If you’re a developer who frequently creates DotNetNuke Module Projects, than you likely realize DNN is far easier to work with when you run Visual Studio as an Administrator. Why? Because DNN, and the method of module development that I preach, requires your environment to use IIS locally, not with dynamically assigned ports and such that IIS Express will use.

So in yesterday’s blog post I talked about how I reinstalled Windows Home Server, the original version. Well tonight I ditched that and installed Windows Home Server 2011 RC (release candidate).

Why? Well, I talked to my buddy Rob Chartier and he told me to forget about Windows Home Server (original) because of all the improvements to 2011 (built in Windows Server 2008 R2 instead of Windows Server 2003).

I also figured out that the machine I installed on yesterday is a 64bit machine, so I could install 2011 without trouble. I downloaded the release candidate today and gave it a try. The install went great, much faster than yesterday, mainly because there were far fewer Windows Updates necessary.

I got the software configured and then spent some time getting the hard drives into the new external RAID tower that I picked up over the weekend. I then, with the help of my good buddy Subodh I got the RAID configured in a 1+0 format and started the process of creating the array. We’ll see how it works out 14 hours from now when it is scheduled to be done!

Over the years I’ve collected a lot of data, music, photos and documents mainly. Thousands and thousands of photos, thousand of music files, and not so many documents, but still important nonetheless. For the longest time I just kept them all stored on an external hard disk. This worked alright, until the disk starting having overheating issues, and my wife wanted to be able to access the photos and music from her computer.

The more I look into this phone the more I really need to get one of these. My Blackjack just isn't cutting it, and all the IPhones around the office (I mean hello, we're a Windows shop) is really starting to get annoying! Here are some of the specs from the HTC website

I've gone through the process of flashing my Samsung Blackjack with the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade. If you're looking for the WM6 upgrade for the Blackjack you can get it from Samsung here. (www.samsung.com/us/i607/windowsupgrade) According to the Samsung website here are the new features/fixes that WM6 provides. Please see the condensed list below for details of some changes found in this HA1 update for the SGH-i607 (BlackJack).

Thank you to the Microsoft team for making Vista available for download to the MSDN subscribers! Pulling it down now! Now, let's work on the Zune software to work with Vista ;) Posted from...