Ramblings about Technical Infrastructure

very cool - the MSI Utility coming for SoftGrid rocks!

2007-09-20T01:14:00Z

Alirghty, so if you are not familiar with SoftGrid then you need to check it out! - [t's one of my favourite infrastructure technologies - *grin*]... Formerly Softricity (an MS acquistion) it is how Microsoft do application virtualization. taking a step back there's lots of different types of virtualization most people think of virtualization as simply server/OS virtualization (think: Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VMWare[-grrr]), desktop virtualization(think: Virtual PC 2007 ) presentation layer virtualization...(read more)

When is System Center Essentials the right fit?

2007-08-30T05:26:00Z

Often asked question : When is System Center Essentials the right fit? Answer: To help you decide which solution is best for your needs you need to follow guidance below: Business Considerations Essentials 2007 is likely to be the best IT management solution for a majority of midsize businesses, so long as they are within the scale limits of 30 Windows Servers and 500 Windows Clients. However, determining the right IT management solution for your company may be determined by the maturity and complexity...(read more)

Useful Core Infrastructure links

2007-08-30T05:04:00Z

Ok, so this little more than just posting a bunch of links but I guess it makes sense since I get asked for this content a lot:-) The main System Center site is here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/ The Core IO website is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/io The Solution Accelerators are located here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/solutionaccelerators/default.mspx Learning Paths for Infrastructure are available here: http://www.msreadiness.com/MSLearningPlans.asp For relevant infrastructure...(read more)

Upcoming MTUG event: SQL Server Katmai & Spacial Databases

2007-08-21T20:10:00Z

Upcoming MTUG event on SQL ’08 - SQL Server Katmai & Spacial Databases It is a level 100 event so may not go into anywhere near the kind of depth you want but if you’ve not yet looked at ’08 (which rocks -J) then it might be a start sign up here: http://www.sql.mtug.ie/...(read more)

my first infrastructure blog post!

2007-08-12T23:12:00Z

Hi & welcome! I'm the Infrastructure Partner Technical Specialist here for Microsoft in Dublin and I look forward to sharing my ramblings with you on all things related to infrastructure - particularly System Center, Longhorn /W2K8, SoftGrid and and all things I consider to be "TechSexy" . For regular updates s ubscribe your Vista Feed Headlines Gadget to my RSS feed as I will be regularly adding content over the coming weeks, Michelle:)...(read more)