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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…
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Calgary Here I Come!
Even before joining Microsoft Canada’s DPE team as a Virtual Evangelist (the Virtual part means I am a contractor in case you were curious, but I also specialize in Virtualization so it works in my favour!) I have had the opportunity to crisscross our great nation talking to audiences of all sorts and sizes –…
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The Virtualization Landscape
Dan Stolts is a Senior IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft. Earlier this month he sat down with Tony Asaro on TechNet Radio to discuss the Virtualization Landscape in a Heterogeneous World. Listen in and let me know what you think! –MDG
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One man’s blame is another man’s credit?
Andy Borowirz of The New Yorker, tongue in cheek, posted an article on his blog this morning that states that North Korean President Kim Jong Un had to delay their missile launch because of Microsoft. While it is of course bogus, the article is quite amusing! Check it out here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/north-korean-missile-test-delayed-by-windows-8.html
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If He Can Do It YOU Can Too!
I have been saying for the past couple of years that Microsoft’s Hyper-V is much simpler than vSphere, but I never imagined that I would see this: Caleb, a 5th grader, shows us how to create a virtual machine, install an OS, and even create a virtual switch. Not only was I impressed with how…
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Lock Screen in Windows Phone 8
One of my pet peeves in Windows Phone 7 was that the Lock Screen apps were set for you according to the order in which you configured them. Because I had run into that issue in Windows Phone 7, I had no reason to think it was any different in Windows Phone 8. Fortunately I…
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Virtualization: CPUs and Cores and Sockets… Oh My!
I have been getting a lot of questions recently about virtual machine CPU usage, especially around things like Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT). Jeff Woosley, the Principal Product Manager (WSSC) at Microsoft, recently sent out this clarification which many of you will find enlightening. –MDG — Q: Should Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT) be enabled or disabled? A: Hyper-V…
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Virtual Networking in Hyper-V 2012
Microsoft has released a poster diagramming virtual networking in Hyper-V 2012. Much of it revolves around Virtual Machine Manager, and is actually branded System Center 2012 SP1. If you are building or managing datacenters – even smaller ones – you should download this document and review it. We all have something to learn from it!…
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Microsoft Virtual Academy: Live Q&A!
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next FREE & PUBLIC event Live Q&A: Introduction to Hyper-V on Wednesday April 3rd, from 8:30 am – 10:30am PST with virtualization experts Jeff Woolsey & Symon Perriman. Ask your customers to join this live online event designed…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
