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** UPDATE 5th June 2009 – It has been a while since this discount code was released though I have checked it today and can confirm that it still works ! Hurray. Si 🙂 For those of you based in…
After some initial problems around the downloading of the Microsoft Windows 7 beta (build 7000) yesterday (see this posting from ‘The Register’ for more details) it is now openly available for download by the public at large for the next…
*** UPDATE 17/12/08 8:54 *** A patch update has now been released by Microsoft – you can download it from here. This has been quite widely covered by the media and various sites over the last week but I…
Below are my rough session notes from a session of Microsoft Hyper-V features. These are pretty much bullet point only though they cover the key areas. The only thing to keep in mind when reading this is that Hyper-V 2.0…
** RELEASE DATE UPDATE: Here is a post by the Microsoft Windows Server team on their blog outlining the exact dates for when Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available for purchase and download. Here are some notes from a…
As mentioned in my earlier blog-posting here the imminent release of Microsoft’s new virtualization product, Hyper-V Server 2008, is now upon us and has been made available for free download today! Unlike Hyper-V which comes with Windows Server 2008 and…
I’ve been doing some work around creating an HP Rapid Deployment Pack Windows Server 2008 automated install. In my travels I came across this well documented and informative blog posting by Elan Shudnow that takes you through step by step,…
As Paul Thurrot reports here, Microsoft have announced a standalone version of it’s virtualization product, Hyper-V. Like VMware’s ESXi product Hyper-V Server 2008 (not to be confused with Server 2008 with Hyper-V which is the full version of Server 2008…
When installing Microsoft SQL 2005 onto Windows Server 2008 you will most likely get the following ‘Feature Requirement’ warnings regarding IIS and ASP.Net. Sean over at ‘The Sean Blog’ has put together a good posting on how to resolve this…
You may be aware that Microsoft has recently announced its change of licensing around how frequently an ‘application’ can be moved between servers in a farm*. As it stands, at least until the 1st September 2008, one of these ‘applications’…