On Wednesday March 3, 2010 Hyper-V.nu (the Dutch Hyper-V Community) organizes another meeting for Dutch Hyper-V enthusiasts. This time, they’re partnering with Nobel for the location, food and drinks. About the event The event will be held at Nobel at Gooimeer 18 in Naarden, the Netherlands from 9AM to 4PM. The website for the event is ...

Being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) is a one-year gig. My first year as a Directory Services MVP started January 1, 2009. Since then I proudly displayed the MVP logo on the left hand side of my blog. From the Least Amount of Administrative Effort point of view, I was curious to find out whether I could keep the logo there. With ...

This morning I performed a ‘zero to live migration’ demo for the joined HP Netherlands, Hyper-V.nu (Dutch Hyper-V Community) meeting. You can find more information on this meeting on my previous blog post. I brought my photo camera with me and asked Jaap Wesselius to take some pictures, while I showed some slides from a custom slide deck (in ...

On November 24, 2009 HP Netherlands and Hyper-V.nu (the Dutch Hyper-V Community) organize a special meeting. Between 9 AM and 12 AM several speakers will contribute to a deep dive into the possibilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 and the use of Microsofts desktop virtualization products. It’ll be fun hanging out with Jaap Wesselius and Hans ...

When the Server Core installation option of Windows Server was introduced in 2008, not a lot of people saw the greatness. A few tried it once, some tried it twice and others got hooked! Fellow administrators often complain that it’s so hard to administer the roles and features of it. Joachim Nässlander and myself, who both fall into the third ...

Together with Maarten Goet, MVP for System Center Operations Manager, I will be delivering the 1-hour keynote for the “Meer dan Beheer” (which means More than Maintaining) event. This event takes place September 17, 2009 at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Barneveld , the Netherlands.   The “Meer dan Beheer” (which means More than ...

MVP "I'm a PC" Video Been there, done that Further reading Microsoft Videos Beta – MVP “I’m a PC” Video   MVPs from the 2009 MVP Global Summit take part in their very own "I'm a PC" video  I'm a PC and I'm an MVP   I'm a PC and I'm an MVP video is out from the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009  ...

For the last four years I received a nice birthday gift from my employer. With 60 colleagues we hopped on a bus to Hannover, Germany to stroll the CeBIT halls for a weekend. Transportation, drinks, food and hotel all paid for.    CeBIT CeBIT is an annual fair. It is the world's largest and most renowned trade fair for the world of IT ...