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I imagine this will be the title of a thousand blog posts from now through July and August, but here goes… ESX is no more – Version 5 is only available as ESXi – the worst kept secret in the world (was it even trying to be a secret – probably not), but VMware has [...]

UPDATE – vRAM Entitlements have now been revised – please see this post Licensing – WTH are ‘Pooled RAM Entitlements’? VMware are narrowing down the version choices in vSphere 5 and changing the model (Slightly), rather than being just based around a single CPU with a maximum number of cores (as per version 4.x), version [...]

Versions – Bye Bye ‘Advanced’ VMware have simplified the versions of vSphere in version 5 slightly, gone is the Advanced edition (upgraders skip straight to Enterprise – may be worth getting as many Advanced Licences as you can now!). Essentials Kits VMware have retained the Essentials Kits – which will be a relief to a [...]

Boche.net is owned and managed by Jason Boche – in his own owrds an IT industry veteran, a VMware Virtualization Evangelist, and a blogger with nearly 15 years of professional experience. Boche maintains a top-10 VMware blog at boche.net, has twice been awarded VMware vEXPERT, is the Minneapolis Area VMware User Group Leader, is a [...]

Just passed my VCP-410 to update my VCP for version 4, the exam was similar in difficulty to VCP-310, with a bit of revision required and a good working knowledge of the product. The VCP is not really an architect focused qualification, more useful for Professionals actively using VMware on a daily basis, but it [...]

From the Microsoft Exchange Blog “In November, we launched the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant. In the initial version of the Deployment Assistant, content was available for customers upgrading from Exchange 2003. We are happy to announce that today we’ve released content for the following scenarios to http://technet.microsoft.com/exdeploy2010: Upgrading from Exchange Server 2007 Upgrading from [...]

Probably an attempt at keeping the Microsoft Blogosphere ‘On Message’, but interesting none-the-less, Microsoft has launched an official Company Blog.  The URL is: http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/ Should be worth hooking into your RSS reader. The new blog comes just a few days after the recently launched ‘Microsoft News Center’, which has replaced the Old PressPass site, which [...]

Windows Live Writer Challenges

Posted: December 11, 2009 in Uncategorized

The updates have been sporadic, they will get better – I have challenges with getting Windows Live Writer working over a proxy at work.  Think I will have to ‘queue’ up my posts and start uploading them at the end of the day on my much more reliable home connection.