Recorded: October 21, 2009
Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith Albright
Show Length: 39:31

Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate script warrior? Find out with Quest’s PowerPack Challenge ’09.

Quest Software is sponsoring a PowerShell Scripting contest where you can test your skills and get paid. Just create some cool PowerShell scripts using Quest’s PowerGUI and then post them to our site. You’ll get a score and our celebrity judges will weigh in as well. Top prize is a cool $1,000 USD to spend on Amazon.com

Do you have the muscle to bring home the prize? Check out the details here.

Topics/Links:

• Windows 7 Pre-Orders indicate it is doing well
• Windows 7 Advertisements
• Sysprep problem - more links in show notes
• Windows Server 2008 - What’s up with all the questions?
• Laptop User problem
• VMWare does have a free converter utility for P2V, V2V
• VMWare switch architecture and multicast tweaking
• Vista does not support .HLP files from older apps. There’s a fix for that.

Read the full show notes here.

Read the live UStream.tv chat log here.

Website Picks

Rich - File sync utility AllWaySync

Keith - FloHClub.com - Florence Henderson promotes her tech support company

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Recorded: October 7, 2009
Your Host: Rich Niemeier and Keith Albright
Show Length: 46:42

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.

Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Topics/Links:

• Disk2VHD from Sysinternals
• Print Logger - for logging printer usage
• SQL 2000 performance problem - How to on re-indexing
• MonitoringForge.org - New site that hopes to be THE destination for all topics on systems and network monitoring
• VideoLan Player - Rich plays with VLC in his digital signage installation.
• Mark Gibbs’ NWW Article about vendors - Keith concurs on the ‘lack of pricing’ information

Read the full show notes here.

Website Picks

Rich - Simple and delicious recipes - Rich shills for ConAgra part time.

Keith - Not Hired.com - Funny anecdotes about potential hires that didn’t make the cut.

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I’m currently running Server 2008 R2 (from a VHD) as one of the OSes on my work laptop.  Thanks to the http://www.win2008workstation.com/ site, I was able to get my wireless card working.  

Problem - When I went to create a virtual network in Hyper-V, the wireless network interface was not an option.

Solution - I created a loopback adapter and bridged it to my wireless network card.  I was able to create a virtual network that included the bridged connection and my VMs were able to access my wireless network.

Recorded: October 7, 2009
Your Host: Keith Albright and Steve Murawski
Show Length: 1:00:46

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.

Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Topics/Links:

• SQL Server Index Fragmentation
• VMWare Player 3 can now make VM’s…..Will it still be called Player?
• Adaptec’s new cabling system for RAID controllers
• Reading Query Plans - ScaryDBA
• SQL Server Execution Plans by Grant Fritchey (E-Book download, registration required)
• Random number generation problem for credit card processing

Read the full show notes here.

Website Picks

Steve - Zillow.com - great site for culling real estate information on an area

Keith - Lovely Listing - You won’t find these homes on HGTV

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Recorded: October 1, 2009
Your Host: Keith Albright and Rich Niemeier
Show Length: 58:26

Before you acquire power, you must acquire knowledge – and Quest Software has what you need! In Jeffery Hicks’ e-book, “Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell,” learn how PowerShell helps you master local accounts and groups, password management, security and permissions and much, much more. You’ll also learn about the PowerShell extras and out-of-the-box features that will help you control Active Directory.

Don’t wait – register for your free copy of Jeffery’s book, and see why PowerShell and Quest Power GUI are the ultimate Windows management tools.

Topics/Links:

• Boost Mobile Security Fail
• Verizon FiOS Repair Fail
• Rich still busy with POS and digital signage install
• SAV eating up disk space
• Microsoft Anti-Virus Beta
• Gigabit cabling problem
• Error opening Excel workbook from Outlook

Read the full show notes here.

Website Picks

Keith - Free digital IT books at RealTimePublishers.com

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