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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:50 AM

Impressive Virtualization Case Study : 85% virtualized, 30:1 VM density

Impressive virtualization case study from Kroll Factual Data. Some highlights: · A ble to develop, test and deploy new products within three days. · A datacenter which has the ability to deploy additional computing resources in less than 15 minutes. ·
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Monday, April 20, 2009 8:10 AM

How Can Virtualization Help Green IT

Organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental and business benefits of adopting a Green IT environment. This interactive presentation highlights how virtualization facilitates a Green IT environment. It describes the Hyper-V server
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Monday, April 20, 2009 7:56 AM

Free Terminal Services Online Course

This online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008. Topics covered in the clinic include: · Implementation of Terminal Services · Working with Terminal Services RemoteApp, Terminal
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Monday, April 20, 2009 7:52 AM

Free Virtual Machine Management Online Course

This online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Topics covered in the clinic include: · Features and functionalities of VMM · Implementation and management of VMM
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Monday, April 20, 2009 7:45 AM

Free Application Virtualization Online Course

This online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Microsoft Application Virtualization. Topics covered in the clinic include: · Features and functionalities of Application Virtualization · Deployment and maintenance of
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Monday, April 20, 2009 7:20 AM

Free Hyper-V Virtualization Online Course

This 2-hour online course provides IT Professionals the knowledge to implement and manage Hyper-V in an IT environment. Topics covered in the course include: · Features of Hyper-V · Features of server consolidation · Hyper-V implementation · Creation
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:16 PM

Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:53 AM

Sample Application Virtualization Assessment

Attached is a sample report produced using the MAPS toolkit . The Application Virtualization Assessment report identifies the applications and computers within your environment that are capable of supporting a Microsoft Application Virtualization environment.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:31 AM

Free Environment Assessment Toolkit

For my desktop deployment projects i recommend to use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:23 PM

Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V

When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic
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Monday, April 13, 2009 10:56 AM

Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines by Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology

About 80 percent of server deployments in the Microsoft IT data centers are deployed as virtual servers via Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology. To ensure optimal performance, Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) has developed configuration
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:59 PM

VDI Security - Using Encryption to Protect Virtual Machine Resources

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) is a data protection feature included with Windows Server 2008. BitLocker is an operating system–based software capability that works with features in server hardware and firmware to provide secure operating
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:51 PM

VDI Security - Hardening Virtual Desktops

The same security measures and hardening you would apply to a physical computer should be applied to virtual machines. You should perform hardening steps for the virtual machine's server role as indicated in the “Server Role Security Configuration” section
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:46 PM

VDI Security - Virtual Desktop Configuration

The following recommended best practices can help you enhance security when configuring virtual machines on servers running the Hyper-V role: · Configure virtual machines to use fixed-sized virtual hard disks. · Store virtual hard disks and snapshot files
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:17 PM

VDI Security - Securing VM Storage Devices

By default, new VHD files in the Public profile are stored in the %users% \Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks directory. You can change the default storage location for VHDs by selecting Hyper-V Settings in the Hyper-V Manager. If you specify
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