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May 08 lost sunglassesMy sunglasses went missing on the Johns Point trip. They were my favourite pair tight brown/tortoise Versace pair in a black case. Small reward if get them back, Thanks from (a very sad) Shelly-L
September 19 very cool - the MSI Utility coming for SoftGrid rocks!
Alrighty, so if you are not familiar with SoftGrid then you need to check it out! - [t's one of my favourite infrastructure technologies - *grin*]... Formerly Softricity (an MS acquistion) it is how Microsoft do application virtualization. taking a step back there's lots of different types of virtualization most people think of virtualization as simply server/OS virtualization (think: Virtual Server 2005 R2 or VMWare[-grrr]), desktop virtualization(think: Virtual PC 2007) presentation layer virtualization (think: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services and/or Citrix) and finally application presentation layer virtualization: Softgrid! SoftGrid is basically the abilty to stream applications or just parts of them on demand.. these applications run in a sandbox or bubble (-don't like the word 'bubble' - but it will do for now if you get the point) where nothing gets added to the registry on the local machines & nothing is installed under program files... nice things about this is that normally conflicting apps can happily co-exist on a machine - for example apps - using multiple JDK versions(remember no entries in the reg. etc) you can hot patch apps (simply patch the application on the streaming server - next time user launches the app from their machine the deltas (not the full app!) are streamed down) re-provising applicaitions is simple - simply re-stream down - none of the messy uninstall/reinstall, virtual apps can be cached on the client for offline use for up to 60 days...and I could go on & and on & on.... Anyways, the short & long of it being there is a very nice solution accelerator on its way which will let you package the virtualized apps as MSIs(cooool!). So you can distribute the apps to online/offline users any which way to your hearts content (for example on a cd! - previously this used to be streaming on demand or pre-provisioned with SMS using the SMS<->SoftGrid connector) For an overview of the utlity see diagram below (will be a SA for SoftGrid 4.1/4.2 & native to 4.5) - expect this in Q4 CY2007 -:-)
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August 19 Surfing World record for most number of people catching the same wave! Just back in the door from a really great weekend helping to set a new world surfing record for the most number of people on the same wave!: http://surfing-tours.com/Web/index.php/2007/05/09/lahinch-surfing-world-record-may-19th-most-number-of-people-on-a-wave/ . August 15 Please show support to the Shannon region:-(The proposed close of the shannon <-> heathrow route by aer lingus is going to have a huge impact on my local community at home. The decision to remove the four daily flights on the Shannon-Heathrow link will have a severe impact on trade and tourism in the west of Ireland. Closing off the connection with Europe's busiest airport will make it difficult for all but the most determined of international travellers to visit the region. It would render regular business travel from many world cities to Ireland's midwest unsustainable. If you feel strongly about this please express this through the following petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/EISNNLHR/ Cheers, Michelle August 13 Technet Blog finally up:-)Finally got around to getting a blog up onto Technet: http://blogs.technet.com/ptsinfra/ ... will be using it to share my ramblings on all things related to infrastructure - particularly System Center, Longhorn /W2K8, SoftGrid and and all things I consider to be "TechSexy". For regular updates subscribe your Vista Feed Headlines Gadget to my RSS feed as I will be regularly adding content over the coming weeks August 06 SMS&P team building in CourmayeurBack in February our team - Irish SMS&P did our team building event skiing in Italy. Finally got around to upploading it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ZxOcMXI8Y - this will of course b hosted on Microsoft Soapbox going forward!:-)
July 01 JT funness!Just winding down from the most fun-filled girlie weekend ever! - my younger sister came to Dublin for the weekend and we hit up Shrek3 (http://www.shrek.com) - it has been getting bad reviews but we both thought it was great. & then went to Justin Timberlake concert (http://www.justintimberlake.com)- possibly the most sexiest man on this planet! May 19 Finally got my little MGF! -whipeee!..After boring everyone completely to death about getting myself a little zippy gluaisteán I finally got round to sorting it out..
See pics below -  !February 01 Test of Microsoft Live Writer beta..Random post testing the new Live Writer beta... & Checking Map insert func.
October 16 hey..Hey all,
Currently in the middle of updating this site with pictures form Oz, NZ and South East Asia. These albums will available in the coming few weeks -In the between time
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