Craig Swartz on Microsoft

Views and News for the Northern California Financial, Legal, and ISV Community

June, 2008

  • Sharepoint Governance and Architecture tell-all

    In many Sharepoint conversations, the subject of Architecture and Governance of Sharepoint is a consistent thread. For detailed guidance in these areas I recommend a book written by some of our foremost experts in this area who have actually done the...
  • High Performance Computing in Financial Services

    The terms Microsoft and High Performance computing are no longer incompatible. Microsoft has been working on a HPC initiative for a while, and now Microsoft HPC on Windows 2008 is hitting the street in the form of clients doing proofs of concept. and...
  • Hyper-V RTM now available for download

    The long discussed Microsoft virtualization on Windows 2008 server is now available for download,Microsoft.com currently runs over 25% on Hyper-V..also: · Microsoft storage partner QLogic today published a benchmark for I/O throughput for storage devices...
  • Infrastructure Planning Guides for System Center Operations Manager, NAP, and Virtualization management available

    Microsoft has made available infrastructure planning guides on technet for the planning of a NAP environment, System Center has started with planning guides for Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager, and Hyper V virtualization on Windows 2008...
  • What to Virtualize...

    Microsoft IT just published a technical white paper on Virtualization as it was done by Microsoft IT, and the Rightsizing initiative to identify the best candidates for virtualization. The white paper is available here: Technical Case Study
  • Silverlight and Video Streaming

    Most discussions of company websites revolve around better presentation and UI, or streaming media. Along these Lines, Remy Pireault has put up a quality post on the new Silverlight Streaming Service, and the Beta 2 release support. This is available...
  • Sharepoint Permissions management

    The topic of management of permissions and rights in Sharepoint comes up as often as the need for more Sharepoint knowledgeable people to work on sites. A third party permissions tool has come to my attention called Deliverpoint. This tool does security...