A very good presentation was posted on SlideShare.net a couple of days ago. It is titled “Web 2010 Discover Ten Strategies Defining Your Business Future” by Jay Berkowitz, and it talks about some of the key strategies driving successful business on the Internet – Definitely a must see! Summary of the first five follow: #1….
A very good presentation was posted on SlideShare.net a couple of days ago. It is titled “Web 2010 Discover Ten Strategies Defining Your Business Future” by Jay Berkowitz, and it talks about some of the key strategies driving successful business on the Internet – Definitely a must see! Summary of the first five follow: #1….
Had to stay over the weekend because of early Monday business meetings. Crazy June cold weather here – Snowing a bit where I am right now… Wishing I was home – where is fun, nice, sunny and warm. — Will miss lots of family and friends activities this weekend. Bummer!
Yesterday, during the keynote on day two of the Google I/O Conference , Google presented the vision their vision for collaboration and communication platform which they have called it – very appropriately – Google Wave. It has been a long time – since I have been so excited about how can we use technology to…
We thought you might be interested in the latest webcast produced by our colleagues at CompuCom and in close cooperation with Microsoft. It took place online on June 2, 2009, and it was about Microsoft’s latest release of Data Protection Manager. It covered a lot of ground and there was a number of interesting questions…
I have been a great fan of Google Notebook feature for many years. I have posted many ideas, things to remember, web clippings and a number of other items there. I am not sure how I missed this news, but as I was rebuilding my computer and adding my browser extensions, I got the message…
Went out today to find toner for my LaserJet printer, and I almost flipped! Checked three places and the toner (at all three places) was over $124.00 – Crazy! – What happened to toner pricing? I used to buy it for $80.00 tops. I went online and decided to buy it from newegg.com which had…
We got a new puppy a couple of weeks back. Sha has been fun and has given us lots of laughs. Just for fun, and to learn – I posted the video on You Tube. Enjoy!
The latest set of tweets from the last couple of weeks: 05/13/09 02:42:42 Officially SharePoint lost the Office title http://tr.im/lcgn 05/13/09 03:14:58 New Office 2010 Product Team Blog: http://tr.im/lcnA 05/14/09 23:48:58 Google Contacts please add notes/memos to your feature sets – You can be sooo much more with a little more effort. http://tr.im/lnWr 05/18/09 15:07:06…
The IT industry is all about change. Change to make thing better, most efficient, response faster, while still reducing cost… At least in theory. In the past couple of years, there has been a significant transformation occurring. The move to Cloud Computing has been slowly transforming everything – and I mean *everything*. from the way we look at hardware…
We have typically focused our articles on Microsoft and related technologies. This one will change that trend a bit, as what we heard and saw is – in our view – significant announcement from Google. Yesterday, during the keynote on day 2of the Google I/O Conference , Google demonstrated (literally) the vision they are heading towards, and they…
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Article by Rob West As Windows 7 relieves a lot of the pent-up demand for a new OS from Microsoft and unblocks the anti-Vista sentiment that has been one of the major impediments to widespread enterprise adoption of what was (in our opinion) a great OS in its later iterations, we are seeing greater demand…
Microsoft TechNet’s site has changed the way in which they present the solution accelerators. You can now sort according MOF Service life cycle and by discipline – A very good move we think! Also we just heard that the upgrade to MAP (4.0) is right around the corner! More info on this can be…
Microsoft’ Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Online, made available a basic but interesting video on his views on cloud computing adoption which he expressed at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Boston, MA For one thing, chief information officers are uncertain how to fashion a roadmap that brings “cloud services” into their IT architecture….
