Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : Management

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)

Businesses warned not to skip Vista - from CIO.com

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:23:36 GMT

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)

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)

Need to find 'lost' software? or Asses your readiness for Vista?

mbullock — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:33:58 GMT

My colleague Matt Stephen has raised awareness of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool (MAP) for customer who want to 'find' instances of SQL Server installed in their environment. Now I know of this tool as a Vista planning tool as one of Map's...(read more)

Training and Information on System Center Operations Manager 2007

mbullock — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:54:16 GMT

Hi, I just saw this list of useful SCOM 2007 resources so I thought that I would post them here as a reference for us all :) E-learning: Course 3386 - Implementing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 - https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=138307...(read more)