It's here, the Lync client for Windows Phone 7! http://lync.microsoft.com/en-us/Product/UserInterfaces/Pages/lync-2010-mobile.aspx IMPORTANT: Microsoft Lync 2010 for Windows Phone requires a Lync Server or Office365/Lync Online account and will...

http://www.vm-limited.com/ Choose Microsoft clouds - it's built for the future and ready now! With our solutions, we can manage heterogeneous environments (multi hypervisor, multi SAN, mutl network, multi server etc) along with provide deep insight...

Want to know who's using Microsoft core infrastructure solutions in the UK around virtualisation, management and security for SMB and Enterprise? Microsoft have published a little black book with references for: - Server Virtualization (Hyper-V...

Some details of Microsoft Private Cloud training Title: 44WK166 - Delivering and Managing a Microsoft Private Cloud Solution This 300-level, 3-day, instructor-led course is intended for Enterprise Systems Engineers, Administrators and System Integrators...

July 7 th 2011, Chicago 2, Building 3, Microsoft Thames Valley Park, Reading Microsoft uses its own technologies to manage a diverse infrastructure. This is an opportunity for those who manage and support IT infrastructures within Microsoft’s...

One of the first looks at the new "Windows 8" interface.  Looks great for touch devices and phones. The keyboard for phones looks great as well.

A great document detailing best practices for virtualising Exchange 2010 here Also, if in case you missed it there was a blog announcement by Kevin Allison about the enhanced Hardware Virtualisation support for E2010 SP1 or later. For example, UM role...

Some great online content for readiness around Microsoft Virtualisation and Management solutions Virtualization New! Virtualization Jump Start - “Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals” Twelve modules...

Come and find out about the Office 365 opportunity. This sales training has been designed to help partners understand the fundamentals of Office 365, from the basics of what’s included in Office 365 through to how partners can make money over and...

A great video explaining how the Microsoft and Quest solution delivers desktop virtualisation solutions in a blended way.

Yes, that's right - you can trade in your VMware view licences for Quest vWorkspace licences. On the Quest website there are a number of reasons to move from VMware View to Quest vWorkspace - the most obvious ones being around the poor WAN performance...

For a limited time to a limited number of registrants, if you pass a Microsoft virtualisation exam between March 1, 2011 and June 30, 2011 you will receive a complimentary TechNet subscription. Click the image to find out more!

With Windows Intune being made available soon, I wanted to highlight one of the many benefits. Once a machine is in "active subscription", you will be able to dowload a copy of Windows 7 Enterprise for deployment on these machines and in effect get...

Yes, no error there, a FREE VDI assessment tool from Quest in the form on an appliance that can be downloaded and can scan your estate hunting out candidates for desktop virtualisation. From the Quest website: - " Quest VDI Assessment: Identifies...

Here are the details of the following free 3 day online training event for customers and partners: " Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals " (FREE!) Agenda is: Day 1 will focus on “Platform” (Hyper-V, differentiating...

I've just gone through integrating SCCM and App-V (post to follow!) and suddenly all the packages stop working with the following error. So to give a bit of background, on this client, App-V in full infrastructure mode was fine. In order to test...

I'm not talking about football, App-V is a versatile mechanism for the delivery of applications for both traditional Deskops, virtual desktops and session based desktops. Don't take my word for it, check out the Windows Team blog here for more details...

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 has now been RTM'd and full details are available via the Microsoft website here . You will need SCCM to manage it (an optiionally SCOM to get alerts from it via the FEP Security Management Pack). Some...

Its a fairly straightforward install for Forefront Endpoint Protection on System Centre Configuration Manager and thought I would share it as a quick install guide. Prerequisites You will need to have a few things in place already which are shown...

I’ve had a few conversations with my peers around virtualisation and power saving. As we know, both Microsoft and VMware provide green power savings. In the same way as Live Migration and vMotion both provide the seamless movement of virtual...

George Lucas is a genius and well before his time with Star Wars. I know I wouldn’t be the first person to say that or the last. It wasn’t so much the “not so” special effects, a young Harrison Ford cruising the galaxy in the...

I got this on a mailing list and had to share it. Shame he couldn't master Windows 7! It must be a mixture of video, touch and timing but this is very clever. It looks a bit like a homemade version of the Microsoft future video !

So, here I am at Microsoft and after two weeks, it’s been great. So I’m bound to say that, right? Well, the “on-boarding” experience is fairly full on – lots of training, awareness, meeting people (same as most companies...