I have a good friend that introduced me to Anagram – a tool that allows you to highlight a section of an email and it will convert it into an outlook contact. — I tried it for a couple of weeks (during the trial period) and I found it VERY useful. Unfortunatelly, not 34.95 worth…
I just changed the style of the blog today. Looking at it all — blog, facebook, twitter, website – I need to simplyfy –
Upcoming Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Application Virtualization The MDOP team has announced that on May 26th TechNet will host a webcast to discuss how Microsoft uses App-V 4.5 and ConfigMgr 2007 to deploy and manage applications within their environment. if it is anything like the one at MMS2009 it should be an interesting one. Click…
“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.” – Theodore Logan. In this case it would be at the “Circle M” – strange and cool things. I downloaded and installed XP Mode onto my Windows 7 RC 1 base image on my laptop – a Dell Latitude D820 Core 2 Duo with 4 gigs of…
For those of us using OneNote and Groove, there was an announcement made today that would very much interest you… 1) Groove will becomes SharePoint Workspace 2) OneNote and SharePoint Workspace now a part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 More info at: Microsoft Office 2010 Blog
The Office 2010 Teamblog opened to the public a nice and simple “hello world” message. In that message they posted their first insights: … preliminary system requirements for Office 2010. 1. Office 2010 will be available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. 2. Office 2010 will run on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista,…
Office 2010 is finally coming out for air now – check out the newly released Office 2010 Official Blog site – This announcement prompted me to do a bit of a quick online check as to what’s ahead in the near future. Several new versions of Microsoft software are currently in beta mode, release release…
Tweets for the last couple of weeks: 04/27/09 18:43:33 At MMS2009: MED-V shuodl be treated as a v1.0 product. 05/05/09 17:03:58 McKinsey Cloud Computing Report: Is it too expensive? http://tr.im/kylc 05/06/09 01:51:33 Found Twitter app for my Palm-based Treo device. MOtwit. 05/06/09 04:18:40 Somehow I missed the news: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4…
As always, MMS 2009 is not only a technical conference with lots of good content and “what’s new” on the Microsoft system management tools sets but also a place to catch up with old friends, rekindle some relationships, and make new ones. The business networking that goes on is – I think – highly underestimated. …
One of our esteemed contributors, Jorge Pereira, has the good fortune of being at #MMS09 this year, and has been energized by what he’s heard. He’s probably gearing up for some posts outlining his thoughts on what’s happening in the center of the Microverse.
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Tweets of the last couple of weeks: 04/19/09 03:18:33 Completed setup a set of servers in the Amazon Elastic Computing platform. Very easy and straight forward. – http://tr.im/j9l2 04/22/09 16:25:56 MDOP 2009 and MED-V released — Good stuff! Looking forward to MMS2009 next week. http://tr.im/jqJO 04/23/09 13:56:55 VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator compares the cost of virtualizing…
I ran across – actually a good friend send me the link – a very useful tool called EtherPad — An online, real time, multiuser text editing tool. If you have not checked it out – Do so right now! — It will change the way you take notes in meetings! www.etherpad.com
A new version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) was realsed early April and includes includes MED-V v1.0, a cummulative update to App-V andupdate to AIS. This update has been a much anticipated primarily because of MED-V which is finally available under the Microsoft name. The official posting at the MDOP blog…
Latest tweets: 04/15/09 03:54:53 I ran into DabbleDB and I love it. Excel data analysis, reporting and web data entry — http://tr.im/iQKA 04/15/09 04:11:43 Great article: “Get Rich Slow” in Time Magazine. Bootstrap Internet businesses is hot again! Uplifting article… http://tr.im/iQNP 04/15/09 14:41:05 Received a Google strategy briefing today for Messaging and Collaboration. Very cool…
Latest tweets: 03/30/09 13:48:34 In route to LAX this morning… Busy week ahead. 03/30/09 13:52:08 Airports are packed. Spring break for sure. Long lines, so make sure you allow some extra time. 04/03/09 06:08:01 Made it back after a very full week in LAX. Arrived to a cold 41 degrees and rainy city. Looking forward…
Tweets of the quarter: 01/10/09 03:19:11 Resuming communications. It has been a long time. 03/25/09 05:55:43 I was in NY today. Visited the metropolitan Museum. Wow! What a place. Heading to 3oronto tonight. 03/25/09 06:01:52 Arrived late to Toronto. Long day. Lost my new iPod nano. Very upsetting. 03/25/09 19:01:42 Good meetings today. In…
Desktop management is now a critical function of IT services within any organization. Historically, standalone computers and small networks did not require much centralization and management. However, rapid technological advancements, network size growth and the proliferation of the Internet have driven the need for advanced desktop management solutions. The Vision: “Power and flexibility of a…
Yes, it is really shameful. It has been several months since I posted any thing to this site. Really not good. So many things have transpired. It really is not a matter of time, but focus. First with work. Then with the new position And then with the travel… I started to do Facebook and…
Article by Rob West …was reborn this month. We’ve been traveling, speaking and writing so much that we haven’t had enough time to write to this blog. Well, that’s dumb, and has to stop, so I’m personally committing at least 2 hours of my week to doing the bare minimum: hunting down a few cool…
