Grant A. Moyle is the founder of Confuzer Inc, an Illinois-based Windows, Exchange, and Networking consulting firm specializing in Implementation and Troubleshooting Active Directory and Exchange. He has been a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) since the days of NT4 and a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) since 2003. He has a Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering background from Johns Hopkins University, and over 10 years experience Teaching, Supporting and Troubleshooting with Microsoft Windows and Exchange. Grant has served both as author and technical editor for several best-selling training courses on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange.

Here’s a dump of last week’s links and then it’s back to recording my new 2008 Integration Services video tutorials! I had a ton of links this week and, since this past week featured the public launch of Windows 7, many of my links are related: Database Related Stop Calling...

Small group of links today… Database Related Performance consideration when using a Table Variable RML Utilities for SQL Server Another row concatenation example We Loaded 1TB in 30 Minutes with SSIS, and So Can You Programming Related Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates Sysadmin Related Windows 7 Resource Kit PowerShell...

I received an email from LearnItFirst user, Armand, today asking about Windows Server training on using VPNs and Windows Server: If you have a training video(s) on how to access a NAT'ed Windows server via a VPN solution (via Cisco or any 3rd party tunneling tool), that'll be greatly appreciated....

Today I received an email from one of the LearnItFirst.com users, Donny, who had recently viewed my Windows Server 2008 training videos and had a follow-up question. After watching the Windows 2008 video course, I have learned that Grant suggests 2 hard drives for a basic server, 1 for the...

Over at LearnItFirst, where we are currently developing find some great Windows 7 training courses, we’re all excited about the upcoming release of Windows 7. One common question people have is, “Can my existing PC hardware run Windows 7?” Thankfully we don’t have to guess – Microsoft has provided the...

Windows 7 requires a “modern day” PC but thankfully it doesn’t require a very expensive one. I’ll break this down into “Absolute Minimum Requirements to Run Windows 7”, “Suggested Minimums to Run Windows 7”, and “Minimum Requirements Needed to Run Windows XP Mode”: Absolute Minimum Requirements to Run Windows 7...

Microsoft announced that Windows 7 was “RTM” (Released To Manufacturing) yesterday but the big question is, “When can I download Windows 7?” The answer, as it so often is with anything related to Microsoft, is, “It depends!” First, you need to put yourself in a category – which of these...

Last week, Microsoft released “Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 3” – a long title but, in effect, it’s simply the latest release of ForeFront. ForeFront has been one of the more confusing bits from Microsoft in recent years – you can download ForeFront for SharePoint, for Exchange,...

Because computers software tends to have a shorter shelf life than milk, it is essential that there is a method of training that makes it easy to stay current with software updates as soon as they are released. Keeping up with current technology takes a lot of research and active...

Scott Whigham and the guys over at LearnItFirst just finished uploading my new Windows Server 2008 training course! It’s over at http://www.learnwindows2008.com/ and you can watch free Windows 2008 videos over there as well. Here’s a few links to what I think are some good videos: How to Join a...