Get an early look at Windows Server 2008 virtualization by downloading this product overview. This document provides an overview of Windows Server Virtualization and explores Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, how it addresses key business needs including server consolidation, business continuity, testing and development, moving toward a dynamic data center and branch office.

Here you can find a simple MD5 Command Line for cheking your uploads and downloads specially in Web Services for possible CRC issues.

First use the database you are looking for.
Then run as below:
SELECT name, ftcatid FROM sysobjects WHERE ftcatid > 0
For each returning table name (which are the tables with Full-Text Index), run below command:
EXEC sp_fulltext_table 'tblName', 'drop'
After all drop the Full-Text Catalog with:
DROP FULLTEXT CATALOG catalogName

Hopefuly they are claiming 'The Google Block was an Error'. What about the other ones which they do wrongly and the website never gets back? Some other countries have also blocked our access to their websites... I have faced this in many cases recently; The one which would remain will be 'iran.ir' one day...

"Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive. Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran's National Council of Information did not explain why the sites were being blocked. Google, Gmail and several other foreign sites appeared to be inaccessible to Iranian users from Monday morning. Iran has tough censorship on cultural products and internet access, banning thousands of websites and blogs containing sexual and politically critical material as well as women's rights and social networking sites." That didn't take long. Iran has now unblocked Google claiming the censorship was an error.

A series of articles on Windows Server 2008.

If you are looking to transfer an entier DNS Server which would be having AD settings and things like that, you may better use DNSDump.cmd. (Remember to rename the file from .cm_ to .cmd)
If you are looking to migrate the zones, simply do as bellow:

1. On the DNS server that is currently hosting the DNS zone(s), change any Active Directory-integrated zones to standard primary. This action creates the zone files that are needed for the destination DNS server.
2. Stop the DNS Server service on both DNS servers.
3. Manually copy the entire contents (subfolders included) of the %SystemRoot%\System32\DNS folder from the source server to the destination server.
4. On the current DNS server, start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
5. Locate and click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Zones
6. Export the Zones entry to a registry file.
7. Locate and click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DNS Server\Zones
8. Export the Zones entry to a registry file.
9. On the destination DNS server, double-click each registry file to import the Zonessubkeys into the registry.
10. Bring the current DNS server down and transfer its IP address to the destination DNS server.
11. On the destination DNS server, start the DNS Server service. To initiate the registration of the server's A and PTR resource records, run the following command at a command prompt: ipconfig /registerdns
12. If this server is also a domain controller, stop and restart the Net Logon service to register the Service (SRV) records, or run the following command at a command prompt: netdiag /fix
13. The standard zones that were previously Active Directory-integrated can be converted back to Active Directory-integrated on the replacement DNS server if it is a domain controller.
14. Verify that the SOA resource records on each zone contains the correct name for the primary server and that the NS resource records for the zone(s) are correct.

Major BizTalk users among the world are as follow: (Via Mick Breez Blog)

• 12 of the 15 largest Retailers in the World run Microsoft BizTalk: Elsevier Food International, September 2006 (sourced from PlanetRetail database)
• 5 of 10 largest Hotel Chains in the World with over 2 Million rooms use Microsoft BizTalk: Hotels Magazine, July 2007
• 6 of the 8 largest U.S. Pharmacuetical Companies use Microsoft BizTalk: Fortune 1000 by Industry, April 30, 2007
• 4 of the 5 largest U.S. Electronics Parts Manufacturers use Microsoft BizTalk: Fortune 1000 by Industry, April 30, 2007
• 9 of 10 largest U.S. Telecommunications Companies use Microsoft BizTalk: Fortune 1000 by Industry, April 30, 2007
• 9 of the 10 largest Aerospace and Defense Companies in the U.S. run Microsoft BizTalk: Fortune 1000 by Industry, April 30, 2007
• 5 of the 8 largest U.S. Chemical Companies run Microsoft BizTalk: Fortune 1000 by Industry, April 30, 2007 4 of the 5 largest Railroads in the U.S. run Microsoft BizTalk: Fortune 1000 by Industry, April 30, 2007
• 9 of the 10 largest Insurance Companies in the World run Microsoft BizTalk: Insurance Information Institute (from Fortune Global 500 data)
• 23 of 27 EU member governments use Microsoft BizTalk to provide more efficient government services: European Union web site

First ever seen CMS enabled Web 2.0.

