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Wrap Up of MMS 2012

Bradley Borrows — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:46:51 GMT

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) is over for another year. I am sitting back writing this article from the Las Vegas airport and the exodus of attendees is evident with all of the MMS t-shirts, bags and other IT related swag that is going past me...(read more)

MMS 2012 Day 2 Wrap Up

Bradley Borrows — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:05:21 GMT

Day 2 has wrapped up and Microsoft had a few little surprises today for us. The Day 2 Keynote was presented by Brad Anderson and it was all about the client slide of the Management toolset. It was clear from what was being showed by...(read more)

MMS 2012 Day1 Wrap Up

Bradley Borrows — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:52:51 GMT

Day one of the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2012 is now over and feedback from attendees is that Microsoft has impressed them with the new System Center 2012 product range and also Windows Server 2012. Sometimes it’s the simple...(read more)

MMS 2012 Keynote Round Up

Bradley Borrows — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:07:00 GMT

It is truly amazing the number of attendees at this year’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas, and when you consider this year’s event sold out two months ago it really puts into perspective the importance people are placing on Private Cloud...(read more)

SBS 2011 Essentials is almost here

Bradley Borrows — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:08:14 GMT

If you have not had a chance then please have a read of the SBS teams blog here SBS 2011 essentials is almost amongst us and not a moment to soon. The Essentials version of the SBS family is a huge step forward for server based computing. In my view it...(read more)

Hyper-V Cloud Documentation

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:03:30 GMT

Designing a Private Cloud Solution will deliver many of the benefits of a public cloud computing environment - including self-service, scalability and elasticity with the additional control and customisation available from dedicated resources. Microsoft...(read more)

New Zealand Tech Podcast is live

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:55:04 GMT

Hi All, Today I am happy to confirm there is a cool new Podcast in town – The ‘NZ Tech Podcast’ which is hosted by Paul Spain (Gorilla Technology) and Bradley Borrows (Microsoft NZ) and features local + international gadget and technology topics. Topics...(read more)

SBS 2011 Standard Releases to Manufacturing

Bradley Borrows — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:46:59 GMT

This is from the SBS blog 2 hours ago. Today's post comes to us courtesy of Curtis Lee, Director, Server and Cloud Marketing ] “Microsoft provides that forward thinking that I use in my company every day with our client design solutions. ” --Stan...(read more)

Microsoft NZ Roadshow: December 2010

Bradley Borrows — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:20:28 GMT

Microsoft NZ Roadshow: December 2010 The Microsoft Roadshow is on in December 2010 for IT Pros and Partners. Come for an update on our latest technologies - Small Business Server 2011, Office 365 and System Center Essentials 2010 – ideal for...(read more)

Microsoft expects 40% increase in VDI User Density using Dynamic Memory & Hyper-V

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:06:47 GMT

At the TechEd 2010, Microsoft has been busy talking about things like Azure and Office365, SaaS and PaaS, and all things cloud. But in they keynote yesterday, there was a spattering of desktop stuff. Nothing earth-shattering, unless you count a...(read more)

Microsoft Storage Server “Breckenridge”

Bradley Borrows — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:02:57 GMT

Building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 announcements and adding to that exciting momentum - today on the Storage Server blog , Microsoft announced a new edition targeted at small business, Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials....(read more)

How to use IE 9.0 Preview 6 with the Beta UI

Bradley Borrows — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:23:31 GMT

Hi there, i have stolen this from Paul Thurrott’s blog article, so please give him any credit for the article below. It works like a dream and means you get the best of both IE 9.0 Preview 6 with the lovely UI. “Loving the Internet Explorer 9 Beta...(read more)

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Video

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:34:11 GMT

We recently released a fantastic video that demonstrates SBS 2011 in all of its glory. Have a look at the video and let me know what you think http://bit.ly/aLhV3D...(read more)

Evaluating Windows Multipoint Server

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:28:00 GMT

If you want to eval Windows Multipoint Server 2010 then here you go http://bit.ly/b5gGvh...(read more)

Microsoft Announces SBS Product Range

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:20:23 GMT

For those of you that have not heard or read about it yet, Microsoft has announced its new SBS range. Here is the posting the SBS team blog Since we announced the availability of the beta version of Windows Small Business Server Code name “Aurora” and...(read more)

Well I am Back

Bradley Borrows — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:27:55 GMT

Hi there everyone, i am sorry that i have not been blogging for a while. I am back into updating everyone on wonderful world of Microsoft Server Information....(read more)

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS) to be discontinued in June 30 2010

Bradley Borrows — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:16:27 GMT

If you have not heard EBS will be discontinued on the 30th June 2010 to allow Microsoft to streamline the Small Business server product line. On of the questions that i have already posed to me is about support of the product...(read more)