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In Place Upgrade Of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

If you have a need to upgrade a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to either the Enterprise, or Datacenter edition, it’s possible to do so online, without re-installing Windows. This not only a simple process, it saves you time. Open an elevated command prompt and type DISM /Online /Get-CurrentEdition. This returns the current Windows […]

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Minecraft – Hour of Code

Whether it’s a new technology, or way to do things; Learning is something I love to do.  So much so I share my passion for wanting to know new things with my children, their friends and all I know. In many ways I feel its my life long mission to learn and share with others in […]

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Tech Short Q&A: What is a Hypervisor?

It’s interesting that this classification isn’t new. In fact it was classified by Gerald J. Popek back in 1974 in the article “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures” So to answer the question: A hypervisor is a hardware virtualization technique which allows multiple guest operating systems to run on a single host system hardware […]