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Bootable VHD disk with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
I’ve discussed this functionality widely over the last few weeks since it was publically disclosed. What we are talking about here is the ability to boot Windows 7 or 2008 R2 from a VHD file. To ‘deploy’ the Windows 7 RC build that I’m currently using Read More...
New Infrastructure Planning & Design guides issued
SOLUTION ACCELERATORS - Act faster . Go further .   Infrastructure Planning & Design Release Announcement www.microsoft.com/IPD   I repeatedly forget to mention these in my talks - and that's bad because these documents are excellent.   Read More...
Technet Magazine – Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualisation
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...
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Coming...
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...
Update Impact Analyzer / Update Compatibility Evaluator (UCE)
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...
The Optimised Desktop - What and how?
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...
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 released!!
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...
Windows Vista and Office Deployment Days Slides
Hi, Over the last two weeks I've had the pleasure of 'tail-ending' the keynote talks at two Windows Vista and Office 2007 deployment days. I'll follow this post with an overview of what I said about Windows Vista, and deploying it, but I here I am posting Read More...
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