This week, I had the chance to join my friends of Microsoft Poland for a 2 days event around the IDA space. Snow was there ! The first day, more than 40 customers joined us for a conference at the Warsaw Technology Center. It's been for them a great opportunity...

Do you want to discover IAG ? Come and join me for a free 2 days training. This will take place in December, at Microsoft France MTC, rue de l'université close to the Eiffel Tower. Here is the agenda : * Day 1 morning, IAG presentation : what is...

It is with a lot of pleasure that next week, I will have the opportunity to go in Poland for an IDA event. On Day 1, customers and partners will have the opportunity to get a presentation about the IDA products, including RMS, ILM and ILM V2, IAG. On...

I had a very nice evening today. One of my best friend came at home, and we organized a audio/video conference with our other best friend, Alex, who left France a few months ago to Peru. The 3 friends had a 1 hour of fun time talking about anything. What...

In the list of new features arriving with IAG SP2, we have now the possibility to install an IAG "Virtual Machine" (same image as the one you have in a physical appliance, but available online as a VM) on top of windows 2008 HyperV. I am currently...

Hi, "you turned blue" is what a friend of mine said when I announced a few months ago that I was moving to a position at Microsoft EMEA. I am very happy and very excited by this new role at Microsoft EMEA, working for the incubation team and specialized...

The main purpose of hyperV is not to "play" with VMs. Virtual PC is designed for that whereas HyperV is supposed to provide a strong solution for virtualization. "But", my day to day work force me to also use hyperV, and frankly :...

Before even working on VMs, we need to configure the network properly. The big challenge here is to understand the interaction between the physical machine and the HyperV environment. For my LAB, I have 1 Laptop with 2 NICs : an Ethernet one, and a Wifi...

As a step 1 in my lab, I had to install windows 2008 on my physical machine and also activate the HyperV role. First of all, I wanted to have a very stable machine so started Windowsupdate. After a few updates, my OS was not that good : As a matter of...

Lucky me, I have the chance to use 2 machines for my work. The big one (heavy, powerful) is a lenovo T61P laptop running windows 2008/HyperV. So far my 4 Go or RAM were sufficient to play with the different products. The biggest problem I am facing on...

Microsoft IAG is today (prior SP2) only available as a Hardware machine (Appliance). In the list of new features introduced by IAG Service Pack 2 we have the support of Windows2008 HyperV. November 2008, a customer will have the choice between a hardware...