Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta 2010

Hey Denver area folks: Tomorrow, February 27, 2010, is this year’s Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta event in downtown Denver.

The Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta is a free, information-packed day of practical training and information concentrated in .NET, SQL Server, SharePoint and Microsoft Windows technologies. There will be  loads of sessions on a wide range of interesting

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Easily Install Multiple Applications

Setting up a new machine? Or, and this is probably more likely for many of my readers, did you just finish reloading a friend or relative’s Windows machine and now you need to get some applications on it? In the Windows world this isn’t quite as easy as it is in the Linux world, but

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Author Author! Customize the MMC

Here’s a nifty little tip for the Windows server admins that I picked up this week.

I find the services app annoying. By default it always opens in “Extended” view which (imho) just wastes space right in the middle of the app. First thing I do after starting it is click “Standard” to get to the

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Quick Process Monitor Tip

Back in the olden days I used to use the Sysinternals tools Filemon and Regmon when diagnosing system issues. Those were replaced years ago by another Sysinternals tool: Process Monitor.

Process Monitor does it all. You can watch file, registry, processes – you name it. It shows what succeeds, what fails and every possible result in

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A Quick Look at Nocs

Nocs is an interesting take on the concept of having access to your notes from anywhere. Instead of having to build out another infrastructure, the Nocs author leverages your existing Google Docs account for storage and integration. Just use the windows client to work with existing docs or create new ones.

Aside from the “in

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