On my current project we are looking at various VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) solutions, to meet some pretty stringent requirements. In past years the technology was just not there yet to provide a fully collaborative A/V experience to our users so we stuck with traditional fat clients.The killer application for...
So it's official, the planned launch date of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is October 22, 2009! Windows 7 will come in six varities: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise. According to a Microsoft blog the RTM code will be available to partners the second half...
Good news! Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM'd, and you can download an evaluation copy right now! Get the download here. Microsoft says you can upgrade the evaluation version to a fully licensed version, once they release that around July 1.For a good run down on what's new in...
Last month Intel released their new Nehalem processors, which knock the socks off their previous generation processors and now beat AMD for dual socket servers. For years VMware has published benchmarks for various servers so you can judge their virtualization performance.The sweet spot for virtualization is a dual processor server....
For the very few of you running Windows Vista (please, run Windows 7 RC1, its way better), or the larger crowd of server 2008 users, Microsoft has released service pack 2. What happened to server 2008 SP1? Well it was built into the RTM release, so it was never a...
If you are looking into virtualization or already using it, you will have likely heard that VMware is releasing their next major version of ESX server tomorrow. vSphere 4.0, the new name for Virtual Infrastructure, is a significant upgrade and has dozens of new features. Although it was formally announced...
In case you don't subscribe to the Exchange team's blog, today they announced rollup 8 for Exchange server 2007 SP1. You can read their announcement here. If you are running Windows Server 2008, you will now be glad to know rollup 8 automates the kernel mode authentication configuration required for...
During TechEd 2009 in LA this year it was amazing the amount of new products that will come to market in the next six to twelve months. Here's a short summary of some of the new releases you should expect and plan for: Windows 7 - Q4 2009 Windows Server...
Think you have to wait until the RTM of Windows 7 to get WHQL certified drivers, think again! ATI has released their WDDM 1.1 compliant and WHQL certified drivers for Windows 7. You can download the 64-bit drivers here. For some reason the 32-bit drivers seem to be older and...
In case you missed it, Adobe has released a patch for a critical Acrobat security vulnerability. InfoWorld has a good write up on the flaw. Adobe released an official bulletin on the patch. If you have any version of Adobe Acrobat (including the free reader), I urge you to install...
Short answer: You can never have too many! Longer answer: It depends. As many people know, VMware ESX is NIC hungry. Between the kernel console, Vmotion, and various production networks, it can take six or more phyiscal NICs to provide full redundancy. If you want to do Microsoft clustering, throw...
Sometimes Microsoft branding and renaming of products really confuses people. For example, ISA vs TMG? The whole ISA/TMG/IAG/UAG re-branding debacle really threw me for a loop. At first the renaming seemed pretty simple, but Microsoft is also re-positioning the products and I don't think MS has done a good job...