Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : Deployment

Bootable VHD disk with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

mbullock — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:14:46 GMT

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

mbullock — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:07:12 GMT

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

mbullock — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:30:33 GMT

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...

mbullock — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:32:01 GMT

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)

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:21:40 GMT

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?

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:48:14 GMT

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!!

mbullock — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:24:15 GMT

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

mbullock — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:55:42 GMT

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)