Anthony Borton isn’t going to like this review. You see a couple of weeks ago, while all us Microsofties were at our semi-annual conference, Anthony was working on the Hand on Labs. He even brought his wife over for the experience. So when Jeff Alexander...

A new whitepaper has released that discusses the pro's and cons of VDI vs Session Virtualization along with when to use what. Its something that reinforces the discussion points I raised in a previous post about session virtualization being cheaper for...

The RD Virtualization Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Link to paper on Download Center – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bd24503e-b8b7-4b5b-9a86-af03ac5332c8 ) , is now live on the Download...

Just a heads up that the issue around Event ID 17 being logged in the System log on a TS Licensing server has now been updated with a hotfix. Please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983385/ for updated guidance though heres the synopsis from the...

A friend of mine and I were talking today about TechED USA and all the questions we had around virtualization. He commented that he even had one person come up and talk to him about Disk Virtualization, which refers to “Boot from VHD”. Well...

Oh my goodness! The same author, Martin McClean, that produced the Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Component poster  has done it again producing an awesome new poster that highlights the components of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. In his words:...

In other news today, we just released to the download center an updated whitepaper that reflects the changes in App-V 4.6 to support Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 namely support for 64 bit! Enjoy! http://download.microsoft.com/download...

This came in my email yesterday and is very welcome news for people wanting to configure VDI and RDS in Windows Server 2008 R2: “…The Remote Desktop Services Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 , is now live on the Download Center...

Interesting new performance article released from Intel. Covers the choice around VHD and streaming OS deployment on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. When you think of streaming the OS on to Hyper-V, think how Citrix’s Provisioning Server does it. It also again...

Right now we’re thinking about our plans for the next financial year, and where we need to focus our efforts to help you succeed. We are thinking about how we deliver you the best solution content in terms of documentation, architectures and even webcasts...

For those of you interested in attending, details are here: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032447903&Culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Capacity Planning and Sizing for Session Virtualization and VDI with RDS (Level 300)...

In a previous post I linked to a TechNet article that documented the custom settings for the RDP file. In a true case of “wait there’s more!” I have more to show that were not documented here , though will be soon. In the meantime though: allow font smoothing...

Often you'll want to change certain settings in your RDP files, or during configuration of RemoteApp, VDI or otherwise. I just noticed that finally the RDP Custom Settings reference has released at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff393699(WS...

Very interesting article by Citrix's Simon Crosby today. Citrix have done some VDI workload density analysis and found an interesting result that Hyper-V 2008 R2 is outperforming Xenserver for Windows 7 workloads. Wheres VMware in this? Who knows. They...

As I mentioned earlier in the day, today we discussed two new features for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 which are Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX. The on demand webcast has just been posted live and has demos of both of these. While it would be great for you...

As per the press pass announcement today at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/mar10/03-18desktopvirtpr.mspx we will be talking about new investments in VDI and Desktop Virtualization at the Desktop Virtualization Hour Webcast . Ill be presenting...

Tomorrow (US PST time) March 18th at 9am we are doing a one hour virtualization discussion - where we will be talking about some stuff youve heard about and stuff you definitely havent heard about or seen either. As part of that we will be talking about...

Hot off the press…. Overview of Hyper-V : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816638(WS.10).aspx – Updated Feb. 10, 2010 What’s New in Hyper-V: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd446676(WS.10).aspx -  It does not show an updated...

So here as I sit typing Brian Madden is in front of me, filming one of my other colleagues, Eric Schroeder talk about installing the Microsoft VDI solution as part of the Brian Madden VDI shootout . We have been here all day, talking about the architecture...

For those of you that want to dabble with Citrix XenDesktop 4 on Hyper-V theres a new online lab for you to get a look at. The Microsoft-Citrix VDI lab hosted on TechNet is LIVE . Get a look at it!

Awesome news! Over on the MDOP blog they just announced the availability of App-V 4.6 to RTM . This is especially fantastic news for Remote Desktop Services deployments (previously Terminal Services). With many RDS deployments going towards 64bit for...

Theres this great site our client team has been working on. Its called Talking About Windows and features a number of people from the engineering and product management teams talking about the Windows 7 development process and associated products that...

Just thought Id make a little announcement for those of you interested. As many of you knew I was a Program Manager in the Group Policy team at Microsoft and was working with a great team on products like Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 and Diagnostics...

Way to go Alan. Another top Australian launching some great content ona GP focused site at http://www.grouppolicy.biz/ Theres plenty of great articles with lots of pictures :) Also includes handy links to common GP tools. Enjoy!

From the desk of Martin McClean, (author of the Active Directory Jigsaw , Windows Server 2008 Component Poster etc): This new poster provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on Active Directory...