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Monday, May 19, 2008 4:10 AM

Installing Fedora 9 (Sulphur) in Virtual PC 2007

Fedora 9 was released last week, which you can download here: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html . What's new? Highlights from the release notes include: GNOME 2.22 . GNOME now includes a webcam photo and video creation utility called Cheese , improved
Posted by smearp | 15 Comments
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:57 AM

The Microsoft Download Center fairy has been busy!!!

Some highlights... Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 This software is an optional supplement to Windows Server 2008. In Windows Server 2008, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the latest version of Windows Media Services)
Posted by smearp | 1 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 5:07 PM

Identity Lifecycle Management

Alright... this is probably not something that you would implement as an IT Pro at a company with 15 employees, but for companies with thousands of employees, Identity Management is very critical.  You have line-of-business applications that depend
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Friday, December 14, 2007 8:58 PM

Even more Virtual PC/Server images

2007 Office System Demo and HOL Images This virtual machine demonstration environment contains almost 50 Hands-On-Labs, ~25 demos, and more than 10 software packages. A mere 50GB is needed on your hard drive to install this (large) image! Once you have
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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:00 PM

More Virtual PC/Server Images

The product groups have been going buck-wild releasing preconfigured Virtual PC/Virtual Server images for you to play around with! I mentioned a bunch of them in this post , and the master TechNet page is here . Keith , however, noticed a few more: Exchange
Posted by smearp | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:27 AM

Virtual Server HTTP 500 Error

There's probably a KB article about this, but I know the first time I ran into the problem above, it took me forever to find the solution, so I thought I would share it with you. If you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 (or SP1), and then Remote-Desktop
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:44 AM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 released

I have previously noted that Beta 2 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager was on it's way. Tonight it dropped. Here is a preview of the major upgrades in this release (and this is just touching on a significant list of improvements and feature enhancements):
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:56 PM

Virtual Server and Windows Server Virtualization timelines adjusted

From Mike Neil (Virtualization GM) on the Windows Server Blog : As the person who oversees the development plans, teams and strategy for Microsoft’s virtualization software on desktops and servers, I want to update everyone on the timing of our server
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:11 AM

Professional Virtual Server Book Published

Ben Armstrong, (AKA Virtual PC Guy ), has published a book on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. Currently available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble (as well as at your favorite local reseller). You can also download the example code from the book at the Publisher's
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:30 AM

Microsoft Virtual Server - Virtual Machine Additions for Linux updated

I see that the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux have been updated to now support Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10. You can download the ISO from the Connect site here: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=154&DownloadID=5929&wa=wsignin1.0
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:33 AM

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

One of the pillars of System Center is the new Virtual Machine Manager. Beta 1 has been out since last August, and at the Microsoft Management Summit last week, Microsoft announced the pending release of Beta 2. A lot of great coding and features have
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:24 AM

Installing Windows Home Server in Virtual Server

It turns out that Window Home Server installs into (and works fine on) Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. (Virtual Server is free, and available from the previous link). I did run into a couple of gotchas while installing, so thought that I would provide you
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:42 AM

Linux Sound in Virtual PC 2007

As mentioned in my last posting on OpenSuse 10.2 in Virtual PC 2007, I could not get sound to work. After just installing Mandriva 2007, I encountered the exact same problem. After a little research, I found the answer here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=149181
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:35 AM

Virtual PC 2007 Released!

Great news! Virtual PC 2007 has been finalized and been released to the web for download today. You can read more about Virtual PC 2007 (and download it), from the new (and great looking!) Virtual PC website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
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