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Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:52 AM

Server Core -- Too Dry and Crunchy ?

I’ve got a kind of love/hate relationship with the core installation of Server-2008. I love: That it has the smallest foot print (I remember the days of Netware 2.0a – 3.x – why does a file server need a GUI ? ) , the smallest attack surface, lowest patch
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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, September 06, 2008 6:34 PM

Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics - a lesson in Benchmarking.

Many years ago - before on-line meant "the internet" - I annoyed a journalist in an on-line discussion. I criticized the methodology used by his magazine to test file servers: Machines copied a large file making it a test of the cache effectiveness
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:33 PM

Virtualization: Licensing and support changes

I was briefed a few days ago about changes to licensing to make life easier for people doing virtualization.  I think our server applications have done a good job of adapting their licences for a world where they run in virtualized machine. That's
Posted by jamesone | 7 Comments
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:26 AM

It's rude to laugh at other people's misfortunes - even VMware's

That was one of my mother's regular sayings when I was young. OK Not the bit about VMware. So I didn't laugh when I saw a thread on VMware's community forum entitled BIG bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2 - If you're using 3.5u2 read this now! - A general system
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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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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:50 PM

Looks like September for SCVMM

The most senior Microsoft person ever to tell me off for something did so for my repeating of something which was circulating at IT-Forum last year - that there was a plan to sync up the release of the new version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:59 AM

PowerShell and checking management rights.

Something which has come up more than once with the builds I of my PowerShell Hyper-V library has been that by default PowerShell doesn't ask Windows to elevate it's privileges - which, for example, the Microsoft Management Console does. By default it
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Monday, July 21, 2008 12:01 AM

Scaling Hyper-v.

A couple of Stories have been doing the rounds on our internal Virtualization discussions. One was headed "HOLY COW HYPER-V VIRTUALIZING MICROSOFT.COM!!!!!!" (and before anyone wonders if this is breaking something internal to the world, it's
Posted by jamesone | 14 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 11:53 PM

The Windows Server Virtualization Validation Programme

I've mentioned this program a couple of times, and now on the Windows Server Catalog site we have a page which shows which vendors are testing their Virtualization products so they are qualified as just another "machine" on which Windows runs...
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Monday, June 30, 2008 11:40 PM

Finding Hyper-V servers in your domain

One of the advantages of having Virtualization integrated with Windows is that the Hyper-V (and in fact Virtual Server 2005) registers itself in active directory so you can discover your servers easily - quite useful if servers start popping up like mushrooms. 
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Friday, June 27, 2008 2:40 PM

Hyper-V. Of course it *had* to be yesterday

If you're in the UK there's still time (just) to get last week's Money programme about Bill Gates and the end of an era from www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer . I was away when it was broadcast and nearly forgot. I blogged Bill's announcement when he made it, and
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