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Clarifying “Windows PE”

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:48:53 +0000

Hi All, Today I wanted to clarify a commonly used term “Windows PE”,which some of the people always have doubts on. Lets see how many of us can get it right !!! Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 2.0 is a minimal Win32 operating system with limited services, built on the Windows Vista kernel. It is used to prepare [...]

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Why Make the Move to Windows Server 2008

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:39:43 +0000

Hello all, Finally, we are at a stage when companies are ready to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Yet, some people still want specific reasons as to why exactly Server 2008 is better than Server 2000. Here are some of the highlights that are causing us to jump. 1. HYPER -V With Hyper-V, the Windows Server 2008 virtualization solution, [...]

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IPv6 – Part 3

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:38:16 +0000

Global Unicast, Link-local, Site-local, Unique-local, Multicast In addition to the Global Unicast addresses that start with either a 2 or 3 and the reserved “::1” for localhost, you will need to recognize and respond to: FF, FE80, FEC, FC, and FD. Multicast - FF First, there is no Broadcast in IPv6 and that will take a while to [...]

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Will ‘7′ Be Windows’ Lucky Number?

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:45:44 +0000

We’re taking a short break from IPv6 series to talk about the new Windows 7.0, Microsoft’s new operating system that many are looking forward too. With download problems solved, no killer problems seem to have arisen so far in Win7’s public beta. Suprisingly. In fact, overall, the process appears to be going overall fairly smooth up until [...]

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IPv6 Blog Course - Part 2

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:07:41 +0000

Time for some technical details: Colon Hexadecimal notation, Zero Suppression, and Global Unicast addresses What to do with these 300 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses? We should reserve the biggest chunk to address the biggest issue – Global/Public (routed on the Internet), “unique in the world” addresses. One eight (1/8) of the addresses have been reserved for IPv6 Global [...]

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IPv6 Blog Course - Part 1

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:30:46 +0000

IPv6 is normally described as simply evolutionary, but it’s both evolutionary and revolutionary. IPv6 is a fairly simple to understand evolutionary technical step for the network, but will probably turn out to be a revolutionary step for the industry. The obvious reason that we need a replacement for IPv4 is the fact that we are running [...]

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IPv6 - Introduction

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:40:41 +0000

“It was horribly like a spring flood; first a trickle, then a stream, then a torrent, then simply the grim struggle to keep from going under and…” -Sarah Monette, Elizabeth Bear - 2007 IPv6 is coming! IPv6 is coming! It’s time to stop thinking that it’s a future thing – that it’s never going to happen. You don’t [...]

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Global Name Zone in new DNS

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:25:54 +0000

I really liked this new feature GLOBALNAME ZONE in new DNS in server 2008 and thought it was particularly neat. To help customers migrate to DNS for all name resolution, the DNS Server role in Windows Server 2008 supports a special GlobalNames Zone (also known as GNZ) feature. Some customers in particular require the ability to [...]

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New Features of Server 2008: Server Manager

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:30:19 +0000

Hey Guys! So continuing with our research on Windows Server 2008, I wanted to highlight just a few more features: I have experienced that Server Manager in Windows Server 2008 provides a single source for managing a server’s identity and system information. Server Manager makes server administration more efficient by allowing administrators to do the following by [...]

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Given the confusion, I will attempt to clarify, at the risk of adding more confusion.

Unitek Microsoft Blog — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:38:59 +0000

October 13, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. announced today that the code name for its next operating system, Windows 7, will be the product’s official name. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117098 Now that the official name for “Windows 7” is “Windows 7”, everyone is officially confused. I’ve never been a big fan of using the year as part of the product name, e.g. [...]

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