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System Center Essentials 2010 Beta – Video Overview

Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:17 PM by mattmcspirit
Picked this little beauty up via the Virtualization Planet blog , and it leads on nicely from the introductory post I wrote a month or so ago around SCE2010 .  For those not familiar with System Center Essentials 2010, it’s Microsoft’s IT management Read More...
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Essentials for Hyper-V: Site Recovery Academy Live Webcast

Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 6:49 PM by mattmcspirit
Earlier today, I wrote the first in a series of posts about the different options for Site Recovery around Hyper-V.  One thing I completely forgot to include was information about an upcoming webcast!  Doh!  You should know this bit already Read More...
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Site Recovery for Hyper-V #1 – Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 12:52 PM by mattmcspirit
I’m going to try to make this a feature that rolls on and on in the future, as it’s an area I’m getting more and more questions about, and there are a number of options out there for Partners and Customers, so trying to centralise the info into one place Read More...
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System Center Configuration Manager SP2 Released

Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 5:50 PM by mattmcspirit
22nd October was a pretty significant day for Microsoft.  As most of you will be aware, it was the day Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were launched, and both are monumental releases for a number of different reasons.  Windows 7 is a fantastic Read More...
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System Center Service Manager Public Beta (2) – Now Available

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:57 PM by mattmcspirit
A couple of weeks back (seems like ages now, but I’ve been moving house so I have an excuse!!) I blogged about Service Manager , and how it could be the next big thing in automating IT processes, workflows, and more, within an IT environment.  At Read More...
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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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Beta Alert: Infrastructure Management for the SMB – System Center Essentials 2010

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:57 PM by mattmcspirit
Again, I’ve lifted this from the SCE blog , and again, I’ll weigh in once I’ve pulled it down, and had the chance to try this bad boy out!  This one could be a little gem for the SMB space, who want the advanced capabilities provided by Hyper-V, Read More...
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Beta Alert: Zinger a.k.a DPM v3 a.k.a Data Protection Manager 2010 beta now available!

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:31 PM by mattmcspirit
I’ve pinched this straight from the release documentation, so apologies for that.  I’ll weigh in with my opinions once I’ve pulled it down and played with it, which, up to now, I haven’t had the chance to do.  Key thing for me in this release 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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2 little gems for the weekend…

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 5:40 PM by mattmcspirit
This past week has been a little bit different for me, in the sense that I’ve been talking with Partners and Customers about Windows 7.  Naturally it’s in conjunction with Windows Server 2008 R2, which naturally leads me on to Hyper-V and System Read More...
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Responding to the VMware: Virtual Reality blog post…

Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:00 PM by mattmcspirit
A couple of days back, I wrote a war-and-peace-length (OK, not quite!) post on the investigation of the VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator. If you haven’t read it, you can read it here . To summarise, it showed: On like for like hardware, a Microsoft Read More...
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MDOP 2009 R2 Announced – Available in late October 2009

Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:52 AM by mattmcspirit
The Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack is a set of technologies that is constantly evolving and growing in size, yet at the same time, the price never changes, which is great news for Partners and Customers.  If you’re not familiar with what MDOP Read More...
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Investigating the VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator

Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 5:33 PM by mattmcspirit
As readers of this blog will be well aware, one of the key additions to Hyper-V R2, was Live Migration.  Prior to R2, Hyper-V had a capability known as Quick Migration, which enabled a virtual machine (VM) to be migrated from one physical host to Read More...
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App-V Hidden Gem

Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:43 PM by mattmcspirit
I was browsing around t’internet last night, looking for some App-V related information for a Partner (Paul S, this is you!), and stumbled on this non-Microsoft, App-V dedicated site, and having spent a good while on there, thought it was definitely worth Read More...
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Video: System Center Configuration Manager & Intel vPro – BIOS Upgrades

Posted Monday, September 07, 2009 1:46 PM by mattmcspirit
A little off topic, but, I believe, of equal importance to virtualisation-related information.  If you’re managing a desktop (or server actually), then managing updates can be complex, especially in larger environments.  As a Microsoft house, Read More...
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