I have been working on a ZERO touch build script for IIS on and off for a few weeks,
One of the last stepping stone for formating the “data” drive prior to setting everything up
“FORMAT H: /FS:NTFS /V:ASG” will prompt for “do you want to erase all yoiu data”, and again if the disk is [...]

After going the full duration, 3 interviews and an assessment day over 3months
I had “the Call” from Microsoft HR consultants this morning
Unfortunately it is a “NO Hire” that makes it the first job (ever) I have applied for that I have not got ! BUM
Got some good feedback, no surprises for me though
Good points

General Technical [...]

Any one involved in large scale application consolidation or migration may want to consider a few points I have written up here
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This make an intersting read
HOW TO: wordpress on IIS7 with some extras too
http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-Wordpress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx

Over the xmas break i thought i would review my data backup process, i have a few friends with kit at their house linked to mine via long range WiFi !, so File replication between server seemed like a good plan !
Got some big disks attached to each server using??USB 2, and setup replication, Sorted,
NAH, [...]

The Last day ….??My brain is close to melt down, so i only attened a few sessions today, Stuck some labs in the gaps to practice what we had been learning.so
Session 1, Delivering rich media with server 2008, shame the presenter could not deliver a rich presentation.
at least the new media extensions support MP3s and [...]

Just in case anyone thinks a week at TechEd in Barcelona is a jolly, you are sadly mistaken. FIVE days of rapid fire presentations is total DATA overload, which despite the doing apparently nothing is extremely tiring.
So Day 4…..
Session 1. PHP on windows, now don???t laugh. Monday saw the release of fastCGI for windows server [...]

Well it is actually day 5, and nearly time to go home, but i have only just found the time to to write this up
Yet another day of many sessions and information over load
Session 1. Microsoft search server, wow look like that have spent some time on this one, really cool fedarated queries etc , [...]

Very Busy day,??6 Session, some good some bad
session 1, IIS7 to IT Pro’s by Issac Roybal
Tonnes of really good new features, many of which directly address problem i have experianced over the past FOUR years, I wonder when i can get it on the ground
Session 2, went to a?? great hand on, self paced LAB [...]

just left the Keynote speech at MS TechEd in Barcelona
some really great stuff on the horizon, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, system center etc,
However the most impressive thing for my, as a geek, was Home server, and dedcated windows based server for the home, automated back up household PCs, support from windows media devices such as [...]