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09 November 2005
ADS to deploy Windows XP?
I have to admit, I'd never thought of this one. Yes, I've looked into using ADS (Automated Deployment Services) for deploying Windows Server 2003 and use it as part of the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit ( VSMT ) solution but never thought of using it Read More...
13 June 2005
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Download Link
While on the subject of patching here is the home page for the newly released Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), the next generation of SUS. To find out more about patching, management and securing your networks, have a browse through Eileens or Steves Read More...
06 May 2005
Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) Guidelines
If you're interested in using VSMT (Virtual Server Migration Toolkit) for migrating a physical machine into a virtual machine, there was a new KB article posted up a few days ago which gives you some general guidelines. Note that there is one error in Read More...
03 May 2005
Virtual Server 2005 SCSI Shunt Driver
It's rare you see something in a beta release which makes such a dramatic difference to performance. This is one such instance. If you want to save yourself over 5 hours when installing a Virtual Machine under Virtual Server 2005, read on.... Last week Read More...
28 April 2005
Remote Desktop Assistant 1.0
Sometimes the most blindingly obvious and simple utility become a weapon of choice in your toolbox arsenal. Here's one such example I stumbled across a few days ago and am now wondering how I ever coped before. Over on longhornblogs.com, Robert (who I Read More...
19 April 2005
Do you use blogging software?
Something which cropped up internally over the past couple of days has been a discussion about how many people at Microsoft must have moved on beyond using the standard HTML interface to their blog engine for posting. I kept quiet at this point once discussions Read More...
08 January 2005
Blogcast on VSMT (Virtual Server Migration Toolkit) - Part 5
As promised, here's the last blogcast installment walking through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. This blogcast walks through deploying the disk image into the blank VM and seeing the Read More...
06 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 4
I'm "virtually" (no pun intended) at the end in the series of blog entries walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. If you've missed out so far: Part one can be viewed here Read More...
06 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 3
If you missed my two previous postings in this series of blogcasts walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, part one can be viewed here , and part two can be viewed here Read More...
05 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 2
I hope you enjoyed the first two blogcast demonstrations of VSMT I blogged about yesterday. Today, I'm publishing part two which contains the next two blogcasts in the series. The third VSMT blogcast walks through validating the XML file describing the Read More...
04 January 2005
Blogcast on Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) - Part 1
Blogcast, podcast, mini-webcast.... What's in a name - well quite a lot judging by some of the reactions I've had. Leaving the name issue to one side, I've recorded a series of eight clips which walk through the process of migrating an NT4 server into Read More...
13 December 2004
Blogcasts - surely a typo I hear you say.
No, it's not a typo! A "blogcast" is probably a new term to you as it's been made up by the IT Pro Evangelism team in the UK (not quite true, but it's nice to think we got there first). A blogcast in this context is a webcast delivered through blogs. Read More...
22 November 2004
NT4 Server and Windows Server 2003 Interoperability - Technet Evening Session
I'm co-presenting a free Technet evening event with Dave Sayers tomorrow night (Tue 23rd Nov) at the Microsoft office in Reading, UK discussing "NT4 and Windows Server 2003 interoperability". The session starts at 18:30 with registration opening at 18:00. Read More...
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