Article by Rob West Over on the Innovative Technology Weblog, my former colleague Kevin Reejuwijk has posted a great article about one my greatest excitements/disappointments in IT in awhile: the kind of bait n’ switch (IMO) integration of App-V and SCCM. App-V traditionally tells a user-centric story, but when integrated with SCCM, becomes more akin…
A couple of years ago, a couple of colleagues and I created a two-part white paper on Desktop Management which I never published here… Still very relevant so here you go.. A New Vision for Desktop Management White Paper by Jorge Pereira, Sean Kennedy, Rob West December 2006 Desktop Management has remained largely unchanged over…
Tweets of the Month: 10/13/08 17:24:30 worked on Bizplan all weekend! – crossed eyed. 10/13/08 17:27:53 Learned and setup Salesforce.com also over the weekend. 10/14/08 21:35:34 This is a test 10/16/08 02:19:09 Tonight is family night until 9p then back to the spreadsheet. 10/17/08 14:09:14 in bus to sea. 6:50a is when it passes by…
Microsoft’s Business productivity Online Services (BPOS) is getting ready to officially launch within a few weeks… They have moved all beta users in to release candidate code and are in high gear recruiting partners, as their strategy is 100% partner attachment for these services… ( We are hoping this to be the case for many years…
PDF of a slide deck on Microsoft’s vision for the Optimized Desktop. This sounds very familiar to us old hats. Download details: The Microsoft Optimized Desktop Strategy by Jeff Johnson, Enterprise Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation Presentation Deck The Microsoft Optimized Desktop Strategy by Jeff Johnson, Enterprise Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
A stunning piece of news that I would have been incredulous to hear if I hadn’t been there when they said it. I think Microsoft is taking some great steps in a thought-leadership position. Sure, they’re buying their way into markets, but that’s what they excel at, and if you’re watching closely, and ignoring the…
Download details: AppV™ Application Virtualization WWindows Springboard Series: AppV™ Application VirtualizationKarri Alexion-Tiernan, Director in the Windows Client division, unveils the latest version of this technology for virtualizing applications to reduce application-to-application conflicts and improve manageability.
Huzzah! MDOP has been updated! The App-V Blog : MDOP 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing! MDOP 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing! In case you missed all the fireworks and champagne corks yesterday it was in celebration of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 being released to manufacturing. Of course you already know that this version…
Well, we missed posting the scoop on this, as we were all at the Microsoft Virtualization Launch yesterday in Bellevue, rocking out to Live and having a grand time. By the time we all got home, none of us were very fit to post, and then today was a work day. The good news is,…
Microsoft really is getting it when it comes to OS deployment and emphasis on the client side of things. Most of my daily activity deals with this kind of thing, and it’s nice to have a starting place. This is pretty old now, but in case you haven’t seen it: Windows Client TechCenter Home Springboard…
I always visit SMS SCCM Expert in my rotation of must-check-for-update websites. They really develop some excellent addons and enhancements for my favorite systems management platform. One of their products that I had not really heard too much about struck me today. Let me back up: I’ve been wondering more and more about what part…
Those of you following the business sections of the IT rags will know this already. As of today, CompuCom has closed its acquisition of Getronics North America. Among other things, that means all of us got new email addresses tonight. We are excited to see what the future holds for our group, and we will…
With Symantec’s purchase of AppStream, the application virtualization story is starting to get more complicated. If you’re a long time SoftGrid/App-V fan, you should read this story. It sounds a lot like the old days. As Microsoft’s product begins to retreat back to the machine-centric model, Symantec’s AppStream duplicates some of classic SoftGrid’s best (IMO)…
Hey Deploymentfolk – Getcher red-hot documentation updates for the WAIK. The following site links to Microsoft downloads, and provides replacement documentation for the RTM version. Download details: Windows AIK User’s Guide and Unattended Setup Reference (Documentation Update 1) The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), system builders,…
A neat little Excel worksheet for calculating the total amount of RAM you’ll want for a deployment of Hyper-V. Could use some polishing, but would make a great start for your documentation. TONYSO : Hyper-V RAM Calculator Joeelway’s blog links to a handy Hyper-V RAM Calculator you can use to plan your Hyper-V deployment. Easy…
There’s a new buzz buzzing in the SaaS world: the death of browser-based applications. I’m seeing more and more of this kind of thing. Exciting times! What do you think? SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales | Software as Services | ZDNet.com Any SaaS CEOs who are feeling bruised after reading Sarah Lacy’s Business…
I have been checking online tools to help me manage projects collaboratively amongst a diverse virtual team. A few simple requirements I consider baseline are: Overall dashboard for Program Weekly Program Status Reports (entry / editing ) Ability to enter project status reports Ability to have multiple projects under one category Issue tracking – Ability…
There’s now a WordPress client for the iPhone! I’m posting from it now. Some might say this could lead to shorter, more concise articles. Or, carpal thumbal disease.
