Infrastructure Optimization

Those of you following MS’s excellent MDOP suite of applications should subscribe to this one in your favorite feed reader:

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/

Not much there yet, but it just started. We’ll keep an eye on it!

Any of you that read Ben Hunter’s blog, have probably noticed that the posts have been a little light as of late. Well, he decided to give it up. However, never fear: in the spirit of “Ben Hunter is dead! Long live Ben Hunter!” he’s combined efforts with several other Microsoft Deployment folks, and has created an aggregate blog called:

The Deployment Guys

From a Ben Hunter-penned entry called “What is The Deployment Guys”:

“The Deployment Guys” is a blog focused on deployment.

“The Deployment Guys” is a combined effort.

There many different blogs out there with useful deployment information. This is great but it can be difficult to keep track of them all, there must be a better way.

With this in mind we have decided to combine out deployment related blogs into one blog, this blog!

But that is not all…. We have also managed to convince a number of deployment gurus from within Microsoft Services that do not currently have blogs to contribute.  These are guys that have great information to contribute and will really add something to the blog.

So look out for posts from Richard Smith, Daniel Oxley and Ben Hunter as well as a host of others. We have a lot planned.

We have high hopes for this blog hopefully you will find it useful as well.

This post was contributed by Ben Hunter a consultant with Microsoft Services New Zealand.

Adios and welcome back, Ben! We’ll be watching!

A follow-up to my article on Microsoft Deployment: Michael Niehaus, BDD developer and all-around cool guy wrote a “from-the-horses-mouth” history of Microsoft Deployment, for those of you interested in its evolution:

A Concise History of Microsoft Deployment

While I’ve not finished parsing it, Tarry Singh’s article caught my eye. I don’t normally read all of the links that come in through the ITToolbox newsletter, but anything with “virtualization” in the title tends to give me pause.

Tarry’s article provides a (rather dense and obviously knowledgeable) collection of predictions for the future of virtualization in 2008. If nothing else, there are a bunch of great links to check out here, if you’re in the field.

Virtualization Predictions for 2008

Tarry - we’re watching too. Perhaps you’ll inspire us to make predictions of our own!