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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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Final IPD Guide for DirectAccess Now Available

Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 10:27 AM by mattmcspirit
After a short holiday break, here’s a quick post to ease back into the blogging :-) A couple of months back, I chatted about the beta release of the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for DirectAccess and gave a brief explanation of the user experience Read More...
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Free eBook – Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:05 AM by mattmcspirit
Remember a couple of years back, just before Windows Server 2008 launched? Well, for me, I knew this was going to be one of my focuses for that particular financial year, however, I also knew very little about 2008 as a technology!  I was a Windows-Client 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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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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Upcoming October Academy Live Webcasts for Partners

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 1:12 PM by mattmcspirit
More useful webcasts for the upcoming month of October (which also happens to be my birthday month, *cough* 30th *cough*…).  All 3 of these sessions are important for a variety of reasons, but the one that interests me, straight off the bat, is the 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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VirtualboyTV.com: Microsoft VDI Part III: Client Side Experiences

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:04 PM by mattmcspirit
Microsoft VDI Part III: Client Side Experiences In this video, it's time to step into the shoes of a user and see what kind of experience they can expect using Microsoft VDI.  We'll look at the effects Custom RDP settings can have, and look at the Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Microsoft VDI Part II: Virtual Desktop Configuration

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:56 PM by mattmcspirit
Microsoft VDI Part II: Virtual Desktop Configuration In this video, I show you how to make the necessary configuration changes to your chosen Virtual Desktop OS's to get them ready for being a Virtual Desktop.  I then go on to create 2 types of Virtual Read More...
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VirtualboyTV.com: Microsoft VDI Part I: Server Side Configuration

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:38 PM by mattmcspirit
27th July was the last VBTV video!  I’m slipping behind here!  Oh well, the wait is over, but why was it so long??  Well, remember the RDS Series I produced a couple of months back? At the end of the series, I promised to deliver a VDI Read More...
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Microsoft UK Partners: Sales Schools for Virtualisation and Management

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 12:02 PM by mattmcspirit
Couple of useful courses coming up for those of you based in the UK: Selling Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Solutions Date: 08 October 2009 Time: 09:30 - 12:30 Audience: Account Managers Course Code: 44SE035 Location: Thames Valley Park, Reading Read More...
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Upcoming Partner Academy Live Session – Licensing Microsoft VDI and RDS

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 8:19 AM by mattmcspirit
This could be an interesting one for all of you interested in licensing Microsoft VDI and Remote Desktop Services in R2.  Having delivered a session yesterday, which, for part of it, discussed licensing around VDI, it’s still clear that due to the 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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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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