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Everything you ever wanted to know about VHDs

Posted Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:33 AM by davidzi
The Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide is 61 pages of great info outlining all the relevant scenarios, configurations, and options for using VHD files. This was release about 3 weeks ago but I missed it at the time due to training and TechReady9. Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 4 and 5 Wrap-up

Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:46 PM by davidzi
Day 4 and 5 of TechReady were action packed, I didn’t even have time to post yesterday. I skipped the first session timeslot on Thurs to prepare for the double session I was presenting with Citrix. The double session format basically allocates two sessions Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 3 Wrap-up

Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:22 AM by davidzi
Day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and several very cool demos on UI futures, what’s coming across some of the Bing features, and some stuff MSR is working on. There was also a good discussion of how concepts move from MSR, to Labs, then into Read More...
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Download the Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 8:46 AM by davidzi
The Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2 has been posted to the web and can be found here . The original v1.0 version for Windows Server 2008 RTM was described in this post . Here is the overview of the v2.0 version: This Read More...
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Published in the Microsoft Architecture Journal

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:28 PM by davidzi
I was able to get a small commentary on desktop virtualization and VDI published in the Microsoft Architecture Journal . It’s based on the work I’ve been doing around creating a VDI offering to augment Microsoft’s server virtualization offerings. For Read More...
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Networking and Remote Desktop Technical Resources

Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 1:15 PM by davidzi
The links below lead to a series of technical whitepapers on DirectAccess, BranchCache, and Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2. Networking Resources: DirectAccess and BranchCache Remote Desktop Resources: Kerberos, User Profiles, RemoteApp Read More...
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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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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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