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I’m attending the Agile BarCamp in Wellington to learn more about Agile and how the Agile methodologies could be applied to projects that don’t necessarily relate to software development. My (very simplified) understanding of Agile so far is that it is a framework around software development that focuses on delivering lots of smaller releases instead […]

The PowerShell team have just released the first publicly available CTP of PowerShell 2.0. This hasn’t even reached beta stage yet, so there is bound to be lots of bugs and no doubt the product will change  a lot prior to release. Lots of new features, but the stand-out ones for me are: Remote scripting […]

As I posted before, I made it along to the Gadgets, Games and Geeks event that was hosted by Unlimited Potential (UP) at the Wellington Convention Center. It was an interesting night, I wasn’t too sure what to expect but I was hoping that there would be lots of gadgets to look at. Disappointingly there […]

I need an extra four or five hours in each day at the moment. I’m adding these videos to my to-do list. System Center Essentials 2007 Training Videos Presenter Biographies Scott Bleasdell Scott Bleasdell is a program manager on the System Center Essentials team responsible for product planning, focusing on future releases. Scott has been […]

Microsoft’s new integrated infrastructure management product, System Center Essentials 2007, has recently been released in NZ. It’s a management solution for small and medium sized businesses that provides similar functionality to Microsoft’s enterprise products like SMS and MOM, with additional features relevant to the smaller businesses. This should turn out to be popular in NZ […]

Big news this week was that Microsoft have had to drop postpone some key features from their new virtualisation software currently in development. Mike Neill, GM of virtualisation strategy went on the defensive with a lengthy blog post detailing all of the cool things about Microsoft’s new virtualisation platform, codenamed Viridian. But if you kept […]

I’ve mentioned before how I recommend that all infrastructure consultants subscribe the TechNet Blogs feed, and once again I’ve picked up on a gem. This one is courtesy of the “Schweiser” blog in Switzerland and they have provided PowerShell courseware and demos for download. The courseware is an introduction to PowerShell and is in pdf […]

Any Microsoft Infrastructure consultant should be subscribed to the main TechNet Blogs feed. It can be a bit too much at times as there are hundreds of posts per day, but you can pick out some gems in there if you look carefully. It’s also quite interesting watching the feed as a new beta is […]

This has just been released but I haven’t had a chance to look at it properly yet. Will write more once I have a better understanding of it. Citrix Desktop Server New Citrix Desktop Server revolutionizes desktop delivery and management Managing and securing the Windows Desktop OS is a significant and growing challenge for most […]