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WDS and SCOM Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides Released…

Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:59 AM by mattmcspirit
For those of you who have been baffled by my title acronyms, WDS is Windows Deployment Services, which is a role of Windows Server, that enables network based deployment scenrios, and acts as a platform for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and System Read More...
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Introducing the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for IBM

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 1:36 PM by mattmcspirit
For those of you ‘not in the know’, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is a free tool that makes it easier for Microsoft customers and partners to quickly identify what servers, workstations, and network devices are in their IT environment. Read More...
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Updated Virtualisation Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides…

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 1:20 PM by mattmcspirit
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualisation guides: Windows Server Virtualisation (Hyper-V) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Read More...
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New Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide (Beta) – DirectAccess

Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:57 PM by mattmcspirit
For those of you who aren’t aware of DirectAccess, it’s a pretty darn cool technology in my opinion.  What better way to explain it, than to show you how it makes my working life that little bit easier. I’m currently writing this post from home, Read More...
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Videos: Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 using MDT 2010

Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:41 PM by mattmcspirit
If you’re thinking about how best to upgrade machines within your environment from Windows XP to Windows 7, you’d be hard pressed to find a better solution than the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.  MDT 2010 allows you to deploy Windows 7 and Windows Read More...
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Upcoming Academy Live Webcasts for Partners

Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:04 PM by mattmcspirit
If you can make time to view these sessions (or at least register, then watch them another time), I would thoroughly recommend them, especially the System Center licensing overview.  You may not like licensing, but when it comes to System Center, Read More...
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Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 2:21 PM by mattmcspirit
In support of the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 campaign, the Solution Accelerators Team has updated the following guides in the Infrastructure Planning and Design series to reflect new features and capabilities available in Windows Server 2008 R2: Read More...
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Microsoft Assessment & Planning Solution Accelerator 4.0 Now Available

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:13 PM by mattmcspirit
Just under a month ago, I blogged about the beta release of the MAP tool , which, for those not familiar, is is an integrated planning toolkit that makes it easier for Microsoft customers and partners to quickly identify what servers, workstations, and Read More...
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Windows Optimised Desktop Scenarios

Posted Friday, July 03, 2009 2:46 PM by mattmcspirit
This landed in my inbox this morning courtesy of the TechNet Flash Newsletter so I thought I’d share it, as there’s a bit of virtualisation in there! As we move closer to the launch of Windows 7, a number of organisations are starting to think about their Read More...
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available!

Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 1:55 PM by mattmcspirit
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available in the near future. Are you thinking about deploying these new operating systems? Get a head start with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta . Over 680,000 Microsoft customers and partners Read More...
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UK Partners – Are you a System Integrator?

Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:44 AM by mattmcspirit
If you are, read on :-) As you know, one of my passions right now is providing video content that showcases Microsoft technologies in an accurate and fair way (no mythbusting :-)) through my Virtualboy TV site.  So far, this has gone down really Read More...
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HP Produce First Sizing and Configuration Tool for Microsoft Hyper-V

Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 4:26 PM by mattmcspirit
Whenever I talk to Partners and Customers about our MAPs tool (The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator), one of the things I’m frequently asked is ‘Will it tell me how big / what spec my servers need to be to run X-number of VMs’, and Read More...
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Thriving with Technology

Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:03 AM by mattmcspirit
Are you in IT?  Thinking about getting into IT?  Where do you start?  How do you develop in the future?  If you’re already in IT, how do you build on your investments so far? These are just some of the questions that are answered at Read More...
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New IPD Guide Published (well, almost) – Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1

Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:02 PM by mattmcspirit
Hot off the press, and hot on the heels of the last IPD Update I wrote , the IPD team have done it again, this time, for Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1.  Firstly, in time honoured tradition, what is an IPD? The Infrastructure Planning and Design Read More...
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Infrastructure and Planning Design Guides – New Updates

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:52 PM by mattmcspirit
Yet again, I find myself blogging about these IPD guides!! My last update on the IPD guides was towards the start of October, but a couple of new ones have just been added.  I always include a refresher of what they actually are, so here you go: Read More...
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