January 2008 - Posts
As promised I'm writing another post about what feedback I receive from our IT Pro's in the IT Pro Momentum Program . Hyper-V: Installing W2K8 and Hyper-V was very easy. We’re heavily using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Virtual Machine Manager,
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What’s new in System Center Configuration Manager 2007? This session will start with an introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (aka SCCM 2007), formerly named Systems Management Server or SMS for short. The introduction should
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{ Windows Server 2008 Roadshow } The TechNet Windows Server 2008 roadshow is well underway and is extremely well received. With over 500 attendees we had to close the registrations. We'll post the sessions on TechNet Chopsticks soon. Judging by how fast
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Hyper-V WMI APIs . Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual resources. The Hyper-V WMI APIs are publicly available here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136992(VS.85).aspx Important:
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I’d like to install the Hyper-V MMC on Windows Server 2008 to remotely manage another Hyper-V System. How do I do this? Can I do this on Windows Server 2008 x64 and x86 Editions? Yes you can. Here are the steps: 1. Launch Server Manage from the Start
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I'm currently preparing my demo machine that I will use during the roadshow next week. I wanted to have all my demo's running on Hyper-V Beta so I decided to start from scratch and create a complete new environment. I've installed the Hyper-V Beta and
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From now on I will post on a regular base the messages I receive from IT Professionals who are part of the IT Pro Momentum program, it's always interesting to hear what other people say about our Technology, the first post will be about a Belgian Consultant
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Help your customers securely deploy Windows Server 2008 with the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide! Every day, adversaries are attempting to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses,
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Internally I have seen quite a few spoof videos internally and this time they decided to show it publicly at the CES 2008 conference. During the conference they played the "Bill Gates last day @ Microsoft" which I posted hereunder, quite amusing
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The Extranet Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint provides authoritative guidance and tools to deploy a pre-built, customizable SharePoint solution that teams can use to collaborate with partners outside the firewall. The toolkit has a web-based
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TechNet Briefing Luxemburg: Microsoft Application Virtualization (a.k.a Microsoft Softgrid) This session will explore the Microsoft Application Virtualization solution. It will explain you how you can easily change the way you do software delivery and
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In this session the SQLUG will provide an overview of the next release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, codenamed "Katmai". The session will cover the core value-proposition, major themes and scenarios, and the specific engine improvements, including
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On Thursday 24 January 2008 ProExchange will host their next Pro-Exchange Event on a topic Microsoft has been busy promoting the last few months: Unified Communications and more importantly we will reveal how to link your telephony system to your Exchange
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