Clemens Vasters

Football. Cloud. Tech. Liberal Politics. Pictures. Principal Architect for Messaging/Eventing at Microsoft.

Recent posts

The EMEA “Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview” Tour dates start rolling in

I am very much looking forward to the “EMEA Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview Tour” that’s going to happen in a very dense 3 week stretch in late January / early February 2004. I feel honored to have been invited again to present the highlights of the PDC on a speaking tour throughout Europe (as in 2002) with David Chappell and an excellent group of Microsoft EMEA technical evangelists (Lester Madden, Nigel Watling,...

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The joy of running pre-alpha software. Longhorn VPC as a domain member.

I am using shared networking in my Longhorn VPC and I could browse the web and connect to the network. So to make working on the network a bit easier (and to try some more features) I thought it may make sense to add the Longhorn Virtual PC on my box to our domain. Setting this up worked.

Now, if I boot up Longhorn and my box is connected to the network, I get to see "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to begin." and right...

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