I know its short notice, but just heard about this web event on Monday, Oct 26th and wanted to share the details. If you are looking at speeding up your Windows 7 and application deployments, you should check it out.
 |  | | Best Practices for Windows 7 Migrations Using Microsoft Application Virtualization |  | Oct 26, 2009
12:00 p.m. Eastern / 9:00 a.m. Pacific
Duration: 60 Minutes
|  | | You need to increase the manageability of your IT infrastructure and boost employee productivity, all while reducing help desk costs. Join us to hear firsthand how CDW, a leading provider of technology solutions for business, government and education, overcame those same challenges in its organization.
Join us for an interactive 1-hour webcast and discover how to: - Separate applications from the OS to deliver application upgrades quickly and without conflicts with other applications
- Save time on application testing, packaging and deployment by allocating resources to your higher-priority projects
- Deploy new desktops 25% faster with 70% in cost savings using your pre-existing hardware
Find out more about CDW's best practices migrating from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and how you can streamline application delivery and desktop manageability.
Also, bring your questions for our panel of experts to address during a live Q&A following the presentation!
REGISTER TODAY >> |  | | | |
eSeminars Information
Copyright 2009 Ziff Davis Enterprise All Rights Reserved.
Ziff Davis Enterprise, 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016
|
If you follow the System Center solution set, you’ve seen that over the past few weeks there has been quite a bit of activity. Beta versions of Service Manager, Data Protection Manager, and Essentials were released. Plus, early in September, Jeff announced the plans for Configuration Manager R3 and there will be more information on that coming soon.
That’s right, just yesterday the latest update to System Center Virtual Machine Manager was released to manufacturing – and the evaluation version is available for download now!
VMM 2008 R2 Features
VMM 2008 R2 now manages many of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Hyper-V including:
- Live Migration -- for moving virtual machines between hosts with no downtime
- Additional enhanced migration support for SAN migration in and out of clusters
- Multiple virtual machines per LUN using Clustered Share Volumes
- Hot add of virtual machine storage
Additional features:
- Functionality to migrate storage for running VMs
- iSCSI target and SAN-based migration across clusters
- Template-based rapid provisioning
- Maintenance mode to automate the evacuation of VMs off host machines,
- Live Migration host compatibility checks
Need to ramp with some online training? On September 9th the VMM team will host a TechNet Training session online - Go here to register for this Wednesday, September 09, 2009 (10:00 AM Pacific) event
Hello New York Metro! After a brief summer hiatus, we are back to publishing and will again bring you weekly informative updates on a variety of Core Infrastructure topics. Now that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have RTM’d, the transition planning has become a main area of interest.
To help you get the information you need, we are happy to share with you this invite to the upcoming Springboard Series roundtable covering app compat and virtualization technologies. Don’t forget to add it to your calendar!
| | Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization
Date: Thursday, September 24 Time: 9:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard Hear from a panel of experts how virtualization tools can help you with application compatibility concerns whether you’re migrating from Windows Vista or Windows XP. Join us to discuss how presentation virtualization, desktop virtualization and application virtualization can reduce testing times, expedite deployment and ultimately help you streamline PC management. We’ll cover the latest desktop virtualization technologies from Microsoft, including App-V, MED-V and XP Mode for Windows 7. Plus we share tips and tricks and demonstrate free tools to analyze and fix applications while answering your questions live during the event. Join live on Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 9:00am Pacific Time. Missed Part 1? Watch the replay. For IT Pro tips, tricks and resources for Windows 7, visit the Springboard Series. As part of the “virtual” experience, you may submit your questions about Windows 7 Application Compatibility to the panel live during the event—or submit questions in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com. Springboard Series: The resource for Windows desktop IT professionals | | | ![clip_image004[10]](http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/nymciblog/WindowsLiveWriter/SpringboardSeries_B3F4/clip_image004%5B10%5D_thumb.jpg "clip_image004[10]")
| ![clip_image006[5]](http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/nymciblog/WindowsLiveWriter/SpringboardSeries_B3F4/clip_image006%5B5%5D_thumb.jpg "clip_image006[5]")
| ![clip_image004[11]](http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/nymciblog/WindowsLiveWriter/SpringboardSeries_B3F4/clip_image004%5B11%5D_thumb.jpg "clip_image004[11]")
| |
Yes, all three, Client OS, Server OS and free Hypervisor with Live Migration & High Availability have been released to manufacturer today. For more info on each of the products, take a look at the individual team blogs
Really good blog from the Virtualization Team detailing all the Hypervisor improvements as well as regularly updating and answering questions/statements about Microsoft Virtualization, good read here
Windows Server Team announcement here
Windows 7 Team announcement here
By now you may have seen the announcements that System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 released late last week. This version brings some exciting enhancements such as:
· Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms
· Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and UNIX servers–all through a single console.
· Extends end to end monitoring of distributed applications to any workload running on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.
· Maximize availability of virtual workloads with integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
· Improved management of applications in the data center
· Delivers on the scale requirements of URL monitoring of your business.
· Meet agreed service levels with enhanced reporting showing application performance and availability.
· More efficient problem identification and action to resolve issues.
· Increased speed of access to information and functionality to drive management
· Faster load times for views and results.
· Improved and simplified management pack authoring experience
And also has some great extensibility options:
· Service Level Dashboard v2 from the Solution Accelerators team lets you measure and report application or system performance & availability in near real time across your organization. Using the Dashboard, you can easily spot trends and head off problems—before they occur. The Dashboard also lets you create role-specific dashboards to support different departments, like HR, Finance, or Operations. Download it today!
· Operations Manager 2007 R2 Interoperability Connectors provide the ability to synchronize alerts and status between Operations Manager 2007 R2 and other management systems. Beta connectors for Tivoli Enterprise Console, HP OpenView Operations, and the new Universal Connector can be obtained from the Operations Manager R2 download on Connect. Download the Interop Connectors from the System Center Catalog.
· Operations Manager 2007 R2 Visio Add-in delivers the ability to link status and health information gathered by Operations Manager 2007 R2 into normally-static Visio diagrams, adding life and interaction to those diagrams. Download it today from Microsoft Connect.
· New Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack (MP) Beta, which provides enhancements over the current Exchange MP such as reducing alert noise and enhanced performance. Download it today from Microsoft Connect.
· BridgeWays MP Beta Program, providing beta MPs for MySQL, Apache, and Oracle running on Windows, Linux or Solaris. For more information, and to register into the BridgeWays MP Beta Program, visit http://www.bridgeways.ca/bw_management-pack-beta-program-signup_form.php
Check back next week when I’ll be posting a short video of the OpsMgrR2 – Visio integration.
Just in case you missed it with all the announcements around the public availability of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client Release Candidates in the last week. Microsoft has also made the Hyper-V Server R2 RC available for download here
Hyper-V Server is a standalone free product, details here .The highlight features for the R2 release will be the inclusion of High Availability and Live Migration features (while still remaining a free product).
KB963027 (Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer):
IE5.01 SP4 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7799fd05-5b26-449f-8a14-50227c9164d1#tm
IE6, XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=052c29fc-e8df-402c-9ab1-1079bc738e1b#tm
IE6, XP (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=84c62211-2e82-4ccc-9f9b-26462b026d86#tm
IE6 SP1, Windows 2000 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=87f0c380-5c31-4099-a6a9-c12f9d69b03b&displaylang=en
IE6 SP1, XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=87f0c380-5c31-4099-a6a9-c12f9d69b03b#tm
IE7, XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=55d6729a-9f96-4da4-b564-676c0a0c9390#tm
IE7, XP (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=191c2f20-89ae-4e1c-bdd4-24b4abfe6b6c#tm
IE7, Vista (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d743849d-f3b5-4114-adef-ade2716d55ac#tm
IE7, Vista (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d191c8dc-a965-4a6a-b6d8-1470505eb55f#tm
IE7, Vista SP2 (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6818ade4-9553-459d-8e96-2bb44249b56f#tm
IE7, Vista SP2 (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ea89c3c8-99dc-4c72-aa4c-d1ee83dbe473#tm
IE8, Windows 7 (x86) – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cdbf144f-c4bc-4558-a8bd-b5cde5b6cf8e#tm
IE8, Windows 7 (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c8cec8e6-39d8-4073-af47-77f8e170696e#tm
KB959426 (Blended threat vulnerability in SearchPath could allow elevation of privilege):
Windows 2000 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c4e408d7-6716-4a12-ad3a-8029667f5c84#tm
XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3de0684d-605c-489b-bdc7-08bce9b2d4f6#tm
XP (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b743a7fe-7bf4-420d-a72e-39471e5659fa#tm
Vista (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2b672d45-f33b-4edc-9f22-2f2c8c726a8b#tm
Vista (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7576e7d5-5bb1-4a53-b568-1ee0500ce721#tm
KB923561 (Vulnerabilities in WordPad and Office Text Converters Could Allow Remote Code Execution):
Windows 2000 – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=552d322a-5282-42c7-9c1e-1d8c494a7318#tm
XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=50a8519a-503e-43dd-a78a-c1bc764fd213#tm
XP (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8133d58d-ca11-4f24-81ec-1766cd6cd3b2#tm
KB952004 (Vulnerabilities in Windows Could Allow Elevation of Privilege):
XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=90fe715e-8190-43e9-9c43-df5be564d923#tm
XP (x64) – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a794c32a-9a0c-47d9-9c57-ff5d4a8e4944#tm
Vista (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f111b99a-e555-4f29-8d1f-e9ec03d5cf1f#tm
Vista (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fa153bdc-6b48-4df2-9e5e-abacd6da782c#tm
KB960803 (Vulnerabilities in Windows HTTP Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution):
Windows 2000 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=39d5468e-5733-4c3e-9e75-3adac8ac8cb9#tm
XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=35af4151-1858-4c9a-85e4-9ff45feca1a4#tm
XP (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=49b16f0f-f6c3-4ca8-8041-392f4f7b5bbb#tm
Vista (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f071d770-3b6b-4040-9911-d4de8cde4c68#tm
Vista (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7ceef2d0-f316-48d1-aecc-d74f91cc5e1f#tm
KB961373 (Security Update for DirectX for Windows 2000):
DirectX 8 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0ec5b7c7-13d3-467a-b24e-3cc6fb47adf6#tm
DirectX 9 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8b98ed5c-a3ab-45a7-a61e-349eae304bc6#tm
KB961373 (Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow Could Allow Remote Code Execution):
XP (x86) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=feb5d821-f210-40e8-b1aa-2ca3170df8df#tm
XP (x64) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f1be8b7c-4874-4342-99b3-76ff725fbb9a#tm
April 2009 Security Release ISO Image: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=faf813fd-001a-4f03-bfa8-08042138dd8e#tm
Today is patch Tuesday and there were 8 security bulletins released, please find links to details and live webcast customers can participate in tomorrow, below.
Microsoft will host a Webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins:
Title: Information about Microsoft April Security Bulletins (Level 200)
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time (U.S. and Canada)
URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032395126
Summaries for new bulletin(s) may be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-Apr.mspx.
Yesterday we held a virtualization event at our Microsoft office in NYC. To those who attended, THANK YOU for joining and for the great questions. For those who might have missed it, we are holding a similar event at our NJ office on April 2 – click to register.
During this half-day event Todd did a great demo of Hyper-V R2 Live Migration, and we talked extensively about how System Center manages the dynamic datacenter. I showed a shortened video of System Center in action – here’s the link to the full video.
