Augusto Alvarez

New App-V Book Published! “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide”

April 2, 2012 6 Comments

Finally my second App-V book “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide” has just been published and there’s one sample chapter available for download. The sample chapter selected is “Integrating App-V with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012” and can be downloaded from this link. The book is available in the following stores: Packt Publishing Amazon.com (Kindle edition included) Amazon.co.uk (Kindle […]

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[App-V] A Quick Glance to Server App-V and Sequencing Server Applications

January 31, 2012 1 Comment

The release of my new book is just around the corner, “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide”. In this book we’ll take a closer look to several advanced topics in App-V, including some new ones like Server App-V, which is included in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (platform still in Release Candidate stage). Explaining Server App-V Taking a quick approach, […]

Contests

StarWind Contest and the iPad Arrival

January 31, 2012 4 Comments

I want to share with the blogosphere some of the great consequences about writing a geeky blog. A few months ago, StarWind started a contest for the best article of the year regarding their iSCSI software. The prize was nothing else than an iPad 2, and I won with this article :) There were some issues in receiving the […]

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New App-V Book! “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide” Now Available for Pre-Order

December 12, 2011 5 Comments

For several months I’ve been working in a new App-V book: “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide”, containing advanced topics to cover all what you need to know to master Microsoft Application Virtualization processes. This book includes also new features in App-V 4.6 SP1. The “Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide” represents my second App-V book; the previous one “Getting Started with […]

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[Events] Overview of Code Camp 2011 and Materials

December 5, 2011 Leave a Comment

I’ve had the great pleasure to present in October, once again, in one of the main Microsoft events in Argentina, Code Camp 2011. This time with two new tracks: “Desktop of the Future” and “Standardizing Windows Server 2008 R2 images”. As I mentioned earlier in older posts of mine, Code Camp is an event organized and developed by Microsoft […]

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[Interview] Question and Answer Session with Aaron Parker (App-V MVP)

September 20, 2011 2 Comments

I’m introducing a new set of articles in my blog: Interview sessions with some colleagues and technology geeks. In this first article I had the great opportunity to start a quick question and answer session with one of the geekiest App-V guys around the world: Aaron Parker. Aaron made an important contribution in my App-V book “Getting Started with […]

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App-V Book Available in Kindle Edition

August 9, 2011 Leave a Comment

Not so much for a recent, but still I think represents as great news: The App-V book, “Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6” is available in Kindle version, in Amazon site of course. So for all those geek Kindle owners (I’m not one, unfortunately) there’s a chance to take a great look to my App-V book using Amazon’s […]

Cluster

Starwind iSCSI SAN 5.7 Available

August 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

Starwind released recently a new version of their iSCSI SAN solution, Starwind 5.7. It includes several new features that scale up this already great SAN solution, providing some important improvements regarding performance, monitoring and usability for IT administrators. Some of the improvements included: Re-worked and re-designed completely from the scratch all-new HA (high-availability) engine 2x-3x faster compared to previous […]

Deployment

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 Available!

June 5, 2011 Leave a Comment

Microsoft has just released as a public beta the newest version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 with a few important updates: Supporting System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012. Using Lite Touch Installation (LTI), great improvements in the client side look-n-feel. Also for LTI, behind-the-scenes enhancements for partitioning, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), and user state migration. Some minor […]

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App-V Workshop in the US: Approach, Experience and More

May 3, 2011 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I had the big pleasure to visit the US (New Jersey and New York), courtesy of a company which invited me to coach an App-V training course in their facilities. I had a wonderful experience and in this post I would like to share with you the technical and non-technical approach, experience and more I had […]