Month: July 2008

So the day after British Gas announce a 9% increase in their electricity prices and a 35% yes 35% increase in gas prices it’s expected they’ll announce a 6 month profit of £880 million. Now I’m not against…(read more)

I’ve just stumbled across the Evalu’08 website as it was featured in one of the many newsletters I get from Microsoft. Basically this is a single website giving you the opportunity to either download trial…(read more)

Yes you can. In SMS you couldn't upgrade an evaluation copy to an RTM version without uninstalling and reinstalling the product. With ConfigMgr it is possible to upgrade an eval copy… [more]…(read more)

Following on from my Virtualisation post I decided to do some digging round for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The current versions of SCVMM is 2007 but the Release Candidate of SCVMM 2008…(read more)

Well it seems that what with Microsoft’s release of Hyper-V and other movements in the virtualisation market VMware has decided to stop charging $500 for it’s ESXi Hypervisor and instead give it away for…(read more)

The "Actions" pane is one of the new panes of new Admin Console in ConfigMgr. However it takes up valuable screen estate and once you get to grips with the product you might find you no longer…(read more)

I’m going to be honest I hate Microsoft’s Virtualisation strategy or at least I did until now. I was born and bred on VMWare. I tried Virtual PC and it was OK. Virtual Server well even saying the name…(read more)

SQL Server 2005 954831 FIX: In SQL Server 2005, the session that runs the TRUNCATE TABLE statement may stop responding, and you cannot end the session System Center Essentials 2007 954049 Description of…(read more)

The Environmentally Friendly bunch have been lobbying retailers here in the UK (and probably elsewhere), to either do away with free plastic carrier bags or start charging for them. The trend is starting…(read more)

What is Asset Intelligence? [28/07/08] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS] Asset Intelligence is a new, optional feature included in SP3 that offers enhanced reporting……(read more)