Say it ain’t so… SOURCE: John Coyne’s Embedded Blog : It’s the End for 3.11!! It’s the End for 3.11!! for those that were not aware, we recently announced that effective November 1st, 2008, OEM’s will no longer be able to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in the embedded channel. Now we all know that…
One of the things I do on a weekly, if not more frequent basis, is talk about Application Virtualization, and even for someone who breathes this stuff, it’s getting pretty confusing out there, as new products are springing to market all the time. There isn’t a good place that compares all the major players, and…
Those of you following MS’s excellent MDOP suite of applications should subscribe to this one in your favorite feed reader: http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/ Not much there yet, but it just started. We’ll keep an eye on it!
We heard today that Compucom has agreed to aquire Getronics’ North American operations including operations in the United States, the operations in Canada and the Global Service Centre in Mexico. You can see the press release from both companies at the following: Compucom: CompuCom Systems Signs Definitive Agreement Getronics: Getronics enters into strategic partnership…
We are extremely pleased and honored that Microsoft has recognized Getronics work and continued support in fiscal year 2008. Specifically for our USA team, we were selected as a finalist in the category of Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Systems Management (LiveID required) for our Getronics Virtualization Services : Enabling adoption and management of virtualization technologies in enterprise…
SoftGrid is no more. Microsoft has officially announced that the new name of the technology formally known as “SoftGrid” will henceforth be known as App-V. Well, at least until they decide to call it something else. (I’m looking at you, BDD/MS Deployment/MDT.) The good folks in Redmond have called upon us “old-timers” to break the…
Although we typically work in the enterprise customer space, we have to acknowledge (and thank) the posting of www.virtualization.info team for their article “Is Microsoft MDOP slowing down virtualization adoption?” for bringing this issue to light. The article speaks to the fact that that the small / medium business market segment has little to no…
Not to brag, but we’ve been preaching this message since we were knee-high to a rack full of blades. It’s good though: the more this story gets out there, the more everyone who listens will win. Tech-Ed Keynote Highlights ‘Dynamic IT’ and Virtualization June 10, 2008 • by Kurt Mackie Microsoft’s Tech-Ed North America event…
Over my years as an IT consultant, it’s become clear that assessing a client’s infrastructure and systems is a time-consuming and tedious task. And, horror of horrors, what do you do if the client is not running any systems management software (read: SMS/SCCM, please!)? Well, you hunker down for some challenging work, and you pray…
Hot off the presses, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has had a critical update that will allow it to manage Hyper-V RC1 hosts (but, as a caveat, will not allow you to manage RC0 hosts…) [MSFT-BE] Arlindo’s Blog – IT Pro Evangelist : SCVMM 2008 Beta – Hotfix for Hyper-V RC1
By way of Brian Tucker’s excellent blog, Brian’s found a guy who knows a guy who has built some really cool right-click extensions for SCCM. These were a real cottage industry for SMS 2003, and administrators who were in the know never traveled anywhere without a USB key chock full of these little gems. Well,…
Windows Vista has been out for a while now and hardware and software vendors have had time to update their drivers, apps, interface, etc. to the new operating system. Nevertheless (and this happens all the time) some specialized application vendors still will not support Vista and as a result, Windows XP and 2000 will remain…
With 150 million licenses shipped in FY’2008 (see Steve Balmer’s report,) we are always looking for news on Vista adoption. A list of recently posted articles on the Microsoft site follows: The white paper entitled “Windows Feature Comparison” compares the features and capabilities of Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 based on five categories:…
Tweets of the week: 05/28/08 04:47:20 In NYC – can’t sleep 05/28/08 04:52:13 just setup phone. 05/28/08 05:16:07 I am trying tweeter from my phone. 05/28/08 20:39:59 Just finished work at client. Beatifull day in NYC. Decided to take the long way via a double decker tour. 05/29/08 00:32:11 had a t hour bus tour…
Just listened to an MP3, er, uh boss – I was working on the word doc you wanted me to update and was multi-tasking. Ya, that’s it. I was working and learning at the same time. Technet Radio has a soup-to-nuts coverage of SoftGrid and AppVirt and it’s best practice application for where it fits…
