RES Wisdom Visio Shapes

From the creative dept. One of our esteemed RES usergroup comunity members, pkaak has taken the time to create a set of Microsoft Visio shapes for RES Wisdom. Good man! This is the first go, which includes just the basic stuf like Datastore, Disapatchers and agents. Nevertheless it’s a great start and I would urge you all to try them out and give Pkaak feedback in the forum.

The thread can be found here and here’s a direct link for downloading the Visio shapes.

RESguru and RESug merged!

May 4th 2009 at 21:00 GMT, it was officially announced that the people behind the RES Software User Group and the RESguru.com website are joining forces to provide even better content and information to the entire RES community.

Yuri Haak, co-founder of RESug.com: “This is indeed a match made in heaven as the newly started community provides an officially vendor sanctioned place for all RES community members; administrators, integrators, distributors and RES employees alike to share ideas and all sorts of things. Merging with Max’s RESguru.com provides a massive influx of material which will be of great value to the community.

Max Ranzau, aka the RESguru; “This is an exiting opportunity to contribute content to this cause. Until now, due to the fact that I’m at RES Software, I was constrained to write under pseudonym for legal reasons. As RES Usergroup is an seperate legal entity, I am now allowed to write under my own name as a regular community member. It will be a pleasure to continue serving the community with new and interesting material.

So, what’s going to happen at RESguru.com? This message has been posted on both sites. In a short while, all previous content from RESguru.com will be still available in it’s current form. The forums at RESguru.com will however be replaced with the forum at RESug. We all believe that this marriage of effort will bring the best of both worlds to the RES community.

RES UserGroup Online!

This morning, the long anticipated RESug.com went online, which is now the officially endorsed RES UserGroup site (unlike the babbeling black sheep of the community here ;-) Anyway, here at the ‘Guru we absolutely welcome the site to the growing community of RES technology related sites. A big hoorray for Yuri, Marcel, Thomas and everybody else who are involved  with this.

We took note of the nice info you guys are posting. Keep it comming! ;-) Looking forward to meeting you again at PubForum this year in Dublin.

/TRG

UPDATE April 30th – it seems RESug.com is undergoing some dev & maintainance work, so we might have been a bit premature in the above announcement. Keep an eye on it however – something wonderfull might happen!

Group for the Guru’s

Hello fellow Guru’s. It is a pleasure to announce the creation of a LinkedIn group for RESguru.com. This is a way for you to signify your affiliation and/or support for RESguru.com. If you like RESguru.com, please feel free to join the group here.

On another note,  we’ve nuked the KB archive link on the top menu of the blog and put in a direct link to the RESguru Forum. With a whopping total of two cached articles, the KB archive wasn’t really going anywhere and some of you asked for a better Forum link on top instead – well you got it! :)

Things will start to take off shortly again… Give it a week or so and we’ll be back – better than ever!

Integrating InstallFree with PowerFuse

Here’s something really useful. Sylvester de Koster over at CDG,  did some crunch time together with the nice folks over at RES to find a way to integrate PowerFuse with InstallFree, which is an application virtualzation technology vendor. Until now it’s been somewhat difficult to get stuff to run inside the virtual bubble of this platform. Together these  awesome guys managed to figure out how to integrate Installfree’s Full Bridge with PowerFuse! What follows is the no-frills how-to.  Later we will perhaps make a nice article with screenshots and everything. For now her is just  the raw info – Just as you like it! :)

Click here to read the full article

New Wisdom Buildingblocks on the RES forum

Over the last couple of months, two nice Wisdom buildingblocks have been posted by users on the RES Forum. The latest BB will help you install Windows Deployment services on a Windows 2003 server. The other available buildingblock is able to turn off those pesky Cached Offline Folders.  This buildingblock is designed for target computers running Windows XP.

Great work chaps, thanks for sharing!

Click here to see the postings and download the Buildingblocks

Upcoming Butler Group report on RES

Butler Group, an´analyst company similar to Gartner, has recently completed a Technology Audit of RES PowerFuse. To access this study, you unfortunatly need an account at Butler’s to access it at this time.

If the document becomes publicly available, we will let you know. If you already have a login to Butler Group, the RES PowerFuse study can be found by going here

Butler Group has the following to say about themselves:

“Butler Group is the IT End User division of Datamonitor Plc and is a leading provider of Information Technology research, analysis, and advice. Founded in 1990, Butler Group is respected throughout the business world for the impartiality and incisiveness of its research and opinion.”

RES Revamped!

Here’s some catchup on what’s been going on for the last month. On March 31st  at 15:30, Hell froze over, the pigs made Mach 1, and RES got a slick new website! The portal is however still pretty much the same.

Mystified by the appearance of two rectangular objects resembling containers of sorts, RESguru.com sent out their trusty investigators, Mr. Pitt and Mr. Freeman to examine the website in more detail. We now go live to an in-depth interview:

;-)

Switching off – Still a good idea!

Remember a little while back, we looked into how much money can be saved by turning off computers? An article was posted last month on how and how much money you can save if you can turn off selected computers and servers for a few hours every week. In case you missed it, the article can be read here. 

To make  the point that we here at RESguru.com are not completely bonkers (that is besides the point :), here’s a newspaper clip from the Reading Post (in the UK) of Febuary 11th. Click on it to view full-size.

Chinese Braindumps…

A friend of the blog tipped us off about this little number. Seems that RES Software is making it’s mark out in the APAC. Somebody once said: “A good measure of when you’re successfull is when somebody starts taking the time to make braindumps for your tests and cracks for your software…”

TestInside.com out of Shanghai apparently offers a braindump for the PowerFuse 2008 exam. However, you might consider checking out the demo before you shell out  the $120 they’re asking for it.  ;-))