Although the official release date for SCCM 2012 hasn’t been announced yet, the beta version of the product is currently available.   Simplegrid’s Desktop Engineering practice engineer’s have been evaluating this version and have been quite impressed with it.  The product continues to build upon Microsoft’s “Better Together” strategy, incorporating greater integration for virtual machine support, [...]

Recently, our virtualization practice team members met with Citrix Systems to discuss their product roadmap.  One of the more interesting tidbits that came out of this meetings is that Citrix is actively working with Apple to deliver MacOS as a virtual OS.  Although nothing has been finalized yet, this would be a huge coup for [...]

With the new architectural changes in the Exchange Client Access Role, we need to give careful consideration to load balancing for Exchange 2010 deployments. We are often asked if NLB is adequate or if it is worth the money to invest in a hardware load balancer? Although there are a number of functions that benefit from [...]