Sep
19
By now, many people have already blogged about the availability of the new SharePoint Information Worker (IW) Demo with Service Pack 1. Here’s the link: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27417 There’s about 30 download buttons!! So for anyone that wants an easier way to download all of those links, here’s a PowerShell script that I used (below). It’ll use …
Jan
13
Earlier in the week i shared a video with you about backing up your HyperV deployment with Windows server backup http://www.sharepointedutech.com/2011/01/09/how-do-i-backup-hyper-v-with-windows-server-backup/ well to balance the scales i thought i would post about using System center data protection manager this is the product we are using to backup our HyperV farm but obviously there is a cost …
Jan
09
Next week i will be at the BETT show in London talking HyperV and one of the questions that always gets asked is how do you back your VHD’s up well i found this video by Mark Wilson on backing up HyperV with Windows server backup which i thought i would share. With virtualised workloads, …
Dec
30
As I said previously I will be on the Microsoft stand at the BETT show this year talking HyperV with Alan Richards
Dec
27
This January myself and Alan Richards will be on the Microsoft stand at the BETT show we will be talking with people about HyperV and the cost savings associated with that technology. Well today I thought I would share this video with you showing that you can start small in the virtualization world and scale …
Nov
28
Yesterday I wrote a post entitled Tech Ed Europe 2010 Online SharePoint Session Videos this aggregated all the videos from the recent Teched Europe on the subject of SharePoint. Well today I thought I would give the same treatment to my second favourite subject Microsoft virtualization technologies. These videos cover HyperV, AppV and VDI. As …
Nov
03
Today I saw a tweet from Ray Fleming about a free EBook, the 2nd edition of understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solution (From the desktop to the datacentre) by Mitch Tulloch this 450 page Ebook covers the following topics through its chapters:- Chapter 1: Why Virtualization? This chapter provides an overview of Microsoft’s integrated virtualization solution and …
Nov
01
Microsoft have made available the service pack 1 release candidate for Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda Well this is one of those service packs (a bit like Vista) which I have been very much looking forward to applying. So on the 27th October I applied the service pack …
Oct
24
I have been passed a couple of videos to share with you the first video is an interview with fellow network manager from Ely community college Matt Simpson and Lionel Wilson IS Manager from the woodland trust explaining the rationale behind choosing a virtualization technology. I have also included a second video on how to …