Last week we had the pleasure of spending time with Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise at the Redmond stop of his week-long press tour.. It was great to see first hand how much has MDOP plays a strategic role in the Microsoft’s desktop stack… He told the press that…
In a recent survey done by Gartner of 260 enterprises, 90% of enterprises worldwide have remote workers, but 25% of those organizations don’t know exactly who those remote workers are. Again, according to the survey, the IT departments often have no idea who they’re providing remote access to. Are they executives, sales, engineering, etc. ?…
Now on Microsoft Connect, the beta of the excellent new SCVMM 2008. The sign up for the beta is easy and installation is simple and fast on Server 2008 (which I am way digging these days). What’s the coolest thing about SCVMM 2008? Probably the ability to manage non-Microsoft hypervisors (e.g. ESX.) Top 10 Features…
And it’s the Wild West out there with all of the different devices, the lack of control and every one of them wants into your network. Business factors demand choice and IT factors drive the need for security and supportability. Is there a compromise here?
The fine folks at bink.nu have pointed out that the downloads for Windows XP SP 3 are finally available. Ladies and Gentlemen, start your imagers! http://bink.nu/news/windows-xp-service-pack-3-officially-avaiable-to-all.aspx
Microsoft Server 2008 Core could be thought of ‘server lite’, but that wouldn’t be the whole story. Sure Core doesn’t have the GUI interface we’ve all come to rely on with Windows, but even though it’s all command line interface, it still gets the job done for those servers that do specific tasks like network…
AppVirt Enthusiasts, rejoice! At MMS this year, they announced that RC1 of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 will be made available via Microsoft Connect in June.
Microsoft’s “Virtualization in Banking Survey 2008,” conducted by independent, Washington, D.C.-based research firm KRC gives some insight into virtualization findings for US and UK banking institutions: TMCnet had this to say about key finding from the survey: 53 percent of those implementing virtualization reported that it eases centralization of deployment and management of applications as…
The folks over at TechNet have published a very clear, very concise guide to proper and rational OU design. If you are approaching an Active Directory project, do yourself a favor and read this advice. It’s getting hard-bookmarked on my end. Designing OU Structures that Work by Ken St. Cyr
If you are struggling with trying to diagnose LUA, or Least-Privilege User Account bugs in your Vista, Server 2003 or XP environments, then Aaron Margosis has a tool for you. The tool is called LUA Buglight and, while it’s in beta, it still may be a useful tool for you developers and system administrators out…
In recent years the technology world has increasingly gone “virtual” in a number of areas. First we had virtual local area networks and server-based virtualization. This helped consolidate resources by allowing administrators to increase the density of servers per rack, and decrease the complexity of managing hundreds of servers. This is now a proven and…
What do the title topics and the actor Kevin Bacon have in common? I dunno – it just sounded funny after listing all of the topics in this posting. Who knows – Windows 7 could be his love child. I mean, really – where did Windows 7 come from? No one wants to talk about…
OVA is one component of the new Unified Messaging server role now included in this latest version of Microsoft’s email server. Unified messaging’s goal is to consolidate as many communication types as possible into a single inbox and Exchange does this by treating email, faxes, and voicemail as just another message which can be accessed through corporate Outlook, Outlook Anywhere (Formerly Outlook over the Internet), Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile Access and now using just using your phone while on the run.
Desktone (http://www.desktone.com/) and more pointedly the generic term DaaS or desktop as a service is being bandied about and will help (I say “help” in jest) to muddy the terminology waters and give us a new buzz word. Really, I think DaaS has legs and will see favorable acceptance with the “greening” of IT with…
I decided to take a chance on the possibility that I could get MAV 4.5 Beta running on Server 2008 before a demo I have to give in Dallas this week, so I spent a rainy Sunday putting it together in a Virtual PC VM. Well, after several hours and re-dos, I got it, and…
Infrastructure Optimization opens the door for Green Computing with the ability to reduce overall costs via reducing power consumption through virtualization and by making better use of IT resources by more efficiently distributing workload amongst idle system resources rather than introducing additional systems.
