PDC Bloggers Chris Kinsman

Read and Recommended: Becoming a Good Program Manager

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:20:42 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "...the only book that's been written that pretty much covers exactly what a program manager has to do, so start with that. Scott was a program manager on the Internet Explorer team..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Suggested Reading

Very Interesting Spin on VDI Bears Some Watching

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:31:06 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "...Virtualizing servers to ease management and migration is commonplace for server infrastructure...A newly-announced venture...could be the first step towards bringing those same benefits to the desktop..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Interesting Take On Private Cloud Concept - Not Sure If I Agree

Chris Kinsman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:28:47 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "...Not sure if I agree that the main thing differentiating a “Cloud” is it’s scale...Just don't call them private clouds Computing will take place both within and without enterprise data centers, but it's not all cloud computing..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Exchange 2007 - Outlook 2007 - RPC Over Http Issues

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:08:04 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "At first I thought it was an issue with how I had published it in ISA Server but eventually gave up on that as I was essentially server publishing port 443 direct to the Exchange server...The directory request was traveling from Outlook, to the Exchange Servers RPC over HTTP connector and then having to leave the box to hit the AD box..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Unified Communications
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Unified Communications

Exchange 2007 - Outlook 2007 - RPC Over Http Issues

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:50:30 GMT

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Exchange

Windows Home Server a Backup Dream

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:50:25 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "Everything in my house is backed up to Windows Home Server. This thing is brilliant. The backup is better than what is offering with Microsoft Data Protection Manager for corporations! It will automatically back up every connected PC in your house to your home server. The backups are de-duplicated so you can backup a large number of machines..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Azure Table Services vs SQL Services

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:14:22 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "Azure Storage Essential storage services in the cloud. Provides a core set of non-relational storage and processing abstractions at massive scale...Sql Services Rich database services in the cloud. Extends the power of sql server in a scalable way to the cloud..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Tracks : Database Platform
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Tracks : Database Platform

Azure Table Services vs SQL Services

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:33:48 GMT

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : SQL Server

Two Issues With Azure

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:22:11 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "I don’t get it...There are two issues as I see it...Small to medium sized business who will be attracted to the pay as you go model...However large business is not going to be willing to place their revenue stream into the hands of a single source vendor. Once I write my software..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Editors Picks
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Call for papers VSLive Las Vegas in October

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:56:26 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "...special appeal to those of you who haven't submitted, and even those who have, to submit additional sessions now. The most important thing is to pick topics that you're excited about and will enjoy presenting on..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Virtual Earth
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Application Tier DNS Name

Chris Kinsman — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:26:36 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "Recently setup a new TFS2008 installation out in my colocation and had issues with the report and document nodes in my TFS projects not coming alive. I had put the correct routes into my ISA Server but those other links weren’t working. I had forgotten to update the wss and report servers names in the registration data on the application tier. To get the registration data do a"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Visual Studio Team Systems

WideOpen Web: ASP.NET MVC Wildcard Routes

Chris Kinsman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:49:39 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "I have been having a great time playing with the new MVC Preview 2 bits released on....asp.net. I am working on a project however where I needed a url like: /home/view/2008/spring/easter/morning and I wanted to put in a route like: {controller}/{action}/{id} and.... This directs everything after the action to the id. Works great!"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

And the winner is.....

Chris Kinsman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:44:10 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "The speakers took every bit of feedback from the initial heats and incorporated it into their final presentations. It was very, very hard to pick a winner.....We all had different ideas of who was the best so we had to come up with a unique yet top-secret scheme to choose the winner. "

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Speaker Idol earns a TechEd 2008 slot

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:41:08 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "Speaker Idol is an interesting content here at TechEd 2007 put on by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from DotNetRocks.... "

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InDepthTalk.net : Events
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Keynote Kick Off

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:17:19 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "Very fun. Great piece of self-deprecating humor around Hailstorm and how misguided that effort was....The DSI demo was fairly cool. It got me interested based on the value proposition however it didn’t really help me understand what I need as a developer to play in that space. "

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2007 : Extras : Technical Sessions
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2008 : Extras : TechEd Learning
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd : Extras : TechEd Learning

Mix07 the unconference

Chris Kinsman — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:29:14 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "I really enjoyed the “unconference” vibe of Mix. Very different from TechEd and the PDC. Very focused on the future of the web. Check it out."

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InDepthTalk.net : Events

Disappearing Disk Space in Vista

Chris Kinsman — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:18:27 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes " .... SpaceMonger which I frequently use to find big files was reporting only 5GB free and I didn’t see any large chunks of disk space in use. I got suspicious and added up the blocks of in use disk space and realized they only added up to 60GB....I have no idea how to set the maximum space System Restore and Shadow Copies can use on my system. Anyone have any ideas? "

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Vista

IBM Thinkpad has finally jumped the Shark

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:02:07 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "Whoa! A laptop that I bought 10 months ago with a 3 year warranty is now no longer supported because Microsoft released an operating system upgrade. One in fact that IBM/Lenovo will be shipping pre-installed on almost identical hardware very soon."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Vista
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Offline Files with Vista

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:56:34 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "...Come to find out offline files are stored in %SYSTEMROOT%\CSC. However even as the administrator you don’t have access to that folder. Even with UAC turned off! To see what is in it you have to take ownership of that folder and all subfolders. To clear it you need to disable offline files and then delete those folders. Finally got my 25GB back. Now looking for a different way to sync parts of my music library to my laptop."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Vista

Vista Experiences - adding the application stack I run my life with!

Chris Kinsman — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:33:52 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes "....I was pleasantly surprised. I installed the base OS and right off the bat without loading any drivers my laptop was 95% functional. I am used to loading 8–9 IBM drivers just to get the Wireless, Volume Buttons, Video, Brightness, Touchpad, etc. all working. With Vista all of that worked with no drivers! The only hardward not 100% functional at this point is the fingerprint reader which I don’t use and the Hard Drive active shock protection. Next it was off to the application stack that I run my life with. Not a short list...."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : Windows Vista