One of our Hyper-V MVPs, Brian Ehlert, has done a great blog post about using PowerShell to inspect Hyper-V Event logs.  You can read all about this here:

http://itproctology.blogspot.com/2012/02/skimming-hyper-v-service-event-log-with.html

This is something that I have been meaning to post about for a while now, but as Brian has beaten me to it – I thought I would just link

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As is often the case – I have spent most of my Friday afternoon working on my test lab in my office.  This week I have a new toy to play with:

That is a pair of 10G network adapters with the appropriate cable to connect them.  This is actually the first time I have

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With Windows 8, you have an unprecedented choice of devices for browsing the Web, from large desktop screens to small slates. In order to accommodate this range of devices, the browser must be able to scale and layout the Web at many different screen sizes and dimensions. We’ve previously blogged about some

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To help celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re pleased to offer another new HTML5 experience that makes the most of your PC hardware and touch on Windows 8. Check out Love is in the Air and feel the warm embrace of hardware accelerated HTML5.

This experience brings together hardware-accelerated HTML5 canvas, SVG, CSS transforms & transitions, WOFF, audio, and

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The February 2012 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves 5 privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of

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Thank you to those who have already submitted a session proposal or two! We’ve received a lot of good ideas, and luckily there are a few days left for anyone still thinking about submitting a session for the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dive.

Please send your proposed session title and brief abstract to TEC2012@quest.com before February 15th.

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The fourth platform of IE10 simplifies building cross-site scenarios that work consistently across browsers by supporting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for XMLHttpRequest (XHR). CORS for XHR makes sharing data across sites simple and flexible. In the most basic scenario CORS enables creating data sources accessible from any site, and with a

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Metro style apps in Windows 8 have all the performance benefits of IE10 when showing Web content. In Metro style apps, Web content is always JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated. Other platforms do not provide the same level of performance in apps. For example, Cocoa apps on iOS offer significantly worse JavaScript performance (via the UIWebView control) than the same content

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I need to automate the process of exporting a virtual machine recently – and when I checked around I found that while there are a number of sample scripts out there that show you how to do this (some even on this blog) they are all written in VBScript.  As I am now to the stage where PowerShell is my

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CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with CSS3 Transitions and Animations. CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (literally) for developers to

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