Automating windows7 and windows 2008 R2 deployment
During this event we will focus on the different ways you can automatically and easily deploy windows7 and windows 2008 R2 in your environments.
Speaker: Manu Verzelen
| It-Short talk | Date and time: Thursday 16 Juli 2009 start at 19u00 – 21u30 Location: Not available yet Entry: Free Focus: During this event we will focus on the theory on automating deployment of windows7 and windows 2008 R2 in your network. |
| Full day talk | Date and time: Saturday 25 Juli start at 10u00 – 17u30 Location: Spes Nostra - Koning Albertstraat 50 - 8520 Kuurne Entry: 15€ for drinks and lunch Focus: During this event we will focus on hands on practice lab around automating deployment of windows7 and windows 2008 R2 in your network. |
you can register for these event by sending an email to tom@decaluwe.eu, include what events you will attend, seats are limited so register ASAP!
(*) Please note that both events are complementary, meaning you can follow one or both events individually and learn great new things each time.
We all know that threats change and criminals evolved (and will still evolve) new ways of stealing money and valuable data. Therefore trust in the Internet continues to come under attack. It is kind of the classic tale of good versus evil – just this time the future of the Internet and business infrastructure are at stake. From my point of view, the industry is faced with a challenge- - either secure the Internet and gain user’s trust, or lose control to the bad guys and see the value of one of man’s greatest inventions dwindle.
This presentation which will give you insight into next generation security and Trustworthy Computing’s vision for creating an Internet and Infrastructure Platform we can trust – from end to end!
<![CDATA[<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=98967da4-50cd-42cd-8f3c-db0f1cac8ed8" target="_new" title="End-to-End Trust: The Internet - a safer place to work, play, learn, do business">Video: End-to-End Trust: The Internet - a safer place to work, play, learn, do business</a>]]>
Source: http://blogs.technet.com/rhalbheer/archive/2009/06/25/end-to-end-trust-the-internet-a-safer-place-to-work-play-learn-and-do-business.aspx
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides—Release Announcement
SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide: SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services.
Considering an online solution for your organization’s collaboration services? The SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services guide presents a clear comparison of SharePoint collaboration technologies across on-premises, standard hosting, and dedicated hosting scenarios. It is designed to be used as a framework for evaluating the business and technical feasibility of moving to Microsoft SharePoint Online. It identifies key SharePoint workloads, and provides a customized assessment to help the organization determine which offering best meets the organization’s requirements.
Download the guide by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/ipd and selecting “SharePoint Online–Evaluating Software-plus-Services” under the IPD One-click Downloads, listed on the bottom right of the page.
The product team just announced that SCVMM 2008 R2 is publicly released.
Have a look at my previous post to know what changes in SCVMM 2008 R2
You can download SCVMM 2008 R2 from connect.microsoft.com
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| | Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Windows 7 Application Compatibility: Your Questions Answered (Part 1)
Date: Thursday, June 18 Time: 11:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard Windows 7, is approaching fast and from the application standpoint is very similar to Windows Vista. We’re going to examine Windows 7 application compatibility not only from the perspective of moving from Windows Vista, but also for those coming from Windows XP. Join us to discuss the most common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why changes were made along the way, compatibility technologies inside the OS and methods for getting incompatible applications to run on Windows 7. Along the way we share tips and tricks, demonstrate free tools to analyze and fix applications and answer your specific questions about application compatibility live. As part of the “virtual” experience, you may submit your questions about Windows 7 Application Compatibility to the panel live during the event—or submit questions in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com. Springboard Series: The resource for Windows desktop IT professionals | | | | | | |
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In this session you will learn about how Quest vWorkspace adds value to Microsoft Remote Desktops Services (Terminal Services) as well as Microsoft VDI environments. Quest vWorkspace is the next generation solution by the Quest Desktop Virtualization Group for provisioning, deploying, and managing enterprise desktop infrastructures. By supporting and integrating with several key Microsoft virtualization technologies like SCVMM, Hyper-V, App-V and Terminal Server Quest vWorkspace and embraces and extends Microsoft to add value for existing Microsoft customers. In addition, Quest vWorkspace uses the native Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to add significant user experience enhancements, creating an Experience Optimized Protocol (EOP) that empowers graphics and multimedia acceleration, bi-directional audio, local text echo, universal print driver, and USB device support.
Register Here
The Belgian Microsoft Virtualization User Group organizes their second get together on May 28th and will talk about following topics:
Hyper-V scripting (Part2) - PowerShell
So, you want to Script Hyper-V ? After the April session where we discussed WMI and Hyper-v,
you can come to this session and you will discover how to use the James O’Neill's created library: PSHyperv.
