Should Microsoft make a screaming laptop the clearly demonstrates Windows Vista running as it should run?  Would this "reference platform" sell?  What risk would there be to our existing partner channel by doing something so bold?

just a reminder that the Edge Survey is going live soon - if you're prompted to take it, please do - we'd like the feedback.

I'm supposed to get some of the survey results as the come in, so I'll use this thread to share those.

(I suppose if you have feedback about Edge you'd like to give, you can use this thread for that too)

Ok, I know this is short notice, but what would you like to ask the AD program managers? 

I have some of my own thoughts, but I figure I'd just throw this post out there to see if anyone has any Qs they'd like to ask or have them talk about/clarify.

I'm doing interviews tomorrow.

I know a lot of developers.  One thing that makes me a little jealous is hearing them talk about how they 'ship' their products.  In my career as an IT Pro, I've finished lots of big projects, but never got to attend a ship party afterwards.  I've worked on some pretty significant deployments, that probably had teams and timelines that were similar in size to some product development teams, but at the end of the project, I remember just nodding our heads, shrugging our shoulders and moving on to the next one.  My developer friends, meanwhile, were throwing big parties every time they released an update to their code.

Do you, as an IT Pro, celebrate the end of your projects?  Should we?

Ok, Adam Bomb made an interesting find on one of my blog posts (Self-healing NTFS).  Amit had posted another "very similar" blog post without reference to my post at all.  I'm not mad or anything like that, but I am curious what others think on this subject... 

Do you think it's acceptable to "hijack" another person's blog post and put some slight changes into it with or without a link to the original, or should you always link up to another person's post and only put your changes/additional comments in your own blog post?

Adam wrote this on his blog:

http://blogs.technet.com/adamca/archive/2008/01/29/my-interview-with-bob-muglia-bigwig.aspx

"I have a request for you:  At some point you've been using a Microsoft product, and asked yourself "what were they thinking when they made this?"  If you'll let me know what product you were using, and what made you want to ask that question, I'll grab my Edge camera and do my best to find an answer for you."

Lets help Adam create a new video series category.

I want Adam to chase down the SharePoint team and interview them about why they think "unexpected error occured" or "unknown error" would be helpfull to know when SharePoint [1] sees some kind of failure.

[1] It doesn't matter if it is WSS or MOSS.

I saw the errors a couple of times when i tried to create a new website and the Farm Services user account were locked out. I think i got three or four more extra grey hairs that day until i found out about the real failure.

Don't get me wrong, i love "unknown errors" because then i have to do unknown things to correct the problem and my boss allows me to yell obscene things at the computer (yelling obscene things is good for your blood pressure and so is good dark beer and chocolate).

I'd just like to formally apologize for the community at large for the horrible singing ability of the little Gerbil in "Highway to PowersHell".

The little pest has been punished and is now being forced to run treadmill in my Geo Tracker.

Any idea why posted videos refuse to play from this site (that's all videos that I've tried [>8])? Silverlight installed... <check> update to SL... <check> every video on this site doesn't play... <check>.

Help a brother out...

I know there is a lot of discussion out there about Vista.  I've been running Vista since November 2006 on my personal laptop and have my own list of +/- with it, but before I give my own thoughts I'm curious to hear your true, unbiased opinions about it from each of you out there.

What do you like or dislike about Vista?

The end of the video touches on user isolation!  Thats sounds promising.  Would like to learn more about the concept especially as regards crash protection. 

I've had a few instances w/ TS2003 where one user would inadvertently bring the whole server down!

What's everybody out there running for a Smartphone?

I had some rather "generous angels" drop a Palm Treo 750w on my lap for Christmas... LOVE THIS THING!

Plays a mean game of solitaire too... :)

Hi Edge team, you are doing a wonderful job. It was one of my dream to have this sort of website for IT Pro when I first saw  Channel 9 many years back.

I'm looking for information where I can find why and How Groove can help the businessmen and to the people who are movig all the time. I'd appreciate if you take the interview of Groove guy.

Plus some technical interview of SCE2007 and how it can help the mid-size business.

I'll be publishing about these technologies myself on my blog adnanrafik.com/blog but at this time you will see few posts since it is new. :)

Keep doing this good job. I'm gonna put the link and publish in my next newsletter.

Hi gang, this is Adnan and i'm new to this community. I re-present the IT Pro user group for the Dubai UAE IT Pros. I had been to TechEd SEA KL in Sep 2007 and got the chance to conduct as many interviews a I could. I'd like to visit the url to get watch the interviews and see what they are saying?

http://techiesonly.com/?page_id=137

cheer:)

Hello,

I'm curious on which release is more important to you today.  Are you more interested in Windows XP SP3 or Windows Vista SP1?  Why?

Thanks,

Keith

From what I can tell RAID 5 is better for redundancy where as RAID10 or RAID 1+0 has better performance.

