Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : SCCM

Application Virtualization 4.5 Documentation

mbullock — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:24:22 GMT

There has been a host of documentation and announcements around Application Virtualisation recently. I would suggest that you read the App-V team blog here . Of note though are several whitepapers that have been produced to help you evaluate, and deploy...(read more)

Independent research firm recognizes Microsoft NAP as a leader in Network Access Control

mbullock — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:07:36 GMT

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)

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)