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July 2006 - Posts

TechReady Day 4 & 5 - Virtualization, Microsoft.com, and Mars Rover

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 8:28 PM by davidzi
The last two days kind of blend together so I'll cover in one post. I went to several sessions on virtualization that were outstanding. The first dealt with Microsoft's recently closed acquisition of Softricity. This technology is very interesting in Read More...
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TechReady Day 3 - MS Research, Active Directory, SMS

Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:51 PM by davidzi
Day 3 turned out to be even more interesting than I thought. There were keynotes again this morning, but they were very demo heavy which is always good. The first was Kevin Schofield from Microsoft Research. After some great stats about Microsoft being Read More...
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TechReady Day 2 - Unified Communication, Identity Management

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:09 AM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady lived up to expectations. Today I attended several sessions on Unified Communication (UC), and Identity Management. While there has been a fair amount of press lately on our UC efforts, I don't think it has sunk in yet how much Microsoft Read More...
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TechReady Day 1 - RMS, ADFS, and Longhorn

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:06 AM by davidzi
Day 1 at TechReady was great. There were several keynotes in the morning ending with one by Steve Ballmer who always revs up the audience. As for technical content, that started in earnest in the afternoon sessions. I attended sessions on RMS, ADFS, and Read More...
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TechReady - Longhorn, Exchange 2007, and more

Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:45 PM by davidzi
TechReady is an internal conference for Microsoft employees that packs a huge amount of presentations, training, labs, and a few parties into a single week. It's similar to TechEd except that it focuses primarily on future products instead of what is Read More...
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Vista Steadily Improving

Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 9:05 AM by davidzi
Reviews of the most recent Vista interim build 5472 have been pretty positive. Computerworld has a good review here . I'm downloading it now as I write this post. I've been running a post-Beta2 internal build. These more recent builds are much more stable Read More...
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Russinovich: "On my way to Microsoft!"

Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:26 AM by davidzi
Over on his blog Mark Russinovich has a post about yesterday's news that Microsoft is acquiring WinInternals. Very exciting news, Bob Muglia called Mark one of the top 5-10 people in the world when it comes to deep Windows architecture. That's really Read More...
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Nortel and Microsoft to Form Strategic Alliance for Unified Communications

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:54 AM by davidzi
Microsoft is announcing a strategic alliance with Nortel today in the Unified Communications space. This area is evolving almost as rapidly as virtualization. Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server 2007 are really going to surprise people. With Read More...
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Microsoft and Xen to Develop Interoperability

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:58 AM by davidzi
Today we announced an agreement with XenSource to develop interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server Virtualization, the hypervisor technology due in the Longhorn timeframe. Press Release This is great news for Read More...
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Server Consolidation and Virtualization

Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 3:22 PM by davidzi
There lots of questions and opinions on how to leverage virtualization to achieve server consolidation. You may hear statements like: never virtualize product X or Product Y should always run on dedicated hardware. I am admittedly a big proponent of virtualization Read More...
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Improve OS Install Time on Virtual Server

Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:18 PM by davidzi
New users of Virtual Server sometimes encounter very slow performance when installing an OS into a virtual machine using a SCSI .vhd disk. If you want to use SCSI vhd’s, there is a virtual floppy that ships with Virtual Server. It can be found in the Read More...
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Improve Security - Run Windows XP SP2 on Legacy Hardware

Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 9:04 AM by davidzi
With Vista approaching in the not too distant future, the links below describe a version of Windows XP Embedded SP2 designed to run on older PCs. It acts as a thin client allowing you to run a limited set of applications like the browser, RDP client, Read More...
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Resources for Infrastructure Architects

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:49 PM by davidzi
There are some valuable resources for infrastructure architects that I wanted to highlight for you. I’m referring to the Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA) and the Branch Office Infrastructure Solution. Many have probably looked at these Read More...
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VirtualPC is FREE!

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:09 AM by davidzi
Hot off the presses from the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/jul06/07-12wpclicensing.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx Or if you don't want to read about and just want Read More...
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We need more power, Scotty! (and other data center news)

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:10 PM by davidzi
Power is increasingly a critical design factor for large data centers. Few are larger than those powering the big web properties such as MSN, Yahoo, and Google. The article below was interesing in that it shows just how far (east) companies are willing Read More...
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Controlling Printer Mappings via Group Policy & Scripts

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:10 PM by davidzi
A question came up this morning from a customer who wants to create a GPO that applies to a group of machines and maps specific printers to those machines and does not allow logged on users to map additional printers to those machines or remove the already Read More...
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New Infrastructure Architecture Blog!

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 11:55 PM by davidzi
Welcome to my new blog! I hope to use this space to both provide and solicit insight on the art and science of large scale IT infrastructure architecture. In my work at Fortune 500 companies and large Federal Agencies, I've seen projects both succeed Read More...
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