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CTP of Windows Server Virtualization releasing with RC on Windows Server 2008

bhaskar — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:50:00 GMT

This week at VMworld, Microsoft is announcing that the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Server Virtualization is coming soon with the initial release candidate of the Windows Server 2008.

You can also use the Windows Server Virtualization Calculator to estimate the number of licenses needed for your virtualization scenario.

The complete presspass is here: Customers Turning to Microsoft to Virtualize Across Desktops and Datacenters

Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer Released

bhaskar — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:30:00 GMT

Today, we released the Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer. It is an health check tool for group policy configuration in an environment. This is a wonderful tool for checking common configuration errors & diagnose problems.

Check the following KB article for more information and download link.

How to use the Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) tool to collect and to analyze data

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940122

No need to open a support incident to receive Hotfix

bhaskar — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:32:55 GMT

Microsoft has eased the process of requesting hotfixes. You no longer have to wait to open a support ticket; talk to a representative for requesting the hotfix.

You can do it yourself now!!!

How? Just go to http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6516433 and enter the following information:

Country of residence
KB Article Number
Platform [x86/x64/ia64]
Product Language
Your Email Address

Once you submit the request, you should be receiving an email with the link to download the hotfix.

Now this is a lot simpler.