September 2008 - Posts
I’ve spoken to many of you about Data Protection Manager (DPM) but normally at a high level. This technet webcast will give you a detailed look at protecting SQL Server specifically. The webcast happened live last week but if you follow the ‘registration’
Read More...
The reports will be here until 12th March 2009 Quantifying the Value of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol4/article6/article6.html How to Quantify the Value of Software Assurance for Windows Client
Read More...
I’m on the train to London this morning for a customer meeting. I got onto the train at 06.20 in Warrington, Cheshire and by 08.40 (and it’s rarely late) I’ll be in London Euston. Nothing special there – but what’s great is that when I got onto the train
Read More...
As you’ll know if you read my blog – I love Application Virtualisation. It solves so many problems with the packaging, deployment, and management of desktop and server based applications. Technet magazine has published a great introduction to Application
Read More...
so the ad campaign has really started now. As reported yesterday the New York Times has some good quality analysis on the campaign – and I’ve read some low quality analysis…. But this is the trust of it – I’m a PC, there’s a BILLION others like me, and
Read More...
So Steve has the scoop here , and apparently (I’m offline right now) the New York Times has the scoop. I’m at a Microsoft internal conference in Florida this week and at lunchtime we had a preview of some Windows 7 Enterprise features (cool :) ), and
Read More...
Picked this up from the Windows Server teams blog here . Seems like NAP has been highly recognised by Forrester. I think that NAP is something that interests almost every company that I talk to. And I think the real key to NAP is the management solutions
Read More...
OK so I knew that this was Malware – AND I executed it on purpose to see which security system on my machine would pick it up, or I knew I faced a rebuild! Look what happened – I opened the e-mail just like my mother might do, double clicked on the attachment
Read More...
Courtesy of a post on Liveside you can now download the beta installer for Live Wave 3. There's a couple of new apps as you can see in the sceenshot below installing onto my machine. Family safety beta and the Outlook connector are interesting additions.
Read More...
This is amusing. Announced on the Virtualization teams blog and in the spirit of 'friendly competition' the Virtualisation product group have created this web site - www.VMwareCostsWayTooMuch.com . Check this out - and ask yourself whether you
Read More...
I tend to discuss the MAP tool fairly frequently in meetings with customers as it's a great - FREE - tool for helping you with planning for migrations and deployments. In a posting from last Friday the MAP team announced an upcoming open beta of the next
Read More...
Well I guess that a few years ago you would not have expected to read that title - a CRAY, running Windows! Well I noticed this post on the Windows Product Groups blog announcing... "For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and
Read More...
Eileen has blogged on PPtPlex that has come out of MSR. As she mentions I heard about it first from a customer who presented at our UK company conference last week. He certainly made good use of it. I've not had must time to use it, other than just install
Read More...
So you may not have thought the first instalment of the Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ads was funny. But I just laughed out loud at the second one! Go to Windows to see it in full fidelity via Silverlight . It's called 'New Family', I LOL at about 3:26
Read More...
I'm doing a lot of answering questions from previous customer meetings today - hence the number of blog postings! Here's a link that I wish I had found a few minutes ago to send to a customer (hopefully they will read my blog!). This is an article on
Read More...
Here is a link to another excellent TechCenter on Technet and this one is all about Branch Office Solutions . There are a whole pile of improvements within Windows Server 2008 to assist around branch office. So many that there is a downloadable guide
Read More...
Just noticed this video of an interview with UK partner Risual on there deployment of Windows Server 2008 to Branch office. They are discussing RODC and Bitlocker amongst other things. Worth a watch...
Read More...
I end up talking about this technology in pretty much every meeting I do. Just in case we've not met... do you want a tool that will tell you whether one of your applications will be 'impacted' or affected my a patch you want to deploy? Sounds like magic
Read More...
You will have probably heard Microsoft talking about our Dynamic IT vision, especially if you've seen anything of the Virtualisation launch this week . An essential ingredient of this is the Optimised Desktop, and this is something that I often discuss
Read More...
[Update - this post seemed to get lost so I'm posting again - apologies if you get it twice!] I thought that I would try to summarise what we launched this week, pull together the case studies, 3rd party analysis, etc. The launch has been well blogged
Read More...
This is a question that often gets asked, and sometimes the answers are as clear as mud! So, I'm going to try and answer the question and you can tell me if it's clear or not! Firstly, my usual disclaimers on licensing related matters - This blog post
Read More...
I was just talking to a colleague who had been asked by a customer about Chrome. It's interesting the amount of publicity that this beta release managed to create. Indeed, just look at this converge from the fiercely independent BBC . What I didn't see
Read More...
This is as much about testing embedding Silverlight Videos as it is actually presenting this video here!! The actual link is here as previously posted.
Read More...
Hi, Well the Virtualization and Windows Hyper-V launch events have been well covered all over the place. BUT, have you noticed that in the press release it offers "Microsoft executives will further outline virtualization solutions for customers and
Read More...
For some reason this post never got published and was sitting in my 'drafts' folder in Live Writer . Oh well, it's still more than a current topic of conversation. Hope this helps... This article has just been brought to my attention - Businesses
Read More...
Hi Folks, I can do no better than point you at This blog post from the MDOP product team. But if you need further encouragement, besides covering the new Windows Virtualization 4.5 (latest Softgrid release) in some detail they also announce new really
Read More...
As confirmed here SCCM 2007 R2 has just gone RTM. This is a long awaited released (by me at least!) as it delivers significant functionality lifts in two key areas: 1) Integration of Microsoft Application Virtualization (aka Softgrid) so that you can
Read More...
