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May 2009 - Posts

New Remote Desktop Services VDI Step-by-Step Guides Released

Posted Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:05 PM by davidzi
New step-by-step guides have been posted for the new Remote Desktop Services (RDS) found in Windows Server 2008 R2 including the new VDI scenarios. These replace the original step-by-step guide from a couple months ago that was basically too big since Read More...
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Clustering SQL Server Virtual Machines

Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 9:00 AM by davidzi
When planning server consolidation initiatives, particularly if using a structured offering and tools like SVAM and MAP , underutilized database servers are a frequent consolidation candidate. Similarly, if you have already widely implemented virtualization, Read More...
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Free eBook: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit

Posted Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:29 AM by davidzi
The Terminal Services (now called Remote Desktop Virtualization) team has announced that the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit eBook is available for free download for a limited time. You can register (LiveID required) here and download Read More...
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New Import and Export Features in Hyper-V R2

Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:54 AM by davidzi
Good news from the virtualization team. Over on their blog is a new post about the import/export functionality in Hyper-V. There are major enhancements that address several scenarios that were either not easy or not possible with Hyper-V RTM. Scenarios Read More...
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Microsoft SDL: Get it to go

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:02 PM by davidzi
Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template . This was announced over on the SDL Blog . Roger has some comments on it as well. The SDL Process Template is a free downloadable template for Visual Studio Team System that integrates Read More...
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Social Bookmarking: How to know where to go…

Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:15 PM by davidzi
Continuing the foray into social networking I started on a couple weeks ago, today’s topic is social bookmarking. For those who are even later to the game than I am, social bookmarking is basically a site or service that lets you tag and store your website Read More...
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Hyper-V and VMM: Scale Up, Out, and to the Cloud

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
Between MMS and TechEd there have been a lot of announcements on the virtualization and cloud computing front. First, over on the Virtualization Team Blog , Jeff provided the announcement and details around some new capabilities coming in Hyper-V with Read More...
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Finding the Hidden Costs of VDI

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 8:01 AM by davidzi
Brian Madden has an excellent post up today called The hidden costs of VDI . I’ve been working nearly full time the last two months helping to put together a Microsoft Services offering around desktop virtualization in general and VDI in particular so Read More...
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Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 4:56 PM by davidzi
So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very cool app built on Adobe Air. Today via @EverythingMS I heard about sobees , a .NET app that aggregates Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed (yeah!), and many other Read More...
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Facebook for Windows Mobile

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 10:33 AM by davidzi
Microsoft has released Facebook for Windows Mobile . The application provides the following features: Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list. Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook. Send messages or Read More...
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NASA Launches Space Station and Rover Photosynths

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 9:51 AM by davidzi
From the press release : “NASA and Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash., released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7. NASA Read More...
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC

Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:24 AM by davidzi
The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been updated for the Windows 7 RC build. I’ve been using a combination of the RSAT and the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta console on my Windows 7 machine to manage my Hyper-V lab machines and its Read More...
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Are Solid State Drives in your Windows 7 Future?

Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:15 PM by davidzi
The E7 blog has an interesting article on SSD performance and optimizations made in Windows 7 to take advantage of them. The E7 post also links to an in depth AnandTech article that goes into more detail on SSD’s and has some benchmark comparisons between Read More...
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Facebook via Silverlight and WPF

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:43 AM by davidzi
There was a lot of buzz last week with Facebook’s Open Stream API announcement . There were many demos of applications leveraging the new API, one good one is Seesmic Desktop which I’ve been using as my Twitter client and now has Facebook integration. Read More...
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Running Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Laptop?

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:18 AM by davidzi
Robert has a good post up for folks wanting to run Windows Server 2008 R2 on their laptops. A lot of us do that so that we can run Hyper-V for demos or development purposes. If you enable the Desktop Experience feature along with Wireless LAN and a few Read More...
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