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Microsoft Licensing - FAQ Blog Feed!

Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:30 PM by mattmcspirit
Microsoft Licensing is complex.  I think most people accept that! Since September, the licensing and response management teams have been working together to publish the answers to your top licensing queries. Every month, these FAQs are put together Read More...
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Microsoft UK Partners - 26th June - A Virtualisation Briefing for YOU.

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 4:17 PM by mattmcspirit
Microsoft UK Partners - If you have an interest in Virtualisation, regardless of whether it's Microsoft Virtualisation or not, I'd strongly advise you to take the opportunity to come along to our Virtualisation Partner day that we're running at TVP in Read More...
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Kidaro is in the bag. I've seen the vision, and it rocks :-)

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 4:05 PM by mattmcspirit
The acquisition of Israel-based Kidaro was announced a couple of weeks back, and has just gone through.  The technology will be introduced in the near future, and will form part of the ever-expanding Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack (MDOP) to Read More...
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Windows HPC Server 2008 - 18 teraflops per second!

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 3:54 PM by mattmcspirit
Sounds impressive, right? If High Performance Computing (Built on Windows Server 2008) is your bag, you'd be wise to have a read of this: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Microsoft-Tests-Speedy-New-HPC-Server/ Read More...
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Microsoft UK & IBM Virtualisation Events...

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:59 PM by mattmcspirit
I'm running a series of events in conjunction with Andreas from IBM (of YouTube fame ) where we discuss and demonstrate the Microsoft (and Partners) Virtualisation technologies. The idea for the day is all around Dynamic IT, and how Virtualisation, in Read More...
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Hyper-V RC1 and SCVMM 2008 Beta - no longer in love?

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:37 PM by mattmcspirit
Well, SCVMM 2008 Beta & Hyper-V RC0 had a great time together, however, some of the major interface changes that have gone into Hyper-V RC1 mean that RC1 and SCVMM 2008 Beta are on a bit of a break. Fear not, as Rakesh details on his blog , the relationship Read More...
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Now this is GENIUS - Server Core Configurator...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:33 PM by mattmcspirit
If you are doing anything with Server Core in Windows Server 2008, you'll know that there are always certain tasks you need to do upon installation to enable things like remote connection, pinging etc etc.  Now, doing this from the Command Line is Read More...
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Partner TV - System Center Videos Part II

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:35 PM by mattmcspirit
I blogged about the Partner TV - System Center Videos a week or so back, where James and Andrew chatted about System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager respectively.  This time round, they're chatting about another 2 of the System Read More...
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Hyper-V RC1 now available to download!!!

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:14 PM by mattmcspirit
It's getting closer....! Get all the information from the Virtualisation Team Blog! http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx Important caveats to remember: Saved-state files Read More...
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More on Hyper-V Storage...

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:07 PM by mattmcspirit
Jose pinged a great email across a discussion list a few days back, with this diagram in, which really helps to sum up Hyper-V's storage options with the most common scenarios: As you can see, there are a couple of more common scenarios.  The first Read More...
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Updates for Virtual PC 2007 & Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:04 PM by mattmcspirit
Now that Windows Vista has reached the SP1 milestone, and, Windows Server 2008 has released, it's important to update your virtualisation applications to run in the most optimal way on the platforms.  Now, I know what you're going to say - why would Read More...
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Unattended installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V RC0

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 2:01 PM by mattmcspirit
Useful blog post over on the Virtualisation blog, which covers unattended installs of WS2008 and Hyper-V, so you're ready to rock as soon as the install is complete.  Check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/07/unattended-installation-of-windows-server-2008-with-hyper-v-rc0.aspx Read More...
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Windows Server 2008....SP1, already?

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 9:15 AM by mattmcspirit
You'll notice, from the image above, that Windows Server 2008 RTM is already listed as SP1.  Is this a good thing?  I think so.  Iain McDonald, of the Windows Server team, agrees, and explains how the Windows Server / Windows Client relationship Read More...
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New Microsoft Sales Toolkit

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 4:23 PM by mattmcspirit
Emma has just emailed this information through, and it's a useful addition to any Partner's arsenal, big or small.  For those of you who aren't familiar... What is the Sales Toolkit? The Microsoft Sales Toolkit is your partners’ source for Read More...
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Step by Step Guide - Hyper-V and Failover Clustering

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 4:11 PM by mattmcspirit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CD828712-8D1E-45D1-A290-7EDADF1E4E9C&displaylang=en Useful whitepaper on setting up, and testing Hyper-V HA and Quick Migration. Read More...
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Getting my head around the Hyper-V architecture...

