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I was talking with Dana Epp when Rodney and I were out in Vancouver for the MySecurity tour a couple of months back. He was telling me about when he was trying to get a straight answer on how he license System Centre Virtual Machine Manger in his office
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I do! I am the first to admit that licensing can be really confusing but there are some tools that can help you (including the CanITPro team) navigate the waters so to speak. In the virtualization realm there are some calculators which I linked in a previous
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A while back we posted an entry in the From the Trenches category about Mark Seniow and his implementation of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 in production while the product was still at the Beta 2 stage. If you missed that post you can read it here. Mark
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Licensing. It can be a headache, it is often misunderstood and things are different in the virtual environment. There are some great virtualization specific licensing resources I wanted to share to help you navigate these waters. First of all there are
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So Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 was released a while ago and with that the Virtual Server Resource Kit was also sent to the printers. This is all very well and good, but I know a lot of you are already playing with Windows Server 2008 and would like to
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Almost two years ago I saw Bruce using this tool at a TechNet event and asked him where I could get it. The tool was in it's Alpha stages so he was unable to pass it on but I am happy to say that now, after a long development road (it was built by Matthijs
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I almost missed this one. I knew that we RTM'ed it last week or so, but I didn't know that we released Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 to the web (in a newly refurbished website on virtualization) so quickly - just yesterday infact on www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver
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Steven Syfuhs (Ottawa, Ontario, IT Pro) Rod and I wrapped up the Future of your Server Room tour last week in Toronto where the second session on virtualization technologies was still quite a hit. Both Rod and I are big believers in virtualization and
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Nelson and Danielle Ruest (Victoria, British Columbia, IT Pro) The Future of your Server Room Rick and I recently got the chance to meet a couple (a married couple) of MVPs from Victoria, B.C. They have something in common with us as they also tour delivering
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You haven't heard much from my side of the blogsphere lately - I have been heads down working on completing the reference network infrastructure that Rod and I will be using in the upcoming Future of your Server Room tour. Someday I should share our framework
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I carried along my Podcast recording device (M-Audio Microtrack 24/96) when I was down in Seattle for TechReady a while back. You never know who you can run into and if they will be willing to sit and have a chat about something or other. One of the people
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One of Microsoft's biggest customers is Microsoft. Internally we try to use as many of our own products as possible and start using them well before they hit RTM stage. This process is known as dogfooding and as you can imagine, there are a number of
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A few weeks ago I had the priviledge of sitting down with Barnaby Jeans, and Greg Mathieu (Business Information Group) to talk about virtualization. The following is a description of the recording. From simplifying disaster and recovery planning to server
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I thought it would be interesting to share the technology that goes on behind the scenes as well as the schedule that we keep while on the road for this large Launch event. This morning I laid out all the gear, checked all the cables and verified I wasn't
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Mark Seniow (Richmond Hill, Ontario) Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 From the Trenches is a new series on the CanITPro blog where we will be highlighting IT Pro's across Canada who are running the latest Microsoft technologies in their pilot and production
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