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Can you verify that the OVF is good by pulling it up in VirtualBox before doing the import? It'd at least help narrow down where the problem's coming up.

Generally the MCITPs seem to be accepted as an equal (if more recent) qualification to the MCS*s, at least with the people I've dealt with so far.

If it's saying it can't convert, you'll probably need to strongly cast the object you're adding. [TextBox]$textbox = and so forth.

Can't you use Canvas.Children.Add(whatever_control)? myCanvas.Children.Add(textBox) myCanvas.SetLeft(textBox, xCoord) myCanvas.SetTop(textBox, yCoord) This is how I'd approach the same thing in C# at least.

That's a little too rare for me. At least walk the cow past a radiator before putting it on the plate. Blue for me, always, if I can get it.

What would you call Windows Live Domains? Sure, it's not a full enterprise solution with web apps, but as a central e-mail system/calendar/photo albums etc for a family it's perfect.

I like the royal family, but those litre beers do sound appealing...

My attitude to speed cameras changed while living in a village where people would zip along the main street at upwards of 60 mph. With two schools in the area, and a park, it wasn't exactly safe. The parish council managed to get two speed cameras placed there and people either started slowing down to only a little above the speed limit, or taking the bypass which had been built years before. If people are too moronic to actually drive at a safe and sensible speed, then cameras are as good a solution as any.

So let me get this straight...TomTom have offered a service which they have, all along, admitted allows your data to be anonymised and placed on a server where it can then be provided to all other users of the service. This allows you to see the average speed of traffic in an area and similar. People are then boohooing because the police have purchased one of these devices, or access to the commercial data (anonymised obviously, to do otherwise would be clearly illegal) and are using it in order to check which places people regularly speed in, in order to put devices which catch people speeding? Sorry, did anyone not see this coming? It's a community-sourced service which shows average speed, so that its users can see (shockingly) average speed. Hardly Big Brother.

Easiest way? Power switch.

Axe. Oh, never mind.

It's important to remember that over-committing memory (ballooning) doesn't actually create more RAM from nowhere. Instead it'll grab memory back from machines which aren't using it by having a fake system driver request the memory - then it can be parcelled out to a machine which does need it at the time. Ballooning is good, paging to disk is a bad thing, and is what'll happen if too much over-committing goes on. Fair enough. It can be done (for free, obviously it can be done with the full vSphere stack but that gets pricey). You'd need a separate monitoring server and a bit of scripting knowledge, and it wouldn't be the instantaneous HA you get with the full stack but would take maybe a minute to fire up. I don't know about doing it with Ganeti though, which is probably easier. Actually, to be nit-picky, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is free - Microsoft Hyper-V Server: How to Get It, it's just that most people assume you can only get Hyper-V with Windows attached. No CALs needed. And ESXi is Linux-based. I'd say stick with KVM though, since it looks like you've researched it and there's very little difference between the hypervisors.

Just edit the global navigation and remove it from the bar - Customizing Global Navigation in SharePoint 2010 « Cory Langner Don't know if this'll help with this one - Hide the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 « Me & My SharePoint Designer I'd go for a custom master page with the quicklaunch bar removed myself, but the stuff in that link should work.

Introduction to publishing Internet Calendars - Outlook - Microsoft Office - that the sort of thing you're looking for?

Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) and KVM are all free, and all perfectly fine for simple server virtualisation (except for KVM's lack of balloon drivers for Windows).

Careful with this - I can see it putting some ICT teachers out of a job.

A bit fine on both - I'd recommend making sure you've got more cores to play with before virtualising anything else onto it - 1 core/VM should be fine though. The RAM upgrade wouldn't hurt, but again so long as you're planning to upgrade before expanding the virtualisation project then it can be done later. Since a large part of virtualisation is intended to maximise resource usage, cutting things a bit fine is the best way to do it. Good call. As @dhicks said you don't really want to have any DC mirrored - much better either to have a separate virtual one on the other host, or a separate physical one, or both. With well-managed dynamic memory and ballooning drivers, you can actually provide about 50% more memory than actually exists (assuming that the guests never try to actually use it all at once, then things get messy). KVM does actually support balloon drivers for your Linux guests apparently, so it may be worth looking into. Out of curiousity - is there a specific reason you're going for KVM or is it purely an expense thing? If it's purely an expense, did you have a look at VMWare's ESXi Hypervisor (free)? I'm mainly asking since ESXi does provide balloon drivers for all of the OSs I've ever had a chance to try it with.

Differencing disks should allow for multiple instances based off the same parent disk in Hyper-V. The instances themselves will be 100% independent - the parent just gives them a common starting system installation rather than having to install twelve copies of the same OS and consume twelve times the disk space. But it does mean you're using all the system resources of a full OS with GUI just in order to have that console - probably why Hyper-V requires such a scandalous amount of memory for itself. Sadly not in KVM yet (at least not for Windows guests - Linux guests support balloon drivers and they're working on a Windows one).

I may be too used to vSphere, but why would you have separate, full server images for each of your servers rather than having a single 'core' image with the base OS, then several separate linked clones with only the extra software installed on each?

Main Page - KVM - KVM as host. Wouldn't hurt, but if you're having to be tight on resources probably not necessary. With Hyper-V yep. No need to combine servers - if you split the roles onto individual servers you can monitor their performance, and how much they actually use in terms of resources, and then lower what you're providing them with (or raise it) as time goes on in order to fine-tune the setup.

Looks reasonable enough to me. Cut a bit fine maybe, but reasonable. Can your backup hypervisors support everything if the main hypervisor goes down? If not, have you given thought to which server roles you could afford to lose? One other thought - do you have any other DCs or were you planning to cut down to just the one? Whether or not it's virtual, I'd recommend having a second one somewhere - it doesn't need to be a high spec, just needs to exist.

Is your equipment database constructed using flat files? You may find it easier to actually go a little more advanced, and use something like Lightswitch to construct a SQL database with GUI rather than locking people out if someone else has the file open.

VB's not really my thing, but hopefully this link'll help you. Determine if a file is in use on server if not copy a file. I can't see anywhere in your code that you're actually checking if the file is open - just declaring a property. Trying to open it inside a try statement, and catching an exception if it's already open, should be a little more effective.

Lots of water, a bit of coffee, good food, regular breaks, and a good night's sleep each night - it's the advantage of a residential course as generally you've got only a five minute walk at most before you get 'home'. Plus there's an end in sight throughout.

Enjoy the food, and drink lots of water (advice given me by one of their instructors when I went on a course there - better than coffee). I don't think I've ever met Shad, but I've yet to see a bad instructor at Firebrand. And good luck with the rest of the course.