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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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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 10:31 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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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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Monday, April 13, 2009 10:51 AM

How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure

At Microsoft, server virtualization has become a primary way to address data-center power consumption, to address space issues, and to rationalize server utilization. To optimize deployment and management of thousands of virtual machines, Microsoft Information
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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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Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:51 PM

VDI Security - Securing the Host Network

The configuration of the physical network interfaces of the computer running Hyper-V can help to improve the isolation of the management operating system from the virtual desktops. Its recommended that you install at least two network adapters on the
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:46 PM

VDI Security - Hyper-V Operating System Installation Type

You can install Hyper-V with either the Full or the Server Core installation options of the 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter). Server Core is a minimal server installation option that provides a low-maintenance
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:29 PM

VDI Security - Securing Virtual Desktops running on Hyper-V

The following considerations and recommendations relate to configuring virtual machines on a computer running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. · Determine where to store the virtual machine files and the VHDs . See “Securing Dedicated Storage Devices” earlier
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:02 PM

Hyper-V Attack Surface

An important part of Virtualization security is to secure the physical host which is Hyper-V in our case. The link below includes a spreadsheet you can download that lists all the attack surfaces for Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V Attack Surface Reference
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:54 PM

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Fei Lu describes the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology in Windows Vista, and scenarios where organizations can take advantage of the flexibility this technology offers. Windows Springboard Series: Windows Vista Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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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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