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Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the...

Posted 11-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, .NET, MS News, Technology, ITPro, Sharepoint, Windows Server, Express, Announcement, Performance, Security, Management, Downloads, Windows, InterOp

Extending Life of your Computer - Tips

Recently, I have had the opportunity to replace my home laptop and one of my demo Laptops because of different reasons. I have been a bit relaxed on maintaining these laptops and hence the headaches followed and some resolution had to be made. Now that...

Posted 10-15-2009 by vinodkumar | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Technology, Tips & Tricks, ITPro, Personal, Performance, Management

A’bad UG CTD and Gandhi Ashram …

I have been planning to write the trip report from my recent trip - Community TechDays in Ahmedabad over weekend. Well, flying on a holiday Oct 2nd ( Gandhi Jayanthi ) and executing the event on a Saturday Oct 3rd was something I had to first skilfully...

Posted 10-05-2009 by vinodkumar | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: SQL Server, Misc, Non-Technical, Events, Technology, Tips & Tricks, VTD, Personal

ZoomIT V4.0 from SysInternals

I do a lot of these presentations and many times I use some zomming tools to show the code and explain the concepts. And a number of times people have come back to me asking what that tool was … No rocket science :) … I have been using ZoomIT from Sysinternals...

Posted 09-09-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Tips & Tricks, ITPro, Announcement, Personal, Downloads

Testing from Windows Live Writer

How cool is to use the Windows Live writer. Testing to see if it will also display pictures without any problems :) Are we good here … I just rebuild my machine with Win7 + SQL Server 2008 + Office 2010 all x64 version. And it really rocks !!!

Posted 09-08-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Office

My Favourite Bing Features

I know there are tons and tons of people who have used other search engines and have been comfortable in using the same. Here in this post, I would urge you to try Bing once and look at some of these tips that I use when using Bing. One needs to understand...

Posted 08-28-2009 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Personal

MS CaseStudies for Reference

There are tons and tons of casestudies from the MS Website, here are some handpicked from various industries and verticals that really show the value and how far the technologies can go using the Microsoft Platform. Bank Boosts User Productivity 40 Percent...

Posted 10-29-2008 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, MS News, Technology, Windows Server

The letter SHA

I have admired Michael Kaplan for the really great work he does around Fonts, Unicode etc. I was very fortunate to attend one of his session during his trip down to India. I was surprised to look at a blogpost around Tamil and how the font is dealt with...

Posted 10-14-2008 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide

This guide targets key information to bring your infrastructure up to date, thereby enhancing user experience and delivering business benefits. Find out how new features like Application Virtualization management support and support for Windows Server®...

Posted 09-18-2008 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Technology, ITPro

Happy New Year 2008 !!!

Wishing all you folks a happy and prosperous new year. Will promise to increase the activities over the blog and my website ... With SQL Server 2008 to be released this year ... There will be a lot to write ...

Posted 01-01-2008 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical

MSDN Bot

This is really a cool stuff ... Just add MSDNBuddy [at] hotmail.com to your live or MSN messenger and get started with chatting :). Now you have the capability to search the MSDN Library from your messenger. Thanks to the MVP community (Lucas from France...

Posted 06-07-2007 by vinodkumar | with no comments

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MCTS : SQL Server 2005

I wrote an exam after a long time and it was a good experience. Nice to see a bit of simulation questions being asked in the exam. SQL Server 2005 surely has tons of new features introduced. This exam was based on technical specifics. Lovely exam for...

Posted 05-10-2007 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical

Interesting - U3

Software and hardware standards for building portable applications on USB drives. With a U3 smart drive, you can plug into any Windows 2000 or XP PC and work , play a game, message friends, send email, edit photos and more, all without worrying if applications...

Posted 08-24-2006 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical

Office 12 Roadmap

Wanna hear on which direction Office is moving, catch this post from the Excel Team's blog .

Posted 07-27-2006 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: Misc, Non-Technical, Office

Joe Celko's Blog

I still am wondering how I missed on this. Even though some of the answers are different ... I have always loved the clarity and the reasoning that comes after them ... So go ahead and make your bookmark :). Lastly there will always be something to learn...

Posted 07-27-2006 by vinodkumar | with no comments

Filed under: SQL Server, Misc, Non-Technical

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