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August 2005 - Posts

How to directly edit your Virtual Server files...

Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:33 PM by Clive_Watson
John has posted about a beta version of WinImage that allows editing of VHD, VUD and VFD files (as used by Virtual Server). Read More...
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WinFS beta 1 released

Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:31 AM by Clive_Watson
Just after the rumour started WinFS arrived, you can get the download at MSDN , or look at the channel 9 video and blog and it works on Windows XP (as mentioned on this blog ) Read More...
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Infrastructure Architecture - defined

Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:53 PM by Clive_Watson
Michael continues his definition thread, first there was Virtualisation and now the big one - how to define Infrastructure Architecture , do you think this should make it onto Wikipedia as is? Read More...
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Migrate to SQL Server competition

Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:34 PM by Clive_Watson
A great competition is you fancy winning a Chopper, just send in your story (if you live in the US and after you have checked the rules ) to stand a chance of winning, or getting one of the other prizes on offer. Read More...
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Top 10 Server Consolidation issues – Part 7

Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 8:01 AM by Clive_Watson
So this is the final post in this series. I feel like I’ve missed out loads of information but it was my intention at the outset to present you with the major issues customers have told me about, and how I address them. 9. Change control or the lack of Read More...
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Virtual Server tip

Posted Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:36 PM by Clive_Watson
I've heard of an issue twice now so I thought it was worth pointing out what may be the cause. The message received is "<server name> could not be started because one of its virtual hard disks is already in use by another running virtual machine". Read More...
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Top 10 Server Consolidation issues - Part 6

Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:02 PM by Clive_Watson
Welcome to Part 6 - this is the penultimate instalment... 8. Legacy hardware – modem cards, fax boards Basically there is simple advise here, make sure you identify attached hardware on the servers you intend to consolidate (or virtualise) during the Read More...
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To 64bit or not...my thoughts

Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:10 PM by Clive_Watson
Harold has just started a great thread which I'm sure will get a load of comments. From my perspective I would buy x64 today (in fact I have done at home) however the full software stack isn't always available - yet! I think it's inevitable that x64 (64bit) Read More...
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Top 10 Server Consolidation issues - Part 5

Posted Monday, August 08, 2005 8:07 PM by Clive_Watson
This is the fifth instalment covering server consolidation issues. In the original post I highlighted 10 issues that are frequently mentioned, these additional posts are intended to cover one or more of these issues in more detail. Today were are dealing Read More...
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Top 10 Server Consolidation issues - Part 4

Posted Friday, August 05, 2005 8:02 AM by Clive_Watson
Testing and Server consolidation Read More...
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Top 10 Server Consolidation issues - Part 3

Posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:45 PM by Clive_Watson
This post answers point 4 from Part1 , which was: 4. Many organisations have interdepartmental issues, every group needs to be involved and bought into (committed) to consolidation How many times during my life as a consultant has lack of cooperation Read More...
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My 2nd month as a blogger...

Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:57 PM by Clive_Watson
This type of post might get a bit dull so I won't bore you with anymore, unless something exciting happens to my posting stats... My top 3 post as read by you this month were: 1st " Product releases in next 18 months " 2nd " Can Exchange 2003 be installed Read More...
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Virtual Server as used by Microsoft IT...and webcast

Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 10:28 AM by Clive_Watson
Excellent docuemnt from Microsoft IT on their use of Virtual Server and details of a webcast on the subject later this month. At Microsoft, pursuit of improvements in operational efficiencies led to the consolidation of a number of physical datacenters. Read More...
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