cluster. My goal with this experiment is to explain how easy

Greg’s (old) Redmond Magazine Windows Insider Column Ranked #1 in 2008 In today's Redmond Report, Redmond Magazine lists the top 10 most-viewed columns of 2008. Â Coming in at #1 is Greg's (old) Windows Insider column titled Au Revoir, MCSE. Â Also in that list in the number 5 slot is another of Greg's (old) Insider columns titled 5 Rules for

TechMentor Dates and Hotel are Confirmed! Not much news to report yet on the spring TechMentor conference. However, I can now announce that the dates are set for June 22nd through 26th. The event will be held in the Loews Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, FL. We were at this resort last year, and it is

More Holiday Surveys (and More Chances for Freebies) The guys over at StackSafe have asked me to publicize that they're doing a survey on Microsoft Exchange they call their "Email Upgrade Survey 2008".  They promise me that although they're taking personal information, that info will only be used to send out prizes to winners. They're giving away an

Get Don’s VBScript books for $10 (Limited Time) ScriptingOutpost.com (run by SAPIEN) is clearly seeing PowerShell as the wave of the future - but if you're still working with VBScript, you can pick up one of my VBScript-related books for $10 while supplies last. Titles include Advanced VBScript for Windows Administrators, VBScript WMI and ADSI Unleashed, and Windows

PrimalScript: Shell me, Bash me SAPIEN continues to reveal new features in their upcoming PrimalScript 2009 release. One new feature is the ability to have an in-process PowerShell command window. This puts PrimalScript on par with products like PowerShell Plus Professional (from Idera). However, PrimalScript has never been a PowerShell-only product; in keeping with its

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What search engine do you love? Microsoft has been asking its MVPs to give up their search engine and try Live Search for a week, and then provide feedback on what they thought of it, and whether or not they'd switch full-time. I'm doing it. But I'm curious - what search engine do YOU love? Is

Windows Administration - free eJournal I don't know if you've caught this free eJournal (basically a PDF magazine), but you ought to. I write a monthly column for it, as does my co-blogger Greg Shields. There's a monthly PowerShell/automation column, too, and some great feature articles - and nearly zero advertising.

Work Sucks: Employees Not Getting Paid for Boot-Up Times, Sue Their Employers For office drones at big companies such as AT&T, United Health Group and Cigna, booting up their computers at the start of the day and waiting for them to shut down takes some decent time. Like 20 minutes at the start and end of the day. And they sure don't

Greg Now Moderates the Minasi Terminal Services Forum If you're the papparazi and need more of your daily Greggo, you can now check him out answering questions and generally causing trouble over at the Minasi Forum, moderating the Terminal Services forum. The Minasi Forum is growing to become one of the central clearinghouses for good information needed by

New Blog Comment System I've installed a new commenting system, powered by Intense Debate (which is now part of the company that produces our blogging software, WordPress). The new system does not require you to register (meaning you can still post ad-hoc), but does provide extra features if you do decide to register. Other

Enough Pottymouthing Greg Shields has blogged about an article on InfoWorld; the basic gist of the blog post is that Vista is terrible, Windows 7 will be terrible, and only InfoWorld can provide you with "testing" software to determine if your computer can run Windows 7 (they suggest that even your "quad-core

SAPIEN Technologies prepping new tool releases SAPIEN Technologies has apparently been busy, and are now prepping three new tools for beta testing - on top of the free PrimalForms GUI builder I blogged about earlier. PrimalSQL 2009 appears to draw upon the SQL query builder in PrimalScript 2007 Enterprise, adding additional features to make it a

Your Opinion: What is the Very Best Anti-Malware Solution Available Today? After a strong start to the site, we've of late had a dearth of comments. Â Totally understandable. Â We're getting close to the holiday season, so if you're thinking turkey and stuffing more than PowerShell and Terminal Services today, we won't dock you any participation points. That being said,