Conrad Agramont's Blog

VDI with MokaFive or MED-V

agramont — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:39:53 GMT

Today I found an interesting web video from MokaFive’s CTO “John Whaley” on Virtual Desktop ( http://www.mokafive.com/solutions/it-administrators.php ). He does a good job explaining the differences between deploying a virtual desktop on a server...(read more)

Part 1: Building a VDI Lab with Windows Server 2008 R2 & Windows 7

agramont — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Disclaimer: While there are many products and technologies for VDI, including VMWare and Citrix, I’ll stay focused on using all Microsoft products…for now. For the past few years I’ve been talking to many customers about the benefits of Virtualization...(read more)

ISV Guidelines for Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Part 1

agramont — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:07:00 GMT

The intent of this series of blogs is to provide a basic guideline for Service Providers looking to offer CRM as a target platform for ISV’s looking to deploy their application on the Internet as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. It’s also a...(read more)

Starting a small business? Don’t forget the little IT services that make a difference

agramont — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:09:37 GMT

As many of you may already know, I stated a new consulting company named , “ Agramont Services ”. For over 10 years in the IT and Hosting business, I thought it would be pretty simple to have all of my IT needs in order to get my business on the...(read more)

Resources for Microsoft Partners

agramont — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:25:57 GMT

I was on the “US East Region Breadth Monthly Partner Call” today and they provided some cool resources. Some of you may be wondering what this call is all about. Microsoft is always been known as having a strong partner channel. The...(read more)

Agramont Services is born!

agramont — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:56:49 GMT

I’m thrilled to announce that I have created a new company named, “Agramont Services, LLC” which is based in Fredericksburg, Virginia and focused on my many passions. The focused on the new company is to provide strategic IT consulting services...(read more)

A learning roadmap for the newbie Microsoft Web Developer

agramont — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:30:00 GMT

I’ve been doing development on the Microsoft platform for quite some time, including web development. Internally we had an interesting discussion on what are the various web development tools and technologies from Microsoft and how does a developer get...(read more)

Webcasts: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Forefront and more...

agramont — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:05:28 GMT

In order to help customers get a better understanding of the value of some of our newly release products, we have created a series of webcasts to help bring some introductions to those products. Below is a list of the sessions. Click on the link to find...(read more)

DemoCorp Update: Musical Virtual Servers

agramont — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:24:40 GMT

As noted in a previous post , I deployed a demo environment leveraging Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. While this worked pretty good, I wasn't able to run all of the virtual machines at the same time due to insufficient memory (yes, even 8 GB wasn't...(read more)

Weekly Update: March 3, 2008

agramont — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:21:29 GMT

Each week there are a number of interesting questions that I get from my own internal Microsoft team, our Microsoft Partners, and even our customers. Many of these responses I send through the tunnels of communication like Email, Instant Messaging, phone...(read more)

Webcast: Still undecided about Vista?

agramont — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:47:52 GMT

This looks like a great webcast to attend. I have it on my radar to attend! Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will be hosting an interactive virtual roundtable—broadcast LIVE over the Internet on Wednesday, March...(read more)

DemoCorp: Building a Lab/Demo Environment

agramont — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:50:00 GMT

One of the challenges of being a good technical sales resource for Microsoft is staying fresh with the technology. Many times we get some great resources (Hands On Labs, Demo VM's, and On Demand Live Meeting technical sessions) within Microsoft corporate...(read more)

My first book: How to Cheat at IIS 7 Server Administration

agramont — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:04:45 GMT

I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute to a new book focused on IIS 7.0. I thought this would be a great way to dive deep into the product which would in turn help me sell the platform as Windows Server 2008 comes out (although the book focuses...(read more)

Now Available: Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007

agramont — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:11:00 GMT

There has been much advertisement around the new System Center brand and all of the great things the suite of products will provide to customers, but one of those products has quietly shipped. System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) is a new product focused...(read more)

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Eval to RTM

agramont — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:30:00 GMT

System Center Operations Manager 2007 will NOT be available via MSDN or TechNet download. An evaluation version of OpsMgr 2007 is a currently available for immediate download. If you're interested in purchasing the product, you can upgrade from evaluation...(read more)