If you have installed Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and are wondering where the GUI now called Desktop Experience is, then unfortunatly the only way to have the Desktop is to re-install the OS. I have just installed Windows Server 2016 today for the first time, and as its just for testing purposes, never really paid much attention to the installation procedure. I’ve installed Windows countless times, so just always click next, next select disk finish. Unfortunatly this time, Windows Server Core (thats what it was called in the old days) appeared. No big deal, lets have a quick google and install it. The first article you come to is from petri.com (everyones favourite source of Windows fixes) and it gives you some tips on how to install the GUI using PowerShell. Perfect! Unfortunatly no! It doesnt work. This article was written when W2k16 was in Tech Preview. The install feature […]
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VMware VMworld vCloud Air must see sessions
Its coming! VMworld Barcelona is coming soon. So soon in fact it actually starts on Sunday. Wow, I can hardly believe it. Still feels like VMworld USA was last week. This will be my last VMworld Barcelona working in the vCloud Air public cloud business unit, before I transition over to my new role in the Cloud Service Provider BU. You can read about that in a seperate post. VMware vCloud Air has some awesome sessions this year and I would actively encourage all of you to see these sessions if you can get in. The highlighted sessions are based on vCloud Air’s core use case focus of Data Center Extension, Replacement and Disaster Recovery. These sessions range from 200 level through to 400 level advanced techincal. VMware VMworld vCloud Air must see sessions These are not the only vCloud Air sessions available for you to attend at VMworld, but […]
VMware vCloud Air VMworld sessions available
VMware vCloud Air VMworld sessions available Now that VMworld has passed, I thought it would be a good opportunity to share the presentations that I gave. VMworld was incredibily busy time again this year, and the interest in VMwares’ vCloud Air continues to grow. Throughtout my time presenting and attending VMworld, it is interesting to see how the cloud interest has grown over the past 7 years. People are no longer only interested in private clouds, they also want to leverage the public cloud to help ease the pressures on the current on-premises infrastructure. One of my sessions talked exactly about that, the journey to cloud, and how there is a lot of similarities between the virtualization journey and the cloud journey. This session was my particular favourite to present this year. I was honoured to be asked to present the vCloud Air Spotlight session. You can watch the full […]
VMworld 2016 – where will I be?
Wow! Its that time again already! The VMworld 2016 content catalog has been released. Its going to be a busy one for me this year for sure! I hope you find these interesting, and come along. Group Discussion Dsiaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Object Storage in the Cloud David Hill Simon Momber Monday 2.00pm – 3.00pm Breakout Virtualization 2.0: How the Cloud is Evloving the Modern Data Center David Hill Tuesday 1.00pm – 2.00pm Breakout vCloud Air Recovery as a Service (RaaS) Deep Dive David Hill Tuesday 4.00pm – 5.00pm Quick Talk Backups to the Cloud – Leverage the cloud for Business Continiuty David Hill Rick Vanover (Veeam) Sunday 4.00pm – 4.30pm Quick Talk Top tips for moving to the Cloud David Hill George Kobar (Trace3) Sunday 2.00pm – 2.30pm