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Getting hands on with Private Cloud technologies and one of its key technical elements – virtualization – is turning out to be pretty popular with many of you out there.  When I first announced the IT Virtualization Boot Camps we kicked off in Toronto on January 20 and 21 those events sold out within days.  Immediately we heard from many ...

The following article is written by Mitch Garvis (@MGarvis) and also appears on The World According to Mitch. Microsoft created Windows Small Business Server as a one-box solution for companies that did not need more. It has always been a hobbled product, based on Windows Server Standard, but limited in things like domain trusts, FSMO roles, ...

In the last little while as we have started to deliver the IT Virtualization Boot Camps as well as go out to various user groups and talk about the Microsoft Virtualization and Private Cloud offerings, I have often been asked where IT Pros can find resources to learn about how our products work, especially by those individuals who are familiar ...

The following article is written by Mitch Garvis (@MGarvis) and also appears on The World According to Mitch. Over the past year as a Virtual Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft Canada I have heard a lot of people say a lot of things about Hyper-V, and not all of it has been from people who work for (or are otherwise strongly invested ...

Wow!  When we announced the IT Virtualization Boot Camps in the TechNet eNewsletter last week, the response from you has been overwhelming.  Many of you emailed me saying you wanted an IT Virtualization Boot Camp in your city.  The folks on the West Coast, were especially vocal.  Well, I am happy to announce that we will be ...

Yesterday, we wrapped up the second IT Virtualization Boot Camp brought to you by Microsoft TechDays Canada and your local user group - IT Pro Toronto.  Both on Saturday and on Monday, we had a full house with 40+ attendees taking part in a hands-on journey to a highly-available virtualization infrastructure on the Microsoft platform.  ...

The following article is written by Mitch Garvis (@MGarvis) and also appears on The World According to Mitch.  Expect to see more articles from Mitch in the future. In the world of Server Virtualization, there are two types of hypervisors: Layer 2 hypervisors are installed as an application (or service) on an existing operating system ...

As our team looks to provide valuable content to you to help you grow in your career and acquire new skills, I am often asked if we can put on more hands-on events where you get a chance to play with the technology.  At TechDays 2011 this year we offered hands-on labs for the very first time and had a phenomenal response.  However, ...

Dave Kawula knows his stuff when it comes to Virtualization. When I asked him to put together some screencasts, we came up with a short series of them following the flow from planning through to deployment and management. I wanted to call each one out individually and wrap it together into a series – so we called it “Demystifying Microsoft’s ...

Dave Kawula knows his stuff when it comes to Virtualization. When I asked him to put together some screencasts, we came up with a short series of them following the flow from planning through to deployment and management. I wanted to call each one out individually and wrap it together into a series – so we called it “Demystifying Microsoft’s ...