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Last week at TechEd Barcelona, one of the coolest things we saw was the session from Mark Russinovich on the new stuff in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, where he showed that with the new OS the boot mechanism allows for booting from vhd file. at that point I though: This is what I am going to try next week. and I did. I have it running now ...

At the PDC conference two weeks ago ISO images from Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 were handed out, they are the M3 build. I had to try this. I saw some nice stuff about it at TechEd last week, so I had to try these. I will post some nice stuff We tried during the coming week. Where possible I will add screenshots and screen movies. So keep your ...

Today we were invited to gather for the Proctor instructions, the venue is a known place to me, but the weather is a little bit different than expected, High winds and rain. so the proctors got up early, got in at nign o clock and got instructions. I already spoke to a lot of familiar people, it is always nice to see people you know again. the ...

the first day of ItForum starts only at 14.00 hour. so the morning we had for visiting the cultural side of Barcelona, so we went of to the sagrada famiglia, and park Guell. it was a little bit cloudy, but we had a nice view over the city. We went back for lunch and the kickof of the event. It was a ball, they had a nice drumming group to pass ...

After arriving at the long term parking waiting for the bus to The terminal, we encountered this image. we were wondering whether this would be a prediction of the rest of the week. We did have a good flight an had a nice evening in Barcelona, near the harbor. I will keep you posted.

I just created a gadget that counts down to TechEd ItForum 2007. You can find it in the downloads section on this server.... Or just click on this link Thanks Erno and Edward for the graphics....

I heard yesterday that I will be going to Barcelona this November again. I am very happy with this, specially because I was there last year also. Normally going to the event is spread evenly amongst the colleagues. So I had a lot of luck here... You will not hear me complain. No I just have to wait to see wether my session ideas will be awarded ...

If you have not gone to TechEd ITForum, you can view some of the highlights of the event on the virtual side. One of the things you can see here is a minute of Steve Riley talking about Defending layer 8. I will not give the pun away, but check it out. If you want to see the whole session, it is on It's showtime. Click here to see it

Today was present day again, I received My complimentary subscription to Technet Plus, Did I mention that Everybody that visited TechEd 2006 received a free subscription for TechNet plus for one year? I immediately activated, got myself productkeys for Vista and Office 2007. I activated Vista and I installed Office 2007 and activated. MAN that ...

After coming back from Barcelona, I had TWO major frustrations: first is the weather: in Barcelona it was about 20 degrees Celsius and in the Netherlands autumn has really broken loose: rain, cold wind etc etc. so no more t-shirts outside, but wintercoats and warm sweaters. Second and I do not know which is more frustrating: I have the RTM bits ...