Microsoft Learning is bringing back Second Shot as part of its new Career Initiative, which is designed to help customers and students to get trained and certified on Microsoft technologies. Certification can help boost your career and Microsoft wants...

In the graphic below, you’ll find a total of 6 different SKU’s listed for the new Windows 7 family. If you are wondering what makes sense for you, let me help you understand your choices. Let's start at the bottom and work our way up. The Windows 7 Starter...

I have a series of screen casts ( here ) that talk about setting up Hyper-V, but I wanted to let you know that we just released a new Hyper-V: Live Migration Network Configuration Guide here . I wish I would have had this when I was building out my demos...

(republishing from archived my blog site) Several news articles are out in circulation regarding the recent announcement that Windows XP will be an optional selection for the downgrade rights, which has spurred a lot of questions at the SB2@TS2 events...

I received a question a few days ago about how to license SQL (per processor) within a Virtual Machine on a Hyper-V server (or other hypervisor based host). There has been a lot of confusion on this, at least I’ve been confused, so I wanted to dig into...

I received another really good question, so I want to share it. My servers will be running Windows Enterprise running HyperV with 4 VM's each. The third server will run Windows Standard 2008 with Microsoft SCVMM. Is there a way for SCVMM to be installed...

I received the following question: Hi, I have been following your video on setting up Hyper-V server with the Equallogic SAN which we have. It has been really helpful however I am having a problem getting the CSV to work. After creating the cluster...

Whenever I get the chance to talk to partners about Office Web Apps, I do! If they are not familiar with Office Web Apps, I generally explain what they are and then show a demo.  After the “Oohs” and “Aahs” they’ll then ask how they can get them...

Q: (from Gordon) According to this chart the live meeting service has integrated PSTN and VOIP two way audio with both standard and professional editions.  Does that mean the hosted live meetings can have a dial-in number for users that aren’t located...

Q: (from Stephanie) We would like to do a March briefing around Exchange 2010’s Impact on Business E-mail. Unfortunately, we’re not fully prepared to handle demo capabilities after the fact. We’re looking for access to an Exchange 2010 environment that...

Q: (from Josh) Here are the questions my customer has: Does an existing WinXP VLK work with View? Is there an upgrade/purchase option for Win7 that works with View that does not require a subscription? Same questions for an Office 2k3 VLK and upgrade...

Q: (from Mike & Lisa) We were approached by a group of healthcare office managers that are interested in a 1hr talk at their users group meeting.  They would like an overview on Windows 7 and the new Office products. A: Windows 7 Ready-to-Go...

I received a question about one of my old screen casts, and I thought I should share it, and the answer, with you: Rob, I have viewed you video on dual boot xp and win 7 beta. My question is will the same procedure work with xp and the newly released...

Hardening operating systems and applications, implementing security settings, and enforcing compliance standards can be resource intensive—but it doesn’t have to be. Take advantage of a free new tool from the Microsoft security experts on the Solution...

This is the second part of setting up the Microsoft Hyper-V Server Cluster.  This time I will cover the remote management, shared storage, the failover cluster configuration and Live Migration between Hyper-V Servers.  Remember, you can download...

I’ve talked before about the fact that we cannot Live Migrate from an AMD CPU to an Intel CPU or vice-versa, but what about Live Migrating from an older Intel CPU to a newer Intel CPU?  I’m going to show you a Live Migration from a three year old...

As you know by now, I’ve spent a lot of time with Hyper-V and I continue to learn new things.  I love sharing these “Ah-ha” moments with you, so here comes the next one. I’ve been wanting to put together a Hyper-V cluster using our FREE Microsoft...

I’ve mentioned this before, but I wanted to show you the error you receive when you try to Live Migrate from an Intel CPU to an AMD CPU. Of course, it isn’t any better if you try to Live Migrate from an AMD CPU to an Intel CPU. Here’s that error message...

I’ve seen a lot of back and forth on the NIC teaming discussion and I decided to check it first hand.  We have this stated policy here , but seeing is believing so I decided to take a look.  I have two dual port Intel NICs so I slapped them...

As you’ve read, I’ve been using SCVMM for a while and I still learn new things about it.  I mentioned templates in my first screen cast and told you that I would talk more about them, so here they are.  Templates let you create a standard virtual...

I wanted to continue my discussion on Hyper-V so I decided to show you some of the additional tools that will help with your Hyper-V deployments.  First up is my overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 ( SCVMM R2 ).   ...

So I’ve finally done it!  Here’s a short screen cast on Live Migration.  This one is only 5 minutes, so I won’t keep you too long, but you’ll be able to see it in action!  I recorded this session at the Irvine, CA MTC (Microsoft Technology...

As I mentioned in my prior post, I split the screen cast into two parts and here’s the second part.  I pick right up where I left off, so be sure to check out Part 1 first.      My next post will be a demonstration of Live Migration...

I’ve upgraded to the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 and I wanted to share a little bit of what I learned.  My intent was to do two R2 sessions, one to show you everything but Live Migration and the second one to show Live Migration. ...

While I’ve been working with my counterparts on the US Partner Readiness team to build the training for Office 2010, I felt it was important to share some of the key changes to the Office 2010 product lines up with you. I’ve included a few screenshots...