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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:47 AM

Free business guidance for Start-ups

Digital Media Forum and Microsoft Ireland are delighted to bring you the Microsoft BizSpark Innovation Accelerator Event – an event designed to help accelerate the Start-up community in Ireland and Northern Ireland. This day-long conference will run on
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:46 AM

Windows 7 in 20 minutes..

I was given the task of introducing Windows 7 to a crowd of IT Professionals last week – easy enough, but not so in just 20 minutes.  Searching around inside Microsoft for the elevator pitch PowerPoint deck proved to be impossible (there’s decks
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Friday, February 06, 2009 10:18 AM

The Business Case for IPv6

I got to talk at the IPv6 Summit last week in Dublin Castle – Agenda, Slides and Videos of all the sessions are here. My talk was on Finding the Business Case for IPv6. The video of my session is now online and can be viewed here .  And my slides
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Friday, January 16, 2009 3:20 PM

VHDMount without VHDMount

To mount a VHD file onto your file system, you either ran some very complicated VB (or PowerShell) Script or you used VHDMount.exe that came with Virtual Server.  If you’re running Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2), you can now use Diskpart.
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Friday, January 16, 2009 3:02 PM

Building my Demo Laptop (Part 3)

In this post I’ll talk you through how I have created a Hyper-V Failover Cluster on my single laptop. To build a Failover Cluster you need a SAN.  I use the Microsoft iSCSI target software that ships with Windows Storage Server.  Being a Microsoft
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Friday, January 16, 2009 2:04 PM

Windows Vista Performance – The proof

So last September I posted this about some Windows Vista performance issues I was hearing about and what my approach was going to be.  In October I posted this advice and guidance on how to get Windows Vista to perform . Today I’m posting this short
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Friday, January 16, 2009 11:11 AM

It pays to complain

There’s been a “small” issue with licensing around Hyper-V for a while and because of all the complaints we’ve received we have actually changed our licensing. The issue was this: I’m a Windows Server 2003 shop and want to virtualise onto Hyper-V. 
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:50 AM

SQL for the Oracle DBA

***There's been a change to the timing of this event. It now runs from 9:30-13:00 with registration starting at 9:00*** Free training on Thursday 22nd January on SQL for Oracle DBAs! It is a half day of training taking place in Dublin the afternoon of
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Monday, January 12, 2009 3:10 PM

Building my Demo Laptop (Part 2)

So my demo environment needs to be self contained (everything on the one laptop), needs to be as quick as it can and be able to demo as much of the Microsoft virtualisation stuff as technically possible.  My laptop itself will obviously be the Hyper-V
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Friday, January 09, 2009 3:06 PM

Building my Demo Laptop (Part 1)

It turns out that how I built my demo laptop is generating a bit of interest.  These posts have become the “how to” pointers for creating a Proof of Concept for Microsoft Virtualisation and Management solutions. So to start.  My laptop is a
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:11 AM

Hyper-V on a Laptop

This post is an introduction to how I have configured my demo laptop.  I can comfortably run eleven VMs on the one laptop, including a two node Hyper-V cluster, App-V and the four main System Center products (Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection
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Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:16 PM

How would you know if your PC was affected by the IE7 flaw?

I had an interesting question posed to me the other day: How would you know if your PC was affected by the IE7 flaw? My first answer was: Hmm.. It is very possible that you won't know. Then I did some digging..  The answers I found were: Desktop
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:12 PM

Configuring Server Core

This post describes the best/easiest method to configure and manage Server Core. There are numerous posts and articles explaining how to enable a particular feature on Server Core and there are even more on how to configure Server Core so that it can
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:09 PM

3 Free Exam Vouchers

Microsoft is testing a new exam format and needs your help. The New Virtual Lab based Exam 70-113: TS: Windows® Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring tests candidate’s abilities to actually perform tasks and solve problems in virtual lab
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:04 PM

Windows Vista Performance (the sequel)

Windows Vista with SP1 (and some tweaks) is faster than Windows Server 2008. Since my last post on this topic , I've been doing my homework. On my laptop Vista was always quicker than Server, but I have found some very useful information (most of which
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