IT Heroes {Start Here}

What makes an IT professional a hero? Each and every day IT professionals are solving problems that cause barriers to business of all sizes. They don’t do it for the glory or fame, but for the satisfaction and pride of keeping the system running. IT Heroes Happen everywhere you look – they are the core of any well-oiled IT machine, whether it be design, deployment or support – they keep pushing the bar higher and higher – Heroes Happen Here and IT professionals need to celebrate.

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There has been quite some noise around the talk that Eric Traut (Distinguished Engineer) gave at the University of Illinois. During his talk Eric showed something called MinWin which is a stripped kernel of Windows 7 that will be the basis of our futur…
Thanks to George - found this in the TechNet Newsletter: The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes fo…
There's a lot of great readiness and information on the Windows Server 2008 Learning Portal; however, if you want specifics on how to go from an MCSE or MCSA up to a MCTS ((Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, which replaces MCSA/MCTS) on Windows Ser…
Microsoft finally releases RTM version of its System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) 2007, which introduces live backup for virtual machines hosted by Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1, through the Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Service (VSS)…
As part of our bi-monthly Realtime Windows Server's "Help an Admin Out!" Contest, we'll be posting an opinion question every Wednesday for you to answer. Each answer also serves as an entry into our contest. We welcome your comments on today's and every f…

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