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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://cid-0009d47851cc41db.events.live.com/ I’m really...
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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 between virtual servers running on the same physical...
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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 are aggressively going out there to try to dominate...
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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 although I applaud this (the timing is good for...
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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 the following products: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server...
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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 useful links for SCVMM 2007: System Center Virtual...
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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 on this article from The Register . If you want to...
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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 on this. But I’m someone that can forgive and...
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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/link/bcpid1653590857/bctid1655880292
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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 More details at: http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes...