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Jean-Philippe on Vista deployment

Posted By: Rodney Buike | Jun 6th @ 12:01 AM
Jean-Philippe Breton is the Lead Deployment Manager for Alphamosaik, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  He and his team recently lead a 10,000 seat deployment of Vista with SP1 for a major Canadian transportation company with offices around the globe.  I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jean-Philippe about how tools like the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit simplified the deployment and some things learned along the way.
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Loke Kit Kai on Hyper-V

Posted By: Adam Bomb | May 23rd @ 12:01 AM
I met Loke Kit Kai when he was visiting Redmond for the MVP summit last month.  He'd been looking at several virtualization solutions that he could use to build a lab environment.  Kit Kai has a good story to share about how Hyper-V has helped him build an environment that he and his colleagues could use to learn new technologies, so I got him to sit down with me for a few minutes to talk about his experience with the product.
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Customer project using Sharepoint 2007 and DPM 2007

Posted By: David Tesar | May 16th @ 12:01 AM

John Knightly tells us about a project he started at the company (name kept private) he works for in Phoenix using Sharepoint for implementing change control, bug tracking, and for the company's default internal homepage.  As part of the solution, he also started using DPM to backup everything up.  He tells us about what went well, what didn't go well, and gives some technical tips if someone else is interested in doing something similar.

Here's the key links John needed to get Sharepoint backing up with DPM:
Protected Computer Software Prerequisites
How to Protect SharePoint Products and Technologies with DPM 2007
Sharepoint Backup and Restore Resources (from Sharepoint team blog)
Installing Protection Agents behind a Firewall

Also, you need to download this patch which unfortunately requires a reboot, as does the DPM agent install. If you are running Virtual Server 05 R2, this patch will break things if your virtual host OS is on multiple subnets unless virtual server 2005 r2 sp1 is installed 1st!

This is a new type of content we're trying out on TechNet Edge - real, unfiltered, unbiased, IT Pro customer stories which give you technical information on their  projects using the latest MS technologies...  Please let us know what you think!
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