The World Simplified is a Virtual World
The Adventures of Justin Zarb and Dave Falkus in the Virtual Jungle
Barclay's go live in London with Microsoft Surface
So, quite rightly Mr Zarb has bent my ear hard, and for those who know me that’s a lot or ear to...
Author: awbennett Date: 01/02/2009
Application Virtualization Product Team needs your help!
I want to get this as much press as I can for gene and the app-v team! Please do take some...
Author: zarbie Date: 12/17/2008
TS: MS System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Config – 71-403
I love challenges! However some challenges are more interesting than others! If you don't remember...
Author: zarbie Date: 12/17/2008
Microsoft Virtualisation User Group – January 2009 Meeting
Just to let everyone know Details of the next MVUG meeting now up on www.mvug.co.uk! I shall be...
Author: zarbie Date: 12/09/2008
MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture Session 10 – Application Virtualization
I was meant to post an article yesterday but decided against it until a certain operating system...
Author: zarbie Date: 12/08/2008
PFE Hyper-V Ops Day – October
We ran a Hyper-V day at the end of October, and collated a series of useful links and best practice...
Author: zarbie Date: 11/24/2008
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Now Available
I am in Spain at the moment (no….not at teched , I had some family business to sort out :o( ) Anyway...
Author: zarbie Date: 11/05/2008
App-V 4.5 Resource Kit Available
This defiantly creped out the door late at night while I was not watching. However my buddy...
Author: zarbie Date: 11/03/2008
Virtual Application Management with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2
Steve pinged me earlier today to let me know that a new white paper that he had been working on was...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/30/2008
Microsoft Application Virtualization Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007
For all those that were waiting for the Ops Manager Management Pack for App-V 4.5..... its here. The...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/28/2008
New White papers for Deploying and Managing App-V
Karri posted over on the MDOP blog today some new bits and piece around App-V 4.5 including info on...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/28/2008
Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services
I have been struggling to get to sleep tonight so i thought i would put my little ASUS eee book on...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/25/2008
TechNet Presents: MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture Session 10 – Application Virtualisation
I feel like I am talking about all sorts of great events these days. And today is no different…. A...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/19/2008
Microsoft Virtualisation User Group – November 2008 Meeting
Sir Matt Millers pinged me while I was out in Prague to say that we are all go for the next meeting...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/17/2008
Life in Prague Chatting to PFE EMEA
So the PFE community tries to meet up every year. The aim is technology awareness and training, we...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/16/2008
Virtual PC and Virtual Server verison numbers as well as additions
Have you ever tried to figure out if you had the latest VM additions installed on all your Virtual...
Author: Dcraig Date: 10/11/2008
Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services available November 1
Well I was waiting for the official boys and gals to say this! And J.C finally did :o) If you have...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/05/2008
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Security Configuration Roles
Another cool product that was recently released was the App-V 4.5 Security Configuration Roles. The...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/03/2008
App-V BPA (Best Practices Analyzer)
Again in case you have not seen all these great new resources that we pushed up to the web, Its time...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/03/2008
Microsoft Application Virtualization Administrative Template (ADM Template)
Well in case you missed it (and i guess that you may have) the App-V ADM template got officially...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/02/2008
Error 1606. Could not access network location SoftGrid Management Service
I have been upgrading a lot of my test labs up to 4.5 RTM over the last few weeks, and I have had...
Author: zarbie Date: 10/02/2008
SCVMM 2007 Interesting Clear Up for Database
One of mine and Duanes good friends is a PFE engineer called Richard Diver (lovingly know to us as...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/26/2008
70-403/Beta TS: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Config
Ohhhhh yes its time! 23rd September which means you should be getting online and booking your...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/23/2008
Microsoft Virtualization User Group - Tomorrow
Well I must admit it feels like forever since I first posted about the MVUG. And now I have to say...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/23/2008
Whitepapers For App-V 4.5
Lets consider this…. you have been tasked with the job of doing a detailed design. You need to show...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/19/2008
App-V 4.5 Podcast - Springboard Series
Karri is one of our top peps in the App-V Team! And has been very busy since RTM spreading the word,...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/19/2008
Some Great ‘Management’ Information from Gartner
Now when I say management, i don’t mean SCCM or even SCOM! I mean real management people! The guys...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/19/2008
October Technet Magazine – Virtualization
The October version of TechNet Magazine is now posted online and contains an article focused on...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/18/2008
New Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide - Now Available for Download!
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5 Infrastructure Planning and Design guides...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/16/2008
How to download App-V 4.5 RTM
So how can you get your hands on App-V 4.5 RTM, well the answer my friends is on...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/15/2008
Its Official, Its Here!!!! MDOP 2008 R2 Release to Manufacturing!
Shortly off the back of the App-V RTM we can now officially say that the MDOP 2008 R2 is RTM!!! For...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/15/2008
Swype's new keyboard technology
Very interesting new input technology for touch screens. I have always struggled with tapping out on...
Author: Dcraig Date: 09/12/2008
Microsoft IT Showcase proudly presents Insight Workshops - New! Virtualization at Microsoft
I get asked this question all the time.. How does Microsoft IT use Virtulization internally? Well...
Author: Dcraig Date: 09/11/2008
Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator
Andrew Auret pinged me the other day to tell me about a tool that he has been working on with Tony...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/11/2008
70-652 Hyper-v Exam Released and more Details for 70-403 SCVMM Exam!
So you might have read a few weeks ago Justin going on about how he passed the Hyper-v beta exam......
Author: Dcraig Date: 09/10/2008
Get Virtual Now : Virtualization Virtual Pressroom - Videos
So this was really cool to see yesterday and I wanted to upload some of the event highlights so that...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/09/2008
Get Virtual Now?!
Now in case you have not heard there is a big event going on soon! The theme of the event is “Get...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/08/2008
Engineering Windows 7
This is a truly awesome blog! and is one that is worth keeping in your RSS readers. The Engineering...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/08/2008
VAS Upgrade from 4.1.2.20 to 4.1.3.16 fails with error message "The installation program was unable to read the SQL. upgrade files for the configuration database"
Ok so the title of this one is not strictly related to the post but is an example of the error. A...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/05/2008
New Documentation on App-V 4.5 RTM
Of the back of the RTM that was released last night, we have also released a new set of...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/04/2008
Interesting Issue with App-V RC Build 4.5.0.1308 and Additional Management Server - Failed to establish a connection to the data source
This is quite interesting and is fixed in the RTM release but whilst your testing your RC releases...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/02/2008
Recipes and Step-By-Steps
Recipes or Step-By-Steps for sequencing are one of the most important things that you can do when...
Author: zarbie Date: 09/01/2008
Hyper-V Certification – A nice thing happened to me when I woke up!
I started to get nervous the other day when I got a mail saying that we should hear soon about our...
Author: zarbie Date: 08/31/2008
Supported Virtual Environments
This was really interesting…. did you know that Microsoft ISA Server and Forefront TMG are supported...
Author: zarbie Date: 08/29/2008