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Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V now available!
I have been talking to you about it for several months, and am thrilled to tell you that it is now available… RTM for the Cisco Nexus 1000V for Microsoft Hyper-V was announced at Microsoft TechEd North America today. Here is the complete announcement from the Cisco Nexus 1000V Product Management Team –M Cisco…
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For when you want to let go, but can’t completely.
Mitch, I have been using my Windows 7 laptop for nearly three years. It has all of my applications on it, and because of the custom dev work that I do a lot of what I have in there simply cannot be recreated – anywhere, let alone on another OS. I want to upgrade my…
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Getting Started with System Center 2012: OpsMgr & VMM
Let’s face it: System Center 2012 is BIG. Microsoft literally took seven completely separate products – three of which were HUGE on their own, and combined them into a single product. It’s no wonder so many IT Pros and hopefuls are so intimidated by it. I am not going to guide you through the actual…
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System Center 2012
Over the past few months I have written extensively on Windows Server 2012. I am a big fan of Microsoft’s newest server OS and the benefits that it offers. However I feel that I have only been offering part of the story. Starting tomorrow and for the next few months I will be posting several…
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Mayor Ford on News Talk 1010… It’s time to go.
Over the past fortnight I – all of us who live in the Greater Toronto Area – have been subjected to an interesting spectacle.. Just over two weeks ago two media outlets – www.gawker.com and the Toronto Star – went public with independent stories that their reporters had seen cell-phone video of the mayor of…
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You may think doing it on the ground is hard, but…
Since my return to Martial Arts five years ago I have posted several videos and pictures of my breaking boards and bricks. It is really less impressive than it looks, although I do not encourage you to try it without the proper training and supervision. In fact I recently scolded one of my students who…
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Conquering Challenges
Happy Friday folks. It is May 31st… the last day of the month, for many people it’s a day to submit expenses. In southern Ontario it is a beautiful sunny day (some people complain about the heat… I never do) and it is not surprising that around the office there is a lot of chatter…
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Step-by-Step: Creating Differencing Disks
Earlier this week I told you how you can use Differencing Disks in courseware, for lab development, for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, for software development, and for any number of other uses. They really are a very handy technology once you get to know them. But how do you do that? Although usually I would show…
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Lync up to Skype… and Skype up to Lync!
Ever since Microsoft bought Skype I have been getting questions about where it fits. We got our first indication earlier this year when we all got notifications that Live Messenger was merging into Skype. Obviously there was no need for two different services that did essentially the same thing… but Lync was a different story.…
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This is getting interesting…
Last year I was asked to participate in the Canadian launch tour for Microsoft Office 365. At first I was hesitant, but I am really glad that I did. I got to meet and speak to a lot of interesting people across the country who do not usually come out to my sessions on Windows…
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Not thrilled with WordPress today…
I want to be clear that this is a one-time rant. I generally LOVE WordPress. I think it is an excellent blogging platform and I recommend it to everyone who asks. This is probably ‘just one of those things.’ As well, it is actually a rant about the WordPress App for Windows 8, and not…
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Differencing Disks: Making courseware, labs, and boot camps easier!
One of the features of Hyper-V that has made courseware development and delivery easier for me is the ability to create Parent (or Base) and Differencing disks. It allowed me to reduce the ‘reset’ time at the end of a course (to prepare for the next delivery) from two hours per machine to one minute…
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Best Practices About SMB IT
Last year I wrote an article called Virtualizing your Domain Controllers. I called out some of the best practices from my own experience, as well as from conversations with hundreds of IT Pros around the world. This week I received a very well thought-out response to that article from a reader named Andrew. I set…
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Step-by-Step: Configuring the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target as a Storage Device for System Center VMM
Over the past few months we have made a big deal about the storage features of Windows Server 2012, including how the built-in iSCSI Software Target allows you to build a low-cost software-SAN (storage area network) for small environments, and how that lets you create a Hyper-V Failover Cluster without the expense of an actual…
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Rebuilding SWMI… Not the company, just the infrastructure
I have been talking about rebuilding the domain for my company for several months, and finally sat down to do it this week-end. Because I was essentially destroying the old domain there were a few steps I needed to perform before going ahead. I performed a Backup of all of my data. Nobody in their…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 