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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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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:35 PM

How Do I … on Core?

A best practice for running Hyper-V is to run on Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008. If you follow another best practice, and do not run any workload in the parent partition (running all workloads as VMs in child partitions), then, once you
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:57 AM

New TechEd 2008 Hyper-V Videos Posted

Video presos on Hyper-V From TechEd 2008 are now posted on TechNet, check these out: Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking , Jeff Woolsey, Mike Sterling Deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Best
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:45 AM

Hyper-V on Server Core

Installing Hyper-V on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 makes sense from a supportability and improving security perspective. It can be a challenge, here are some procedures, tips and resources to help you. You can use unattended setup
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:33 AM

Patch Tuesday Aftermath: Do You Know Where Your VMs Are?

It is a security best practice recommendation to ensure that all your VMs are fully patched before they are turned on in production. One way you can do this is to create a designated " maintenance host " that is off the production network, but has access
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:43 PM

FREE Hyper-V Deployment Planning Help

One of the first steps you’ll need to handle is surveying yoru current environment for good/bad virtualization candidates. Even though Hyper-V is not yet released, the tools below will help you get started on this key deployment planning task. The Microsoft
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:31 AM

How To Run MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V

By now you may have heard that all of MSDN and TechNet run in production (with 4 million hits per day ) on a pre-release version of Hyper-V. If you are interested in the specifics of performance and architecture, read the technical article on how MSCOM
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:59 PM

Virtualization Security Primer: Patch up your VMs

In this podcast with Hyper-V Senior dev lead Brandon Baker he discussed security best practices, including making sure that all your VMs, especially the ones that are “frozen”, waiting in the library, or otherwise offline are patched up before you turn
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:07 AM

Brandon Baker on Virtualization Security

With heavy server consolidation through virtualization comes some new things to thing about from the operations perspective. In many ways, you have to start thinking of a box in the same way as you used to think of a branch office or small data center.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:57 AM

Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Available

The beta of the next version of VMM (SCVMM 2008), which includes support for Hyper-V, and requires the RC version of Hyper-V, is available today on http://www.connect.microsoft.com/ (requires Windows LiveID sign in and beta program participation). New
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:44 PM

How to Manage Hyper-V RC from Vista SP1

In the beginning, there was the Virtual Machine Remote Control ( VMRC) client. The IT Pro, running Windows XP, used this to manage VMs running on Virtual Server 2005. Or not, sometimes he used Terminal Services direct to the VM, sometimes the tools native
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:41 AM

Recent Hyper-V KBs

949219 Description of the Hyper-V Release Candidate update for Windows Server 2008 949222 Virtual machines that were created on the beta version of the Hyper-V role do not start after the Hyper-V role is updated to a later version 949758 Availability
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