New SCOM Book

March 28, 2008 at 12:04 pm (SCOM) (, , , , )

I got a new SCOM book in the mail yesterday, System Center Operations Manager Unleashed. It’s friggin’ huge. I’ve just started reading through it and it looks pretty good. So far, it’s much more thorough than the only other book available for SCOM, Mastering System Center Operations Manager 2007. I’m going to ready through more of it before I post a review to Amazon. I think I’ll write up a review for the PASS book reviews too. Hey, if you have time on your hands, get on over there, request a book and write up your own review.

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SQL Server 2008 Free Instance

March 28, 2008 at 11:42 am (SQL Server 2008) (, , , )

If you don’t want to risk blowing up your laptop (like I did) and you’re not interested in setting up and maintaining a virtual server, but you still want to test SQL Server 2008. Then, PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server Users), Dell & MaximumASP have a solution. Just go to SQL Server Beta. You can set up a private instance and it will persist between sessions.

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