June 2009 - Posts
The Irish Windows User Group will be running a session focusing on OCS, aka Office Communications Server. The speaker is John McCabe, a senior engineer with CDSoft. Mobile users and mobile computing have enabled a more flexible workforce but there is
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Rory Donnely is the CIO of Nissan Ireland , he is a big Microsoft fan and adopts our products early on in their lifecycle. He talks about the technology behind the Case Studies that he has already done for us (Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Vista and Office)
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Windows 7 – Is it really better than Windows XP? A Guest blog post by Yagil Adar (who has consulted in Ireland on many occasions). As part of Adar Consulting business, we are also developing an Integrated Computing System (ICS) that includes much security,
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John McCabe (Technical Consultant with CD Soft ) talks about his production deployment of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 running on the beta of Windows Server 2008 R2. He explains how he convinced the business to deploy a beta product in production
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Aidan Finn (Systems and Infrastructure Manager with C-Infinity ) talks about why he chose NOT to go with VMware in favour of Hyper-V and System Centre. Aidan is a System Centre MVP and an active blogger and user group leader. He has been engaged
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This article states that OCS is not supported in a virtualised environment. Since the initial draft of the article, the support stance changed. Some OCS Server roles can now be deployed in a virtualised environment: Presence, Instant Messaging (including
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Thanks for joining us at the Windows 7 Roadshow! Please find the presentations used at the Roadshow here . I have also uploaded some useful papers which support much of the topics and features covered. And here are some deployment aids and general Windows
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We’re pleased to announce the launch of the very first TechNet Virtual Conference taking place on 19 June 2009. Register now for the UK's first TechNet Virtual Conference http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/dd819085.aspx We understand that time and budget
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One of the topics we covered as part of the recent TechNet Windows 7 Tour of Ireland was application compatibility . We gave an overview of XPMode, Applocker, and using shims for applications coded to look for specific OS versions. As great a job Sebastian,
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The Information Systems Security Association, an Irish security professionals group is hosting an event coming up on June 10th overlooking Microsoft’s products and security. You can register for this free event at http://www.issaireland.org/june09 and
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I’m planning to do some real world performance tests with Solid State Disks vs. the old fashioned spinning media type and am looking for requests. There’s already loads of raw data throughput tests out there, but I’m planning to do the more “day-to-day”
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Thursday May 28th saw the RTM of Operations Manager 2007 R2 being approved , which immediately initiated the next stage of the process ... getting this latest version of Microsoft's end-to-end monitoring product for IT environments and datacenters out
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As we toured around Ireland on the Windows 7 Tour, the single most asked question was around when was it coming out. Well…….. “TAIPEI, Taiwan — June 2, 2009 — Microsoft is so confident with the progress made with the development of Microsoft Windows 7
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