As many of you know, I'm getting more excited about how cloud and virtualisation will impact customers and partners. I wanted to share details about this event on the 24th May 2011. The UK Tech.Days 2011 –Transform Your Datacentre with Hyper-V and System Center event will provide you with an...
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Filed under: Virtualisation, Event, Microsoft, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Cloud, Private Cloud, Windows Server 2008 R2, System Center
I was keen to play with the Hyper-V R2 Service Pack 1 features, so I decided to download and install it, however I could not find anything that was not for Windows 7 or Windows Server (as opposed to Hyper-V Server). After asking internally I was pointed to what I needed. The process was fairly...
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Registration for UK Tech Days events from 12 th to 16 th April is open!. UK Tech Days 2010 is a week-long series of free events run by Microsoft and technical communities to celebrate and inspire developers, IT professionals and IT Managers to get more from Microsoft technology. Our day events...
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on Wed, Mar 10 2010
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Virtualisation, Developer, Community, Software as a Service, Event, Microsoft, Partner, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Hyper-V, Windows 7, Office 2010
This is a long running question that people ask me - how to position the various server options from Microsoft for small businesses. The more choice Microsoft offers, the more complex it can become if you do not have a starting point to find the right product for a customer. So, Home Server, Foundation...
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on Thu, Dec 31 2009
Filed under: Software as a Service, Windows Home Server, Microsoft, Windows Client, Software plus Service, Windows Server 2008, SBS 2008, Windows 7, Vista and XP
Well hello again, I've been away for quite some time - work has been very time consuming and two members of my family have required some dedicated attention while they have not been feeling well (and no, no swine flu). I'm hoping to start finding more time to "do" the blog and potentially...
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on Wed, Jul 22 2009
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Hi, someone asked in the forums how if the backups on SBS 2008 and Windows Server 2008 were encrypted and the answer is no, even if the drives being backed up are BitLocker protected ( more details here ). However you can get encrypted backups with a bit of effort. To do this you will need to at least...
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on Sun, Apr 26 2009
Filed under: Security, Microsoft, Windows Client, Documentation, Small business, Windows Server 2008, SBS 2008, Windows Vista and XP, Windows Vista
[updated 2nd May 2009] Hi everyone. My SBS 2008 book is in now available to order. Details below. If you want to ask questions once you have the book, go to http://davidoverton.com/r.ashx?13 . To order the book click http://davidoverton.com/r.ashx?1M Small Business Server 2008 – Installation, Migration...
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Filed under: SBS 2003, Windows SharePoint Services, Community, Personal, SBSC, Microsoft, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, Tips, Small business, If you only read one post today, Windows Server 2008, SBS 2008, Book