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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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Monday, November 30, 2009 11:06 AM

Love Me, Love My OS

There is an interesting IT Pro content development over  in KBs. When I go to a KB that does not apply to my current OS, I get this: This is frequent scenario for IT Pros because security best practice is to NOT browse the web from your server. So,
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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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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:36 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Baselines for Win7, BL and IE8

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows operating systems and 2007 Microsoft Office applications. Recent updates include
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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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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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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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Friday, October 02, 2009 10:33 AM

Answeredness as a Competitive Advantage

Microsoft’s community forums have a nifty feature that is a little hard to find because you need to begin to ask a question before you see it. Let’s say you go to the Hyper-V Forum, and you have a question about Processor affinity. You can search “How
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:38 PM

Bing My Blog

TN and MSDN blogs now have Bing search in the search box. How cool is that? my blog is bingified. BEFORE AFTER Of course, I’m nothing special, its not just my blog. You can now Bing search all TN/MSND blogs, give these a try: http://blogs.msdn.com/search/
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:52 AM

Hyper-V How To: Find Hyper-V Patches

Recently a customer asked how to find and subscribe to a list of patches and hotfixes for Hyper-V. You can find them here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893.aspx To subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this page (new patches are
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:55 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Protection from Microsoft

I’ve been dogfooding Microsoft Security Essentials for quite awhile now and recommend it to everyone one I know. Download it free today here . Did I mention that it is free-as-in-beer? Event though I use remote assistance and PSR to help friends and family
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Monday, September 28, 2009 12:52 PM

Hyper-V How To: Turn Off IPV6

By default, IPv6 is enabled in Windows Server 2008. If you want to disable IPv6 for any reason – perhaps you have some VMs you want to exclude for testing, you have to use Registry Editor to completely disable IPv6. For those who prefer not to muck about
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:55 AM

Hyper-V How To: Download the MP for Windows Server 2008 R2

The download for the Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 (and 2003) is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3 NOTE: System Requirements
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