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Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:05 AM

Social + Virtual - No Not Second Life

The TN and MSDN social platform , including the new bookmarking apps , just went virtual to improve perf as more and more IT Pros and Devs twig to what's going on. Read about it on Chris's blog post. 24 VMs and growing...
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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 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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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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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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Friday, September 12, 2008 1:59 PM

Virtualization on the Edge

New videos on TechNet Edge: Virtual Machine Manager 2008: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Virtualization-Launch/ Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 : http://edge.technet.com/Media/First-Look-Hyper-V-Server/ Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration : http://edge.technet.com/Media/Demo-Hyper-V-Server-and-Live-Migration
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:25 AM

Hyper-V How To: Tell if my workload is supported as a VM

The support statements for virtualization are covered in these links: SVVP - Technical Support for Validated Configurations Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software Microsoft server software and supported
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:00 PM

Hyper-V Launch Podcast

I recently recorded a short podcast with Hyper-V GM Mike Neil at the Get Virtual Now Launch. Among the important announcements: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 - free (as in Beer) download (in 30 days) SCVMM 2008 available in 30 days Live Migration is Coming:
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:42 PM

Free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

Coming next month, a virtualization server (sometimes called a host) that you can download for free (as in Beer). Watch the Hypre-V Server page for more news. Scenarios for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 (notice that it is NOT called Windows Hyper-V Server)
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:02 AM

Hyper-V How To: Share Resources

In Virtual Server (and VPC) it was fairly easy to create a share and place resources on it that you want to share between Host and VM. Easy, not secure for enterprise use. You can;t do this anymore in Hyper-V. Splogbane: If you are reading this on a blog
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Monday, September 08, 2008 2:10 PM

Microsoft Virtualization Launch

The new pre-sales Hyper-V Server website is live. Many partners there, some with giveaways that appeal to IT Pros. Speaking of which - when will event organizers realize that you can't put IT Pro seats in the breakout rooms touching each other? I mean,
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:00 PM

Virtualization Launch and Social Bookmarking Call to Action

While it will be great to get together for our virtualization launch on Sep 8, we're obviously not always together... Let's collaborate on a collection of the best Hyper-V resources that we can provide to launch attendees, but continue to build on afterwards.
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