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 1:55 PM by mattmcspirit
Hyper-V is a very cool technology.  It's also a very complex technology, with a lot going on under the covers.  When I deliver sessions on Hyper-V, and I talk about the architecture, it's a difficult concept to discuss quickly, hence, hopefully, Read More...
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Understanding Storage Explorer in Windows Server 2008

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 7:48 AM by mattmcspirit
Great post from Jose in the US, who discusses Storage Explorer, a great new tool in Windows Server 2008 to help you understand how your server SAN storage is configured. Read the full post here . Read More...
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VMware is 10 today...

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:40 PM by mattmcspirit
They may be a competitor, but there's no denying they've driven the Virtualisation industry forward massively over the last 10 years.  Virtualization.info has a brief, but interesting post talking about the last ten years.  It's hard to believe Read More...
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Hyper-V: Processor Functionality?

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:37 AM by mattmcspirit
If you're using Hyper-V, and you've gone into the settings for a Virtual Machine, under the CPU section, you may have seen this: What does this mean?  How do you 'limit processor functionality' and what exactly is being 'limited'? Well, these blog Read More...
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Applying a 'Hyper-V Enabled' Image to a Physical Machine...

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:18 PM by mattmcspirit
How do you deploy Windows Server?  With Windows Server 2008, I typically install from the DVD, then, once complete, I connect to Windows Update, get the latest patches, then, I'll typically enable the Hyper-V role in Server Manager, reboot the machine, Read More...
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Failover Clustering in 10 minutes!

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 5:47 PM by mattmcspirit
Dave Northey , from Microsoft Ireland, has recorded a cracking little video where he shows the ease with which he can create a highly available file server, built on the Failover Clustering technology in Windows Server 2008 (Enterprise and Datacenter). Read More...
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SBS & EBS Videos

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:35 PM by mattmcspirit
James unearthed a couple of beauties from YouTube, which take a comical, yet informative look at the next generation of Server Suites, namely, Small Business Server 2008 and Essentials Business Server 2008 . Nice find James :-) Read More...
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Partner TV - System Center Videos

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:13 PM by mattmcspirit
James and Andrew from my team have been busy with the video camera (careful :-)) recording some more interesting Partner-TV videos.  The latest series of video's are focusing on System Center; Microsoft's management platform.  The guys have Read More...
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It's all hotting up with VDI & Hyper-V

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:46 PM by mattmcspirit
This is something I'm really excited about - Virtualisation of desktops.  Now, it's not the silver bullet that everyone thinks, and it's important to understand the licensing implications etc, plus I'm always in favour of a TS solution over VDI in Read More...
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Interesting article on the impact NAP is having...

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:33 PM by mattmcspirit
"Microsoft is winning the NAC war, expert says" Taken from the article: " ...the key is that people seem to be willing to let Microsoft take a leading role in NAC (Network Access Control). So we really focused on that: what comes built-in Read More...
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XP SP3 in the public domain

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:22 PM by mattmcspirit
XP SP3 has been released into the public domain after a short delay.  Get all the info, and the updates themselves, by following this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx There's also an interesting Read More...
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Want to protect your company information?

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:53 PM by mattmcspirit
I've been doing a couple of events recently with my manager, James and one of the points he always raises is around protection of information, especially things like emails and documents.  The example James gives is around the internal Microsoft Read More...
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Cool Tool - Offline Servicing of Virtual Machines in SCVMM

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:40 PM by mattmcspirit
Think about this scenario.  You're embracing virtualisation.  More specifically, using Virtual Machine Manager.  Your running VMs are happily up to date, healthy and compliant and stay that way, thanks to a constant connection to Windows Read More...
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Managing Server 2008 from Vista SP1

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:16 PM by mattmcspirit
Not particularly new news, but it's been sat in my inbox for a while, and you may still find it useful. One of my demos I often show around Windows Server 2008 is Server Core; a scaled down version of the OS with a command line interface for local management.  Read More...
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Green Vista

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:07 PM by mattmcspirit
Vista's had quite a lot of negative press since it shipped, some justified, some not.  Some people who use it, love it, whilst others would much rather go back to XP.  The majority who would rather go back to XP, want to do so due to an initial Read More...
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