Jeff has managed to get 5 minutes of his day back to put up an announcement around WSV security. An important heads up about Black Hat next week in Las Vegas. For those of you who don’t know what Black Hat is, Black Hat bills itself as a security convention that puts you face to…
Tag: Virtualization
Virtual Server Resource Kit
Today marks another great milestone in Microsoft Virtualization. One of our very first virtualization supporters, Robert Larson, has completed his long time goal to complete and release the Virtual Server Resource kit. Today, this resource is off to the printers and I can’t wait to get a copy in my hands. Robert dedicated so much…
Sequencing Best Practices
Just a quick pointer to a blog entry on the SoftGrid Team Blog. Information on sequencing and some tips for 4.2 Vista release. Have a fun weekend and we should welcome back Mr Zarb next week from a well desired holiday.
How Microsoft Does IT: The Future of Server Virtualization
This is a great resource if you are not aware Microsoft TechNet Radio. Listen on how does Microsoft internally deliver its IT service using our own technology and where our IT guys are taking Server Virtualization in the data center. Can it become a commodity in the data center. Of course down load this to your Zune and…
SoftGrid Guides and Documents
So there is some great SoftGrid Documentation and Guides up on download @ microsoft . The guides have some great value add information to help you get going on your deployments. The SoftGrid Product Team will have a KB coming out soon to talk about the download. http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/7/D/C7DCA0EB-3F2F-4606-B867-1EA91DB643B2/SoftGrid_v4.x_Documentation.exe The documents are from the softricity…
VMRCPlus in a bit more depth
In case you missed the news, I wanted to make sure you heard that VMRCplus version 1.5 is available internally and will soon be available publicly in TechNet magazine and as part of the Virtual Server Resource Kit. VMRCplus is an alternate UI as opposed to the Virtual Server web interface. VMRCplus uses the documented…
SCCM with SoftGrid 4.5
I am currently getting ready for a well deserved holiday (actually that statement varies from person to person!!) and handing the reigns over to Andrew Bennett to keep blogging on my fortnight away. However before this I really wanted to get some information up that excited me around the integration of SoftGrid 4.5 and…
VMRCPlus – Download
Keith Combs has put up the link a great new tool that I have been playing with all day. Its a great way for controlling and managing your Virtual Server platforms. For those of you running Microsoft Virtual Server, we have a new treat in store for you. Matthijs ten Seldam, a Principal Consultant in…
Using SMS 2003 to upgrade a SoftGrid 4.1.0.56 client to 4.1.1.306 (Service Pack 1)
So here I am trying to figure out how to help out my charity (a school in south east london) upgrade there SoftGrid Environment up from v4.1.0.56 to Service Pack 1. We have SMS 2003 to leverage which is a powerful tool for standard Electronic Software Distribution (ESD). I needed to upgrade around 500 devices…
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 Released!!
While there’s a lot of attention right now on Windows Server Virtualization I think it’s very important that we don’t forget that we have solid production ready technology in Virtual Server that’s about to get even better with the new Virtual Server R2 SP1 Release. Here’s a reminder of the new features. Virtual Server…