I know with RAID5 if a drive fails then the sever will still boot... Which is what I think is the great need.

What I'm not sure about is, is that the case with RAID10, if a drive fails and it has the OS installed on that RAID10 configuration will it still boot the OS?

Thanks 

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No we aren't talking about harvest time.  You may notice in the who's online section of the main page, that many of the icons are dorked up.  I mentioned this to the devs for this site and they indicated it's the picture people are uploading that is the issue, not the sites use of the pic.

You might want to experiment with your pic.  I believe the one I used originally was 90x90.

They dont seem to be organized by:

Date, # of replies or most recent reply. What is the logic here? I end up having to cycle through the (now) 3 pages of posts to see what is what.

I am curious, it seems you are starting from scratch with this site instead of incorporating all the neat things you made\learned\created for channels 9 and 10. Why wouldnt you leverage all those great pieces? Although coming out after them it is instantly inferior to them. I feel like I got a Zune 30 after the Zune 80 came out ...

Ok, I'm going to start something fun. 

We've all done some "Bandaids" to pull of a miracle of a type.  What's yours?   Come on.   Not the "SuperStuff" like rebuilding the database off the spanned drives when somebody deleted the partitions.

How about the "Simple but fun stuff" like builiding a loopback connector to make a Lan jack live on a stand alone PC with your teeth and some "twisty twisty"

Come on all.   Gimme yer stuff.    Forbid I end up using this as fodder for some type of Funny Friday post long term... :)

But we've all done it. (You stop lying, I see you there in the corner with your hammer and screwdriver crimping cables!   And you over there hotwiring your own power jack.   Stand up and join the crowd!)

Server Core + IIS7 + PHP + MySQL

So we now know what our secret technology passions are but what piece of software, hardware or web service can't you wait to get your hands on ?

Ok, me first I'm looking forward to Office Live Workspace for the ability to sync my Outlook 2007 information and Office docs whilst on the road and to have the ability to share workspaces with people, I have been waiting for something like this for sometime so I hope Microsoft make it good.

For those interested in SQL Server...

The date for the 2nd European PASS Conference has been announced!

See www.european-pass-conference.com for exact details, but its flagged to run from the 14th -16th of April 2008 in Neuss, Germany.

:o)

Hey everyone,

I know you all work in IT but what is your passion, the thing you really enjoy doing that involves computing and technology, for me it would have be design, in particular desktop publishing or web apps.

So what do you really enjoy in your job or personal life that involves computing and technology ?

Andy

Check out http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2007/11/13/running-the-zune-80-on-apple-os-x-v10-5.aspx when you get a second.  I am pretty proud of that feat.

KingCobra

I purchased the 80GB Zune v2 this morning and synced the TechNet Radio podcasts to it this afternoon.  I know, I'm a nerd.

Anyone else score one?

KingCobra

hi

It would be good to know who here is an edge staff member. Maybe all the "Admins" can have their names in another color or a smal icon next to their name on a post.

An MVP icon for all MVPs out there would also be great.

Steve Bell, here at IT Forum in Barcelona, and be sure to check-out the free tools Microsoft have developed for IT Pros. These tools help empower you to deploy applications with confidence on Windows Server 2008.

Get the application readiness tools at: http://microsoft.mrmpslc.com/InnovateOnWindowsServer/Resources.aspx

Checkout a great editorial in Windows IT Pro magazine on the tools: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/96464/96464.html?Ad=1

Thanks.

- Steve Bell, Product Manager, Microsoft

SCVMM has a TechNet techcenter now at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scvmm/default.aspx

I'll get this thread, and edge, added to the community page at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scvmm/bb679926.aspx

The VMM PM has started a blog at: http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/ - you can read about vNext features at: http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2007/11/12/putting-together-the-next-version-of-scvmm.aspx

Look for some new content in the library at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb740737.aspx next week.

Check out the how-to videos at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scvmm/bb688094.aspx

I'm having a bit of a problem.... I connected my Edge account to the wrong Live ID :( All my other Microsoft logons (TechNET, XBOXLive, etc) are connected to my old-skool account. Does anyone know if there's a way to change this?

Aside from no ability to control with IT policy?

What phone do you use and why?

Me = t-mo dash. I gave back the Shadow because of the keyboard, having to open the slider to unlock the phone very 15 mins, and sucky battery life.

The dash battery is going strong after two days, and the KB is just fine for my fat fingers. I miss my SDA, but the dash screen is as bright, tho wider.

Click on "reply" on a thread and you'll get the register button.

Scratched my head over that one for a few minutes...

I personally am looking forward to an "edge-y" tshirt, baseball cap, or coffee mug. Where can I find please?

Can't wait for the first pic of an exec wearing an "edge" shirt or jacket at an event...<hint mode off>

While we were sound asleep this morning, the Europeans were announcing some important details about the Windows Server 2008 family of products.  One of the most interesting announcements wasn't the new name for Windows Server virtualization (WSv) now called Hyper-V.  No, instead the most fascinating detail is the price.  $28 US.  WOW!  I thought it was a typo the first time I saw it.

