So back a while back we spoke around John Sheehan looking inside App-V. Since than John has done a further update where he goes further into the topic! You can watch this here; Duration: 58:31 John Sheehan, Architect of Microsoft’s AppVirt (SoftGrid) technology, spends some time with Channel 9 digging (deeply) into the architecture and…
WorldWide Telescope – How available though Silverlight
If you have not experienced the sky at night though Microsoft WorldWide Telescope then you have really missed out. This is an amazing tool, and every time that I demo it it amazes the audience, it truly is breath taking. A great example of Software + Service’s previously you required a client install and the…
Silverlight 3 – New features and more
So first off where do you get it? http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx Secondly what’s new? Video/Audio. As mentioned in the keynote, Silverlight 3 supports the H.264 video format in addition to VC-1; this is an emerging industry standard that is used by YouTube, and has hardware decoders available on many devices. It also supports the…
IE 8 – Go get it
Its here! One of the many announcements at mix09. You have just to love this video and go get IE 8 now. Video: IE8 Net History Internet Explorer 8: Sizzle
Friday Fun: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Teaser Trailer
So as many of you are I am sure addicted to Call of Duty. For me its still CoD 4, I can’t wait for the next version. I guess I will say good bye to a number of days as I play both Multi player and single player visions. So here is the first Teaser…
HTTP Publishing in App-V (Part 1)
So John has got busy and published a great first part to HTTP publishing and how the publishing document gets built up and some items you need to do. John starts the blog with….. With all the excitement around HTTP streaming in App-V 4.5, many people fail to realize HTTP Publishing has been a…
Where to find the App-V Documentation
By buddy Peter Ballantyne pinged me earlier on to let me know that he posted some info ion where to find App-V documentation. Now just to put some meat around this, these documents are my lifeline, Pete has done some sterling work to bring the docs up to speed for app-v!! To put it in…
How Microsoft Does IT – Deploying Virtual Machines using Hyper-V
Again another great set of materials showing how we do Virtualisation and the potential value of this technology. Microsoft IT virtually deploys more than 80% of new servers using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. To ensure optimal performance, Microsoft IT has developed configuration best practices, based on the application workloads or services being provided by the…
Announcing MDOP 2009 to include MED-V 1.0, App-V 4.5 CU1 and AIS 1.5 Updates
My buddies over on the MDOP blog have also just announced the RTM of MDOP 2009 “As part of our promise to maximize productivity, manageability and TCO for enterprise desktops, we are excited to announce our new version of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), available for purchase to Software Assurance customers. MDOP 2009 includes the…
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I have blog about Microsoft It Showcase on many occasions. Here we take it global on a social scale with a group on Face Book. So FANS GET real-time access to our content as it publishes, participate in discussions on hot IT topics, tell us what new topics they’d like Microsoft IT to cover, register…