Category Archives: Community

VMUG Registration is Now Open!

Registration for the Omaha VMUG on 3/24 is now open.  Hopefully you have already received an invite via email.  If not, please check out this one on VMware’s site: http://campaign.vmware.com/usergroup/invites/Omaha_3-24-10.html Registration can be completed here: http://info.vmware.com/forms/VMUG_REG?eventcity=8367-omaha&theme=Omaha Please note that the above link will only register you for the event itself.  You should receive a phone …

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Details of a Large VMUG Event in Omaha

I previously posted that my company is cosponsoring the upcoming Omaha-Area VMware Users Group meeting on March 24, 2010.  I’m happy to announce that the schedule has been solidified!  Though registration is not yet open, you should keep an eye on your inbox and this site in the next couple of days so you can register as soon as …

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Omaha VMUG Planning

For those of you in Omaha and surrounding areas, I’d like to you to mark off March 24, 2010 on your calendars. My company is teaming up with CoSentry and the Omaha-Area VMUG team to sponsor the next VMUG meeting on that day and I’m currently in the heavy planning and implementation phases for it.  …

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Midwest VMware User Group Regional Conference

Today I had the pleasure of attending the Midwest VMware User Group Regional Conference in Kansas City.  It was a fantastic get-together for the Iowa, Omaha, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City and Arkansas User Groups.  I was manning a vendor table for my company at the event, so can’t judge the quality of the presentations, …

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VMWorld 2009: Final Thoughts

VMWorld 2009 has lived up to it’s predecessors. The food was seriously lacking at meals and at the party.  The logistics in the hallways, however, were far better than they were two years ago at Moscone. The Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB) was definitely one of the highlights of the conference for me.  The PTAB is made up …

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VMWorld Day 1: Sunday

Had my second Partner Technology Advisory Board (PTAB) meeting all day today. Great conversation around vCloud: what does it mean, do customers care, how to make it work for customers, where does it fit.  Very lively discussion and great input provided to VMware. Next up is VM availability discussion, including FT, HA and SRM.  Could VMware completely remove MSCS from …

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ThinApp Deployment Options

I recently had a customer ask me about ThinApp deployment options.  I figured that it would make a worthwhile blog post, so here we go. There’s really three main ways to deploy a ThinApp package (with differences within each category).  Let me see how well I can explain them. Package location Description Execution Type App Registration Update approach …

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