Speaker: Michael Adams, VMware ([email protected]) vCloud Suite Launches very soon - Free upgrade for Enterprise Plus Customers. Should be in Q3, meaning Sept 2012. Jump upgrades possible in the future, or VMware may recommend customers can skip a release VMware plans on yearly vSphere Suite upgrades for customers vCloud Suite...
Today if the first full day of VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. To kick the week off they started off with a general session with some announcements, but nothing that wasn't already rumored. The biggest announcement was the removal of the vRAM vTAX for vSphere. vSphere will now just be...
A few days ago VMware released a brand new version of their desktop virtualization product, Workstation 9.0. This release brings a lot of new features, but the biggest one is full support for Windows 8 and multi-touch. You can check out the full release notes here. Its great to see...
Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012 is an integrated platform for automating and adapting an organization's IT service management best practices. It has built-in processes for incident and problem management, change management, service request fulfillment, release management, service level management and configuration management. As part of the System Center suite...
Snag-It is one of those tools that all IT people need, as it's an indispensable tool for grabbing screen shots, adding call outs, and cropping images. It is well worth the few dollars it costs for a license. Earlier this year Snag-It 11.0 was released, with some nice new features,...
A few days ago VMware released an updated custom HP ISO image for ESXi 5.0 Update 1, which includes all of the HP specific drivers and agents. The big difference between this release and prior HP ESXi 5.0 releases is that you can download them directly from VMware and not...
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have a number of brand new boot-time security features to help combat malware. While this article is not going to discuss them in depth, I will briefly describe them so you understand what they are and how to configure one feature, Secure Boot. Microsoft...
WARNING: This blog post has been superseded by my updated post here. Do not use the article below, as it is outdated. WARNING: This blog post has been superseded by my updated post here. Do not use the article below, as it is outdated. ---------- Based on my popular article (#1...
One of the new features added to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and R2 is the ability to slipstream a service pack into the installation. This streamlines the installation, and reduces human error. Now that SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 is officially out, here's how to slipstream SQL Server 2008 R2...
One of the common tasks that you may do on a regular basis is installing Windows Server 2012 and you want to automate it as much as possible. Using similar tools to those used with Windows Server 2008 R2, you can create an autounattend.xml file that you inject into the Windows Server 2012 installation...
Yes, it's that time of year for HP to release their updated HP Service Pack for ProLiant, which is now up to version 2012.06.0 (B). You can find the 514 page release notes (yes that is not a typo, 514 pages) here. This update includes a number of fixes to...
UPDATE 10/26/12: A new blog post with updated links is here.HP just released their June 2012 VMware ESXi 4.1 U2 and ESXi 5.0 U1 ISO installation media. Nearly every driver in this custom ISO has been updated from the previous release. You can find the entire driver set versions here....