All posts published on 'February 2012'

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My thoughts on Surface RT

After a week, here's my thoughts on my Surface RT so far ...

Speed up your Surface ...

A possible settings change to make your Surface even nicer ...

Windows 8 RT Phone - what do you plan?

It slices! It dices! It will clean as it blends! Or will it?

Nature of the Beast

How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you explain an idea like AuTechHeads?

Here be dragons - AuTechHeads v3.0!

AuTechHeads is 3 years old .. and the website is now at v3.0!

How to add your KMS keys for Windows 8 and Server 2012

Get your KMS Server ready for your new Windows 8 clients and Server 2012 OS's!

AVM Fritz!box 7390 – the ultimate home or small business router!

What's red and silver all over, and does everything for you, bar the dishes?

Top 5 Office 2010 features

This blog entry is not meant to be an IP transfer nor a thought provoker; rather this is more of a "did you know you could...." kind of blog.

Consolidated list of Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hotfixes

An updated list of hotfixes for DPM servers, consolidated into a standard list of hotfixes for Win2k8 R2 SP1!

AuTechHeads 1st Anniversary Party - Registrations Open!

It's time to get your registration on. We're ready to party - are you?

Multiple Xbox 360 consoles and the Xbox Live Family Pack!

I was very lucky and privileged to have the help of some great AuTechHeads members in getting an Xbox 360 S. I've had fun getting it up and running with...

Empty users’ Recycle Bin with PowerShell and GPO

Want to force-empty domain user Recycle Bins (sounds like a Jedi power)? Can be done with PowerShell and GPO.

Windows Home Server 2011 Review

In which I install WHS 2011, and try to work out who Microsoft's target market are ...

Fixing the Blackberry Enterprise Server Administration Service

Lost your ability to administer Blackberry Enterprise Server? Here's a way to gain access, and a heads up on a bug ...

The Case for Breaking Up TechEd Australia 2011

Teched Australia 2010 has just ended, but is having 3100 delegates in one place just too much of a good thing?

February 2012

How to Learn Exchange 2010 (for dummies, and you!)

Posted Thursday, 23 February 2012 9:19 AM By Chris Brown (profile)
Awesome Dude

Microsoft Exchange Server. Do you know it (No) ? Do you want to (by golly, yes!)? Do you enjoy videos (I know I do)? Read on then ...

This is a crosspost from my blog at flamingkeys.com.

One of the people I was lucky enough to meet at Tech·Ed Australia 2011 was Mr Paul Cunningham, who runs the popular website Exchange Server Pro. Paul is one of the most respected names going around when it comes to Exchange, and he has the real world experience to back it up. As a favour to the community (and our profession) Paul has decided to produce a free (as in free beer) boot camp for those wanting to learn Exchange 2010. The boot camp consists of four modules containing physical challenges, early morning runs, rope climbs*, text, screen shots and videos to help you learn the basics of Exchange Server 2010. Having worked through this boot camp myself, I can say that this is an invaluable resource for those getting started with Exchange Server, and also those who may have managed an Exchange environment but not installed one before.

Please make sure you check the boot camp out, and also be sure to stick Paul’s blog ...

Urist McDwarf cancels Have A Life: playing Dwarf Fortress

Posted Sunday, 19 February 2012 11:57 PM By Matt Marlor (profile)
Microsoft MVP - System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management

Matt reviews Dwarf Fortress, a free game that defies logic by implementing its own ...

Dwarf Fortress is a game.

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What? You want more?

Dwarf Fortress is a dwarven life simulation written by Toady One of Bay 12 Games.
If you have enjoyed this review, why not check out ...

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What? Still not enough? Sigh … okay. Here goes.

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Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress is a horrendously bug-laden, incredibly inaccessible, and incomprehensible game that's still only in Alpha after many years of development, and with no end in sight to development. At the same time, it's also possibly the single most fun game ever written, and purportedly the inspiration for Minecraft. It's certainly given me plenty of enjoyment.

Like many others, I stumbled on Dwarf Fortress via Something Awful and their Let's Play Forums. One of the most well-regarded Let's Play threads around, Boatmurdered, is often the first introduction anyone has to the game. Boatmurdered was a succession game ...

My thoughts on Surface RT - AuTechHeads Blogs

Yep, I wasn't especially clear on that. I am aware there's an ability to work around this (and assume this is the reference). I meant a 'supported' configuration option, perhaps one that optionally submits sites for review to include in the official whitelist...

-- Matt Marlor

You can add sites to the flash whitelist, There is a whole thread on the xda forums about it. I tested it myself and it does indeed work. How long the loophole stays open for is the big question

-- Si

Speed up your Surface ... - AuTechHeads Blogs

It was late at night, so this post probably wasn't the greatest/most coherent .. but changing the page file minimum and maximum setting to Recommended definitely seems to have made a substantial and noticeable difference, and I've now had a few confirmations...

Windows 8 RT Phone - what do you plan? - AuTechHeads Blogs

I agree Matt. The push towards "If you can't do something in Metro, just switch across to Explorer" will fail horribly on a touchscreen tablet or RT device. I can't imagine running OS X on an iPad, it would be terrible. But for people that want a device to...

-- Nigel Wadsworth

Coalface Tech Episode 29 - Eh? U TechEd! - AuTechHeads

that is hillarious. Thanks for letting me sub in on the show and chatting!

-- Rick Claus

thanks for the shoutout guys. And Rick, at least you got to do the AD session in NZ, and you got the better evals this year - share the joy! ;-)(and I did mention what the 31st bit was for during the AD session!) :-P

-- Pete Calvert

Tips for First-Timers - AuTechHeads Blogs

Thanks for this post. I too was debating if it was worth bringing my laptop along to the sessions, good to see I won't be alone when doing so.

-- Rebecca Adamson

How to add your KMS keys for Windows 8 and Server 2012 - AuTechHeads Blogs

Is also worth noting that you MUST have SP1 installed. Because our KMS server was on a dedicated VM, it somehow got missed on our patching cycle (we basically forgot it existed). We soon found out when we got the "This update is not applicable to your setup...

-- Colin Smith

Windows To Go - AuTechHeads Blogs

It's actually an SSD drive with a USB interface. I dare say that supporting any USB is too risky due to the high failure rates of crappy USBs, which in turn won't look good for Microsoft.

-- Adam Fowler

I wonder why they've "locked it down" to those two USB keys ? I have a perfectly good 64Gb key I could use...

-- moldor

thanks.. my 3rd teched this year and almost forgot the business cards!!

-- Brent England

Awesome post Brownie. Much wisdom.. wish I was going :-)

I'm really going to miss it this year. Some great sessions, great products, and of course the party.

Yeah, I like to use a laptop for a) furious tweeting and b) taking notes. Occasionally a bit of c) keeping up with work emails (still on the clock!).Good point about the wireless!

-- chrisbrownie

These are great tips! This is going to be my first TechEd and I've been wondering whether people are actually going to bring their laptops in during the sessions and whether there are charging stations etc. I'm also gonna bring my D-Link mobile companion...

-- Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com

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