mcs.ireland.blog/infrastructure
Welcome to the blog of the Microsoft Consulting Services infrastructure team in Ireland
Updated Virtual Labs
There was a post sometime ago regarding Virtual Labs, there are just so many new ones that I thought...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 05/08/2007
Operations Manager 2007 - new reporting blog
One of the OpsMgr developers has started a blog, focusing on manipulating and customising the OpsMgr...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 05/04/2007
Infrastructure Optimization Implementer Guides
Remember the 4 stages in the Infrastructure Optimization Model? These guides, Moving from Basic to...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 05/03/2007
System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Beta 1 is released
SCCP 2007 Beta 1 is now available for download. SCCP 2007 builds on the great capabilities of SCCP...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 05/01/2007
It is Here! Systems Management Server 2003 Sp3!
With full Vista Support, the integration of asset intelligence for license reporting, software...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/30/2007
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Review
ADT magazine has recently published a short review of VMM. The review, plus a link to downloading...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/30/2007
MIIS 2003 SP2 now available
For those of you running MIIS 2003 SP1 in your infrastructures, SP2 for MIIS 2003 is now available...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/30/2007
Windows Server - Longhorn Beta 3 released. How are we distributing it?
Colm Torris (our resident Technet manager) recently blogged about the public availability and...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/26/2007
Application Compatibility Toolkit
If you are thinking of deploying Vista and are concerned about the compatability of your curently...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/25/2007
REMINDER - Have you Upgraded to ITMU Revision 3????
Do you have SMS 2003 in your infrastructure? Are you patching through SMS 2003? Are you using the...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/25/2007
Infrastructure Optimisation on Technet
A large part of the work we do as infrastructure consultants involves helping our customers to move...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/24/2007
System Center Essentials 2007 RC1 released
For those of you who are involved in the management and monitoring of small to mid-size Microsoft...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/24/2007
Operations Manager webcasts update
The online videos I referred to here are now zipped up in wmv format for download and offline...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/18/2007
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows Vista
Care to know all of the new stuff that is included in the group policy settings? There is a very...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/16/2007
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Webcasts on TechNet
Now that SCOM 2007 has RTM'd, the below webcasts should be of help in getting up to speed with the...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 04/02/2007
Monitor security changes using MOM
Apress have released a freely downloadable appendix to their MOM 2005 Field Guide book. This...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 03/21/2007
Windows Server 2003 SP2 is released
SP2 shipped today. Whilst a key update to our current server platform, the SP is pretty unobtrusive...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 03/13/2007
Network Monitor
The new and redesigned network monitor is here. "Microsoft Network Monitor 3" with Vista as a...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 03/07/2007
Longhorn virtualisation demo video
Here’s a video of Windows Server “Longhorn” and two of its cool new features: Server Core and...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 03/02/2007
Where are we going with Virtualisation?
Much farther than many people know or expect. I will defer to the subject matter expert post here....
Author: mcsieinf Date: 02/27/2007
DreamScene - Movies as Wallpaper!
If you've managed to upgrade to Vista Ultimate then you just have to checkout the DreamScene...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 02/14/2007
Active Directory poster
Looking for a single graphic displaying all of the Active Directory and related services...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 02/02/2007
Are file servers going to be extinct?
This excellent article over at the Sharepoint team blog gives a clear and succinct comparison of the...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 02/02/2007
Presentation Mouse
This may be a little geeky, but I came across a new gadget that you might like to take a look at....
Author: mcsieinf Date: 02/01/2007
Running Windows 2003 Administrative Tools from Vista
If you want to administer a Windows 2003 server from Vista, check out the KB article below to get...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/27/2007
Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator (BDD2007) Released
BDD2007 is the best practice set of comprehensive guidance and tools to optimally deploy Windows...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/18/2007
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for PC Life Cycle Configuration Management
A report published in the last few weeks by Gartner provides their independent assessment of the PC...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/17/2007
Exchange 2007 Storage Calculator
The Exchange 2007 Storage Calculator has been released. This calculator focuses on identifying the...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/17/2007
Learn the Exchange 2007 Management Shell the easy way
Since the Exchange Management Console builds on top of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS), every...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/16/2007
Learn the new features of OWA 2007 from this great demo
Now that Exchange 2007 is truly upon us check out this great flash demo of many of the new features...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/16/2007
The Fundamental Computer Investigation Guide for Windows Is Now Available
This content provides prescriptive guidance in terms of best practices and tools for computer...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/14/2007
Windows Home Server is announced
This one has been kept really under wraps (even most people within Microsoft didn't know anything...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 01/08/2007
IE7 Keyboard Shortcuts
Tabs in IE7 are a great (and long overdue!) feature. Below are some keyboard shortcuts for using...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/23/2006
New Careers Micro Site
I stumbled across a site that was pretty interesting in that it gave some good information in terms...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/20/2006
Exchange 2007 Comparison
As you probably know Exchange 2007 has now been released to manufacturing. You may be considering...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/14/2006
System Center Operations Manager 2007 at RC2
It's going to be a busy year! Hot on the heels of new releases of Office, Vista and Exchange......
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/14/2006
New Intellimouse feature with latest Vista drivers
If you install the latest Vista drivers for Intellipoint mice you get a nifty feature. The drivers...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/12/2006
Exchange 2007 RTM's
Exchange 2007 released to manufacturing on Friday. Previously known as E12, the product delivers...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/11/2006
Windows Defender final version now available
Defender has been in beta for a while but a few weeks ago the final release was signed off. Defender...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/05/2006
solshare.net - Public Sector IT community
A colleague of ours liked rain so much he decided he didn't get enough of it here in Ireland so he...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/05/2006
Managing GPOs with scripts
Most people are familiar with GPMC - the Group Policy Management Console - for administering and...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 12/05/2006
Terminal Services client v6.0 released
This is now available to download for Windows 2003 & XP. There are quite a few new features -...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/30/2006
Unsupported Apps in Virtual Server
We get a lot of questions and calls about what Server System software is or is not supported in a...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/23/2006
Technet Virtual Labs - free online learning resource
Just thought I'd make you all aware of what is a really great free resource - Technet Virtual Labs....
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/13/2006
Vista has Released to Manufacturing
https://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/08/it-s-time.aspx Nice work. Congrats...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/08/2006
MBSA Offline Mode Update
MBSA 2.0.1 is an update to MBSA 2.0 to enable compatibility with the new Windows Update (WU) offline...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/08/2006
Business Desktop Deployment 2007 Beta 2 for Windows Vista - featuring Zero Touch Installation with SMS 2003
Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 includes comprehensive guidance and tools to deploy Windows...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/06/2006
Microsoft VHD catalog: Try our products without the build time to set it all up
Virtualization is one of the key technologies redefining how datacenters will be architected in the...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/06/2006
Foldershare - real-time backup made easy
MCS is like most consulting organisations in that as a consultant, you are working on customer sites...
Author: mcsieinf Date: 11/06/2006