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Work continues on Mastering Hyper-V Deployment<\/a>.  We\u2019ve hit a few snags along the way.  We had a bit of a project shakeup over the last 2 weeks.  I hit a technical issue (VMM and OpsMgr integration) last week that has delayed one chapter while I engage support from MS.<\/p>\n

But work continues.  One chapter might be pushed out but others come forward.  It\u2019s all hands on deck right now as I enter the most intense part of my schedule.  Sleep is at a premium: I have a day job and the book is worked on at night and at the weekends.<\/p>\n

This blog is proving to be critical.  One of its purposes is to act as my notebook: I collect bits of information from other sources and I record things that I\u2019ve learned along the way.  As part of my day job, I often refer back to it.  For the book, I find myself coming back here to pull out bits of information.  The book allows me to tie them together, order them, experiment a bit, and expand on the information.<\/p>\n

The current chapter I\u2019m working on is a perfect example of this.  I\u2019m pulling in information that is anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 years old.  A lot of it is plain text, discussing architecture and configurations.  The second half of it is pure step-by-step of some very new stuff.  <\/p>\n

Another key source of information is the MVP community.  I\u2019ve had help and continue to get help from countless people.  Sometimes it\u2019s stuff I\u2019ve picked up in general conversation.  Sometimes they\u2019ve been kind enough to answer questions.  When the book comes out, you\u2019ll see how big a role MVP\u2019s have played in its writing.  I\u2019ll have say a BIG \u201cthank you\u201d to a big bunch of people who\u2019ve helped shape it.<\/p>\n

In a way, the timing of the book has worked out well.  Sure, we are well into the life of W2008 R2 Hyper-V.  Typically a book tries to be released in the first few months of a product in order to maximise its lifecycle.  We\u2019ll be about 1 year into the life of W2008 R2 when we hit the shelves.  But this book is about enterprise deployments: and a lot of the accompanying products in that sort of deployment have just hit the shelves.  Heck, some of our content isn\u2019t even available in an RTM form yet!<\/p>\n

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Work continues on Mastering Hyper-V Deployment.  We\u2019ve hit a few snags along the way.  We had a bit of a project shakeup over the last 2 weeks.  I hit a technical issue (VMM and OpsMgr integration) last week that has delayed one chapter while I engage support from MS. But work continues.  One chapter might … Continue reading “Book Progress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[171,181,193,195,117],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-books","tag-hyper-v","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t