Seen on The Deployment Guys: An excellent video containing a walkthrough on how to set up SCCM 2007 OS Deployment and integrating Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008. Download Video Here (51.28 MB) Great kick-start for those of you just getting into this.
From the Awesome Ideas Department, Brian Tucker has raised the idea of an SCCM Ranger training event that would encourage a team-based deep-dive into the management software, and would do so in a casual setting – a house on a beach, for example, rather than YACRIAMH (yet another conference room in a mediocre hotel.)
These are exciting times – when the humble world of HTML and JavaScript have been leveraged to the hilt, and AJAX applications now rival traditional executables in functionality and behavioral metaphors. Stoneware seems poised to deliver what many of us have dreamed about for as long as bandwidth has been increasing.
If you’re a user of Microsoft Deployment 1.x and upgrading to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008, then you’ll want to pop over to Michael Niehaus’ blog, where he’s posted instructions on this scenario. Seems they included BDD to MDT migration, but not MD to MDT migration. One thing of note from this posting (as we…
I certainly hope this is the last of the name thrashing on this product for awhile. For those of you just getting used to the name change from Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator to Microsoft Deployment, the folks in Redmond have changed the name of this product again, and it’s now being referred to as…
Application Virtualization can benefit the entire enterprise as follows: Assists IT departments by reducing or eliminating the labor-intensive tasks involved with application lifecycle management. Enables the Business to operate more flexibly and efficiently. Reduces software, hardware, and support costs Application Virtualization is an advanced technology that contains or “abstracts” applications from the underlying operating…
Brian Tinham over at Manufacturing Computer Solutions leads with a posting about Window’s 2008 Server Core offering – cool stuff. Even cooler for the virtual-set is the prospect of using the application formerly known as SoftGrid in a “what if” scenario to virtualize OS’es in a way that we don’t have in today’s Microsoft SoftGrid….
Amy Newman over at ServerWatch.com in her VirtualzationWatch column helps to clear the virtual haze that is virtual presentation. Glad someone is speaking to this – in the 30 plus years of virtualization each market segment hasn’t been able to define itself all that clearly. Thanks Amy. The cool thing about application virtualization with Microsoft’s…
There’s a lot of truth to the following video, put together by the brains at Intel’s Emerging Compute Model center. Watch through to the end. I have a feeling we’ll be referencing that last bit in our own AppVirt discussions. If that doesn’t work out, however, I look forward to maximizing my bitwise calculations per…
In the old days, Softricity was a partner of Citrix. Citrix is a partner of Microsoft. And Softricity was a partner of Microsoft, but is now part of Microsoft. See where this is going? When Softricity was acquired, there was some industry speculation as to what would happen to the great interoperability between SoftGrid and…
If you’re a sysadmin for a small shop and are letting desktops update on their own, or if you’re at home and running XP, you may be wondering how to get SP3 Release Candidate to come down the pipe through Windows Update. It turns out that you need to flip a registry bit to get…
For those of you who have jobs and can’t watch the Microsoft KB article feed, you may have missed a couple of Hotfix Rollups for SoftGrid 4.1 and 4.2. For the impatient, here are the links: SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 HFRU2 SoftGrid 4.2 HFRU 1 And here’s what’s new: SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Hotfix Rollup Package 2…
Any of you that read Ben Hunter’s blog, have probably noticed that the posts have been a little light as of late. Well, he decided to give it up. However, never fear: in the spirit of “Ben Hunter is dead! Long live Ben Hunter!” he’s combined efforts with several other Microsoft Deployment folks, and has…
From the excellent 4sysops blog: Vista SP1 is officially only available for enterprise customers, but the reports about problems caused by this service pack are piling up. This post contains a list of all SP1 issues I am aware of. List of Issues with Vista SP1 (4sysops) Good to know, especially if you are managing…
Not to be left out of the Open Source buying frenzy, Sun has recently acquired an OS virtualization product called “VirtualBox” that looks to be a boon for developers and for IT Administrators looking for standalone lab environments. Sun already had a server consolidation virtualization product (datacenter grade) in xVM Server, but didn’t have a…
I thought some of you might be interested in a free event that our team is putting on, centered around the business value of virtualizing applications. For Infrastructure Optimization wonks like myself, this technology is poised to become the centerpiece of many future IO engagements for me and our team. Registration is free, and the webinar is an hour long.
