I’ve been a bit delayed writing this final blog post from Tech Ed EMEA 2008, so I’m back in the UK. The final day at Tech Ed 2008 EMEA IT was not quite as session filled as previous days, mainly because Rik and I had to be heading off to the airport shortly before 3pm to catch our flight home. The first presentation of …

I attended a very interesting presentation this morning by Mikael Nystrom on creating a master image for SCVMM. We’ve been using VPCs for quite a while, in particular when building test systems for the developers to run their code on. Using a master image (or a series of master images) in SCVMM will help us speed up …

In addition to the two Steve Riley presentations I saw, there were a few other items that caught my attention on day 3: Windows Server 2008 R2 will be 64-bit only. yes, that’s right, there will be no 32-bit version. WoW64 will still be available for those of you needing to run x86 apps on the server, but it’s now an …

Following a strong recommendation from Robert, I attended a couple of talks by Steve Riley (Senior Security Strategist for Microsoft). The first presentation was titled ‘21st Century Networking: throw away your medieval gateways’, the second was ‘Do these ten things or get 0wn3d!’. Steve has to be one of the best …

My first session of the day was about project Gemini. Following the brief demonstration in the keynote, I was really looking forward to a better look at Gemini, its background and how it will help information workers and IT professionals; I wasn’t disappointed. Cristian Petculescu, the Principal Architect for Gemini is …

I think that the Barcelona Metro is superb. So far over the last couple of days it’s been an extremely good, fast service that has got us around the city with no problems at all. In addition, nobody seems to bat an eyelid when people take all sorts of things with them you’d never expect to see at home. So far I’ve seen …

Today has been interesting. Rik and I started the day doing the sightseeing we had time for. The Gaudi cathedral had been particularly recommended, so with limited time at our disposal, that’s what we decided to see. We arrived at the gate just as it opened, and were in within a few minutes. The cathedral is very, very …

Rik and I arrived this afternoon in Barcelona for the TechEd IT conference that is going on this week. Our flight was pretty good, and our bags even arrived at baggage reclaim fairly quickly. After some confusion, we managed to negotiate the train/underground to get to our hotel (and I must say here that I was very …

Following my last blog post regarding SCVMM 2008 Beta and the issues I was seeing with non-admin access to remote machines via Hyper-V manager, I thought it would be beneficial to forward my query to the team concerned via Connect. Here's the answer I got: "What you are seeing is expected behaviour. When you add a …

Yesterday I finally got around to installing SCVMM 2008 beta onto a virtual machine (mainly to help us with some virtual machine migrations we've got coming up). I must say that I think SCVMM 2008 beta is very nice indeed! On my Vista machine I use Tore Lervik's Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar, and have done …