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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:57 AM

Virtualization Security Best Practices – How to Lockdown a Hyper-V Host

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Brandon Baker, Senior Dev Lead on the Hyper-V team to get some security best practices. You can hear them in this 8 minute podcast on Virtualization Security Best Practices , including: Use Windows Server 2008
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:45 AM

How Microsoft Does Security

The IT Showcase group inside Microsoft IT writes up how we do things at Microsoft. Their latest white paper is just released: How Microsoft IT Manages Physical Security through Strategic IT Convergence . This paper details the strategy for physical security
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:44 AM

Updated Hyper-V Management Tools for Vista SP1

The updated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 management tools for the Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 are now available from the Microsoft Download Center, including:  The Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. The Hyper-V Manager MMC
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:31 AM

How To Run MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V

By now you may have heard that all of MSDN and TechNet run in production (with 4 million hits per day ) on a pre-release version of Hyper-V. If you are interested in the specifics of performance and architecture, read the technical article on how MSCOM
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Friday, May 09, 2008 12:20 PM

Hyper-V Clustering Guide is Live

Yesterday the Hyper-V Clustering Guide went live in the download center. The Step-by-Step Guide for Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering shows you how to test using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering together to make a virtual machine highly available
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:31 PM

A Day in the Life of a Technical Writer

Well, this technical writer at Microsoft I mean. This post started with a colleague’s request: We want to capture some information for applicants to tech writing jobs at Microsoft about what the job really entails. In 300 words or less, tell us: What
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:59 PM

Virtualization Security Primer: Patch up your VMs

In this podcast with Hyper-V Senior dev lead Brandon Baker he discussed security best practices, including making sure that all your VMs, especially the ones that are “frozen”, waiting in the library, or otherwise offline are patched up before you turn
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:31 PM

Free System Center Content Search Gadget for IT Pros

Chris Scoville has release a Vista gadget that searches System Center TechNet and MSDN conten for you: the System Center Content Search Gadget .  Splogbane: If you are reading this on a blog other than http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso , why not stop
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Monday, May 05, 2008 2:16 PM

Six Sigma for Content: Bugs in Writing

One of my favorite weekend pastimes is sailing. Garage sale-ing that is. (Note to self: that pun works better out loud than on screen…). Gslar.com has a nifty mapping app that allows me to chart a route to local garage sales , local estate sales, and
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