[F.E.A.R 2nd worst game ever]

FEAR was and still is one of the best FPS ever.

The graphics, theme, ambient, gameplay, action all make a wonderful experience.

maybe the story is not that compelling though.

I don't need much more of a story than "Here's your gun, shoot the bad thingies..."

[Media Center on Server 2008]

ive just purchased the enterprise edition and was hoping that media center would be included.

I fail to understand why desktop features would be included in a server operating system. That's just additional cost overhead that 99.99999% of us don't want/need in our server OSes.

Personally, I never saw the reason for people to run Server 2003 as a desktop OS. I could understand some perceived benefit since it has a newer kernel than XP SP2. But Server 2008 and Vista SP1 have the same kernel. Yes, some things are tuned a bit differently, but they're more geared towards making server-based applications work faster. If you want the desktop features, buy the desktop OS.

Just my 2 cents.

I agree... I was checking out a few other forums and so forth and someone was complaining and stating how 2008 "sucks" because their favorite game would not install/run on it.

If you need Desktop OS features, why run a Server OS? Just because it is the latest and greatest?

[Clustering virtual servers?]

Has anyone tried clustering virtual servers using either VMWare or Virtual PC?

I would imagine it was possible.

If so, how did you set up a Quorum resource without using Local Quorum?

MSDTC running ok?

Thanks!

[Change product key = change version?]

As far as I know, you have to re-install. The bits are different so a product key will not work across version. If you have an Ultimate CD and try to use a Home key, it will spit out an invalid key error.

[Porting FAX feature from Ultimate to Home?]

I use this with my modem (no it is not a USR, but it still works)

http://www.usr.com/bvrp/bvrp.asp

Free.

[MS SQL Server 2005]

I have a couple questions on a SQL cluster I am building and was wondering if there were any SQL Clustering guru's out there.

I have a question about Active/Active install.

Thanks!

[To 64 or not to 64, that is the... ummm... ?]

Mr Snrub,

Thanks for the detailed information! I think I will definately do it this weekend.

Any idea's if Sim City 4 has issues with 64bit? That is about the only game my g/f plays other than WoW, so I want to make sure it works for her.

Thanks!

[FTP Server APPS]

I have been ising Filezilla forever and a day now. I love it and best of all, open source so it si free!

Server and Client applications available.

[Disabling Adobe Products Updater PopUps]

Also check your Task Scheduler, I found it there in Vista.

[Your Vista SP 1 experience]

Made the plunge and moved to vista 64 bit, C2D w/ 4 gig of ram. everything flies, they only item i could not get working was my old creative webcam (driver issues and wasn't supported or going to be) got a cheap live cam and it works good. games are fast, response times in all applications are amazing. i have yet to run into an app that i cannot run which suprised me the most. Anyone on the edge, take the plunge it is worth it

I'll be working on mine this weekend!

Would you suggest making sure I have all my drivers ready before install? I have multiple hard drives, so no worries on that end, but other than your web cam, you run into anything else?

Thanks!

[To 64 or not to 64, that is the... ummm... ?]

Thanks for the replies.

I think I am going to take the plunge and try out the 64 bit and see how it is, however, I think I may try the Dual Boot option if it is possible.

Guess I'll see... B)

[ISA Server 2006]

I have been searching for a bit now with little to no success so I thought I would ask the community...

I am in need of setting up ISA Server EE 2006 and was wondering if anyone has a Security Best Practices for Operaions Manager 2007 (formerly SCOM)?

I am trying to use this so I can allow users access to the web console across domains.

Thanks!

[To 64 or not to 64, that is the... ummm... ?]

Ok all, I did some searching and have not found anything specific to this, but I have not take the plunge to 64 bit OS in any fashion for home use and was hoping for some help.

I just built me a new rig (Core 2 Duo Quad Core CPU, 4GB RAM, nForce 8600 GT 512MB x2, SATA DVD Burner, Seagate 500GB SATA HDD x2) running Vista Ultimate 32 bit currently.

Now, I am a gamer (mostly play WoW, Neverwinter Nights 2, FEAR and a few other games) so I was wondering how well games overall work with 64 bit.

I know that most all my productivity applications work well on 64.

Big question, will I really see a diff?

I use 64 OS's on my servers here, but they are work horses (4 dual cores, 16-64GB RAM and Local/SAN storage out the wazoo) and know it's great, but I never looked at it from a home perspective.

What are some of the pitfalls that I might run into trying out a 64 bit OS?

Thanks!

[Windows 2008 Unattend]

I will be working on this tonight when I get home. I have the RTM bits but want to build an unattended bootable DVD.

I'll doc it and share what I find.

~T

Good luck. as i have spent weeks trying to get roles and features to install via an unattend XML and not yet sucedded.

Luckily, I have access to the products team and will be working with them

[Windows 2008 Unattend]

I will be working on this tonight when I get home. I have the RTM bits but want to build an unattended bootable DVD.

I'll doc it and share what I find.

~T

[Hello from the Great Northwest!]

Hey all! Just wanted to say Hi and see what's up. I have actually been a long time guest here and finally created an account. Figured I could participate in some way.

Just a little about me:

I live in the Seattle are and I work for the Redmond giant (yes, I mean Microsoft).

I work in the AdPlatform group (group that does all of MS/MSN online advertising) so I don't have inside information on stuff software developmetn or anything of that nature...

All in all, it's great to see a group like this and I hope I can start participating and help some!

Please understand that I will help as much as I can, but any information that is not publicaly available, I won't disclose.

Thanks all!