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• How to make your laptop 300% quicker..

  As you know, I'm always "dabbling" with my laptop(s) - trying to get me demos performing at their very best. I run Windows Server 2008 on my demo machine because I use Hyper-V for all my demos. Yesterday I put a Solid State Disk (SSD) into... Posted Sep 24 2008, 03:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Hyper-V, HyperV

• Anthony Crotty (UCC) - You're famous, you are!

  More info here . Dave Share this post: Read More... Posted Sep 12 2008, 06:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, HyperV

• Tuesday's Windows Server User Group meeting

  Thanks to all those who attended Tuesday night's user group meeting . Apologies for going on a bit (I was only supposed to take half an hour or so - not the whole hour)! Aidan has posted the slides we used here . Some of my demos are here . ... Posted Sep 04 2008, 03:42 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Community, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008

  The Windows Server 2008 User Group - Ireland will be running an event on Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 on the 2nd of September at 7pm in the evening (beer might follow).  The location is Buswells hotel in the city centre. ... Posted Aug 07 2008, 07:10 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Training, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Free, Hyper-V

• Hyper-V Laptop

  There's been a lot of talk recently about our new "Windows Server 2008 Workstation" (Windows Server 2008 with the Desktop Experience features switched on - plus a bunch of hacks). There's been suggestions that it out-performs Vista Read... Posted Jul 22 2008, 07:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Larry Doyle and Hyper-V

  Larry Doyle from Netforce in Dublin has been deploying Hyper-V. This is worth sharing: "Windows Server 2008 is an awesome product and I am super excited about it! I have been testing Windows Server 2008 since beta release and implemented the eagerly... Posted Jun 30 2008, 09:50 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Customer Minds and Windows Server 2008

  Eduardo Shanahan from Customer Minds Ltd has deployed his new application on Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. "Our application was developed from the start with Visual Studio 2008, and the sole existence of LINQ saved me months of work. Now that... Posted Jun 06 2008, 03:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Prodata and Windows Server 2008

  I know Carmel Gunn from Prodata pretty well by now, I was asking her how she's been getting on with Windows Server 2008 - she had this to say: “We saw the demonstrations of Windows Server 2008 and clustering at the community previews and at... Posted Jun 06 2008, 03:37 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Trinity College Dublin and Windows Server 2008

  I've been working with Willie O’ Connor (Computer Science Dept, Trinity College Dublin) for ages now.  I was asking him about his plans to deploy Windows Server 2008 - he had this to say: "Windows Server 2008 is a great product. We’ve... Posted Jun 06 2008, 03:29 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• With Hyper-V, Microsoft is going to change the world of virtualization

  " src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/daven/WindowsLiveWriter/WithHyperVMicrosoftisgoingtochangethewor_8CAD/clip_image001%5B6%5D_thumb.jpg" width="68" border="0" /> I just had to share this quote with you. I've been working with Edouard MELLY... Posted May 28 2008, 04:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Hyper-V and Failover Clusters

  I've been doing quite a few talks on Hyper-V recently - which if you know me, means a couple of PowerPoint slides and a load of demos. I've finally gotten around to encoding my demos - so here they are: First (just so you know there's no smoke... Posted May 23 2008, 08:04 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Dell and Windows Server 2008

  I've been working with Mark Miley (Senior EMEA EEC Vitality Technical Trainer) from Dell for the last while, and was asking him how he's been getting on with Windows Server 2008.  He had this to say: “In my 6 months experience of training... Posted May 13 2008, 11:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• Moy Park and Windows Server 2008

  I was catching up with Phil Rickard, the Network Administrator for Moy Park the other day - he attended some Windows Server 2008 training I ran last year. Basically, I was seeing how he was getting on with the new OS. He had this to say: "After attending... Posted May 08 2008, 03:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V

• What are you doing on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th April?

  Welcome to the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference 2008 Co-organised with the Irish Microsoft Technology User Group and First Port Jobs, it's an event by the Irish technology community for the Irish technology community. The registration fee (€189)... Posted Mar 18 2008, 07:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: virtualisation, Microsoft, Virtualization, Ireland, Hyper-V

• It's good to talk..

  Thanks for your comments on my last post. I've commented myself, but just in case you aren't reading the comments - here's my reply to Kim: So http://itcomparison.com/Virtualization/MShypervvsvi35/HyperVvsvmware35esx.htm is a great comparison of a production... Posted Feb 29 2008, 04:48 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: virtualisation, Microsoft, Virtualization, Ireland, Hyper-V

• Hyper-V beta bits now available

  Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate zero (RC0) and Release Candidate 1 (RC1) came with Windows Server Virtualisation (and Hyper-V) in them as a Customer Technology Preview (CTP). We've just released a build of Windows Server RC1 with the Beta of Hyper... Posted Dec 13 2007, 02:03 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: virtualisation, Microsoft, Virtualization, Ireland, Hyper-V

• One of these words is not like the other..

  The 'normal' behavior inside Microsoft is for a product to start with a really cool code name (e.g. Longhorn), that gets replaced with a pretty boring, mundane product name (e.g. Windows Server 2008). Last week all that went out of the Windows (no pun... Posted Nov 20 2007, 03:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Microsoft, Ireland, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V