Virtual Machine Management : Windows 7

Taking advantange of Windows PowerShell Remoting and VMM cmdlets

mlmich — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Even though VMM does not officially support the Windows PowerShell Remoting feature of PowerShell v2, you can get this to work by following the guidelines in this blog post. Officially, to execute the VMM cmdlets you need to install the VMM Administrator...(read more)

Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode have a blog :)

mlmich — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:34:00 GMT

Check out the team blog site of the new Windows 7 features of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode here http://blogs.technet.com/windows_vpc/...(read more)

SCVMM 2008 R2 Release Date

mlmich — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:12:00 GMT

hey guys, If you are wondering when VMM 2008 R2 will release, this latest blog post by Rakesh will give you the inside track. http://blogs.technet.com/rakeshm/archive/2009/07/13/scvmm-2008-r2-release-date-information.aspx cheers....(read more)

SCVMM 2008 R2 RC Public Release Available Now!

mlmich — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:45:00 GMT

hi all, today the VMM team released VMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate. You can read all about it here. http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/06/06/scvmm-2008-r2-rc-public-release-available-now.aspx Cheers....(read more)

Utilizing Virtualization and boot-from-vhd for making a dual-boot laptop

mlmich — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:20:00 GMT

I received my brand new Dell Latitude E4300 laptop today and I wanted to make sure i could boot both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on it. Here is how virtualization came in handy. Instead of partitioning my laptop using two partitions (one for...(read more)

New features in VMM 2008 R2

mlmich — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:49:00 GMT

In line with the Rapid Provisioning feature that i mentioned in my previous blog post, Vishwa, a PM from our team, just posted a comprehensive list of new features of VMM 2008 R2. Check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/05/11/scvmm-r2-rc-features.asp...(read more)

Rapid Provisioning in VMM 2008 R2 using the UseLocalVirtualHardDisks and SkipInstallVirtualizationGuestServices flags

mlmich — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:46:00 GMT

At MMS 2009, our team announced a new feature of VMM 2008 R2 called Rapid Provisioning. This feature is not available in VMM 2008 R2 beta, but it will be available in the upcoming release candidate and in the RTM version. This feature was implemented...(read more)

Using the VMM Self Service Portal from a Win7 computer

mlmich — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:49:00 GMT

We have seen a lot of cases of customers trying to view the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (SSP) UI from a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7. If the portal is running VMM 2008, it is likely that you can't view the connections...(read more)