Have questions about Microsoft's Private Cloud solutions? If you attended one of our Live Private Cloud TechNet events, hopefully we inspired you to build out your own test environment with our downloadable evaluation products. If you did, you may need...

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About This Video In today’s episode I preview the latest System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Virtual Lab. Learn how you can become familiar with SCCM 2012 as you navigate around its console and test out its new capabilities for yourself. TechNet...

We know that Hyper-V virtual machines require booting from virtual IDE. Historically, in the physical world, SCSI can provide better performance than IDE.  Does that mean we’re giving up performance booting from virtual IDE? On the surface you’d...

I was working on my daughter’s Windows 7 computer last weekend and one of the first things I noticed was she hadn’t installed any updates for quite a while. It took a couple of update cycles to get her machine current.  Once it was, I noticed the...

Here's a great resource to get up-to-speed on the latest version of System Center 2012.    Virtual Lab System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building...

Overview The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop and server migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive...

Overview If you’re prepping for a Hyper-V virtualization exam or you work with Hyper-V this is a great resource to have handy!!!!    This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008...

Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization Jump Start This 1-day online accelerated Jump Start training presents fundamentals and skills necessary to pass Exam 70-659: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization, and thereby earn...

In our Private Cloud roadshow event we have a session on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. We touch on VHD performance during the session but always get the question is there any hard performance data available. I came across this whitepaper that delves...

More Free Training: Join Symon Perriman (Technical Evangelist for Private Cloud) and Elden Christensen (Principal Program Manager Lead for Clustering) to understand how Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering with Hyper-V provides critical infrastructure...