Franco Rother, a Solution Specialist at Microsoft, and I discuss practical architecture in a video recording for Microsoft TechEd Africa 2009. Click here to view

Recently, at TechEd Africa 2009, I spoke to a rather large audience about a topic I entitled ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Architecture’. It was essentially a redelivery of material created by Miha Kralj (upon whom much credit is graciously bestowed), but with a local spin and additional material and examples relevant to our local ...

First of all, I have to say I’m back! Hopefully my future posts will be a lot more technical than this one. News: The beta of Hyper-V Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager has been made available. Send email to MPCC (click the link) to ask for a registration code in order to be able to get hold of the beta on ...

Deep zoom composer helps mere mortals take advantage of the deep zoom capabilities in SilverLight 2. Obviously it has more detailed users for developers taking advantage of SilverLight 2, but it's fun for the average user too. In testing the product I build a really simple deep zoom with two high resolution photos and the posted them to the ...

I found out a bit more from the product group. It seems some legacy operating systems, like Windows NT 4.0, bugcheck if they perform a CPUID and have more than three leafs returned. The checkbox is there to allow us to try and get them working. So I was on the right track after all. I still think this functionality does limit what ...

In my previous post I discussed how I went about trying to determine the differences in processor functionality provided by Hyper-V's Limit Processor Functionality (LPF) checkbox. You probably want to read through that in order to get the necessary background to understand this final instalment. In this post I discuss how you can determine: If ...

Recently I became rather intrigued with Hyper-V's Limit Processor Functionality (LPF) function. One little checkbox became such an obsession that I start wasting hours of my time trying to find out exactly what it does. The dialogue says, ''Limit processor functionality to run an older operating system such as Windows NT on this virtual ...

Just a quick post today. Good news! The RC for the Hyper-V MMC has finally been released. It's designed to work on Vista x86 and x64 SP1. SP1 is required. Check out the Windows Virtualization Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization for more information Vista x64 Edition: ...

My latest, most favourite tool on the web has to be Office Live Workspace Beta. It's an interesting extension to Microsoft Office and effectively allows one to create a free SharePoint repository for Word, Excel and PowerPoint document. It also provides add-in tools for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint to allow you to interact directly with ...

In the many years I've been consulting as a Lead Technical Consultant, Architect and Engagement Manager there are a number of things I've learned from the school of hard knocks. Many things are obvious, and some less so. We can often find methodologies and material about how to run projects effectively, but rarely have I seen anything that ...