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The VESI 1.2 – Get it now
People who read my blog know how much I like the Virtualisation EcoShell, I love the way it adds the power of PowerCLI back into the GUI to enable you to create customised GUI’s all of your own enhancing the true power of PowerShell and allowing people who do not know how to code in [...]
Exchange Audit
I received a comment the other day on my Server/Workstation audit script from someone saying they had modified my script to audit Exchange 2003. As you can imagine, I was intrigued and asked to have a look, I cant tell you how much it pleases me that people are able to take the scripts I [...]
Should I virtualise Exchange ?
For a long time the answer was no, but developments in the VMware Products have lead to major improvements in disk/network/memory and CPU performance so now the question is… Where do I start ? If your looking for a good starting point I would listen to the recent podcast from the VMware community round table [...]
Windows 7 Public Beta
On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows 7 page on Windows.com. The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (Microsoft are not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta. [...]
Removing SCVMM from vCenter
An interesting article was bought to my attention which explains that if you ever use SCVMM to control your VMware environment (no comment) and then decide to remove it again (again no comment) there are a few things left behind. The following blog explains what is left behind and whats better it even gives you [...]
Powershell V2 CTP3
They said it would be December and Microsoft actually kept a deadline… Only Just ! Powershell V2 CTP3 was released last night after several hints from @jsnover on twitter. To download the latest Community Technology Preview hereSelected New and Updated Features in Windows PowerShell V2 CTP3 PowerShell Remoting Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) 63 [...]
Last Call: UK PowerShell Use Group
UK Powershell User Group Following on from the last great meeting the next UK Powershell User Group has been announced… The November meeting of the User Group will be on Thursday 20th November Time6.30 – 9.30 LocationMemphis RoomBuilding 3Microsoft campusThames Valley ParkReading Agenda Powershell Introduction: Objects and get-member PowerGUI SQL Server Reporting Services powerpack PowerShell [...]
Powershell Panel
Ever wondered what Jonathan Medd from the get-scripting podcast looks like as well as sounds like ? In an interview at TechEd in Barcelona Jonathan hosts a great Panel with some of the big names in Powershell, this is a must see, some great discussions in there…. Click here to see the video
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs
Yes, the long awaited System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (I’m sure they could have thought of a longer title) has just gone RTM. See here for the full story
Hyper-V Resources
As Hyper-V is now available Microsoft have some on-line presentations taken from the virtualisation launch last month. These are available on their website at :http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/getvirtualnow.mspx.A good overview of Hyper-V is at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/assets/media/hdbp/local/msm.htm, which is one of the breakout sessions entitled “Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practises”. Thanks to AP
