Maria Green (IT Pro Evangelist for Asia Pacific) will be down in Sydney for the Girl Geek Dinner. Make sure you get along, there should be a few people from Microsoft there as well as others from Industry.
Where + When
Date: Thursday 21st February
Time: 6pm
Where: Lindt Chocolate Cafe, Cockle Bay
More info at Maria's Blog
Windows IT Pro have put up their first look at Hyper-V technology.
"Microsoft’s Hyper-V is an evolutionary technology that can complement or go beyond the virtualization approach of Virtual Server 2005 R2. Hyper-V’s new microkernel, hypervisor-based solution delivers better performance, more features and functionality, and improved scalability over Virtual Server 2005 R2. These advances level the playing field with VMware’s market leader, ESX Server. The fact that Server 2008 introduces Windowsnative virtualization in the form of Hyper-V is sure to drive the adoption of virtualization in organizations of all sizes. And Hyper-V will help drive the adoption of Server 2008. The price and easy accessibility make moving to Hyper-V virtualization especially attractive for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Plus ESX Server’s more difficult Linux-style administration and higher price deters many SMBs."
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/97857/pg/1/1.html
Definitely worth a read if you are considering Virtualization in your IT environment. Don't forget there will be a Virtualization session at the upcoming Heroes Happen 2008 events.
The team is looking for some really great stories about IT Professionals who have taken a Microsoft Certification. Did it help with your career? Did your employers value your certification? Would you recommend certification to your peers? Have you taken a certification on Windows Server 2008?
You never know we may even use your face in our Microsoft Certification information. Send us your stories to itproanz@microsoft.com
Jeff Jones has released the 1 year vulnerability report for Windows Vista.
This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern workstation operating systems Red Hat, Ubuntu and Apple products.
The results of the analysis show that Windows Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor. Analysis of security updates also shows that Microsoft improvements to the security update process and development process have reduced the impact of security updates to Windows administrators significantly compared to its predecessor, Windows XP.
My team members will be at the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG) on Friday 25th January. It will be a Q&A session, ask Microsoft a question by posting it to the SLUG wiki. There has been a fantastic response on the wiki as you can see from all the questions!
