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Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:42 AM
Tuesday's Windows Server User Group meeting
Thanks to all those who attended Tuesday night's user group meeting . Apologies for going on a bit (I was only supposed to take half an hour or so - not the whole hour)! Aidan has posted the slides we used here . Some of my demos are here . Well
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:10 PM
Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008
The Windows Server 2008 User Group - Ireland will be running an event on Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 on the 2nd of September at 7pm in the evening (beer might follow). The location is Buswells hotel in the city centre.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:11 PM
Hyper-V Laptop
There's been a lot of talk recently about our new "Windows Server 2008 Workstation" (Windows Server 2008 with the Desktop Experience features switched on - plus a bunch of hacks). There's been suggestions that it out-performs Vista - I'm not going to
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Monday, June 30, 2008 2:37 PM
Larry Doyle and Hyper-V
Larry Doyle from Netforce in Dublin has been deploying Hyper-V. This is worth sharing: "Windows Server 2008 is an awesome product and I am super excited about it! I have been testing Windows Server 2008 since beta release and implemented the eagerly anticipated
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:22 PM
iSCSI
Anytime I do a demo that requires a SAN, I use the Microsoft iSCSI Target software. I'm lucky, I get to install it onto my demo machines. If you want it, you need to ask your OEM (the one that sold you your Windows Storage Server) - it's just
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Friday, June 06, 2008 9:59 AM
Customer Minds and Windows Server 2008
Eduardo Shanahan from Customer Minds Ltd has deployed his new application on Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. "Our application was developed from the start with Visual Studio 2008, and the sole existence of LINQ saved me months of work. Now that
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Friday, June 06, 2008 9:37 AM
Prodata and Windows Server 2008
I know Carmel Gunn from Prodata pretty well by now, I was asking her how she's been getting on with Windows Server 2008 - she had this to say: “We saw the demonstrations of Windows Server 2008 and clustering at the community previews and at the
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Friday, June 06, 2008 9:29 AM
Trinity College Dublin and Windows Server 2008
I've been working with Willie O’ Connor (Computer Science Dept, Trinity College Dublin) for ages now. I was asking him about his plans to deploy Windows Server 2008 - he had this to say: "Windows Server 2008 is a great product. We’ve
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:00 AM
With Hyper-V, Microsoft is going to change the world of virtualization
I just had to share this quote with you. I've been working with Edouard MELLY from Hewlett Packard for a good long while now, and in my quest to find great local references I came across this from Edouard: "I've been in charge of 2008 training for
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:48 AM
Meath County Council and Windows Server 2008
I've been working with Gavin Fitzpatrick from Meath County Council for over a year now (he is one of the few people who attended every single one of my Longhorn Academy sessions). As you might be able to tell, I'm on a mission to get local people
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Monday, May 26, 2008 7:46 PM
O2 and Windows Server 2008 (again)
I've been working with Michael Maher (a Principal Infrastructure Specialist working for O 2 Ireland) for over a year now. I figured he must be getting close to deploying Windows Server 2008 by now, so I asked him how he was getting on. He
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Monday, May 26, 2008 7:38 PM
Dell and Windows Server 2008 (again)
I've been working with Barry O'Sullivan on and off since last May (wow it's been that long). I was asking him the other day how he was getting on with Windows Server 2008 (had he been putting everything I taught him to good use)? He
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Friday, May 23, 2008 2:04 PM
Hyper-V and Failover Clusters
I've been doing quite a few talks on Hyper-V recently - which if you know me, means a couple of PowerPoint slides and a load of demos. I've finally gotten around to encoding my demos - so here they are: First (just so you know there's no smoke and mirrors),
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Friday, May 16, 2008 10:10 AM
Ammado.com and Windows Server 2008
I've been working with Ian Brennan, a Web Solutions Architect working for ammado.com since last May. I was asking him how he's getting on with Windows Server 2008 the other day. He had this to say: "At ammado.com, we’ve been learning
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Friday, May 16, 2008 9:11 AM
Windows Server 2008 on Virtual PC and Virtual Server
We've just released updates to both Virtual Server and Virtual PC to give better support for Windows Server 2008 (and Vista SP1 and XP SP3). If you're running either solution, I'd recommend you upgrade to the latest. Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
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