Download Pick: Hyper-V 2008 Configuration Guide

If you want to setup and configure Hyper-V Server 2008 you will want to download this guide from Microsoft.

It covers setup up local administrator passwords, the new Hyper-V 2008 configuration tool and remote management.

Get it from this link.

You can also find a whole slew of technical resources for Hyper-V 2008 at this link.

Check my previous blog posting on Hyper-V 2008 for download and installation info links.

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Download Pick: Five Misunderstood Features of Windows Vista

While companies continue to try to decide whether to adopt and deploy Windows Vista or just wait until Windows 7 it is important to know the features the OS offers and common misunderstandings so you can get the most out of your installation. Microsoft has provided an excellent document that addresses the five most often misunderstood features of Windows Vista which are:

• User Account Control
• Image management
• Display Driver Model
• Search
• 64 bit architecture

I would highly reccomend this document even to those who have already deployed Windows Vista.

Have a look at it at the following link: Five Misunderstood Features of Windows Vista.

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I'm A PC - (Just in case you didn't know. )

I'M A PC

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Bink is reporting that Windows 7 will be called....

Windows 7!!! A+ for originality there Microsoft Marketing. ; )

http://bink.nu/news/official-name-of-windows-7-revealed.aspx

Not to be confused with Windows Vista Service Pack 2 which is what it should be called because from what I have seen of Windows 7 it isn't a whole lot different than Vista.

Of course then they would have to offer it as an update and not be able to collect more money for an OS that the public doesn't wan't to adopt and programmers and software vendors seem to refuse to want to learn how to write their software to work with it.

Maybe they could extend XP out to 2020?

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Look out Citrix Adobe beta testing ConnectNow

In an apparent attempt to go after the remote live meeting market Adobe has released a beta of a product called ConnectNow.
Check it out at:

https://www.acrobat.com/#/connectnow/GoToMyMeeting

Think it is a coincidence that the last part of the link is GoToMyMeeting which is just too darn similar to Citrix's GoToMeeting?

I tested the service with a colleague earlier today and the screen sharing was very smooth. The program also allows you to share a webcam and has online chat. All in all a great job and very impressive! You can easily invite guests and Adobe gives you a permanent screen sharing URL for future meetings, something Citrix doesn't offer.

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Microsoft Releases Hyper-V Server 2008

You can now download Windows Hyper-V Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx

For a nice how to on installing Hyper-V Server 2008 check out Sander Berkouwer's great blog entry here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2008/10/03/how-to-install-microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008.aspx

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Gnu Guru- "Cloud Computing is a Trap"

The Guardian has an article about Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, feelings about cloud computing and they aren't warm and fuzzy. "It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian.

I'm not going to venture that far out but I would have to tend to agree with Stallman for the most part. The cloud is a lot of hype right now. It is ASP marketing regurgitated in my opinion. This is an area I have watched and researched and tried to adopt now for many years.

We have a few hosted applications at my organization mostly HR and Payroll but critical line of business apps the data and machine stays in our data center. Yeah payroll sounds kind of critical but if the system goes you can always write a paper check locally.

Personally I am not too keen on paying someone for something (storage, email, etc) that I am already getting pretty much for free on my local machine or with free Internet applications like Yahoo Mail or Gmail.. Some of the Cloud OS projects like Microsoft Live Mesh, G.h.o.s.t., and Icloud, while compelling just aren't ready for prime time yet.

You can check out the article at the below link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman

Computerworld has written an article citing community bloggers comments on Stallman's opinions here:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/rms_hates_cloud_computing_says_you_should_too

Greg Ness posted in his blog that the Cloud needs a new Infrastructure 2.0 before it is a reality and also discusses the Virtualization hype. It is a must read article here:

http://gregness.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/the-cloud-will-need-infrastructure-20/

Finally Gartner recently released a good articel entitled "Why a Little Cloud hype might be useful" that is a must read at:

http://blogs.gartner.com/hypecyclebook/2008/09/30/why-a-little-cloud-hype-might-be-useful/

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