Windows Server 2008 R2: Introducing the AD Administrative Center - March 5, 2010
By John Policelli
The Active Directory Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2 is a significant improvement over its predecessor. Although not without limitations, it offers beefed-up management of AD objects, new navigation capabilities, better task-based management options, and improvements to the properties page and search capabilities.
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ASP.NET MVC Basics - October 23, 2009
By Jani Jarvinen
Jani Jdrvinen shows you how to develop your first ASP.NET MVC application and helps you understand the controller classes and view pages. Jani will also discuss the relation between action methods and views with this new technology.
Windows Advanced Search - October 23, 2009
By Jabez Gan Ming Teik
In this video, we offer tips for how to use Advance Search tools in Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
Develop Windows Services - October 23, 2009
By Dan Rigsby
Developing straight Windows Services doesn't allow for rich debugging by developers and often requires stopping the service, redeploying, etc. This video explores how to build Windows Services for a more rich development experience.
Create Custom Task Lists - October 23, 2009
By Garry Robinson
Create a Custom Task List in Microsoft SharePoint Designer
What if They're Wrong? - March 7, 2010
The trend is clear -- it's cool to bash the science of global warming. The East Anglia University "Climategate" scandal didn't help, and neither did the UN's IPCC panel's admission that not its science has been up to usual rigor. There's some polling to indicate that the public is now more confused than ever, and that the number of people who doubt the science of climate change is growing.
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Groups Move Towards Data Center Efficiency Rating Standardization - March 3, 2010
Up until now, it's been quite a challenge to determine the veracity of claims by various companies about how green their data centers are. The recent Facebook flap being just one example. Part of the problem has been a lack of agreement on how to measure a data center's green credentials.
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Senators Ponder Radically Altering Climate Bill - March 1, 2010
Over the weekend, while the Nobel prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change appointed an independent committee to determine whether it needs to change its procedures to ensure scientific rigor and integrity, news broke that key Senators are considering a radically different approach to the climate bill stalled in the Senate.
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Daily News
Make Windows Home Server a Small Business Server
Surprisingly, a number of small businesses still don't use a server. Using Windows Home Server as your starter Small Business Server is a good way to get started.
Flash: The Opportunity and Threat to Storage Vendors
Storage function is slowly and steadily migrating back toward the CPU supported by flash technology. This means big changes are afoot for storage and server vendors.
Data Center Temperatures: Hot or Cold?
This video from Intel covers an experiment done at the the corporate data center with regard to raising temperatures in order to reduce costs
