The title “Richard Got NAPd” was born back 2005 when I first joined Microsoft and participated in Microsoft’s 1st deployment rollout of System Center Configuration Managers 2007 Network Access Protection (NAP) which was a 3 year project. As a member of MSIT during this deployment, it gave me allot of insight into network intrusion protection and security compliance. So the title implies I that was intrigued by the integrated technology of Network Access Protection and systems management and compliance monitoring which consumed the first 3 years of my time at Microsoft.
Friday, May 23, 2008 | 5 Comments | 
For a prospect customer there's nothing better than a real-world implementation to realize the potential or a certain technology. And this is very true in an almost unexplored technology like virtualization.
Microsoft, which eats its own dog food since the Virtual Server 2005 era, just announced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, on virtual machines.
Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical boxes, but moved 100% of its IIS7 frond-ends on Hyper-V RC0 VMs with 4 virtual CPUs and 10GB RAM.
The virtualization hosts (no mention of the brand obviously) are powered by 2 Intel quad-core CPUs and 32GB RAM (2GB are reserved for the Windows Server 2008 parent partition).
Follow the link below to learn more.
http://www.virtualization.info/2008/05/microsoft-migrates-msdn-and-technet-on.html
About Richard Dixon
I’ve worked in the field of Systems Management since 1990, performing integration and automation through the use of Microsoft technologies such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Operations Manager, Service Manager, SQL Server 2008 & Reporting Services, Visual Studio, and SharePoint with InfoPath Integration. I am proficient on SCCM, Microsoft's Hyper V Virtualization technology, and Failover Clustering & Network Load Balancer Services. I have also worked extensively with SCCM Network Access Protection and enjoy learning new technologies. I am also a Microsoft Partner. I started work at Microsoft in 2005 in the SMS/SCCM team of MSIT, which later became the Management Platforms & Services Delivery group in the Management Services division. In MPSD I managed our Lab, Preproduction & Production environments using Microsoft's Hyper V technology. These environments support several SCCM infrastructures which include the management of 200,000 managed desktops across Microsoft. Prior to working at Microsoft I worked for Warner Bros/AOL Time Warner, NBC Studios, AT&T WorldNet Service, 24 Hour Fitness, State of California Health Department, Northrop Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortgage Bank, Dudeworks, TeleTech, and TekSystems.
Specialties:System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Service Manager, Virtual Machine Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 R2, Hyper V, SQL Server, Scripting, Visual Studio, SharePoint Services and InfoPath Integrations and Systems Center Essentials.