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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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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:50 PM
VDI Forum
Please use the following forum for Microsoft VDI related questions. I will be following this forum regularly http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsserver2008r2virtualization/threads
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:06 PM
MED-V v1 Released
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) provides deployment and management of virtual Windows desktops to enable key enterprise scenarios. MED-V 1.0 helps enterprises upgrade to the latest version of Windows even when some applications are
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Monday, March 30, 2009 8:12 AM
XP Performance Optimizations for VDI solutions
Paul Wilson has a usefull article on Windows XP Performance Optimizations in VDI scenarios. This one is optimized for Citrix XenDesktop. Windows XP Performance Optimizations for XenDesktop and Provisioning Server vDisks
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Friday, March 27, 2009 8:15 PM
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta VDI Solution
VDI is attracting our enterprise customers for certain user scenarios. Most common user scenario is the task worker where they want to extend the the hardware lifecycle, improve desktop and application control and centralize the user data. Also contractors
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:04 PM
Desktop Virtualization Strategy - Part I
There are many desktop virtualization options and possible combinations and therefore the development of a desktop virtualization strategy requires three distinct steps: Map the available technologies Define user needs Match technologies with user needs.
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