What's new Hyper-V R2 and SCVMM 2008 R2
What are the new features of Hyper-V R2 and VMM 2008 R2 ? Come to this session and we will explain them for you.
Some of the features we will cover will be:
- Live Migration
- Hot addition/removal of Storage
- New optimized networking technologies
- Enhanced storage and cluster support
- SAN migration into and out of clustered hosts
- Expanded Support for iSCSI SANs
XP Mode and VPC 7 Demo
There will be a short demo of all the new features of Virtual PC 7 and XP Mode.
Timing:
17:30 – 18:00 Arrivals
21:30 End of meeting
Location:
BDC SNACK - 1st Floor - Buro & Design Center
Heysel Esplanade B62
1020 Brussels
Belgium
Please register by sending an email to:anders@mvug.be
While SCVMM 2008 R2 is still in Beta the team is quietly working on improvements for the Release Candidate. There are some great new features coming up:
- Storage Migration where you will be able to migrate the storage of a VM within the same host or towards a new host. There will be some downtime but typical it will be less than 2 mins. Further will you be able to do storage Vmotion on VMWare hosts.
- Live Migration queuing allows you to do multiple live migration from one server. VMM will detect that the live migration fails and will try the live migration again for a period of time
- Rapid Provisioning is a feature that allow you to create a new VM based on a template without the need to copy over the vhd file with the bits transfer. Now you will be able to point to a dummy disk and change the path of the vhd file by using the PowerShell cmdlets to deploy the new VM.
- Host compat check, before migrating the VM to another box we will check the compatibility of the Hardware if it’s not compatible we don’t move.
We also added some other features for that I encourage you to read the full post:
http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.aspx
TechNet Springboard - Beheer van mobiele pc's
In deze sessie komen een aantal problemen in verband met het beheer van mobiele pc’s aan bod en worden de thema’s open en eerlijk besproken. Neem deel en bekijk onze demonstraties over het configureren van BitLocker Drive Encryption, het configureren van Group Policy om draadloze netwerkverbindingen te beheren en het doorsturen van mappen en offline-bestanden mogelijk te maken. We rollen ook software-updates uit met behulp van Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) en configureren Network Access Protection (NAP) om geïnfecteerde mobiele pc’s in quarantaine te plaatsen.
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1103
TechNet Springboard - Gérer les PC mobiles
Cette session étudie une série de problèmes liés à la gestion des PC mobiles et développe ce thème de manière ouverte, franche et honnête. Suivez nos démonstrations sur la configuration de BitLocker Drive Encryption, la configuration d’une Group Policy pour gérer des connexions réseau sans fil et mettre en place des fonctions de réorientation de dossiers et d’utilisation de fichiers en mode déconnecté. Nous étudierons également le déploiement des mises à jour de logiciels à l’aide des Server Update Services (WSUS) et la configuration de Network Access Protection (NAP) pour mettre en quarantaine des PC mobiles potentiellement dangereux.
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1107
Links to all separate demos:
Windows Vista Bitlocker:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1094 (Dutch)
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1109 (French)
Network Access Protection:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1105 (Dutch)
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1117 (French)
Windows Vista Wireless Networking:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1101 (Dutch)
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1115 (French)
Folder Redirection:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1097 (Dutch)
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1111 (French)
Windows Server Update Services:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1099 (Dutch)
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1113 (French)
Technology preview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager which is capable of managing Virtual Machines hosted in the cloud.
Eleven Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing event. A unique opportunity to learn about Microsofts latest developments and technologies like Exchange 2010, Silverlight 3, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008R2, Powershell V2, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, XNA 3.1. and OCS R2.
The Community Day 2009 will take place on Thursday 25th June 2009 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will bring together 300 IT Pros and developers.
The Community Day 2009 is supported by BESUG, BIWUG, IT-Talks, MVUG, Pro-Exchange, SCUG, SQLUG, VBIB, Visug, WinSec, XNA-BUG.
Register now for free for this all day event on their website!
In this screencast Ilse van Crieking (MVP Exchange) will guide you trhough some of the new features of the next generation Exchange 2010 server. Note that this screencast is based upon the first beta and some of the features shown might be subject to change.
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1086
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides customers with the latest updates to the 2007 Office suite (the products that are affected by this update are listed below). This download includes two types of fixes:
- Previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack.
- In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in stability, performance, and security.
- You can find out more information in Knowledge Base Article 953195, where product-specific changes are described.
- All of the Public Updates, Security Updates, Cumulative Updates, and Hotfixes released through February 2009.
Before installing this service pack, you are strongly encouraged to read
953195, which describes some big improvements introduced by SP2, and also calls out some important information that you should be aware of before installing.
