Oh yes its true! this has been a subject that i have been desperate to get talking about “but” it was just not out to the public yet! Now over on the mdop blog we can finally look to start talking about just how this technology will help you and how you should be deploying…
Year: 2009
The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets – by Tim Sneath
Again on the Windows 7 Beta march, today will see the last of my PC’s moving to Windows 7 Beta. The PC in question is my primary work Laptop. Being a Lenovo T61p with 4G or RAM, I have high expectation on performance. Currently I am running Vista x64 Ultimate, the plan is to install…
Saving Energy While Reducing Your Carbon Footprint and Costs in the Process
Green, Sustainability, and Environment – what does this have to do with virtualization? Quite simply virtualization technologies can help you reduce your carbon footprint, reduce energy, reduce cooling, and of course save some money as well. Today we’re announcing the release of a set of tools available at www.hyper-green.com designed to help you and your…
Live Mesh – Update 13/01/2009
Today we announced a Live Mesh service update for those of you running Windows 7 Beta and Live Mesh this is going to interest you. We have fixed the disabling of Aero support post the install of the Mesh Client. So to fix the below and get that Aero affect, install the update. Summary details…
Microsoft Virtualization User Group – January 2009 Meeting (MS Victoria)
In case you are not aware, the MVUG January 2009 meeting is coming around on the on the 29th January 2009, this time at the Microsoft offices at Victoria, London (http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/about/downloads/victoria_map.pdf). Once again, some really exciting sessions, we will start off with two real-world presentations from our community members, one on Hyper-V and the other…
20-Part Webcast Series on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
Yung Chou an IT Pro Evangelist has recently posted a 20 part webcast series on MS Virtualization solution. I have nab the links to the webcasts so that you can all sign up. In Yung words…… Our team of IT Pro Evangelists including: Kevin Remde, Matt Hester, Chris Avis, Chris Henley, and Yung Chou is…
Tesco’s take the move to a next generation User Experience
My work colleague Daniel Sumner just blogged around an awesome Surface solution that has been built for Tesco’s Wines. Partner’s involved Identity Mine and Conchango. What’s interesting here is the video and the comments from the users of the application on Surface. I agree with Daniel the next generation of customer retail experience has arrived. …
App-V: Federated Search Connector For Windows 7
Hopefully this will help someone out there in the world ! Now this is a big disclaimer! This is for the Windows 7 Beta. And I have tested this only to a very limited extent! You will find the zip file with the 3 connectors in below in the attachments. Windows 7 supports a new feature…
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Beta now available
@ CES 2009 we also announce the availability for the Windows Server 2008 R2, there is some cool stuff in here. Live migration for one. Check it out, download and test. Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Overview The following is a brief description of each Hyper-V feature included in R2. In addition, you can…
Windows 7 Resources so far
Just a quick post, lots on today. Hopefully get a chance to play with VHD functionality of Windows 7 later. If so a post will be out soon. Channel 9 has a series of videos on Windows 7 which provide a great learning experience. The E7 blog – a blog dedicated to the engineering of…