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October 2008 - Posts

Hyper-V 2.0

Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 7:37 PM by mattmcspirit
Hyper-V hasn’t been around that long, yet already we’re talking about key features that are coming in the next release!  I guess Live Migration was always going to be top of the list for many people, as for me, it’s the one killer feature that Hyper-V Read More...
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Microsoft UK – Sales and Licensing Induction for Partners – 13th November 2008

Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 5:51 PM by mattmcspirit
We’ve just announced a day for all you Microsoft UK Partners out there, who want to understand, from a sales and licensing perspective, some of the Microsoft technologies that are currently available. This session is aimed to equip new starter sales people Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 – Silverlight Demo

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:36 PM by mattmcspirit
This is the first time I’ve seen this Silverlight demo of SCVMM 2008, and I was pretty impressed – definitely worth checking it out if you’ve got a spare 15 minutes. You can access the demo here . Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 – Now Released to Manufacture!!!!

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:23 PM by mattmcspirit
Update – Eval Link Now Live - Click Here! It’s released. Just 13 months after SCVMM 2007, SCVMM 2008 has shipped, and brings a hell of lot of new capability to your virtualisation infrastructure.  To quote Zane Adam, from the Virtualisation Blog: Read More...
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WinHEC: Future Hyper-V features showcased for the first time…

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:57 PM by mattmcspirit
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference isn’t far away now, and if you’re lucky enough to be going, and have an interest in Virtualisation, I’d strongly suggest you take note, as this is the first time many of you will have heard about these features.  Read More...
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Microsoft Virtualisation – UK Online Sales Training

Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 3:40 PM by mattmcspirit
A couple of months back, Mike and I sat down and recorded a series of 6 short videos showcasing the Microsoft Virtualisation Sales Opportunity.  Introduction (2:25) Virtualisation Overview (37:35) Analysis Tools (11:39) Microsoft Virtualisation Solutions Read More...
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Windows Essential Server Solutions – SBS 2008 & EBS 2008 UK Event – 7th November

Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 12:41 PM by mattmcspirit
An exclusive opportunity to meet Nicholas King, Technical Product Manager from Microsoft Corp before the launch of the Windows Essential Server Solutions offerings, Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 on November 12th. Hear Nicholas Read More...
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Running Virtualisation on Vista SP1 (by Edition)

Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 4:10 PM by mattmcspirit
I’ve recently been chatting with David Overton , who recently wrote an article for the Windows Vista magazine, around virtualising stuff on Windows Vista using technologies like Virtual PC 2007 SP1 or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.  The reason for this Read More...
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Microsoft Virtualisation User Group – Meeting #2 – 10th Nov 2008

Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 3:05 PM by mattmcspirit
It’s come around pretty quickly, but already the 2nd meeting of the Microsoft Virtualisation User Group is upon us, and it’s looking like a cracking line-up already.  The previous session went down really well, and the feedback from that session Read More...
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Best way to learn about Microsoft Virtualisation? Get Unplugged…

Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:52 PM by mattmcspirit
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, or if you’ve seen me present before, you’ll have seen me go on about this ‘Datacenter to the Desktop’ approach to Microsoft Virtualisation , and how we have pretty much all the components you’d need to build Read More...
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Microsoft Virtualisation: Partner Webcasts’ Landing Page

Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:54 PM by mattmcspirit
For those Microsoft Partners among you who are interested in learning more about the Microsoft Virtualisation stack of technologies, and the opportunity around them, we’ve consolidated a number of the webcasts that have been produced over recent months Read More...
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Even more Infrastructure and Planning Design Guides added!

Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:31 AM by mattmcspirit
I blogged about the IPD guides back in June , and a number of new guides have just been added.  As a refresher: The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in Read More...
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Are you a Hosting Partner? Running Hyper-V? Thinking about it? Read this.

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:07 PM by mattmcspirit
If you’re a Hosting Partner, your licensing is quite different to the regular type of licensing that most Partners/Customers fall under, and in some instances, the licensing is actually more complex for Hosters!  How does the complexity increase Read More...
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Microsoft Virtualisation Learning – Free eLearning Collection

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:46 PM by mattmcspirit
There’s loads of information out there on the web around Microsoft Virtualisation , with the launches of Hyper-V a few months back, App-V 4.5 and Hyper-V Server 2008 a week or so ago, and obviously, Terminal Services which shipped as part of Windows Server Read More...
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SQL Server 2008 on Hyper-V - Best Practices and Performance Considerations

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:01 PM by mattmcspirit
Thinking of running SQL 2008?  Thinking of virtualising it?  Well, it’s good news that SQL 2008 is supported by Microsoft, running on Hyper-V , or any other SVVP certified virtualisation solution.  The question remains however, should you Read More...
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Server Unleashed goes Virtual

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:43 AM by mattmcspirit
Remember the Server Unleashed campaign for Windows Server 2008, with that robot?  Well, it’s just had the Hyper-V treatment…   Cool video, cool technology – get all the info here .  Once loaded, click the Hyper-V link in the top left and Read More...
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70/71-403 - TS: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Configuring (Beta Exam)

Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 1:14 PM by mattmcspirit
I’ve just come back from the Global Knowledge Testing Centre in Wokingham, where I’ve sat the 70-403 (or 71-403) beta exam of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.  Verdict?  Tricky. I’d love to be able to say that I passed, but with it Read More...
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Windows Essential Business Server 2008 – Pimp my Infrastructure…

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 12:13 PM by mattmcspirit
Patrick, from the Microsoft Virtualisation User Group , forwarded this through to me, and I thought it’s worth sharing – bit off topic as there’s no mention of virtualisation, but it’s pretty funny in a viral-HP-Microsoft-AMD kind of way. ";" galleryimg="no" Read More...
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 Released

Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:49 PM by mattmcspirit
I’ve just come off the stage at our UK SQL 2008 & Virtualisation launch, where I’ve had the opportunity to reveal (at least at the time, it was!) an exclusive…that Hyper-V Server 2008 was now available!  Great stuff!  But what is it? Well, Read More...
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