Microsoft Hyper-V Install Base picking up rapidly


Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Dave Kawula | 477 views | 2 comments
Well I have been waiting for this for a while. Hyper-V implementation request are finally coming in to our consulting practice on a regular basis.

Exchange 2010 - Interview at TechDays


Friday, October 23, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 525 views | 1 comments
This was an Interview with myself Dave Kawula and my wife Cristal Kawula. We are talking about new features in Exchange 2010.

Exchange 2010 HA Lab


Monday, October 12, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 869 views | 0 comments
Have you ever wanted to just try the technology? Well I will do you one better.
Exchange 2010 HA Lab now available.

Hyper-V -- Coming of Age


Tuesday, September 29, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 887 views | 1 comments
I had the pleasure of presenting today at Microsoft Canada TechDays 2009 (Toronto) this morning. We had a very strong turn out to my Zero to Live Migration session on Hyper-V R2. To my surprise over 3/4 of the audience was already using Hyper-V in one form.

One Button Restore - Hyper-V / Exchange / SQL (Dell Equallogic ISCSI SAN)


Tuesday, September 29, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 1050 views | 2 comments
Have you ever wanted to cut down the amount of time for Backups and Restores in your environment. Well I have just become a huge fan of Dell Equallogic technology. With their Host Integration Kit (HIT) you can integrate with VSS Writers for SQL / Exchange / Hyper-V and more. I have uploaded a video that demostrates just how easy this is. Let me know how you like it -- It is without audio but that can be easily added later.

Exchange 2010 HA in 2 Hours


Saturday, September 26, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 3005 views | 22 comments
In this video you will see me create a fully functional Exchange 2010 HA Cluster. Using the new DAG (Database Availability Group). Great intro to Windows 2008 Failover Clustering

Speaker at Microsoft Canada TechDays 2009


Wednesday, September 16, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 754 views | 2 comments
I am proud to annouce that I was selected as a guest speaker again at Microsoft Canada TechDays 2009. I will be speaking on Exchange 2010 High Availability, Exchange 2010 Architecture, Hyper-V R2 Live Migration, and AutoSnapshot Manager for Microsoft (Showcasing the 5 minute or less Exchange / SQL Restore)

Windows 2008 R2 - Hyper-V LiveMigration -- Configuration Issues


Friday, September 04, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 967 views | 2 comments
Have you tried to use Hyper-V R2 LiveMigration yet -- Very cool feature -- But be careful where you make your changes -- You will break your configuration in a hurry -- Read this to save yourself a lot of time!!!

XenDesktop Software-as-a-Service


Tuesday, September 01, 2009 by Dave Kawula | 781 views | 1 comments
In July of this year Citrix released a Software-as-a-Service model. It has integrated quite nicely and I have launched a new Hosted Citrix line of business.