Ronnie Isherwood
Passionate and enthusiastic about technology and the benefits it has on people’s lives. Love my family, Private Cloud, Virtualisation, backup and XboxWebsite: http://www.virtualfat.com
Twitter: @virtualfatFollow @virtualfat
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Recently I have been spending more time outside of Jersey and been fortunate to have met and discussed virtualization with some of Europe’s virtualization and Private Cloud IT Pro’s. Most of them can be found in the online and offline Microsoft and ...
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When: 19 December 2011 from 17:30 onwards. Where: St Pauls Centre, Dumaresq Street, St Helier Jersey The Jersey Windows User Group invites you to attend an evening of interactive technical talks with local and visiting technologists. Please register on ...
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These days I attend so many events you’d think I get bored of them. Well actually no! The opposite, I just try and choose the best ones! Flying out of Jersey I managed to sneak in a quick yet thoroughly enjoyable family visit, then ran down to the ...
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Well there’s something new and interesting. Microsoft have released a cloud based tool to help partners asses their customer cloud computing needs. I have already run a sample client through the tool and it’s a real time saver. Not only will partners ...
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This quick guide is for those that want to deploy the agents to a host that doesn’t share the Virtual Machine Managers domain. There are two steps. Firstly we must install the agent on the host, then we must add the host to VMM and import the ...
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I’m just running through another SCVMM 2012 install and this time thought to capture the steps. System requirements and prerequisite information for the release candidate is available in the official TechNet deployment documentation here. Step by Step ...
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Presentation: Managing Private & Hybrid Clouds Immediately after the Jersey BCS AGM we will have a presentation and demonstrations of Microsoft’s latest innovation in Private & Public Cloud management technologies. Monday, September 26, 2011 ...
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Over in Las Vegas at Microsoft Management Summit this year I attended almost every session to learn about this exceptional third iteration product. Using remote protocol I traversed back to my shuttle and installed it minutes after the beta ...
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I saw my first DPM 2012 demo at the Microsoft Management summit earlier this year, I was rather impressed and have eagerly awaited this download. There’s a lot of new features for me to #like in DPM2012 and as I get through test ...
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I finally found time to review the results of a recent Hyper-V survey conducted by Aidan Finn, Hans Vredvoort and Damian Flynn. A great piece of work, the collection and analysis of this information had my eyebrows raised more than once and on occasion I ...
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Earlier this year I wrote an article on my blog about my history and some technical experiences called Backup Evolution Today I thought I would open up one of the boxes from my late mothers belongings, I found cool photo’s and my school reports. Lots of ...
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As a freelance IT guy with a focus on “Le Cloud” I do like a little trickle of potential contracts filtering into the inbox, this one though, well I can’t resist. If it were not for the hate of filling in forms, I’d probably apply for the fun of it. Not ...
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My blog is quite due to being snowed under, however I do read the news and can’t help but comment on this one. Licencing to me is a pain in the proverbial, I’m an engineer, architect, consultant and administrator and not an accountant. Apparently I need ...
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The Jersey Windows User Group is proud to present an evening of Tech Talk. Both sessions are delivered by the JWUG hosts and are as follows: Wireshark Primer (Michael French) Everything you need to know about RemoteFX (Ronnie Isherwood) There are ...
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Microsoft has released SP1 for Virtual Machine Manager’s V2 Portal. This free solution is the foundation for turning what might referred to as dynamic datacentre into a private cloud. To download and read more on the release head follow the link.
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Is that a typo? No it’s not. It’s nothing short of a little cloud innovation. Something I just saw and had to pass on. It’s Zooming as a Service! A consequence of running a utility called Zoomit from the cloud . I noted this when @markrussinovich tweeted ...
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Earlier this year at their Management summit, Microsoft announced the release candidate of System Center Advisor (formally Microsoft codename Atlanta). Essentially an Azure based cloud service which you can deploy to systems to assess server configuration ...
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you may remember last year I mentioned 4G in Jersey and I mentioned on linked-in the gigabit Jersey article. Today the BBC have nipped over and had a little look at the bandwidth on offer in one of the new residential areas. Interestingly enough I just ...
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Good news for Microsoft Software Assurance customers. As of 1 July 2011 we will be able to download the lightweight edition of Windows. Maybe put that stack of old PC’s to good use eh? I like the fact you can make use of technology such as Forefront ...
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“We are on a long roadmap with SCVMM”, that is what Microsoft’s virtualization team said back on September 6th 2007. Virtual Machine Manager was at RTM back then and since that announcement this System Center application has grown to be very welcome ...
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The latest recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 http://support.micro...
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Last weekend I travelled to Dublin to attend a Virtualization Conference, a conference that ran Friday to Sunday covering virtualization products, best practices, tips and tricks, architecture for Citrix, Microsoft, VMWare and other vendors. Set in ...
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Announced at TechED NA 2011 and taken directly from the Exchange Team blog: The Microsoft Exchange team is enhancing positioning by including additional supported scenarios regarding Exchange Server 2010 running under hardware virtualization software. As ...
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Here’s my pick of some important Hyper-V and partner announcements that have been coming in thick and fast these last few days. Private Cloud Cisco and NetApp are participating in Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program. Together they have developed ...
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A little while ago I had yet another opportunity to test my love of heights, and what a great time that was . In the dark of night I had the opportunity to tour this hi tech wonder from bottom to top. Not only did I get to see it, I got to understand how ...
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My blog is a little empty right now as I be mostly reading a resource kit on my new kindle, the later happens to be giving my broken eyes a much needed rest from screen glare. When I have tried to write though my 3 & 5 old managed to take me through ...
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Need an quick agnostic tool to compare virtualization features? A few people mentioned this in the last few weeks and I forgot to mention it here. Reminded today on twitter I am posting the link to a super free matrix comparing VMWare, Microsoft and ...
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Last week I was in Las Vegas at the Microsoft Management Summit learning about innovation, best practices and troubleshooting systems management technologies. MMS has been by far the best Microsoft event I have attended and the best overall since I was ...
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Microsoft has announced the released of Service Pack one for Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Details are here.
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One of the many great announcements made here at the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 is the release of a beta for VMM 2012. The beta is available to download from here and the TechNet documentation is online and available here. If you are ...
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