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Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:40 PM

Launch day !!! Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 released

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 both went to public release today (GA), both operating systems have been available via Volume License, MSDN & Technet previously. You will start to see some very cool hardware coming your way from the various OEMs,
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:12 PM

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 & Hyper-V R2 RTM'ed !!!

So big news today, 3 major products went RTM all at the same time, there will be lots of news and more authorative blogs out there, so I'll just throw in a few pointers. Windows 7, the next desktop OS (replaces Vista), if you haven't downloaded the beta
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:50 PM

RSAT for Windows 7 RC available

Microsoft made the Remote Server Administration Tools available for Windows 7 RC. RSAT Client is the collection of Windows Server management tools which enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their PCs running Windows
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:18 PM

Release Candidates everywhere!

So the last week has had a lot of news about the public availability of release candidates for Hyper-V R2 Server, Windows 2008 R2 Server and the Windows 7 Client operating systems. They were initially available for Technet and MSDN subscribers, but now
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:42 PM

Windows Server 2008 Foundation Launch

Microsoft Launched Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition yesterday, it is aimed at the very small end of the server business market. Typically for the customers who today use workgroups or a file & print server that's actually running a client OS.
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Monday, January 12, 2009 2:13 PM

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta

So the Server side of Windows 7 (there will be no Windows 7 Server, it's called 2008 R2, see my blog below on Windows 7 clarity) has been released in beta to public, link to the public stuff below (MSDN also has downloads) Client side (Windows 7) here
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Monday, January 12, 2009 1:40 PM

20-Part Webcast Series on Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

Yung Chou has put up a great blog with a link to 20 Technet Webcasts starting on January 14th around Microsoft Virtualization. His blog here Also some great free Elearning content here
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:05 PM

SP2 Beta for Vista & Server 2008

So one of the good parts of the shared code base between Vista & Server 2008 is the move to a single service pack for both client & server (hmmm ... used to do that a while back in the NT days). Early betas are now available to certain customers.
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:33 AM

Windows 7 clarity

So a lot of news released this week around Windows 7 at the PDC conference with a lot of the media getting their first look at the product and getting pre beta copies with detailed reviewer guides detailing the significant changes in the OS.But like a
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:22 PM

More Hyper-V stuff

More updates around Microsoft's Hypervisor based virtualization offerings, bit of a duplicate post (to the CI team blog), and I have previously mentioned the Hyper-V updates earlier, just adding in the new Hyper-V Server info ... Hyper-V Server has been
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:39 PM

Free Online Microsoft Courses

Microsoft's learning normally has a couple of free courses, especially with some of the newer products. List available right now includes a lot of stuff on Virtualization (Hyper-V, App-V, SCVMM), SQL, Windows 2008 Training for free, how can you go wrong?
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:53 PM

Hyper-V update

A new (good type) of update is available for Microsoft's Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008. Update includes support for more logical processors and larger number of VM's per physical host. KB Article here
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:29 PM

Hyper-V RTM Release !!!

Guess it will be on a lot of blogs today, but here goes anyway. Hyper-V, Microsoft's hypervisor based virtualization product that is part of Windows Server 2008 went RTM today. In terms of public availability, it sould be available for download later
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:34 PM

Understanding Hyper-V networking

Those of us who came from the Virtual PC/Server world will have quickly realized that setting up your NICs and the host's setup is a bit different under Hyper-V, nice quick explaination of hyper-v netowrking (with pictures!) from the Virtual PC Guy's
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:09 PM

Windows Server 2008 Performance Tuning Guidelines updated to include Hyper-V

This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that can result in improved performance for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. Each setting and its potential effect are described to help you make an informed judgment about its relevance
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