Malcolm Bullock - Optimising Infrastructure for business benefit : Windows Server 2008

#2 Hyper-V V’s VMware ESXi – The Case Studies

mbullock — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:06:26 GMT

This is part two in our look at Hyper-V. In this post we’ll look at some of the Case Studies that are available for Hyper-V, look at some of the key SI’s who have delivered the results and provide you with resources to do your own analysis. One of the...(read more)

Save money - Decommission your RAS architecture!

mbullock — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:58:07 GMT

Ok, so I'm exaggerating but I have been using a Microsoft implementation of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services a *lot* recently. It's effectively meant that I don't need to remote into the Microsoft Corporate network when working away from the office...(read more)

Out of Band Security Bulletin released

mbullock — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:35:10 GMT

Folks, just in case you've not picked this up elsewhere you should know that we have released an out of band security update . As you know this isn't usual and therefore you should carefully review the information here . It's worth noting that for Windows...(read more)

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 RTW – Download Now

mbullock — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:25:41 GMT

As Keith writes - Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 is a stand-alone product that provides a simplified, reliable, cost-effective and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. It allows organizations...(read more)

WebCast: Securing Branch Office User Accounts

mbullock — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:59:35 GMT

I came across this webcast recently and thought that it might be useful to you. The Webcast is basically a 12 minute demonstration of technologies such as Read only domain controller, BitLocker and fine Grained Password Policies in Windows Server 2008....(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)

vmware costs way too much .com

mbullock — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:46:19 GMT

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)

Cray Supercomputer runs Windows....

mbullock — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:06:07 GMT

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)

How MSIT Uses Terminal Services as a Scalable Remote Access Solution

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:41:39 GMT

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)

Branch Office Optimisation using Windows Server 2008

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:37:50 GMT

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)

Windows Server 2008 Branch Office deployment

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:29:54 GMT

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)

Virtualization Launch Day - Summary

mbullock — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:19:20 GMT

[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)

Virtualization Launch and Demo's R Here!

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:05:31 GMT

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)

Want to see "Live Migration" in Hyper-V Demo?

mbullock — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:01:28 GMT

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)

MSDN.com and Technet.com running 100% on Hyper-V!!

mbullock — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:49:52 GMT

I've been hinting to a few of you recently that a major web site is running totally live on Hyper-V, and has been for some weeks. Well the announcement came out last week so here it is - MSDN.com which receives about 3 million hits per DAY, and...(read more)