Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft UK TechDays
Posted by on February 2, 2012
Microsoft are once again running their TechDays series in the UK, a series of full-day FREE hands-on sessions on training around the UK. I’ve attended these in the past and can highly recommend them. There look to be some excellent sessions, you can sign up here I am attending the private cloud session and look [...]
Streaming Install of Office 2010 Beta
Posted by on April 16, 2010
This is clever, Microsoft are going to offer a version of Office 2010 that you can install on demand using the App-V technology that they acquired from Softricity a few years ago. Read the link to the Office 2010 team blog here and you can try the beta for yourself here [...]
Bring your own Windows license for EC2, but where are Microsoft?
Posted by on March 25, 2010
This is interesting, Amazon have announced a pilot scheme to allow customers with a Microsoft Enterprise agreement to port their Windows licenses to EC2, which they say reduces the average cost of a Windows EC2 instance by up to 41% (interesting to see where the infrastructure/software cost split is – maybe this is why [...]
Free Windows Crash Dump Analysis and Performance Analysis Session from the WSUG in London
Posted by on March 9, 2010
The Windows Server User Group have announced another free evening session during the UK Tech Days week in London. Blurb pasted from the WSUG site below; The [WSUG] Windows Server User Group has the pleasure of hosting Dan Pearson, from David Solomon’s Expert Seminars, http://www.solsem.com/ Dan is in London teaching the week of TechDays [...]
Windows Server User Group London – BranchCache and W2k8 R2 Migration
Posted by on March 3, 2010
The Windows Server User Group are holding a talk on the evening of April 12th at Microsoft’s London offices near Victoria. This event compliments Microsoft’s tech-days week which I previously mentioned here. The agenda is as follows and you can register here BranchCache (Deep Dive) BranchCache is a new Feature in Windows Server 2008 [...]
Microsoft Tech-Days London – Free Technical Events for IT-Pro’s and Developers
Posted by on February 17, 2010
Microsoft have just announced a series of 5 “tech days” in central London, covering the following topics for IT Pro’s on W/C 12th April Virtualization Summit – From the Desktop to the Datacentre Office 2010 – Experience the Next Wave in Business Productivity Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – Deployment made easy [...]
Is your MS Application Supported under VMware, Hyper-V, Xen? – the DEFINITIVE Statement from Microsoft
Posted by on August 14, 2009
A colleague has just made me aware of a new tool on the Microsoft website, it is a wizard that can tell you if specific Microsoft App/OS/Architecture combinations are supported under the SVVP (Server Virtualization Validation Programme) – I previously wrote about the SVVP here, which promised to resolve many of the pains we [...]
Microsoft Virtualization User Group Meeting (UK)
Posted by on January 29, 2009
I’ll be attending this user group event this evening in London; if you’re local and interested then I believe it’s never too late to register. If you’re not local then you can view the webcast (details below) online Looks to be some interesting content, and always good to speak to customers who have done [...]
Off to Microsoft Tech-Ed EMEA 2008
Posted by on October 31, 2008
I’m on my way to Microsoft TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona on Sunday, I’ll try and post some details of the interesting content as I go, but incase I don’t carry my laptop round with me all the time I’ve installed the Twitterberry client on my trusty BB Pearl and will be posting “tweets” [...]
Windows Azure under the hood
Posted by on October 30, 2008
There is a an excellent video interview with Manuvir Das from the Azure team on the MSDN Channel 9 site here. The interview is quite long, but I’ve tried to summarise it for infrastructure people/architects like me as follows; Azure is an overall “OS” for the cloud, akin to VMWare and their VDC initiative [...]
