For the next 6 weeks, the US Microsoft Evangelists are teaming up to do a blog series comparing VMware technologies to Microsoft. We’ll be tackling the myths and mysteries surrounding the virtualization technologies and then you can decide which one is best for your organization.
Kevin Remde is keeping the full list of them in this “Complete Series” post, but you’ll be touring the blogs of all the evangelists as the topics are posted.
Enjoy!
Please tell me you’ve seen the tweets and gotten the emails!
I’m co-chairing PacITPros 2nd TechDays SF – two days jam packed with a crazy menu of sessions to choose from, brought to you by some great speakers – many of which you’d pay 6 times the amount to see at TechEd.
Not going to TechEd? Then this is the place for you to get the much of what you need to know about Cloud, Azure, PowerShell, plus some extra goodies on SharePoint 2013, Lync, Remote Desktop and Hyper-V!
The fine folks at Xantrion are sponsoring us and we’ve got our schedule available as a mobile app by EventBoard. So go register now. Otherwise, you are making me feel bad.
Speaking of Azure, if you haven’t done the 90 day free trial, it’s totally worth looking at. Microsoft is even running a Virutal Networking challenge where you can win some pretty decent prizes, like a Surface Pro.
The TechNet Events team is hitting the road again, bringing you presentations on Windows Azure, Hyper-V and demonstrations on simplifying Windows 7 deployments.
TechNet Events are free and with over 35 dates in cities across the United States, there’s bound to be one near you. The San Francisco session will be held on March 2nd. Registration is open now.
It’s unfortunate that I feel like I’m starting the year already behind on my “tech” reading list. Here’s a quick list of I have within arms reach.
by C. A. Callehan – This has been a great resource for my first attempt at implementing SharePoint. It’s a hefty book, I wish it included a PDF version I could convert onto my Kindle.
by Richard Luckett, William Lefkovics, Bharat Suneja and MCITP: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Messaging Design and Deployment Study Guide – These have been part of my Exchange certification study materials, as well as a starting point for deciding if its worth migrating to Exchange 2007 or skipping to Exchange 2010.
by John Kelbley, Mike Sterling and Allen Stewart – Would you believe I got this free from NetApp? It got several good reviews on Amazon, so I’m looking forward to getting a chance to sit down with it.
by Jeremy Moskowitz. I’ve read his Windows 2000 Group Policy book years ago, so I much appreciated winning this one from him via Twitter. In addition to books, I’ve downloaded several whitepapers onto my Kindle for those free moments on the subway:
Some days I feel really behind the eight ball, so today I spent some time getting back into Hyper-V. The office runs VMWare for our production items, but I’m really trying to make time to give Hyper-V a fair shake. Since all of our lab machines are segregated off into various nooks and corners of the server room, physical access while working on them is less than ideal. I’m happy to remotely connect to servers from the comfort of my desk.
Conveniently my co-worker already has a Hyper-V host server set up, so that saved me from having to hunt down hardware and get going from scratch. In order to get started configuring my guest server, I’m connected to my Hyper-V host machine via Remote Desktop and then connecting to my guest server with a Virtual Machine Connection. Because the mouse might “behave erratically” without Integration Services in this particular scenario, the mouse controls are intentionally blocked.
While one of my many random goals in life may be to navigate Windows without a mouse, it’s not something I’m very proficient at currently. In order to install the Integration Services, one needs to be handy with keyboard commands, particularly the alternate versions used in the virtual enviroment. Here are a few that I found useful. The traditional key command is listed first, followed by it’s Hyper-V VM equivalent.
Ultimately, I’ll be using this guest server to play around with SharePoint 2007, but today I’m happy to have just gotten the OS configured and Windows Updates installed. SharePoint will have to wait until after Turkey Day.
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