Good news for a Friday. Brad's post (with video interview) announces the acquisition of Opalis Software. Why is this important to virtualization projects? Thoughts below, but first some background on the business. Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business (STB) is a $14.1 billion business. Within STB, the Management and Services Division is focused on reducing customers' costs and improve IT efficiency to drive businesses forward with a suite of products and services built around the System Center brand.

ThriveLive! Online IT Professional Virtualization Tour Join our IT Professional Evangelists Yung Chou , Dan Stolts , Blain Barton , and John Baker bringing you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. We will go from the desktop to the enterprise, starting with VHD native boot – a new feature for Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2. Next, moving into Windows XP mode, Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™, and finish with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Registration:

2009년에 가졌던 작은 목표중에 하나가 Microsoft 사이트뿐만 아니라, 조금은 일반적이고 중립적인 미디어에서 활동을 해보는 것이었습니다. 많은 미디어에서 주최하시는 세미나나, 칼럼, 토론회에 참여하였던 것도 그러한 이유였는데요.. 2009년 12월에 되서야, 그중 하나를 할 수 있게 되었습니다. 런치다 세미나다 뭐다.. 핑계아닌 핑계로 제가 하는 게 늦었기 때문이죠. 바로 ZDNET 칼럼을 기재해보는 것이었습니다. IT에서 내놓으라고 하시는 분들께서 워낙 내공있게 쓰시는 칼럼들이라 칼럼하나 쓰는데에도 조금 많은 시간이 들었습니다. 바로 어제 첫번째 칼럼이 게시되었는데요. 바로 2007년 5월부터 2년넘게 많은 분들을 뵈오던 주제.. 가상화에 대해서 업계에서 느꼈던 내용 을 한번 적어보았습니다. 주기적으로 재미있고, 유익한 내용으로 써보도록 노력하겠습니다. :)

Rádi byste otestovali novou beta verzi Office 2010, ale zároveň nepoškodili stávající instalaci jiné verze Office, či nemáte možnost na korporátním notebooku něco podobného udělat? Proč tedy instalaci Office nevirtualizovat? K dispozici je vše potřebné a navíc zdarma. Klientský software pro virtualizaci aplikací Microsoft App-V je technologie pro virtualizaci aplikací. Pomůže vytvořit virtální “píseček” (sandbox) ve kterém běží aplikace a který ji poskytne vše co potřebuje, odděleně od systémových

Are you looking for Technical information to help you with your Hyper-V Infrastructure? We have quite a lot of resources available to help you with: Planning Installation Guidance Best Practices Deployment Pre-Deployment Tools Management Performance Workload Specific Guidance It’s here:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides, Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology and Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. With the release of these updated guides, the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) series of guides further assists organizations in selecting the right virtualization technologies for their business needs. To select an appropriate virtualization technology, organizations can look to the updated IPD Guide for Selecting the

Virtualization affects how we plan, build, deploy, operate, and service workloads. C ustomers are creating large libraries of virtual machines containing various configurations. The patch-state of these virtual machines are not always known. Ensuring that offline virtual machines are properly patched and won’t become vulnerable the instant they come online is critical. I am therefore very pleased to state that the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool v2.1 has now been released! Congratulations

I had a mail about an update to the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool , which I thought was worth passing on: in case you haven’t come across it before : The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 manages the workflow of updating large numbers of offline virtual machines according to their individual needs. To do this, the tool works with Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 or 2008 R2 and with either Windows Server Update Services (3.0 SP1 or SP2 ) or System Center

I spent this morning with a group of our partners and one of the comments which came back was “we know there is a lot of material out there for Hyper-V .. can you point us to some of the highlights”. So it was a nice surprise to find a mail from the product team telling me that they’ve now got a “best of the Hyper-v resources” page – doubly pleasant was that they had linked to several of my past posts on the subject. In the among the other links is the answer to a question I got asked a couple of

Today, I wanted to take a look back at 2009. It is simply amazing when you look at where Microsoft® System Center and Microsoft Virtualization were at the beginning of the year and where we are today. When we started 2009, we were really still promoting the new releases of Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008. The combination of Hyper-V and VMM 2008 really brought a complete, Enterprise ready virtualization solution to the masses. But if there is one theme to this year,

Something I discovered today in working on a project – it is possible to find out what the VM is named in Hyper-V from within the guest OS.  This is only possible if the IC’s are installed.  It is a registry key and can be queried in a script. Example: $Name = Get-ItemProperty -path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters" -Name VirtualMachineName $Name.VirtualMachineName This may be different than issuing “hostname” at the command line.  That would tell

It's getting close to that time of year when you're going to start seeing lots of "the year in review" specials on television. I started in my new role working with our customers last December, so it seems only fitting that I take a moment and go over some of the highlights in the SQL Server community in the last year - what I've seen, what I've learned, and what has hit the headlines. I have a wonderful vantage point, working with our partners, our clients, and with the SQL Server team here in Redmond.

Yung and I are at the Waltham office and ready to roll but if you cannot make it, we have some other options for you… :) You can catch the same content online as a webcast presented by Thrive tomorrow or in an Online stream on the 14th. ThriveLive! Online IT Professional Virtualization Tour Join our IT Professional Evangelists Yung Chou, Dan Stolts, Blain Barton and John Baker , as they bring you the highlights of Microsoft’s great virtualization solutions. They will go from the desktop to the enterprise,

We published some news today with NetApp; see here . In short, Microsoft and NetApp... today announced a new three-year agreement that deepens product collaboration and technical integration, and extends joint sales and marketing activities to customers worldwide. Under the new agreement, the two companies will collaborate and deliver technology solutions that span virtualization, private cloud computing, and storage and data management, enabling customers to increase data center management efficiencies,

I recently received the new Hitachi Travelstar 500GB 7200rpm 2.5” hard drive.  I moved my virtual machine data to it and fixed the BCD entries so I could boot from the Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual hard disk file.  Unfortunately I always forget to add the parameter to the R2 entry so that the Hyper-V hypervisor will also start. The fix is pretty simple.  You need to add Hypervisorlaunchtype key and value to the entry for Windows Server 2008 R2.  Here is the view of my BCD store

As Infrastructure Architects, you obviously are passionate, knowledgeable and experienced in IT infrastructure technology and want to keep in touch with the upcoming technology trends. Evenly important, and increasingly important in these crisis period, is that you need to clearly connect business objectives with IT initiatives, in order to make sure that business understands the value of the IT platform and hence will free up those critical budgets for your initiatives. Below you can find the links

My colleague Martin McClean recently sat down with me to record a video with some information about his recently released Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster for IT Pros. You can see a bit it of it behind his head… Click on the image to play the vid .

I just wanted to say hello. My name is Kenon Owens, and I am a Product Marketing Manager here at Microsoft specializing in our Integrated Virtualization Message. Over the coming weeks, you are going to see some posts from me about our virtualization capabilities and our vision for Integrated Virtualization, but before you do, l would like to introduce myself and give you a little of my background. I have been working with Virtualization for the last ten years where I started as the first technical

I just had a fantastic conversation with some analysts about Systems Management, and the increasing world of complexity on the client, and in the datacenter.  I crossed back through campus on a rare sunny Redmond morning, and found one of the latest CIO.com newsletters had arrived, and there was a link to a similar topic .  I thought it might be interesting to share some perspective on these from a System Center lens with you, and reflect on a year where some major global events have occurred,

This Solution Accelerator provides automated tools and guidance that IT professionals can use to update offline virtual machines efficiently and without exposing them to security risks. The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline virtual machines up-to-date