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Network Access Protection Blog

This technology in Vista, I think, will finally be the realization of a lot of security concepts that we have dreamed of for the longest time.

Follow all the developments as the Windows NAP team is blogging at their site. Definitely subscribed.

I’m not much on Dilbert…

…but Scott Adams is poking some good fun at Google right now.

VMWare Live Migration for the masses!

That’s all we want, right?

From virtualization.info…

VMware Inc. is all the rage among users at the Storage Decisions conference, as evidenced by the hundreds who packed a session on VMware data recovery Tuesday afternoon. However some users said they hope VMware's migration tool, VMotion, will be enhanced soon -- specifically to support dynamic migration of data between storage systems.
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"When I'm upgrading those arrays, there's no way for me to use VMotion to point VMware guests at the new storage box without turning them off," he said.
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He's not the only user confronting this issue. "For now, we think VMware is great for server consolidation, but it really only works locally," said Chris Macsurak, storage administrator for MWH Global.
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Users said they were waiting to see if VMware version 3.0, due to be released at the end of this quarter, would contain the capability.

VMware spokesperson Amber Rowland declined to comment on what would specifically be supported in version 3.0, slated for release at the end of this quarter, but said, "This is an interesting direction that VMotion can go. It doesn't support [live data migration] today, but a cold migration can be used to move a virtual machine from system to system, and it only takes a few minutes."
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Jancewicz said he is considering a two-step process of his own: installing IBM's Storage Volume Controller (SVC) between his servers and back-end storage so that the VMware servers never know the difference between back ends. VMware's parent company, EMC Corp., also offers a storage virtualization product, called InVista, but Jancewicz said he felt SVC is more mature, and that he generally prefers IBM.

Link to full article | source.

Microsoft Enterprise Search White Paper – May 2006

On the heels of the announcement about Windows Live Search (no, not the Internet Windows Live Search, this is the corporate Windows Live Search…yeah…) here is the whitepaper on the subject.

And how about a screenshot…got that too.

Download details: Enterprise Search White Paper - May 2006.

First Look at OWA 2007

The Exchange Team, freshly moved into their new blog, gives us a look at the current Beta 1 Outlook Web Access interface in Exchange 2007.

The user interface has been redesigned with a focus on productivity. We've reduced the number of clicks required to get tasks done. When possible, we've incorporated actions and responses in place; we call this "inline task completion" instead of opening multiple dialogs or property sheets. We've removed pop-up notifications to avoid those irritating pop-up blockers. We've enhanced drag and drop functionality, improved and expanded the right-click context menus, and integrated better error strings contextually so they don't get in your way.

More here.