Hardware Virtualization on my Lenovo T60
Been using Lenovo T60 under the impression that it does not support Hardware virtualization for about 1 year! This is not until Serena Yeoh told about running Hyper-V on her T61 only I realize by default the Thinkpads have this feature turned off by default. You need to go into bios and set it in CPU configuration section. (pic below)
As stated on the screen, you need to power off the system and turn it on again to have this feature visible in Virtual PC (shown below)
Next? Maybe thinking of installing Windows Server 2008 64bit with Hyper-V on my T60 as well. 
Enable Ping Replies on Windows Server 2008
Due to security concern, by default you are not able to Ping a Windows Server 2008 machine. At first I though there is a problem with my network but actually it’s disabled. To enabled Ping reply from Windows Server 2008, goto Window Firewall with Advance Settings from Administrator Tools menu.
Look inside Inbound Rules, scroll down to File and Printer Sharing, right click and enable this rule. (pic below)
After that the check icon will turn green
For Windows Server Core which does not have any UI, you can enable this rule from the command prompt.
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
To disable it type
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
Windows XP Service Pack 3
Was testing the beta some time ago. Today its released to public via website and Windows Update.
I didn’t feel any performance improvement as speculated by some, but its worthwhile to note that SP3 has need security features (which helps verify you are indeed connected to the intended computer) for you to remote connect to Windows Server 2008 and also Vista.
For developers WinXP SP3 comes with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0 which you can create .NET based plugin to.
Download it directly.
PC Magazine’s review
More info from Microsoft
First Impression: SharePoint Products & Technologies Protocols Documentation
I just started reading the SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation today, quite interesting and profound to found out the level of details released under this document. All the specification of protocols (sometimes I would like to call it APIs) used by SharePoint from system behaviors, WSDL, XML Schemas, managed (and/or unmanaged) APIs as well as Stored Procedures used by SharePoint. Technologies from CAML, SharePoint list, view, search, workflow, administration all the way to the user interface is pretty well covered in this set of documents.
For Microsoft partners it opens up a whole new opportunities for them to build applications on top of SharePoint. (Almost) gone are the time when we try to figure out why SharePoint behave a certain way and there are no official documents to look at. Most of the time we resort to word by word advices from fellows developers in the forum. Imagine now it is possible for developers to write application (esp. those with different client platform) to works seamlessly with Microsoft SharePoint platform.
Besides SharePoint technologies, Microsoft also release Protocol documentations for Windows(incl. .NET Framework), Office and Exchange and also XAML (the markup language for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight); all of these fall under the so called High Volume Products from Microsoft.
Develop OBA on Windows Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008
From 25th to 27th March 2008, I will be conducted a class for Certified Partners in Malaysia on creating Office Business Applications with the latest Visual Studio 2008 (VSTO 3.0) on top of Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 will be something new to me so I will create a series of blogs on how to setup an SharePoint 2007 + Office 2007 development environment on WS08 later. So stay tuned.
To find out more about the launch of latest Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio check it out here.
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
My reading list- How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation
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- An easy way to use certificates for WCF security - CodeProject®
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- Controlling Registry ACL Permissions with Powershell
- Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
- Running SharePoint 2010 on a domain controller
- Using Local Machine Accounts for Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010
- How Trello is different - Joel on Software