Here are PDF versions of the presentations given as part of our event on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, at WaMu Center, The Efficient and Smart Business in New Times:

Taking the Time to Lead, Presented by Julie Benezet, Business Growth Consulting
Sustainability & The Small Business, Presented by Jessie Alan, Sustainable Business Consulting
Working Smart with Technology, Presented by Brad [...]

We’ve been really excited to dive in to Windows Server 2008 and start working with Hyper-V. Last fall, we virtualized all of our servers using Virtual Server 2005 SP2 with decent success, though the performance of the virtual machines hasn’t been overly impressive (the server we had them is also four years old).
So far, we’ve [...]

I was delighted to see that our upcoming event, The Efficient and Smart Business in New Times, was getting a little attention. Check it out:

Seattle PI’s Biz Bite Blog by Whitney Keyes
Green Drinks
Small Business Administration Press Release

Microsoft’s new Hypervisor allow us to convert a dynamically-expanding virtual partition to a fixed-sized partition, and then expand it, but I needed to convert several dynamically-expanding VHDs to static VHDs of a smaller size, so I devised the following process, which worked quite nice.

First, unless you like that funny feeling you get in your stomach [...]