Keith Combs' Blahg
Ramblings from another nerd on the grid
TechNet Simulcast: Forefront virtual events this week
Register for the Forefront Virtual Event on June 23 and 24 to hear from and ask questions directly...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/20/2010
Hello Moto – ES400 Announced
Interesting Specs Display: PenTile® 3 in. diagonal color display, touch, VGA 640 x 480 portrait,...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/17/2010
Audit and Compliance Reporting for DirectAccess
I had the pleasure of talking to one of the authors of “Compliance Reporting: First Step in...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/17/2010
IIS Media Services 4.0 – now available for download
IIS Media Services 4.0 is a set of media-related extensions for Microsoft Internet Information...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/16/2010
Shaken Not Stirred
If you want to be James Bond, here’s a famous car complete with ejection seat and machine guns that...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/16/2010
The Three Amigos ride again!!!
(from left) Keith Combs, Matt Hester and Kai Axford all in one place again. Pretty rare these...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/16/2010
TechNet Library Lightweight View – now ready for testing
Since the release of the new Lightweight view for the MSDN Library in April we’ve been hard at work...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/16/2010
TechNet On: launches with Cloud Security
June 15, 2010 marks the beginning of a new content and publishing adventure. It’s called...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/15/2010
Hope my wife likes our new appliance!
Now I just need to find some black glossy paint for a certain HD-DVD drive I know.
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/14/2010
TechNet Subscriptions – new changes launched
You have more choices now. And if you never used the included supports calls, then you now have the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/14/2010
Sprint HTC EVO 4G – mini review
Now is the best time to wait. It’s a pretty funny saying and the guys at engadget.com said it...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/13/2010
WALL-E would love Microsoft Kinect
I couldn’t help but think about the loveable little robot named WALL-E when I saw the picture of...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/13/2010
Bytes by TechNet Launches with Keith Combs and Jenelle Crothers
This week at TechEd 2010 Matt Hester, Chris Henley, Harold Wong and I had the pleasure of...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/11/2010
TechNet Wiki Pick for the Week: AD FS 2.0 Config DB Migration to SQL
The AD FS configuration database stores all the configuration data that represents a single instance...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/07/2010
Introducing “Point and Click,” Our IT Advisors for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
REDMOND, Wash. – June 2, 2010 – Matt Hester loves to find cool new technology. Keith Combs loves to...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 06/04/2010
Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster – now available
This is a small part of the larger poster now available for download and printing. The big one...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/28/2010
VHD Getting Started Guide – now available
The Microsoft® virtual hard disk (VHD) file format specifies a virtual hard disk, which is...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/28/2010
System Center Configuration Manager v.Next Beta 1 - now available
System Center Configuration Manager enables a powerful user-centric approach to client management....
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/28/2010
A $525,000 watch? Really?
I was cooling off after working on the pool by doing some net surfing when I stumbled across...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/28/2010
Windows 7 slate style devices finally coming?
It’s looking more and more like Computex is going to be the place to be next week. From the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/28/2010
Take me to your leader
Pretty kewl jet pilot helmet, eh? Full story at...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/26/2010
TechNet Wiki Pick of the Week: DirectAccess and Teredo Adaptor Behavior
Here’s this weeks pick from the content on the TechNet Wiki. It’s an article written by Tom on...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/26/2010
Does your car tweet? This one does!
AJ is a Ford Fiesta that has some interesting technology onboard. His fuel tweets are...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/24/2010
Windows 7 Product Guide – now available for download
The Windows 7 Product Guide provides a detailed look at the many new and improved features in...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/24/2010
TechNet Wiki Pick for the Week: How to Run Hyper-V on a Laptop
Hyper-V is an enterprise IT technology included in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. As such the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/24/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Netsh Technical Ref – now available for download
Network shell (netsh) is a command-line utility that allows you to configure settings and display...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/24/2010
Sprint Overdrive 4G Mobile WIFI Hotspot
About seven weeks ago I picked up the Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot. This device...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/16/2010
Microsoft Online Standard Service Descriptions
Microsoft® Online Services offers hosting services for Microsoft productivity applications that are...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/13/2010
Office 2010 Tools and Guides for IT Professionals
Since Office 2010 went gold a few weeks ago, I’ve been watching for key resources I thought you...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/12/2010
TechNet Wiki Pick for the Week: What VMM Does with AZMan Role Definitions from Hyper-V
Hyper-V security is based on Authorization Manager API (known as AZMan). Similarly to VMM’s...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/12/2010
Microsoft Desktop Player
The Microsoft Desktop Player delivers contextual content aggregated across Microsoft properties that...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/12/2010
Microsoft Broadcaster
Microsoft Broadcaster enables IT Pro and Developer bloggers to download key Technical content (...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/12/2010
Evel Knievel anyone?
I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was very young. Blame my Father and Uncle Stanley for my need...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/10/2010
phpBB now available from the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Over the past couple of years I kept looking at the /web App Gallery and noticed something was...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/07/2010
Windows 7 App Compatibility List for IT Professionals
The Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/06/2010
Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide
A failover cluster is a group of independent computers that work together to increase the...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/06/2010
Active Directory Federation Services v2.0 - now available for download
Active Directory Federation Services is a highly secure, highly extensible, and Internet-scalable...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/05/2010
TechNet Wiki Pick for the Week: Why Split Tunneling is Not a Security Issue with DirectAccess
Tom Shinder is a highly respected subject matter expert on networking, security and a variety of...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/05/2010
KIN phone details and pricing released
For people who want to keep up and share everything going on in their lives with the people who...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/04/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 now available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers
For those of you that have subscriptions to TechNet or MSDN, check the downloads area this...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 05/04/2010
TechNet Wiki Pick for the Week: How to Deploy Windows 7 from a USB Drive
Each week I will be selecting an article from the TechNet Wiki. I will be looking for articles...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/28/2010
The Last Mile – Deploying Windows 7 in the Enterprise
Tomorrow, April 29th, 9:00 am PST, don’t forget to join Mark Russinovich, customer IT pros, and...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/28/2010
This should rattle your skull
I’d love to try this headphone set with a good game that includes positional sound like Halo. ...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/23/2010
Orianthi and Steve Vai rock out
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/21/2010
Office 2010 RTM’s – coming soon to the download areas
From the Office Engineering blog, “Since the start of our public beta in November 2009, we’ve had...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/19/2010
The System Center Team RTM’s DPM 2010 and Essentials 2010
The products keep rolling out and thankfully so does protection for your servers whether they...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/19/2010
Microsoft TechNet Wiki has launched !!!
As you’ll recall in February and March we launched a number of very visible changes to the de facto...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/14/2010
Microsoft Security Compliance Manager – now available
Take advantage of the experience of Microsoft security professionals, and reduce the time and money...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/12/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Now Available !!!
You might have noticed today we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010. The bits were made...
Author: Keith Combs Date: 04/12/2010