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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 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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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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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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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:02 PM

Windows Vista Performance

I've been talking to a few people recently who are using Windows Server 2008 as a workstation. Some of their comments are along the lines of: "Server 2008 has the same code base as Vista SP1, how come it feels quicker?". Interestingly there doesn't seem
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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 - just
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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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