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DynamicsCRM

This week's missions: Mission 1 Create a DynamicsCRM environment for peeps at work to play with. The plan is, 1 x virtual CRM server on Windows Server 2003 o/s, 1 x virtual SQL server (might just include that on the CRM server), 1 x virtual MOSS server (again, will include on the CRM server), 1 x virtual client that people can copy and destroy as they see fit. It's going to be hooked in to our actual domain/AD server. Still stuck on installing the server updates for the base o/s system.... could take a while this. Mission 2 Once we have signed our partner agreement, grab a copy of the CRM vpc that can be used for demos - very handily created by Microsoft so that it's all set up and ready to go with every option you could possibly think of adding to CRM. Jump on to Amazon and set up a 64-bit Windows 2008 server, stick the virtual demo on the cloud based server and see how we go running the vpc in the cloud. This one could be fun. :)

Virtualization

As with my other TechEd 09 notes, this will be a list of notes that I made during the presentation. These will give a start point to find out further information. Virtualization - presented by Rob Reinauer at Code Camp on the 13th September. Find out more info on how anti-virus software works with VMs and are the AV companies planning any new methods to handle VMs? Demo of Hyper-V Live Migration in SQL Server 2008 R2 (Kilimanjaro): Copies pages to memory Copies delta changes Repeats copying delta changes down to smallest change found Freezes environment Copies everything to destination child partition Takes down source child partition Brings up destination child partition Freeze downtime is generally 2-4 seconds Connections are maintained throughout process Users will not notice the change of child partition due to maintained connections, they will most likely not even realise they have been moved In SQL11 the bulk of false failovers will be removed System Centre Virtual Machine Manag