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Private Clouds: Believe it or not?

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:01 PM by davidzi
Recently there has been some healthy debate around the validity of “private clouds” and whether such a construct is new or just a different name for virtualization and automated provisioning, i.e. a marketecture. In this corner for the anti-Private Cloud Read More...
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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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Cloud Computing: Taxes Analogous to Atmospheric Pressure

Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:11 AM by davidzi
In a blog posting earlier this week , the Azure team announced that they would be moving all Azure applications out of our “USA – Northwest” datacenter. I was fascinated by this given that the stated reason for this move is a change in local tax law which 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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Virtualization and Cloud Computing Real-time Feeds!

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:26 PM by davidzi
As mentioned here and in a few other posts, I’ve been using Friendfeed and Twitter quite a bit over the last couple months. I’ve been extremely impressed with Friendfeed in particular. I’ve created two Friendfeed groups that I’ve been posting content Read More...
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New Microsoft Security Site for Governments

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
A new Security section has been added to the government site on Microsoft.com. The site consolidates a number of relevant tools, solutions, case studies, and links relevant to Public Sector organizations. Several of the solutions call for specific mentions Read More...
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Dynamically Provisioning Customized Virtual Machines with VMM

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:46 PM by davidzi
There’s a good technical post over on Chris Adam’s blog about how to dynamically provision customized virtual machines by using System Center Virtual Machine Manager and unattend.xml. The unattend.xml file is used in combination with a sysprep’d image Read More...
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Head-to-Head: Workflow Studio vs PowerShell for Automation

Posted Sunday, June 28, 2009 2:07 PM by davidzi
Here’s an interesting and slightly amusing mock debate between Brandon Shell and Jason Conger on Citrix’s Workflow Studio vs PowerShell for automation . If you aren’t familiar with it, here is the description of what Workflow Studio is: “Citrix Workflow 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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White Paper: Comparing the Power Utilization of Native and Virtual Exchange Environments

Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:07 AM by davidzi
The Exchange team has published a whitepaper on TechNet comparing the power utilization of a typical 8 server physical Exchange environment compared to a a virtualized environment using the same number of logical processors but on only two Hyper-V host Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 to RTM in July!

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:09 PM by davidzi
The Windows Server Division blog announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 is tracking with Windows 7 and both are planned to RTM in the second half of July with General Availability on Oct 22! That RTM date is earlier than I thought it would be, I was thinking Read More...
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