I think we are living in the only country in which the main supplying website which will be used for public electronic services basing on Joomla and other free CMS...

A friend of mine sent me a message today saying Microsoft has not attended Gitex 2007. I just found this article on AMEInfo on it. Gitex is not as attractive as it was before...

Today, over 7,000 organizations rely on BizTalk Server to integrate systems, automate processes and communicate across global supply chains. With the introduction of the fifth full version, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities in prior releases to help organizations extend core process management technologies even further with new capabilities like native support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), AS2 and RFID, and close alignment with the upcoming releases of 2007 Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista, including key .NET Framework technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

I have already asked this in some forums; we are looking for a solution in which a website which is mirrored already in two servers (one is operated by ourselves the other is a shared host in another location) would be load balanced. In case the main mirror goes down, the second one fires up. The DNS service is in another location though. Do you think Round-Robin can be the choice? Do you know any better one?

NServiceBus is an open source communications framework that makes building enterprise .NET systems easier. By providing scalability critical features like publish/subscribe support, integrated long-running workflow, and deep extensibility NServiceBus provides a solid foundation for any distributed system.

When a single Web Server machine isn’t enough to handle the traffic on your Web site it’s time to look into building a Web Farm that uses multiple machines on the network acting as a single server. In this article Rick looks at the Windows Load Balancing Service and the new interface it sports in Windows Server 2003, which makes creating a Web Farm quick and easy and – gasp –even an affordable solution.

By Rick Strahl.

Some notes from Office 2.0 Conference via Dan Farber.

Can't remember where I found the script, but if you are a SysAdmin and looking to do a Log Rotation deleting the old ones, this would help you:

Option Explicit

Dim intDaysOld, strObjTopFolderPath, strLogFIleSuffix, ObjFS, ObjTopFolder
Dim ObjDomainFolder, ObjW3SvcFolder, ObjSubFolder, ObjLogFile, ObjFile

intDaysOld   = 1
strObjTopFolderPath = "x:\TopFolder"
strLogFIleSuffix = ".log"
'Assumes folder structure is like the following:
' x:\TopFolder\
'              whatever.com\
'                           w3svcX\
'                                  ex020101.log

Set ObjFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ObjTopFolder = ObjFS.GetFolder(strObjTopFolderPath)

For Each ObjDomainFolder in ObjTopFolder.SubFolders
 For Each ObjW3SvcFolder in ObjDomainFolder.SubFolders
  Set ObjSubFolder = ObjFS.GetFolder(ObjW3SvcFolder)
   For each ObjLogFile in ObjSubFolder.files
    Set ObjFile = ObjFS.GetFile(ObjLogFile)
    If datediff("d",ObjFile.DateLastModified,Date()) > intDaysOld and lcase(right(ObjLogFile,4))=strLogFIleSuffix then
     '*****************************************************
     'DON'T UNCOMMENT THIS UNTIL YOU KNOW IT WORKS PROPERLY!!!
     WScript.Echo("Will delete " & ObjSubFolder.name & "\" & ObjFile.name)
     'ObjFile.Delete
     '*****************************************************
    End If
    Set ObjFile = nothing
   Next
  Set ObjSubFolder = nothing
 Next
Next

Set ObjTopFolder = nothing
Set ObjFS = nothing

At last the System Center VMM is out. (SCVMM)

In addition to the Certified for Windows Server 2008 logo, Microsoft now offers a Works with Windows Server 2008 program. This program establishes baseline application compatibility with the new Windows Server 2008 operating system.

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Today you can build a more powerful machine for less than $2,500 in an 11? x 12? x 17? box. That works out to less than $100 per gigaflop as of January, 2007.