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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 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, 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
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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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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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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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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
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