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Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2

I've just noticed that Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 will be available next month. Some of the more significant changes are the expanded Exchange mailbox limit to 75GB, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). In addition, SQL Server 2005 Read More
posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:45 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Licensing Changes for Virtualization

Announced to day at the World Wide Partner Conference, Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (DCE) has undergone some revisions effective from 1st October 2006: It will be available through Volume Licensing License rights allow an unlimited Read More
posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:40 AM by jhoward | 3 Comments
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Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows SBS 2003 with SP1

Hot off the press (released yesterday) is a document providing information about installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 specifically on Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 with SP1 installed. Download link is here. Read More
posted Friday, May 26, 2006 5:07 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Windows Server virtualization

...is here (nearly). I'll provide more details over the coming days, but with WinHEC now upon us, the covers are lifted on both Windows Server virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (aka Carmine). For now, the best place to find info Read More
posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:27 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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System Centre Capacity Planner 2006

System Centre (center <g>) Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2006 is one of those tools I saw in early Beta a while back - looked very impressive at internal demos but it wasn't until yesterday something that I had really looked deeply. Well, good news for Read More
posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:33 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Walkthrough

With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to know more about Host Clustering - a new capability supported with this release - what better way to find out than with a live on-demand demonstration, Read More
posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:03 PM by jhoward | 6 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI

And while on the subject of official Virtual Server 2005 R2 information starting to becoming public, we now support iSCSI for VHD storage and clustering shared storage. Typically iSCSI can be a far cheaper alternative to fibre channel attached Read More
posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:09 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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HMV Case Study

There's an interesting case study recently published on the Microsoft UK web-site for HMV who are using Microsoft Technologies to support both their physical stores and  online store. You can read more here. (Just also noticed it was Read More
posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:51 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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TechNet Magazine - you can now read it online for free.

As I mentioned a little while ago, TechNet Magazine subscriptions were free (to US based people though). Although there's something in the pipeline to make the magazine available in the UK, the good news is that you can read the full content online now Read More
posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:29 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Online Labs

Just got news in my inbox that all the US Virtual Labs for both Technet and MSDN are running on Virtual Server 2005 R2 which I thought was kind of cool. If you haven't had a chance to play with the online labs - you should. There's lots of labs which Read More
posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:13 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Self Managing Dynamic Systems update

Following my last post, here's a few links on microsoft.com which provide more information. A brief on virtualisation is here, and a whitepaper on virtualisation can be found here. But wait... just found more. This is the official press release. There's Read More
posted Monday, October 10, 2005 9:45 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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License changes for Windows Server - Virtualisation goes mainstream

BIG NEWS DAY FOR VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY! As was just announced at SoftSummit in Santa Clara, CA today, Microsoft is making some big changes to licensing in from Windows Server 2003 R2 which launches very soon. As was announced at the Microsoft Read More
posted Monday, October 10, 2005 9:00 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Get TechNet Plus for half price

Thought you'd like this one if you live in the UK at least. Check out this page on microsoft.com, where there is a huge pricing discount for TechNet Plus subscriptions. If you purchase TechNet Plus directly through that site (ie not through a partner) Read More
posted Monday, October 10, 2005 3:09 PM by jhoward | 5 Comments
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Core Infrastructure at IT Forum in Barcelona this November

So it's been a hectic few weeks for me. I'm nearing the end of pulling together the line-up for the core infrastructure track, so here's a a taster of some of the breakout session content you're going to see (subject to change, just to cover myself!). Read More
posted Monday, September 12, 2005 7:45 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Announcements for Virtual Server 2005 R2 (SP1) and more...

At the IDF (Intel Developers Forum) yesterday, Microsoft made the announcement I've been waiting to go public on for a couple of months now. Virtual Server 2005 SP1 is no more. Well, that isn't exactly true, the changes which are present for those of Read More
posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 7:18 AM by jhoward | 7 Comments
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