June 26, 2008
The officially official version of Hyper-V just hit the download site today at noon Pacific time.
In an amazing feat of time-warping, this post was sent back in time to coincide with the exact moment of Hyper-V’s release.
Before you go all crazy downloading and installing Hyper-V, remember that upgrading your virtualization platform takes some planning and forethought…
If you care at all whether your virtual machines will still work, that is.
Some standard cautions about new versions of Hyper-V…
- Once you put Hyper-V RTM on, there’s no removing it.
- Virtual machines in a paused or saved state usually can’t be upgraded.
- Before you do anything else, export a copy of your virtual machines to an external drive exactly as you want them preserved.
- Archive all your exports into .zip files, so you don’t blow your only shot at an import later.
- Snapshots might not survive an upgrade. So merge your changes before shutting down your virtual machines for the upgrade. But push those exports first!
- Don’t forget to install the new Integration Services at some point, once you’ve verified your machines are all happy and working on the final release.
And for Pete’s sake…
- Keep a copy of the current version of Hyper-V that you are running, just in case. Otherwise, the export copies you pushed will be less than worthless.
In fact, why don’t you store that copy of Hyper-V used to make the export copies right WITH the export copies, so you’ll always have it if you need it.
In case the absolute very worst happens.
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June 24, 2008
E-Cycling Day was recently included as part of an Alabama Public Television feature on green initiatives in our state.
The entire show is available online from the APTV.org website. If you just want to catch the section on E-Cycling Day, start at the 26:27 mark.
And for the record…uncontrollable laughter.
That was the reaction from Running Antelope, Apple of My Eye, and Cute as a Button to the awesome Winter Hat of Justice I’m sporting.
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May 24, 2008
As the announced upgrades to Windows Mobile 6.1 roll in, this post will keep a running list of links to those upgrades.
No idea if the upgrades will be time-limited as many of the Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrades were, but it’s almost a given that you will have to sign-up or register your device to get access to a ROM update for it.
CONFIRMED UPGRADES
HTC
TyTn II = Europe (Registration required)
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May 24, 2008
NOTE: This is the first information transplant from the now-deceased Funboard.
Thanks in a large part to MS offering Windows Mobile 6 free to OEMs & mobile operators for the purpose of creating upgrades for existing WM5 devices, there have been a slew of new upgrade announcements lately.
This post will keep a running list of announced upgrades for current WM5 devices to WM6
FYI: Availability for most of these upgrades have been announced as May-July.
If you hear a rumor, post it up. We’ll deploy the robot horde to verify. Here’s hoping the list isn’t a short one…
CONFIRMED UPGRADES
ASUS
AT&T
Dopod
E-TEN
HTC
- Advantage = Available here (Signup for HTC e-Club and product registration required)
- TyTN = Available here (Signup for HTC e-Club and product registration required)
- S620 = Available here (Signup for HTC e-Club and product registration required)
- P4350 = Available here (Signup for HTC e-Club and product registration required)
- P3300 = Available here (Signup for HTC e-Club and product registration required)
iMate
- JAQ3 = Available here (Signup for iMate e-Club and product registration required)
O2
Orange
Palm
Samsung
- Blackjack = Available here
- i600 = Available here (Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Swiss, UK, Ukraine)
Telus
T-Mobile
UBiQUiO
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May 12, 2008
Sorry for the long long delay in getting this info posted up here.
I know that I announced to all the attendees at the NOLA conference that the survey would be posted by EOD. Unfortunately, some unforeseen logistical snafus kept me from getting this posted during the conference itself.
Here’s the dealio…
I cooked up a short survey about the Mobility talk I delivered at the SBSmigration.com conference in New Orleans this week. It would REALLY help in some key ways (which I’ll talk about later in this post) for EVERYONE who attended the Mobility session to please please PLEASE fill this out.
It should be quick quick quick. As in, it should take you less than a minute or 2 to fill out.
It’s available on the demo SharePoint site I used in my Mobility talk. So, as an added bonus, you get to see yet another example of a kickass way you can use SharePoint for and with your customers.
You can start the survey by clicking on this…
Mobility Survey
And yes, you will quickly notice the survey’s got that Chris Rue kinda flavor, just like the session had. Being a semi-professional smart aleck isn’t something you can just turn on and off.
Check out the screenshot…
Couple of things…
- Please fill out the survey completely.
- 10 is a GREAT number. Feel free to use that one liberally
- Please please please take just a moment or 2 and put some actual words in the final comment section. If you thought the Mobility session rocked, please say something to that effect. If you’d like to see more stuff on Mobility at other conferences, please SAY that as well.
- Be SURE to click FINISH, or your feedback answers won’t be recorded.
Also, if you didn’t get a chance to get or let me know that you wanted either the Windows Mobile Enterprise Resource Kit (ERK) and/or Developers Resource Kit (DRK) discs I had at the conference, please indicate your preference at the end of the survey. Also please put your e-mail address (this is required if you want to receive discs). I promise not to spam you, or share that info with anyone else.
One goofy caveat: Yes, I know the session was all about Mobility and mobile device stuff and how much SharePoint kicks ass with Windows Mobile. Unfortunately, you must use a PC to fill out this survey, as surveys in SharePoint3 do not support mobile views. Another feature request for the dev team, obviously.
Thanks in advance for your patience, and for taking just a couple of moments to fill out the survey.
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