Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux; Improving database availability

	Quorum: How a Witness Affects Database Availability | RDC RemoteApp: How do users change their passwords?
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	Using SMP with Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux Dustin Puryear: If you're using Hyper-V and Linux, you probably already know that Microsoft limits you to a single CPU. My first question is: Why? Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now In this Issue Quorum: How a Witness Affects Database Availability RDC RemoteApp: How do users change their passwords? Twitter in the Enterprise Score one for the good guys TDE and Backup Compression…Can't have your cake and eat it too! Resolving Bluescreens in HyperV on Nehalem Processors Exchange 2010 the cure for CDC's e-mail bugs SQL Server 2011? How about SQL11… Google Apps gets serious about moving data from Microsoft Outlook Microsoft's cheaper virtualization licensing to take effect July 1 SQL Server 2010?...I don't think so... SharePoint 2010 Summer Reading List Xenophobes not the only ones wary of China Cloud Computing and.. mainframes! Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Quorum: How a Witness Affects Database Availability Brian Egler: The US Constitution says that a majority of the Senate constitutes a quorum to do business. That's 51 senators. In the UK, 40 members of parliament (out of 650) need to be present in the House of Commons to validate a vote. In SQL Server Database Mirroring, the quorum is 2 out of 3. Read More RDC RemoteApp: How do users change their passwords? Tyson Kopczynski: We had a client that was using RDC RemoteApp to deploy a medical related application. They wanted to create and distribute RDP files to remote users that were not on the organization's internal network. Read More Twitter in the Enterprise Alpa Agarwal: If I am working on a problem or a new product idea, there are probably hundreds of others at a company, with experience, expertise, and/or interest in the subject. This is a messy process currently. How does your company handle this? Read More Score one for the good guys Robert Mullins: Cyber crooks bounce around different servers around the world, surreptitiously hijack computers, steal money or identities and disappear without a trace. But every once in a while, the good guys catch a break. Read More TDE and Backup Compression…Can't have your cake and eat it too! Brian Egler: I was testing out some new SQL Server 2008 features recently: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Backup Compression. Both are new features in SQL Server 2008. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Resolving Bluescreens in HyperV on Nehalem Processors Rand Morimoto: I was having nothing but problems with a new server, the system wouldn't last more than 2 minutes without bluescreening, a phenomenon I hadn't seen since the old Windows NT days. Read More Exchange 2010 the cure for CDC's e-mail bugs Robert Mullins: IT people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention need to use their high tech skills to fight the H1N1 flu or stop the spread of tuberculosis -- not manage the e-mail system. So the federal agency turned to a company called Azaleos Corp. to manage its migration from the Microsoft Exchange 2003 e-mail server to Exchange 2010, a process they started this week. Read More SQL Server 2011? How about SQL11… Brian Egler: There has been no announcement from Microsoft on future releases of SQL Server beyond this year so we cannot predict accurately. We can speculate, however. Read More Google Apps gets serious about moving data from Microsoft Outlook Jon Brodkin: Google often touts its cloud-based email and collaboration service as a full replacement of Microsoft, while at other times telling customers that it can simply enhance current Microsoft deployments. Read More Microsoft's cheaper virtualization licensing to take effect July 1 Microsoft Subnet: On July 1, Microsoft' new-and-improved "cheaper" licensing for Windows on virtual desktops will take effect. It is a step to make Windows VDI more affordable, but it's only a step. A catch concerning Office applications remains. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SMB: Strategy Guide to Risk Mitigation This strategy guide offers concrete risk mitigation techniques specifically designed for midsize organizations. Learn how to proactively manage physical and virtual systems and see the early signs of infrastructure trouble to avoid outages. Read Now! SQL Server 2010?...I don't think so... Brian Egler: SQL Server 2008 R2 is available and works with Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010. So why didn't they just call it SQL Server 2010? Read More SharePoint 2010 Summer Reading List Susan Hanley: Joel Oleson just posted a great list of books about SharePoint 2010, organized by target audience. Read More Xenophobes not the only ones wary of China Robert Mullins: My earlier post about security experts warning that some hires at U.S. companies are recruited by China to work as intelligence agents prompted much discussion. Read More Cloud Computing and.. mainframes! Dustin Puryear: In "Cloud Computing Comes to a Desktop Near You", I thought aloud about the direction that Microsoft, Google, and others are trying to take us. Do we really want or need to cloud-itize (cloudify? to make clowdsy?) every software process? Well, probably, yes. Read More Visit the Microsoft Subnet home page for more Microsoft news Microsoft Subnet is your daily source for news, blogs, podcasts and giveaways. Visit the home page and join the discussion. Read More
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