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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…
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure…
As many of you know I am not shy about sharing my opinions on the IT industry. So when Mitch Tulloch – an IT Professional and writer of great renown – asked me to write an editorial for his site www.wservernews.com I was not about to pass up the opportunity. Mitch asked me to discuss…
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The Benefits of Windows Intune
Last month I had the opportunity to sit down with Robert Crane, the host of the Need to Know Podcast, about Windows Intune. These podcasts are great for keeping IT professionals up to date on technologies that they may not know a great deal about, and Windows Intune is certainly one of those. Dubbed by…
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Is Hyper-V the Best Hypervisor Out There?
Many of you know that used to do a lot of VMware training… primarily for a company called VMTraining. So I was thrilled when they reached out to me recently and asked if I was willing to do a webinar on Hyper-V for their customers… and for anyone else who was interested. While it is…
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Hyper-V Tips of the Day
Hey folks! I know it is Friday afternoon, it is mid-May, and most of the country is hip-deep in the NHL playoffs, so I figure I will give you a lighter post… something that will stick in your mind, but with no ‘gotta test it, action items attacked’ sort of thing. Hyper-V has come a…
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Taking Back Your Lunch Hour: A Friday Funny
Someone just forwarded this to me. It is a commercial for Windows Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) offering, and it is absolutely hilarious! Thanks for following guys… Let me end the week with one funny post! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vu0Mc3gY8yE
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Two new books on Hyper-V: Networking & Storage!
I love promoting IT Pros and Microsoft, but when one of the champions is a Canadian it is even better for me. Mitch Tulloch is an IT Pro author from Winnipeg, and is one of the guys I really look up to. I have a bunch of his books, and every time a new one…
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Installing Oracle Linux 6 U3 on Hyper-V 2012 with LIS 3.4
Everyone runs Windows… okay, that is not entirely true, but by 2012 it is the rare datacentre that does not have any Windows running. I have been crisscrossing the country and indeed traversing the globe telling people how wonderful Hyper-V and Microsoft’s virtualization story is as good as or better than it’s competition, whether that…
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Windows Server 2012: Roles & Features
A colleague asked me earlier today if I knew off the top of my head how many roles and features there are in Windows Server 2012, and I had to admit that I did not know. As Albert Einstein once said, why memorize what you can reference. However as a quick exercise I decided to…
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Windows Server 2012: More than Virtualization!
Since it was in pre-release I have been evangelizing Windows Server 2012. I have gone from sea to shining sea talking about it at Launch events, at Partner showcases, in IT Camps, at user groups talking about how much better it is than Windows Server 2008, but more importantly I chiefly discuss the improvements to…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 