Entries for Dave Northey

Interview with Aidan Finn - Hyper-V, System Centre and IT Pro Momentum

Dave Northey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:15:00 GMT

Aidan Finn (Systems and Infrastructure Manager with C-Infinity) talks about why he chose NOT to go with VMware in favor of Hyper-V and System Centre.

Aidan is a System Centre MVP and an active blogger and user group leader. He has been engaged in IT Pro Momentum from the very begining. He talks about how he has used the program and how he shares his knowledge with others.

He closes out by sharing his plans for the up and coming R2 releases of Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and System Centre.

Aidan blogs here: http://joeelway.spaces.live.com

You can download the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 from here and start build your own Live Migration failover cluster.

And if you live in Ireland and want to join the IT Pro Momentum program please email me mailto:daven@microsoft.com

Enjoy..

Dave

Interview with Rory Donnelly - IT at work & play [Interview with Rory Donnelly - IT at work & play]

Dave Northey — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:23:00 GMT

Rory Donnelly is the CIO of Nissan Ireland, he is a big Microsoft fan and adopts our products early on in their lifecycle. He talks about the technology behind the Case Studies that he has already done for us (Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Vista and Office) and his plans to deploy the new Microsoft products as and when they are available.

Rory is responsible for convincing me to go out and buy a Home Server. I get to ask him about his use of IT at home - Media Centre, Xbox, How Server, Zunes, etc.

You can read Rory's case studies here: http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/casestudies/

And if you live in Ireland and want to join the IT Pro Momentum program please email me mailto:daven@microsoft.com

Enjoy..

Dave

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Interview with John McCabe - Hyper-V R2, Live Migration and OCS

Dave Northey — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:01:00 GMT

John McCabe (Technical Consultant with CD Soft) talks about his production deployment of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 running on the beta of Windows Server 2008 R2. He explains how he convinced the business to deploy a beta product in production and what he thinks of Hyper-V R2 (he likes it)! He also explains why he didn't go with VMware.

CD Soft now run their entire business from a two-node Hyper-V cluster as well as providing a hosted OCS offering to their customers.

You can download the Release Candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2 from here and start build your own Live Migration failover cluster.

And if you live in Ireland and want to join the IT Pro Momentum program please email me mailto:daven@microsoft.com

Enjoy..

Dave

Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering [Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering]

Dave Northey — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT

I had to post this screencast before I lost it. It demonstrates how Windows Server 2008 has taken the "black art" out of clustering. I show how easy it is to create a cluster and a highly available resource.

This demo uses six virtual machines all running on my laptop (domain controller, iSCSI SAN, three Server Core cluster nodes and a 2008 member server from which I run the demo).

Enjoy,

Dave.

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Getting PHP to perform on IIS7 [Getting PHP to perform on IIS7]

Dave Northey — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT

I've been showing this demo to people in Ireland for while now & thought I'd better share it with a wider audience before I lose it (I'm going to wipe my demo laptop soon & reload it with Windows Server 2008).

Enjoy,

Dave.

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