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OK reading the Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Beta of standalone hypervisor: Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Bryon Surace mentioned some enhancements in Hyper-V Server R2 Beta Building on the solid virtualization platform of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, the R2 Beta release adds some highly anticipated features including live migration, increased memory/processor support, and an updated configuration utility. Let’s take a closer look at each of these: Let me just be excited about the high...
We have been expecting this announcement for a little while, and I’m sure this will drive numbers like nothing else so you better get in fast. Details over on Robbie’s Blog The post you've been waiting for... I'm very happy to announce that every attendee of our SMB Servers day at TechEd Australia 2008 will receive a free copy of the soon to be released Small Business Server 2008 Standard . Not kidding. Yours to take & use to make your first sale on the new platform. I was already Registered...
After some time wondering if Project Thieving Weasel would get legs I am happy to announce that this morning, I have signed up to SMB Buddy . So I could rabbit on about what SMB Buddy is and not tell you anything that you will find useful or I could just let you see what the site says: About SMB Buddy SMB Buddy is networking site dedicated to connecting SMB technology partners. In a nutshell, it is a web site that helps consolidate information and resources from all over the web with SMB technology...
I have recently done an implementation of Network Access Protection (NAP) for a Mid-Market Client, and we have delivered some benefits which were not part of our original planning. I won’t go into too much about their specifics but will cover the scenario and some of the side benefits we achieved. Even Better I’m going to build all this on SBS 2008 so it should be kind of generic and really quite fun for me to extend with the low end kit I may have lying around my Lab. Oh but to make it into a deployment...
Here we go I was at the SMBIT Professionals Sydney Group last night and had a real holy crap moment. Lets go on that Journey for a little bit. Wayne Small had just finished a demo of SBS 2008 including the reporting and showed what was in a basic report and an advanced report, I thought it was received well. That was until the session after the break when Spiceworks 3.0 Beta was demo’d (not by Wayne and on a Documentation topic). OK that is a pretty interface and pretty comprehensive too, well there...
I blogged a long time ago about what I thought "Could" be done to make the SCE removal palatable . Gwen Zierdt left a comment saying "Good analysis on pricing. Stay tuned for some potential licensing promos later this year. " and of course I am waiting patiently. Now I wonder if I even care. Here is what folk said to me Last Tuesday night after the Sydney IT Pro Group "I'm glad SCE 2007 is out! I've got Kaseya Licences to pay for" and this might well be the thing...
Now that it has been said in public I can finally say SCE 2007 in SBS 2008 is GONE and yes I am Pissed about it. I like many, feel as though we have been lied to. I have known this for a little while but due to NDA have had to keep choking down the bile, but now I wonder if the SCE Team can step up with SBS Sized Pricing so that we can do what we wanted to do and build a managed services offering that manages a Microsoft product with Microsoft tools. My Ideas about what might help can be found here...
So I was reading what Charles Van Heusen has had to say about the up coming Windows Small Business Server Codename Cougar What I can share about the versions is outlined in the slide above, the "standard edition" will include Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services v3 out of the box. The "premium edition" will include the same core products above, plus a new twist, a 2nd Windows Server 2008 Standard edition license, a flavor of SQL Server 2008, (which...