Microsoft has announced supportability status of Microsoft applications running in virtualized environments. You can find the official statement here : KB957006 - Microsoft server software and supported virtualization environments Microsoft Exchange Microsoft...

Attractive title, isn't it ? Well in fact, this is to announce the creation of a new blog that will deal with the Windows 7 project : Engineering Windows 7 .  This blog will be managed by Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky and members of the engineering...

You can find this guide here : Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 There's a lot of tuning aspects in this document, including Hyper-V.   ~ Guillaume

As Internet Explore 8 is coming (the Beta 2 should be released soon), you may want to know what could impact your browsing experience while visiting your web site. There's a KB article dealing with some potential impacts and their resolution : Your Web...

I was just browsing the web at home as I'm use to some evenings of the week, and I stopped at this blog : http://blogs.technet.com/steriley . This guy speaks about security in a way I could not stop reading his posts ! Really check out this blog...

Here is the first release of the deployment guide for Hyper-V : Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide In my opinion this document gives a good overview of the requirements and limits of Hyper-V and some useful information on some of the main components...

Désormais, pour un grand nombre d'entre eux, vous pourrez télécharger les correctifs qui n'étaient pas disponibles publiquement par vous même au lieu de contacter le support Microsoft. Par exemple, pour cet article technique KB951308...

A new update has been released to improve the behavior of Hyper-V while clustered. Extract : "This update incorporates changes in the way that the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console functions for the Hyper-V role. These changes...

I was curious about that service for a long time but I didn't manage to access it until today. My first impression is that's impressive . I added my corporate laptop and my home desktop and shared a folder and after a few seconds, I was able to...

J'ai profité de mon séjour à Seattle pour passer quelques certifications qui me permettent d'être désormais MCITP - Enterprise Administrator soit "Microsoft Certified IT Professional"... Titre ronflant certes... mais...

Check it out on Microsoft download : Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 Update 1 Quickly reading the release notes, here are the new features : Lite Touch OEM-Preload : in this case, MDT 2008 takes the contents of a media deployment point...

Je suis actuellement à Seattle pour une convention interne que l'on appelle TechReady et même si le gros des produits qui "brillent" sont sortis pendant l'année qui vient de s'écouler, il reste encore quelques petites bricoles à venir qui risquent de...

Windows Vista est critiqué et froidement battu par ses détracteurs (c'est peu de le dire), mais également par beaucoup de gens qui ne l'ont même jamais utilisé ! Vous pourrez trouver sur le site The Mojave Experiment (en Anglais) une étude réalisée...

That's a cool link ! You will be able to found videos of PMs (Product Managers) speaking about the product they manage and it gives another sight on our products. One I like is on Hyper-V High Availability : http://edge.technet.com/Media/Hyper-V...

Check it now, it already contains interesting stuf : HyperVoria . It is fed by Steven Bink (also known for http://bink.nu/ ) and as he says on this site : "HyperVoria.com is not owned, paid or controlled by Microsoft". ~ Guillaume

Before flying to Redmond at the end of the month, I spent some time in Asia to chill out a bit before returning to the coal mining ! So, I was walking in Bangkok with my wife when suddenly at a corner, I saw this : Nothing to do with IT neither...

Michael Niehaus has released the MDT Wizard Editor on CodePlex. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Wizard Editor Copied/pasted from this site : Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Wizard Editor The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MTD) Wizard Editor...

Have you realized that Hyper-V has been released to manufacturing ? And nearly one month before what was expected ? I use it for a while now and I can say that this product is very reliable and all my demos and reproduction environments run on it....

For sure , the last post before a long time as I'll flight to South-East Asia next week... I was at a customer site a week ago and I had the "challenge" of rolling deployment of Windows Server systems with MDT 2008 with as less stuff as possible in...

Mon assiduité sur ce blog laisse à désirer depuis quelques temps... et ce n'est pas près de changer ! La faute aux demandes de plus en plus nombreuses des clients souhaitant en savoir plus à propos de Windows Server 2008 et à ceux demandant notre assistance...

For those trying Windows Server 2008 as a Server Core server, it could be useful to know which command line tools are available and how to use them. It will be unfair to not use this edition of Windows Server because you missed this information ! ...

Le problème décrit dans le bulletin de David Sebban fait désormais l'objet d'une fiche technique décrivant la méthode pour corriger ce dysfonctionnement. Le bulletin de David Sebban L'article technique : The reference computer does not start Windows...

New post for a while, April was quite busy supporting customers... Among several posts I have in draft, this one is quite interesting (from my point of view !) and I wrote it down as soon as I was able to make it works... before I leave for 2 weeks off...

During the past weeks, I worked with a customer that implemented a ton of new stuff around deployment and virtualization. He did a fantastic job and continue to dig into those new Microsoft technologies as you can see on his blog : http://blogs.ethz...

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