Great article on Hyper-V Dynamic Memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 by Jaap Wesselius on Hyper-V.nu: http://bit.ly/fZaNSn

Repost: The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 SP1 are now available for download. These include the latest version of Hyper-V Manager which supports both Dynamic Memory (DM) and RemoteFX. Here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b...

The Dutch Hyper-V.nu community mentioned on the official System Center Virtual Machine Manager team blog. Check out this System Center and Hyper-V Blog hosted by Microsoft MVPs Great work guys!

The new MAP toolkit is now available for download . What’s New The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5 includes the following new features for simplified IT infrastructure planning: Windows Azure platform assessment for easier migration to the cloud Heterogeneous database discovery for...

The next Hyper-V.nu meeting is scheduled for the 13th of December. The meeting will be held in Amstelveen at the HP office. Right now we have three sessions planned: Virtualizing a Sharepoint 2010 farm by Hans Vredevoort; Dynamic Memory Management in Windows 2008 R2 Sp1 by Jeff Wouters. Differences between...

This offers: Driver support for synthetic devices Fastpath Boot Support Timesync Integrated Shutdown Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) Support Heartbeat Pluggable Time source For more information see “ Linux Integration Services v2.1 Now Available ” on the Windows Virtualization Team Blog.

The Opalis grant is available to existing System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) customers with active Software Assurance. The grant will include use rights for the Opalis Integration Server, Integration Packs, and Process Catalogue software...

The “Deploying a Virtualized Session-Based Remote Desktop Services Solution” is finally available. See: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8d454921-72d6-45b4-b6ba-ac1c26d337bd Also see the original post on the “ Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team...

This is a free 450-page downloadable e-book offering from MS Press. The new version includes updates for Windows Server 2008 R2, Cloud Infrastructure, and more content around Desktop Virtualization. We’ve also added the best practice guidance for virtualizing Microsoft workloads – SQL, SharePoint and...

Windows Server 2008 R2 heeft alleen 64 bit versies. Dit heeft ook zijn consequenties voor de demo images die we ter beschikking stellen aan onze partners. Nieuwe images worden dan n.l. ook 64 bit en Virtual PC ondersteund dat niet. Hyper-V wat optioneel meegeleverd wordt in Windows Server 2008 en hoger...

Finally we have a formal announcement! http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/10/07/microsoft-and-red-hat-complete-cooperative-technical-support.aspx

Interesting performance comparison report! Principled Technologies tested Harpertown and Nehalem servers running various Windows Server operating systems to show the benefits of processer and of operating system improvements on simulated customer workloads.  Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers over...

Since the 1st of July the Server Management Suite Licensing has changes. The biggest changes are that we have added a Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD). The Server Management Suite Datacenter provides rights to manage an unlimited number of operating system environments (OSEs) on a single physical...

  REDMOND, Wash., July 20, 2009 — Today, in a break from the ordinary, Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 is Now Available! With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 becoming available in the near future, the Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners a head start on deployment planning with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit...

Our colleague Matt McSpirit wrote an article about the SVVP support policy wizard. http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/archive/2009/07/03/the-svvp-wizard.aspx The SVV Support policy wizard can be found here . The support policy wizard can be used to check which version of Microsoft server software...

Lately we’ve had quite a few questions regarding virtual processor assignment, processor over subscription and host processor utilization. And since systems with 8 physical cores or more are starting to become more common I thought I’d provide some additional information. I found a very good post by...