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You’ve already heard lots about the cloud, and about how you need to start getting ready. Are you prepping for Service Automation Design (SAD)? Also called IT Process Automation (ITPA), this is the stuff you will be doing with Opalis. If it is not on your radar, tap the console hard…Looks like a fantastic...

Check out the Win7 How to videos at: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/videos I like this one showing how to use Windows XP Mode, just click the image to watch.

Some good metrics from the TechNet Wiki Beta first week: 718 registered users , 136 contributors – this is a high contributor rate, as expected because the first folks using the wiki are MSFTies and MVPs 616 articles , 2257 revisions and 738 comments One of the great joys of the wiki is how easy it is...

Colleague Thomas Willingham has released a short video showing how we collected feedback from TechNet. Check it out:   http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/872bb469-4a79-4934-8287-9d16ac9ead1d

When you land on a TechNet Wiki article for the first time, it is not clear that you can edit the wiki pages. This is because you must first join and sign in to see the “Edit” button. This video demo shows that this process start-to-finish takes only a few minutes. Here’s How to Join . To sign up If...

To contribute, you must first sign in. To sign in, you must first Join . After those pre-reqs are accomplished, editing a TN Wiki article is pretty easy. This 10 minute video shows PM Eric Batallio demonstrating: How to edit How to Check Article History How to Revert How to enter an Edit Comment (comment...

Check them out, for example this page of PowerShell Vids called Script Center Videos for some reason not immediately obvious… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/dd334524.aspx TechNet Videos Deployment Videos TechNet Exchange Videos ForeFront Videos TechNet IE Videos...

There’s a new video from Shai Ofek on screencast.com showing installation of Virtualized SLES 10.2 on Hyper-V v2 . Just click on the image to check it out!

James has posted a video demo on the Edge of how to use Windows Deployment Services to deploy a server onto a virtualization host in a data center .  

Technical writer Felipe Ayora has a new video out to drive awareness of the new Getting to Know Hyper-V: A Walkthrough from Initial Setup to Common Scenarios doc in the TechNet Library* Click the image to play the vid, or go to: http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/40500ac7-a9b3-437a-bf5b-f9cb5ca4e09c...

We’ve published a new video on import/export in Hyper-V R2 on MSN Showcase (which has changed it’s URL and redirect, so, kinda hard to find if you go to the old URL video.msn.com). There’s much more detail in the blog posts series Soumya wrote:   Hyper-V R2 Import/Export – Part 1 – The Case for...

My team is investigating the use of video as a content type for IT Pros. We are compiling best practices and tips/tricks for creating this kind of content, but we need your feedback. Thoughts/comments? DO Have some lighting. It should be good enough to distinguish what’s important (for example, a person...

We’ve published a new topic in the TN Library that lists new Hyper-V videos in LIFO order. Check it out at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee731912(WS.10).aspx If you are interested in sorting these by number of views as of today: Hyper-V Architecture Demonstration Video Getting...

Josh Barnard on the High Performance Computing team at Microsoft has a new video out explaining Job Templates in HPC. Click the image to watch the video on msn video . You can read the white paper at Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Templates .

Inside Microsoft we’ve had a social media solution in place (described in this YouTube Video as “combining concepts from FB and YT”) for P2P sharing audio and video for a while now. This video was initially posted on the Academy Mobile internal site, and is now available on YT.  I’ve been working...

Well, it’s not actually the beloved start of the WnG movies (show below)…. it is two servers named Wallace and Gromit used by UKDPE  in their 5 minute video that shows how to setup and LM in R2. Not only does this video show how easy/quick it is to set up LM, it shows the filecopy operation on the...

Jon Brodkin on Network World reports some bumps in the road at VMworld 2009 in his article VMworld 2009: Virtualization, controversy and eating your own dog food. “ …the data center didn't work as well as intended, with attendees reporting continuous technological problems during a vSphere boot camp...

Some good virtualization videos on the web for your Labor-day viewing. TN Edge Videos : 5 pages, lots of good stuff MSN.COM Hyper-V Videos: · Hyper-V Architecture Demonstration · Getting to Know Hyper-V · Introduction to server virtualization · Hyper-V Part 1 - The Architecture 1/2 · Windows Server 2008...

Shortly after TR9 I had the opportunity to talk with STB President Bob Muglia about Virtualization. Click the picture to open this 5 minute audio podcast from my public Skydrive ( TR9 – Bob Muglia ).  Includes Bob’s thoughts about customer advantages of Microsoft’s virtualization solutions, including...

In this 5 minute video Windows Server Technical Writer Felipe Ayora demonstrates how to change the BIOS settings on your computer to make the hypervisor run. NOTE: remember to completely power off your computer after making the changes to the BIOS. Some computers will not take the changes unless they...

My teenage daughter never tires of reminding me how often I show my age. The punning title of this blog is no exception. However, that should not take away from the awesomeness of the Clustering Team Blog post that lists 300+ useful documents, guides, information and utilities . My favorites of course...

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for deleting a VM snapshot: However BEFORE you go deleting snapshots , please read the Hyper-V Snapshot FAQ , and have a look at the Ben Armstrong Snapshot FAQ Video . # Delete Virtual System Snapshot param( [string]$vmName...

Some customers are having trouble with snapshots in Hyper-V . I recently had the opportunity to discuss these issues and best practices to avoid them with Ben Armstrong, a.k.a. Virtual PC Guy Click the image to view the 12 minute video on Showcase (not to be confused with my old team – IT Showcase …but...

Ben Armstr0ng, who blogs as Virtual PC Guy , recorded a 4 minute animation video that shows Hyper-V Architecture about a month ago. It is now the number 1 most-viewed Hyper-V video! Felipe’s video discussing how he uses virtualization ( Getting to Know Hyper-V ) is number 2! Check out all the...

Matt’s posted a new video on The Edge showing how to configure a cluster, includes configuration of a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster , configuring networking , servers , and the SAN integration .   Check out his series here . I like the upfront listing of the time cost. Do you? Leave...