The recent release of SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 includes two new virtualization capabilities: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.  To take advantage of these new features, Microsoft also release Service Pack 1 for Service Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 to manage Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX on multiple Hyper-V Servers from a single interface. To understand these capa...

Microsoft’s Hyper-V alone really doesn’t allow for express policy- or role-based administrative control over specific virtual machines on a virtual host (or hosts). Even with Windows 2008 Hyper-V alone, such control wasn’t possible. In effect, if the administrator of a specific virtual machine was not an administrator of that machine’s virtual host, he/she couldn’t, for example, power up an a...

BizTalk 2010 introduces a new interface for maintaining parties and the agreements between parties.  While this new interface is an improvement over previous versions I have experienced a couple issues.  The first issue is regarding protocol settings and the other is regarding a common qualifier.  This article will show some screenshots of the new interface while expanding on the aforemention...

Believe it or not, virtualization technologies have been in use since the early 1960s. Seriously! In those days of old, the technology was sparingly utilized for large mainframes, primarily to allow those expensive, underutilized machines to multitask, thus providing a better return on investment. Fast forward to the present, where the continual inverse relationship between cost/size and perf...

SharePoint 2007 had numerous deficiencies for content and enterprise records management, many of which are addressed in SharePoint 2010 making it a viable platform for ECM & RM.  SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0 or MOSS) was the merger of two previous Microsoft products, WSS 2.0 and Content Management Server, meaning MOSS now had a whole bunch of ECM features that it came nowhere close to having be...

[ cross-posted from Kevin's Blog, The Kick Board ]   Earlier this morning I presented a revised version of my Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 presentation at the local Microsoft office as part of their "Morning Perk" series which highlights new technology paired with customer case studies.  I had the honor of once again sharing the stage with long-time customer and friend Dr. ...

Cross posted from The Kickboard (Kevin's Blog).   Wow, what a great day we had on Saturday at the first ever SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis event.  I was fortunate to be on the organizing committee for this event along with Rob Bogue, John Ferringer, Kory Geyer, David Reed, Krista Sellery, and Mike Mitchell.   We also had a great group of volunteers that really helped with all the logisti...

It’s been about a year since I first wrote about micro-blogging within the context of Web 2.0 technologies that could provide value on the corporate intranet portal.  Since that time, the explosion of platforms such as Twitter have highlighted the value of this type of communication in an open public context.  Other major platforms such as Facebook have revamped their primary information aggreg...

[cross posted from Kevin's Blog - The Kick Board]   Well I attended DevLink down in Nashville, TN last week.  It was my first time, but certainly won't be my last.  John Kellar and all the volunteers did a great job pulling off a super conference that felt more like a huge extended community code camp than what I traditional think of as an "industry conference" (e.g. TechEd, SxSW, P...

[cross posted from Kevin's Blog - The Kick Board]   I just recently had a bout with my MOSS search service.  After a couple faithful years of service our SSP got a tick and so we decided the best thing to do was rebuild it (pretty easy really, only a few BDC apps to port, etc...)  Unfortunately once everything was done we could not get the search service to crawl the "All Local Sites&q...