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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:35 AM

Active Directory User Group, first meeting with John Craddock and Sally Storey

We now have a UK AD user group ( ADUG ) And they have their first meeting set for October 23rd at Microsoft’s offices in London, from 6 till 9 in the evening. They’ve managed to secure John and Sally – probably the best established AD double-act in Europe
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:02 AM

Hyper-v and competitors /collaborators

When Ray Noorda ran Novell he coined the term Coopertition to describe their relationship with us. Microsoft's Kevin Turner described this as "Shake hands but keep the other hand on your wallet". We would love customers to buy ONLY Microsoft
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Monday, September 08, 2008 11:38 AM

Today's "Get virtual now event" - official information published

The link to this story is now on the press pass home page   Today more than 20 partners announce plans for Microsoft virtualization solutions; Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 5:31 PM

Monday's "Get Virtual Now" event

You may have seen that there is a big Microsoft Virtualization event happening in the US on Monday.  I'm expecting it to be reported on the Virtualization team blog , and on the Sever and Tools Business "news bytes" blog, and possibly on
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Saturday, August 16, 2008 10:33 AM

Terminal Services Easy print

At the end of Wednesday's session in London, we got round to Terminal services easy print. For those who weren't there, Easy Print is a mechanism for re-directing printers through the Terminal Services Client (MSTSC.EXE aka Remote Desktop Connection). 
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Friday, August 15, 2008 2:18 PM

Virtual Machine clustering in London, how we did it.

Wednesday's event in London was fun, and we managed not to talk too much about VMware's mishap: I joked at one point that once the VMware folks would be making T-Shirts in a few months with "I Survived August 12th, 2008" . (Buried in the back
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Friday, August 08, 2008 11:35 PM

Interesting Citrix event, London, September

Chatting to my opposite number at Citrix today I found that they have a Virtualization event coming up. Entitled Unlock the Power of Virtualisation it's taking place at Old-County Hall in London on 17th September, and the details are registration link
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:57 PM

Microsoft Virtualization User Group

I think I can claim a first for the UK, we have a Microsoft Virtualization User Group.   I'll wait and see if anyone from another Microsoft subsidiary corrects me and says their has been running for years. When we recording our Podcast , Jonathan
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:44 AM

UK Windows server user group

The title says it all ready. Mark Wilson has created a group on Linked in to help get the ball rolling again - he explains why this was needed and what to do on his blog . Please take a look.
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:41 PM

Will you be our hero ?

I've talked about my habit of "Brutal e-mail triage" before my equation for guessing the usefulness of a mail is 100 Log 2 (1+sentences_by_the_sender) / (recipients * Kbytes * Organizational-hops-from-me) A 1 sentence mail from Eileen scores about 10.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:47 PM

What else did I miss ?

So I said that we'd done a lot while I was away , other gems now sifted from my inbox include. As well as all the other Server "SKUs" I mentioned before , we've announced HPC Server 2008; (formerly called Compute Cluster Server - CCS) the beta is downloadable
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:05 AM

Webcasts on Certification - and 40% off !

With all the new products which we're seeing this year, the question does bubble up "How does this impact certification ?" . The people who run the MC* programmes have put together a set of web casts. These have already happened (click to see more and
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:49 AM

Longhorn Server 101 – what’s all the fuss about ? Your chance to see.

As we get closer to the public beta of Longhorn, it might be a good time for me to start talking about it. I've got a ton of good Longhorn information in a Groove workspace on my laptop. They chap behind that is visiting Europe – I'm spending a most of
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:44 PM

Powershell ...

I mentioned that one of the negatives of my trip to Barcelona was not getting to sessions and the positives were all around the people I met. I was minding my own business in the speaker room when Eileen got into a Powershell conversation with a man in
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Friday, October 27, 2006 6:16 PM

Hello Scotland !

We had a very well attended roadshow event in Edinburgh earlier in the year, but the truth is we don't hold as many events outside Reading and London as we'd like to. I'm going to be doing some of the organizational stuff on the next roadshow so I'll
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