HP to acquire EDS

In case you’ve missed this one: HP acquires EDS.

Funny: in Belgium EDS is bigger than HP, in terms of FTEs.

Steve

Belgian Community Day – 26 June 2008

I’ve received the following email from Ilse Van Criekinge (Pro-Exchange) and found it worth sharing it with you:

Dear Member,

The Belgian community has a very strong reputation internationally with many individuals making their mark in their fields of expertise. Lots of individuals, just like you, are hungry for more information about the many Microsoft products and technologies. In addition to the technical information, there is also very often the need to just socialize with other persons within the same domain of expertise. The many user groups that were started the last couple of years are doing a great job trying to address these needs with monthly meetings.

Nine of them, Belgian Dynamics Community, Biwug, IT-Talks, Pro-Exchange, Scug, SQLUG, Visug, Winsec, and XNAbug have decided to combine their efforts again to organize another joint-event just before summer starts. So if you are eager to learn, get answers to your questions and meet your peers, come and join us at the premises of SemCom in Keerbergen on Thursday, the 26th of June 2008.

You can start planning your ½ day of free training already! And for those of you who were there last year, no need to get up early this year, there is nothing going on @ Werchter J

Pro-Exchange will host two sessions, and co-host a third session together with Biwug. During our sessions we will cover OCS and Voice, Windows 2008, and SharePoint vs Exchange Public Folders: The Battle. Have a look at the agenda, and I’m sure you will find very useful sessions.

So head over to http://www.communityday.be and register now! (space is limited)!

Hope to see you all there!

- Ilse

 

I will be attending the session as well; I have just registered.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and register at http://www.communityday.be!

Steve

[MOF] Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 Available

As announced on the Windows Server Team WebLog, Microsoft has released the version 4.0 of the Microsoft Operations Framework.

What has changed since the last version:

• the old MOF was focused on operations, while the new MOF 4.0 describes the entire IT life cycle (sounds a bit déjà-vu, see ITILv2 vs. ITILv3);
• the design of the content has been enhanced; if you need a best practice around one particular area then MOF 4.0 can help as well, with short (25-page) “service management functions” that can give you ideas on improving a particular function in 20 minutes.

I could download MOF 4.0 via this link (registration is suggested, but not mandatory).

Steve

The revival of Stief’s blog

OK, ladies and gents, it’s been a while now since I last blogged.

As I explained in an earlier post, things have changed for me. I still work for Devoteam, but now as Senior Consultant for the Consulting business unit. In short, I am no longer in a technical position, but more in a consulting role. I am active in the IT Management area, both IT Service Management (ITIL) and IT Project Management (Prince2).

My current assignment takes place at an international provider of banking and insurance services. I have the role of International Coordinator for the IT Service Management domain. My daily job consists of aligning processes, technology and organisation.

In spite of the lack of new posts, Stief’s blog is still being read by a lot of people. I am very happy of this, because it means that the content is deemed interesting.

Steve Rosa

Personal update

It’s been a while since I have posted something on my blog.As a matter of fact, personal events have led me to reduce my involvement in the technical world. Many many things are happening right now (new products, etc…) and I just cannot follow them anymore on a proper/decent manner.It might change in the future, but for now I have to step back.If you want to stay in touch, you can reach me on steve.rosa(at)gmail.com or steve.rosa(at)devoteam.com./Steve 

[WSV] How to install the Windows Server Virtualization role in Windows Server 2008 RC0

OK, so you have downloaded Windows Server 2008 RC0, right?

But installing Windows Server Virtualization requires some more steps. John Howard, Senior Program Manager for WSV has posted a procedure to get the role installed.

/Steve

[WSV] Windows Server 2008 RC0 is out

On 24 September, Microsoft released the RC0 of Windows Server 2008.

The biggest news is that RC0 includes the first public release of of Windows Server Virtualization (a.k.a. Viridian).

See here the announcement from the Windows Server Division.

And here is THE place to go to download.

/Steve

[VMworld 2007] Livebloggers from the conference

John Troyer gives a list of the people liveblogging from VMworld 2007, which runs this week in San Francisco.

/Steve

[SCVMM] System Center Virtual Machine Manager has been Released to Manufacture

As the title says, SCVMM (codename ‘Carmine’) is now RTM.

A few links worth reading on the subject:

• Official Microsoft website on SCVMM
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) RTM’s
• Huge announcement for SCVMM R2 (yes, I know… "already"): R2 will manage Xen and VMware
• SCVMM How to videos (these are just awesome!)
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager has shipped!
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is here
• Virtualization on tour, SCVMM Released and a peek at WSV
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 screencast – Checkpoints
• Everything you need to know about SCVMM in 15 minutes !!!
• RELEASE: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is RTM
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 now RTM
• New management tool for Virtual Server and Viridian
• SCVMM RTM and SCVMM R2 features announced

/Steve

[SoftGrid] Forums on the SoftGrid TechCenter

As the SoftGrid Team Blog announced earlier this week, three new forums have been created by Microsoft:

• SoftGrid Server (including management)
• SoftGrid Client
• Sequencer

But this is just a start… there should be more coming in the future!!

Here is the place to go.

/Steve