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08 September 2008 14:03
[Virtualisation] Microsoft and Partners Help Customers “Get Virtual Now”
Today more than 20 partners announce plans for Microsoft virtualisation solutions; Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Application Virtualisation 4.5 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 available within 30 days. Reading, UK. — Sept. 8, 2008...
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03 September 2008 22:39
[ConfigMgr] Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Released to Manufacturing
Just seen this on The App-V blog : " It is with great enthusiasm that the Microsoft Application Virtualization product team announces the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of App-V 4.5!!! App-V 4.5 represents a huge step forward for the product and...
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01 September 2008 12:13
[Virtualisation] InformationWeek’s Rolling Review: Hyper-V Aces VM Basics
"In our rolling review of Windows 2008 Server components, we've saved the most intriguing--Hyper-V--for last. Our take? Hyper-V is great for basic Windows server consolidation, and it works well in rudimentary high-availability scenarios, but...
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29 August 2008 08:49
[Event] Windows Server 2008 User Group Ireland - September 2nd: Hyper-V & SCVMM 2008
The Windows Server 2008 User Group – Ireland are running an event next Tuesday on Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. For more details and to register (you’ll have to be quick as there’s only a limited number of places), goto: http...
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20 August 2008 10:53
[Virtualisation] Three interesting news items in the world of Microsoft virtualisation…
First off Microsoft has revamped it’s licensing and support policies when it comes to virtualisation. As from the 1st September Microsoft will dump it’s current 90 day reassignment requirement that currently makes it difficult to move software licenses...
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18 August 2008 14:59
[Virtualisation] Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: A first look
I was taking a read through Greg Shield’s Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: A first look which is worth a read. My impression of Microsoft’s virtualisation strategy is that they now seem to firmly have the bit between their teeth and...
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15 August 2008 07:00
[Community] New Microsoft Virtualisation User Group UK
So looks we have a new UK User Group the “ Microsoft Virtualisation User Group UK ” who’s first meeting is at Microsoft’s offices in Cardinal Place, Victoria, London on the 24th September BUT there is also the opportunity to attend via Live Meeting. Now...
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31 July 2008 07:04
[ConfigMgr][SCOM] Win a Windows Home Server with Evalu’08
I’ve just stumbled across the Evalu’08 website as it was featured in one of the many newsletters I get from Microsoft. Basically this is a single website giving you the opportunity to either download trial versions or take Virtual Labs in...
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30 July 2008 09:09
[Virtualisation] System Center Virtual Machine Manager Useful Links
Following on from my Virtualisation post I decided to do some digging round for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The current versions of SCVMM is 2007 but the Release Candidate of SCVMM 2008 is available from Connect . Here’s some...
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29 July 2008 15:33
[Virtualisation] VMware slashes ESXi price to zero
Well it seems that what with Microsoft’s release of Hyper-V and other movements in the virtualisation market VMware has decided to stop charging $500 for it’s ESXi Hypervisor and instead give it away for free as my friend Paul kindly pointed out to me...
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29 July 2008 11:57
[Virtualisation] Getting Started with Hyper-V
I’m going to be honest I hate Microsoft’s Virtualisation strategy or at least I did until now. I was born and bred on VMWare. I tried Virtual PC and it was OK. Virtual Server well even saying the name makes me cringe so you know my opinion...
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28 July 2008 10:11
[Virtualisation] Video on How to get the Most out of Windows 2008 Hyper-V
Shame you can’t view this video full screen: “ In this video tutorial watch Gareth Hall, Windows Server Product Manager for Microsoft, explains how to get the most of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. ” http://link.brightcove.com/services...
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01 May 2008 11:26
MMS Day 2 - Product Roadmap details announced for specific tools
On MMS Day 2 Microsoft announced the product roadmap details for the following tools: Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Release Candidate 1 Asset Inventory Service (AIS) 1.5 Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 3.0 MDOP languages availability...
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30 April 2008 11:40
MMS 2008 Keynote: The Dynamic Datacenter
Michael Niehaus has done a great summary of Bob Muglia's keynote MMS presentation which is well worth a read and includes some important announcements: http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/archive/2008/04/29/mms-2008-keynote-the-dynamic-datacenter.aspx
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30 April 2008 11:30
Public Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 announced
Microsoft announced at MMS the public beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly referred to as code name “Virtual Machine Manager vNext”) is now available. " System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables...
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