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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:34 PM

IT Value for Money

In the coming months it will be even more important for IT to show how it adds value to the company. One way to add value is to shave costs, Microsoft can help: Get Virtual Now - Reduce server hardware acquisition and maintenance costs with Windows Server
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:47 AM

MAP 3.2 Beta

You already read my blog post about MAP 3.1 , right? The beta of the newest version Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit (3.2) is available on Connect, including new modules: SQL Server 2008 Migration Proposals and Reports Security Assessment
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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:58 PM

Cure for IT Pro Anti-Social Behavior

Watch Chris Slemp's video* for an overview of TN/MSDN's "social platform" that includes: Social Bookmarking Community Content (ak.a. "wiki") - for example see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753637.aspx Forums - for example, did you know
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Friday, October 10, 2008 11:02 AM

Hyper-V How To: Plan HA VMs

Here's another guest post from Jeremy Hagan , thanks again Jeremy! If you are planning on using High Availability for Hyper-V there are a number of things to keep in mind while planning your deployment and there are a number of best practices that will
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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, October 09, 2008 10:16 AM

Hyper-V How To: Change the HAL on your vm

When you migrate your Virtual Server or Virtual PC virtual machine to Hyper-V, you: remove the VM Additions move the VHD create a new VM install the Integration Services in the new VM If you have trouble in this process, and it looks like the integration
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:05 PM

Hyper-V How To: Script AzMan Scopes for RBAC

In the scripting forum someone :-) asked: "Can anyone suggest the way to create AzMan scopes for VMs (I can assign VMs to scopes) with Powershell/WMI/VBScript?" 4 scripts are provided for managing your AzMan scopes in Hyper-V : CreateVMInScope DisplayVMScopes
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:01 PM

Hyper-V How To: Check Free Disk Space

VHD proliferation or other disk-bloat make it necessary for you to move something? Need to check free disk space on the remote server before you move? Here's a couple of ways to do it. The WMI Command-line (WMIC) tool provides a simple command-line interface
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:32 AM

Hyper-V How To: Harden Your VM Security

You should follow the best practice recommendations in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide ,for hardening your W2K8 VMs. The GPO Accelerator can make this easier. The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:50 AM

Hyper-V Increases Logical Processor Support to 24.

Install Windows Server 2008  Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB956710) enhance Hyper-V role's support for processors and virtual machines to now support up to 24 logical processors and 192 virtual machines. Read more at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956710
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Friday, September 19, 2008 10:16 AM

Hyper-V Attack Surface Reference

The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide includes a spreadsheet you can download that lists all the attack surfaces for Windows Server 2008. This guide was initially published before Hyper-V role RTM. When the Security Guide is updated, a new worksheet
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Friday, September 19, 2008 8:36 AM

Hyper-V How To: Migrate VMs to Hyper-V

Matthijs' blog blog post describes the VMC2HV tool you can use to only import your Virtual Server and Virtual PC VM configurations. You can adjust almost any setting before creating the VM in Hyper-V. If you are an enterprise user, and want to import
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:03 PM

Hyper-V How To: Get Linux ICs

Mike Sterling's blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikester/archive/2008/09/10/linux-integration-components-now-posted.aspx announces that the integration services for Linux (IC) are now available for download from the Connect site. Look for the Linux Integration
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:32 AM

New IPD for App-V

The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides has a new entry: Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5. Download the entire IPD series or download the individual guide . If you like IPD you may also like: Microsoft Assessment and Planning
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Monday, September 15, 2008 1:30 PM

Hyper-V How To: Plan for Hyper-V Security

My article on Hyper-V Security best practices has been selected as September tip of the month. Check out Planning for Hyper-V Security . Kai Axford has a good article in the same newsletter issue: " Security in a Virtual World ." For videos and additional
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