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Monday, November 30, 2009 1:25 PM

Hyper-V How To: Plan Performance

Customers often ask “Given a hardware load-out X, how many Ys can I get/run/host?” The frustrating answer always starts with “…it depends…”. We caveat this way not because we want to frustrate, but because it is true. Many teams will go on to say “We
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:09 PM

Duck, Duck, Goose: Can Non_Humans Participate in Community?

There’s an interesting experiment in community just started over at TechNet/MSDN called the Community Machine Translation Pilot . The first member of the community is the machine translation (MT) service (thanks Microsoft research!). The MT service (not
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:01 PM

Hyper-V How To: Fix Hyper-V Top Issue - Unknown Devices

Update 11_20_09: Not everyone will need to reinstall the Guest OS, if you are confident the OS in your VM is supported (probably most of you) , skip to install integration services .  Also, because we have more than 1 releases version of Hyper-V
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:02 PM

Hyper-V How To: Test Hosts for Proc Compatibility for VM Migration

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V R2, when a running or a saved state virtual machine is migrated to another virtualization server (also called “host”), the destination server may have a processor with a different set of features. An operating system
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:04 PM

DIY Zune Speakers – the IT Pro Way

John shares how to hack your 12V drill to power you Zune speakers . He also tells How to Detect The Virtualization Layer From Within A Guest .
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:51 AM

Download Windows XP Mode

Windows XP Mode is ready for download. Read about Windows XP Mode modes of operation over on the VPC blog: http://blogs.technet.com/windows_vpc/archive/2009/08/27/three-modes-of-windows-xp-mode.aspx
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Friday, October 16, 2009 1:45 PM

Hyper-V How To: Upgrade Hyper-V to Hyper-V R2

KB957256 describes the options that are available for upgrading or migrating from a Windows Server 2008 installation with the Hyper-V role enabled to Windows Server 2008 R2. For Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters that are running virtual machines,
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:20 PM

Free-as-in-beer PowerShellPack

10 modules to help supercharge your Windows PowerShell scripting. The PowerShellPack lets you write user interfaces in PowerShell script, manage RSS feeds, schedule operating system tasks, and much more. Here’s what you get: WPK Create rich user interfaces
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:06 AM

Jim DuBois on Virtualization

Microsoft IT General Manager Jim Dubois shares info about virtualization inside Microsoft in this short (4 minute) video.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:49 AM

“Xmas Came Early!”: Free Risk Tracker 1.0 Tool from Microsoft

The customer-focused information security team have released the free-as-in-beer Risk Tracker 1.0 on Codeplex. This sample app (did I mention it was free?) helps the Microsoft Information Security Team track information security risk across the company.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:09 AM

Hyper-V How To: Download Free Win7 VHD

The free VHD program now includes Windows 7 free-as-in-beer VHD for your testing, hobby and POC pleasure. The fine print: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is required to use this virtual machine In addition to the system requirements for Windows Server 2008
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Monday, October 12, 2009 8:16 AM

“Plus sa change”… TS is dead, long live RDS

The perf team blog this morning has an excellent summation of What’s New in Remote Desktop Services
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:22 PM

Hyper-V How To: PowerShell Cmdlet Reference

Check out the newly released PowerShell cmdlet reference material at: Getting Started Guide for IT Pros Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) Failover Clustering Group Policy Active Directory Active Directory Rights Management Services AppLocker Power Shell Administration
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:57 PM

Hyper-V How To: P2V A Running Computer

Need to convert a running computer to a .VHD? Use Disk2Vhd , released yesterday. Disk2vhd is a free-as-in-beer Sysinternals utility you can use to create VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks. You
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:07 PM

Hyper-V How To: Understand Security Auditing

Read the Windows Server 2008 R2 security auditing resources below – and you’ll be up to speed: Advanced Security Audit Policy Step-by-Step Guide This step-by-step guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 demonstrates the process of setting up an
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