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Short notice I know, but a number of places have come available on this VDI course which may be of interest to some of you in the UK. 44CO181 - Desktop Optimisation: Implementing a VDI Infrastructure with Microsoft & Citrix Summary: Join us for this 2 Day VDI Instructor led course with supporting...

Firstly, apologies for the short notice on some of these sessions – the email with their details literally landed in my inbox this morning!  Here’s everything you need in terms of information, and don’t forget, if you can’t make the session, register anyway, and you’ll be made aware of when the...

For those of you, like me, who aren’t lucky enough to travel over to New Orleans for TechEd, you’re pretty much restricted to catching up on the gossip via blogs, and news feeds.  Whilst this is fine for some, there’s nothing quite like seeing the technology for yourself.  It’s good news therefore...

Love reading?  Love technology?  Like money? If the answer to those questions is Yes, then these eBook links are for you.  Covering a wide spectrum of technologies, from Office through to Virtualisation, and Windows Phone through to Visual Studio, this array of free eBooks should keep...

You and I both know, typically, training isn’t cheap.  It’s not just the course fees that can be expensive, but it’s the time out of the office that in fact, can be more costly.  It’s a pretty simple relationship – when your sales team are out of the office, they aren’t selling, and if they...

Verdict: Tricky . I’ve just got back from sitting the 70-659 TS exam, on WS 2008 R2, Server Virtualization, and thankfully, I passed! To anyone thinking of sitting the exam, I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s really difficult, but it’s the little aspects of the technology, like the features and functionality...

Admittedly, a little late notice, but it’s only just landed in my inbox! The Client Management Bootcamp is a 4-day technical Instructor Led Training designed to enable System Center, Windows Client, MDOP, and Desktop Deployment SI partners to deliver successful POCs based on top customer scenarios...

If you can make time to view these sessions (or at least register, then watch them another time), I would thoroughly recommend them, especially the System Center licensing overview.  You may not like licensing, but when it comes to System Center, understanding the benefits of licensing the Suite...

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the very first TechNet Virtual Conference taking place on 19 June 2009. You told us that time and budget pressures make attending in person events difficult – so to help both you and the environment we decided to take the TechNet Conference virtual. Now you and...

It’s been a long time coming, (and it’s still not quite here), but the details have finally been confirmed.  The Microsoft Partner Virtualisation Competency assures that you, as a Microsoft Partner, have the skills to build your virtualisation practice based on solutions like Windows Server 2008...

That’s right folks, the time has come to take a short break, which in all honesty, couldn’t have come at a worse time (you’ll know by next week what I’m on about :-)) but hey ho, you’ve got to have some holiday time!  How can you keep busy with Microsoft virtualisation whilst I’m away?  We...

If you are, read on :-) As you know, one of my passions right now is providing video content that showcases Microsoft technologies in an accurate and fair way (no mythbusting :-)) through my Virtualboy TV site.  So far, this has gone down really well with Partners and Customers alike, and is being...

Firstly, apologies – things have been a tad manic recently, and with my holiday booked for this coming Sunday, I need to get as much done as possible before I go, hence a reduction in blog posts!  I’ll try and get a few more cheeky blog posts out this week before I leave, (or use Live Writer’s ...

I know, I know, off topic again McSpirit, but, Jess , from my team, is running a free introductory session on SharePoint, aimed at Microsoft Partners here in the UK. This training day is intended as a broad, high-level introduction to the capabilities and value of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and...

If you’re interested in Windows 7, and you’re in the Berkshire area on the 7th or 8th May, then these could be the sessions for you.  Run by one of our key training Partners, Global Knowledge, along with Andy Malone , one of our MVP’s, these events aim to give you all you need to see the benefits...

Video #9 in the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V series, is this video focussed on the use of Pass Through Disks with Hyper-V.  All the videos so far have used the .vhd file format for the virtual machines, of which there are 2 types; dynamic, and fixed.  A dynamic VHD is something you specify to...

I received a funny email the other day, via my blog, which, on first glance, said one thing to me.  SPAM.  It went on about viral videos and spoof setups, but I clicked the link anyway – it was only linking to a YouTube video, so, what would the harm be? Turns out, the video ain’t half bad...

DPM is one of those technologies that not enough people know about.  Those that do know about it, and understand how it works, along with how it’s licensed, quickly see the benefits of the technology, particularly when customers have infrastructures that include Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and more...

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, or if you’ve seen me present before, you’ll have seen me go on about this ‘Datacenter to the Desktop’ approach to Microsoft Virtualisation , and how we have pretty much all the components you’d need to build a very comprehensive virtualised infrastructure...

Are you in IT?  Thinking about getting into IT?  Where do you start?  How do you develop in the future?  If you’re already in IT, how do you build on your investments so far? These are just some of the questions that are answered at ‘ Thrive ’; a new website from Microsoft, designed...

For the last few weeks, in any spare moment I’ve had, I’ve been working away on a little side project to help enable our Partners and Customers to better understand our Virtualisation technologies.  Today, I’m happy to announce the launch of virtualboy.tv. Found over at http://virtualboytv.blip...

We’ve just launched our new Partner Player to Partners – a video hosting tool, providing another way in which to consume Microsoft-related information, alongside our e-newsletters, blogs and RSS feeds, designed to drive Partner satisfaction and grow Partner businesses. What videos are available to Partners...

Definitely worth a look if you get chance – the IT Pro Evangelist Team in the US are running a series of 20 webcasts discussing a number of the facets of Microsoft Virtualisation.  In their own words: “The objectives of this series are not only to help you develop technical depth on various virtualization...

Are you familiar with the SMSe?  What about the eSML?  Well, to cut a long story short, the eSML (Enterprise Server Management License) is now the SMSe (Server Management Suite Enterprise) and basically, it’s a single license for all 4 of the core System Center technologies: - Virtual Machine...

As a follow up to my post back on the 10th December , where I discussed the beta of the Infrastructure and Planning Design Guide for DPM 2007 SP1, I can now confirm that the final release of that guide has been published, and is available in the usual place .  As a quick recap: “Considering a data...