Here are the details from the press release:

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a hypervisor-based server virtualisation product, complements the Hyper-V technology within Windows Server 2008, allowing customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server. In addition, Microsoft Hyper-V Server will increase original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners’ ability to offer customers simplified, reliable and cost-effective virtualisation solutions that can easily plug in to their existing infrastructure. Partners including Dell Inc, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Fujitsu Ltd, Hitachi Ltd, HP, IBM Corp, Lenovo, NEC Corp and Unisys are already committed to working with Microsoft to offer solutions based on Microsoft Hyper-V Server once it is available. The estimated manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) for Microsoft Hyper-V Server is $28 (US).

“Microsoft and Dell are continuing to work together to provide virtualisation solutions and by offering Microsoft Hyper-V Server across a wide variety of Dell servers,” said Rick Becker, vice president of Software and Solutions at Dell. “Our joint customers can continue to leverage their expertise with Microsoft technologies to rapidly provision new services and better manage and simplify their IT environment.”

“The combination of Microsoft Hyper-V Server, industry-leading HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, and our comprehensive services portfolio provides customers with an adaptive infrastructure that is simple to operate, reliable and cost-effective,” said Scott Farrand, vice president of Industry Standard Server Software at HP. “HP plans to support customers in the adoption of Microsoft Hyper-V Server by delivering solutions that help them realise the benefits of a virtualised environment.”

Server Virtualisation Validation Program

In response to industry and customer demands for more comprehensive technical support of virtual machines, Kelly also announced the Server Virtualisation Validation Program. Beginning in June 2008, vendors will be able to self-test and validate certain technical requirements of their server virtualisation software running Windows Server 2008 and prior versions. The programme will enable Microsoft to offer cooperative technical support to customers running Windows Server on validated, non-Windows server virtualisation software.

“Microsoft has worked with industry partners to create a technical support model that will meet customers’ growing demands,” Kelly said. “As more customers deploy and virtualise Windows-based applications on Windows Server 2008 or other server virtualisation software, this programme will help ensure that customers receive a joint support experience for their physical and virtual infrastructure deployments.”

“Technical support of virtualised images is an industrywide challenge,” said Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions for Novell. “Our relationship with Microsoft provides us with a jointly supported solution today. Novell and Microsoft continue to collaborate to optimise bidirectional virtualisation between Windows and SUSE Linux Enterprise with Xen. Microsoft’s server virtualisation validation programme provides customers with additional peace of mind when they run Windows as a guest in a validated environment such as SUSE Linux Enterprise.”

I'll start:

I'm Adam Carter, one of the IT Pro evangelists that will be creating content for Edge.  I'll be conducting some of the interview videos that you'll soon see up here.  I've been an IT Pro for all of my career, architecting, planning and implementing infrastructures on Windows.  For me, Edge is a culmination of a little proof of concept I did last year when I posted some IT Pro focused videos to Channel9.  IT Pros have long wanted a place on the web to hang out, and now we have one.  w00t!

That's just my day job though.  I'm an avid backpacker and budding cyclist. 

I'm regularly outsmarted by the 3 kids and a dog that I live with.

Your turn...

Hi,

My Name is Josh Phillips I am a blogger at WindowsConnected.com and I am excited to see a true IT Pro oriented community.  I have seen serveral other efforts around this coming out, but they didn't seem as focused as this one does.  So I am very hopeful for its success. 

couple of sugguestions. 

1.)I would like to see the RSS feed a little more promiminet

2.)ensure the videos can be consumed via iTunes and Zune Marketplace.

So, will we rate a channel number? I'm guessing 11!

Hi my name is Hu Zi Ao, you can call me Hza(My nick). I'm a 15 yrs old kid who lives in shanghai. I hope can get to know you guys soon!

We plan to have the header graphic on this site rotate through a variety of images.  Sometimes we'll create the graphics and we hope that you will as well.  To get started, you can download the original source image for The TechNet Edge "tag".  Please be cool and don't destroy people's property, ok? :-) 

I can imagine all sorts of things you can do with it.  Super impose it on photos, make t-shirts with your own slogans, add it to your blog, help us make headers for this site or even make some swag.  Surprise us!  

I've placed a few in my Flickr feed tagged with TechNet Edge, so you can get an idea.  If you do something, please reply here and share with us all.

Looking forward to meeting you.

-Jeff

Hey there,

The Perimeter is a place where you can speak what’s on your mind and connect with people at Microsoft in an informal way.  This is a place where you can communicate with your peers and get feedback on the thoughts you have.  The Perimeter is not a place to attack other people; if all of us follow The Evangelism Network Doctrine, we all reap the benefits of what the Perimeter can provide.

Welcome. 

welcome to the Edge!

First!