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Thursday, October 09, 2008 5:04 PM

Hyper-V How To: Shrink a VHD File

Our first guest post ( http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2008/10/07/your-hyper-v-blog-post-here.aspx ) comes from Jeremy Hagan . Thanks Jeremy! Background: One problem I have had when trying to do my first round of P2Vs for my Hyper-V implementation
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:39 PM

New MAP Forum

You already know about the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Solution Accelerator to help you with virtualization and desktop migration planning, right? (MAP was formerly know as Vista Hardware Assessment) **Ann Coulter End Note: If you like
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:43 AM

Free Microsoft Database in the Cloud (Beta)

Sign up today for the free (signup required) Beta of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). SSDS are highly scalable, on-demand data storage and query processing utility services. Built on robust SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies, these services
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Monday, February 25, 2008 2:00 PM

Free Windows Server 2008 Deployment Planning Tool

If you liked the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment , you will love the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator . Free, agent-less deskotp and server assessment, including hardware and device inventory, compatibility analysis, and readiness
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:08 AM

Who Moved my IAS?

If you used RADIUS servers to provide centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting of your clients connecting to network resources, you know that in Windows Server 2003 this was called Internet Authentication Service (IAS). Look for IAS in
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:21 PM

The Short (euphemism) Course on Writing Secure Web Apps

The Staysafe blog has some great resources, including my fav: " Why Social Engineering Always Works". If you want to know the Microsoft way to write secure web apps, check out this post with an extensive list of Microsoft resources .
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:20 AM

Virtualization Gets 1st Class TechNet Citizenship

Virtualization is all growed up, TechCenter of its own and everthang. Check out the new Virtualization TechCenter at: http://technet.microsoft.com/virtualization .
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:17 AM

traduttore, traditore!

This phrase is sometimes translated as "translator, traitor!" Too many times in the past, a new version of a product not only does not care about the previous version, to the extent that it considers itself as "innovating", wants new users to put the
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:47 PM

NAP and Microsoft IT

TechNet edge has a good new video chat with the PM for NAP and the Microsoft IT guy who ran all of Microsoft;s internal deployment (ww) on 2 NAP servers! It's a little over 33 mins long - which is longer than many of the vids. Check it out at: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Network-Access-Protection-with-Microsofts-IT/
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:38 AM

Terminal Services Free Webcasts

I have just joined the WS08 Terminal Services team, and there are a ton of webcasts I just missed. I'll be checking these out to ramp up, you might find them useful too: TechNet Webcast: The Significance of the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Release
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:33 AM

Virtualization Nation: VMM Comes to the Mid-Market

Help is on the way for IT Pros that manage IT environments with fewer thatn enterprise numbers of machines. Today it was announced that: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Workgroup Edition will be available in January 2008 , targeted at the Mid-market
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:15 AM

Virtualization Nation: How to V2V

Q: Does SCVMM convert VMware virtual machines (V2V)? A: Yes. You must put the following files from the source VMware virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Manager library: A .vmx file, which is a VMware virtual machine configuration file. A .vmx file
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:29 AM

Virtualization Nation: How to P2V

You can find the troubleshooting topics for P2V here. The wizard for P2V is called the "Convert physical server" wizard. In the Administrator Console click the "Convert physical server" action. Here's the "How to Convert a Physical Server to a Virtual
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:28 PM

Open Source at Microsoft: New Website Opens

Open Source at Microsoft has a new weblaunch today. IT Pros will want to watch this site for Microsoft's next steps in building bridges that help them do their jobs. See also: OSS research at Microsoft Microsoft Research (MSR) and the Open Source Software
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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:21 PM

Improve Virtual Server Networking

Check out the Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (KB912222) for ways to improve the networking performance of certain workloads and configurations in your virtual server environment. Caveats: 1) you must have supported HW - the KB states "This feature
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