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T-Money
I'm super excited to say that T-Money has joined the team! Tony is at orientation this week in Redmond and will start drinking from the firehose shortly. :)

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Windows Home Server
To be honest, I was skeptical when Windows Home Server was originally announced. At the time, I was already using Windows OneCare Backup for my family's computers and I was using using Acronis for the computers I personally use on a daily basis. Acronis...

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MSE on Channel 9
During TechReady7, Kirk Evans pulled William Oellermann aside to film an MSE video for Channel 9 . Kirk also has a nice post about it on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/08/09/talking-with-william-oellermann-about-the-managed-services...

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Migrating to Hyper-V from Virtual Server 2005 R2
I'm getting a jumpstart and migrating my team's HOL/ILL content to Hyper-V. The process was surprisingly simple and very mechanical for Vista and Windows Server 2008 based images. 1) Using VMRCplus, uninstall the Virtual Machine Additions. If...

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SQL Server 2008 RTM
In case you missed it, SQL Sever 2008 RTM was made available from TechNet and MSDN subscriber downloads.

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Another TechReady gone by.
I just back to the Southeast from Seattle, where I spent a week at Microsoft's internal technical conference speaking, delivering labs, and attending sessions. This continues to be a large investment Microsoft makes to maintain a high level of field...

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Live Mesh
Okay... Live Mesh is cool and will definitely be a headache for GoToMyPC and LogMeIn. However, I'm uninstalling this sucker for the moment because it forces UAC to be enabled on installation and keeps turning it on for me later. I would really love...

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Our Team is Hiring
The Microsoft SOA Solutions Team, the team responsible for MSE , is hiring! This is the official job description: Senior Application Developer Consultant, Microsoft Consulting Services - Solution Services Team is looking for Senior Application Developer...

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MSE June 2008 CTP
Just in time for TechEd 2008, the Microsoft SOA Solutions Team is excited to announce the availability of the MSE June 2008 CTP on CodePlex , which has built upon the concepts from the October 2007 CTP (v6.2) release. Besides leveraging .NET 3.5 and VS2008...

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SOA Magazine Article
I finally got around to publishing another article for Thomas Erl's online SOA Magazine . The piece is titled "Relating Master Data Management to SOA" . Abstract: Distributed application development has proliferated business data throughout...

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