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Microsoft News Summary – 25 August 2014

August 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Not much has happened since last Friday morning. VMworld is on this week in San Francisco – maybe it’s no coincidence that there have been earthquakes nearby? Azure AzureConf, free online Azure conference: On September 25th, 2014, Microsoft will be hosting AzureConf, another free event for [...]

Microsoft News Summary-30 May 2014

May 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Greetings from Belgium where I will be presenting a Hyper-V over SMB 3.0 session (designing & implementing a SOFS) at E2EVC, a community virtualization conference. Here is the Microsoft news of the last 24 hours. It appears that the momentum to signing up to support and partner with Azure is [...]

Microsoft News Summary-29 May 2014

May 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Not much going on in the last 24 hours: General availability of SAP on Azure: SAP projects can now fail at cloud scales. Yay? Debugging performance issues with VMQ: Step-by-step guidance to troubleshoot VMQ. This will be no help if you’re using Emulex’s shite NICs How to Easily Assign a [...]

Don’t Be An IT Dinosaur – Attend TechCamp 2014 On June 19/20

May 27, 2014 // 4 Comments

A monumental change is happing in IT right now. You can fight it all you want, but cloud is a disrupting force that will effect our entire environment. IT pros are scared of “the cloud” … but is their fear justified? This is why a bunch of us are presenting on the IT pro aspects of the [...]

Event: TechCamp 2014 On June 19/20 In Dublin

May 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another community event is coming on June 19th and 20th in Citywest in Dublin. This time, with TechCamp 2014, we’re switching to a more “here’s how to do it” style of presentation. Based on feedback, we’ll have 1 track per day, over 2 days. Day 1 (June 19th) will focus on Hybrid Cloud, [...]

Microsoft News Summary – 8 May 2014

May 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Here’s the news for the last 24 hours. I suspect things will remain quiet until the keynote at TechEd. Even then, I’d expect news to be limited to cloud services. Avoiding Disk Performance Issues in Storage Spaces: One of my posts on the Petri IT Knowledgebase What Are Virtual Machine Manager [...]

Microsoft News Summary-29 April 2014

April 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

There is a lot of reading material this morning. "Not enough disk space" error when you run a V2V conversion to a CSV in Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012: When you try to perform a virtual to virtual (V2V) conversion to a cluster shared volume in Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual [...]

Changes To Licensing For Enterprise App Sideloading in Windows 8.1

April 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Windows 8.1 Update, with changes to volume licensing, is bringing changes to the licensing of Enterprise Sideloading. Sideloading is where you can use a tool like Windows Intune to push a custom developed/acquired “Metro” app onto Windows without using the Microsoft Store. Note that Intune [...]

You Can Buy Windows Intune Through Volume Licensing As Of Today

April 1, 2014 // 1 Comment

Windows Intune was originally launched to the sound of silence. This was because it was too expensive and it didn’t really do what it needed to in the market that Microsoft was pushing it to. How the market originally reacted to Windows Intune The product gained features as a mobile device [...]

TechCamp 2013 Wrap Up

November 29, 2013 // 1 Comment

Yesterday we ran TechCamp 2013, the Irish community launch of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and Windows Intune. All the feedback I have heard has been positive – thankfully! We kicked off with Dave Northey (Microsoft CAT Program Manager). Dave was [...]