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XP Mode in Windows 7 saved me money
12 October 09 05:12 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I've been running Windows 7 at home for a while now, and have been very pleased with it - on a decent spec machine (Quad core, 4Gb RAM, lots of SATA-II disk etc), it absolutely flies. As did Vista before it, if truth be told. When I got this machine, Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Virtualisation, Win7

SMSE – a System Center light hidden under a bushel
26 March 09 02:47 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

SMSE – pronounced (in the UK at least) as ‘Smuzzy’, short for Server Management Suite Enterprise – is a licensing package from Microsoft, which can be an amazingly effective way to buy systems management software for your Windows server estate. If you’re Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Virtualisation, Infrastructure, Systems Management

Virtuali(z)sation & datacenter power
21 February 08 10:58 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

It's been very quiet here on the Electric Wand for the last month or so: I took a new job in December which means things have been pretty hectic at work. I'm now managing a new group, and lots of time spent building up a great team. Just back from Seattle Read More...

Filed under: Virtualisation, Business

Tips for using Virtual PC and Virtual Server
11 December 07 06:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

Like many people who demo software technologies or who need to perform testing on multi-machine environments, I've been using Virtual PC and Virtual Server for years (and VMWare before that). If you're unfamiliar with these two Microsoft products, both Read More...

Filed under: Virtualisation

Virtual PC 2007 now available
21 February 07 10:07 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

The Virtual PC team released the latest version to the web the other day, and it's available for free , downloadable from here . Headline changes over previous versions are the ability to be run on Windows Vista, and to have Vista as a guest OS within Read More...

Filed under: Vista, Virtualisation

Use NewSID on cloned virtualised machines
24 January 07 07:21 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I came across a problem recently when a colleague was building a virtual Windows Server environment, and was reminded of it the other night when on a webcast with Exchange MVPs, when one of the attendees said he was hitting issues with Exchange 2007 servers Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Virtualisation