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Big Windows Server 2008 and Virtualization Announcements

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 9:02 AM by davidzi
At TechEd in Barcelona today, we made several major announcements . It's important to look at the details but to really see the scope and impact you need to step back a bit and look at the big picture these announcements describe. In my view there are Read More...
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Very Interesting Virtualization Video

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 5:14 PM by davidzi
Eric Traut, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and one of the key architects behind our kernel and virtualization teams gave a great presentation at the University of Illinois on our virtualization architecture. Eric gave a very detailed description Read More...
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Virtual Server Cookbooks

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:22 AM by davidzi
The links below are to a series of cookbooks for Virtual Server by Microsoft and Partners that are detailed how-to guides for a series of topics such as management, high availability, disaster recovery, etc. Name Description Microsoft® Virtual Server Read More...
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Great List of SQL 2008 Resources

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:11 PM by davidzi
If you want to learn more about SQL 2008, here is a great list of resources. Read More...
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Major Virtualization Announcements!

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:57 PM by davidzi
Wow, some big news over on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog ! SCVMM is released to manufacturing. The pricing model is very reasonable and is priced per physical host with management of an unlimited number of VMs. There is a midmarket solution available Read More...
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TechReady Day 3 and 4: Windows Server 2008

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 10:21 PM by davidzi
My schedule on day 3 and 4 was very heavy on sessions dealing with virtualization and various Windows Server 2008 topics. I mentioned it in my previous post but there is a tremendous amount of integration and collaboration between the virtualization teams Read More...
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TechReady Day 2: BillG and Virtualization

Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:09 AM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady brought a keynote by Bill Gates and another Q&A session afterwards. The keynote was pretty interesting, it was a fairly typical BillG presentation with some good demos. He highlighted six major areas Microsoft is focusing on over Read More...
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New SoftGrid Page on Microsoft.com

Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:32 PM by davidzi
There is some new SoftGrid content on Microsoft.com to check out. Softgrid is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack and is highly complimentary to SMS and Terminal Services. For those not familliar with SoftGrid, here is the marketing definition: Read More...
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Microsoft.com is running on IIS7 at 99.83% Availability

Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:51 PM by davidzi
Interesting post and stats over on www.iss.net www.iis.net . Microsoft.com has now migrated all but one server over to IIS7. 99% of apps worked unchanged. Most folks don't realize this but Microsoft.com has the 4th widest audience in the US and the 5th Read More...
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Microsoft and Juniper Announce NAP Interoperability

Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 3:35 PM by davidzi
From this press release : "Juniper Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the companies are working together to provide customers and partners with open standards-based interoperability between Juniper Networks Read More...
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The Terminal Services Team is on fire!

Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 6:22 PM by davidzi
As if TS Gateway, TS Remote Programs, and TS Web Access in Longhorn weren't enough, the Terminal Services Team announced another feature called Terminal Services Easy Print which solves a major annoyance of many TS administrators: management of printers Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 is Released

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:23 AM by davidzi
Beta 2 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager was posted to connect.microsoft.com last night. Here is the link . Some highlights from the connect site: What is Virtual Machine Manager? Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is a server Read More...
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SCOM, OCS, PowerShell - Can you keep up?

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:55 AM by davidzi
As someone who attempts (and whose job!) it is to maintain at least a passing knowledge of all of the Microsoft infrastructure servers and expertise in at least a few of them, weeks like this are both exciting and a great challenge. In case you missed Read More...
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Active Directory Certificate Server Enhancements in Longhorn

Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:24 PM by davidzi
Fairly detailed article just published this week on TechNet. Dowload the article here . Read More...
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Significant Desktop Deployment and Management Announcements

Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:13 PM by davidzi
Over on the Windows Vista Team Blog they link to an article and a Web site detailing our announcement today of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. While the name leaves a lot to be desired as usual, the content is potentially Read More...
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