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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:04 AM

Hyper-V Security How to: Use BitLocker to Protect Your VMs

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption was recently published to the download center, but some folks are having trouble accessing it (it seems there is a lot of interest in all things Hyper-V). So, here are the procedures in the doc
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Monday, June 30, 2008 10:16 AM

Go Green: Go Hyper-V

Hyper-V makes it possible to consolidate servers onto a much smaller number of physical machines, significantly reducing power consumption without unduly sacrificing performance. Multiple virtual machines can run on a single physical machine without consuming
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Monday, June 30, 2008 8:19 AM

MAP Update: V 3.1 is live

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit has been updated, and now includes: Hyper-V virtualization candidates assessment (+ improved virtual machines inventory) SQL server discovery and assessment 64-bit installation support Desktop Windows Security
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Monday, June 30, 2008 8:07 AM

Guest operating systems that are supported on a Hyper-V virtual machine host

The final list of supported operating systems for VMs under Hyper-V RTM is now documented in KB954958. Server: Supported server operating systems Windows Server 2008, x64-based editions Note Virtual machines are configured to use one, two, or four virtual
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:47 AM

Hyper-V Hits the Big-Time

You’ve already heard that Hyper-V was running MSDN and TechNet in production, before it was released . The Windows Server Division Weblog reveals today that the biggest website on the planet, Microsoft.com is Powered by Hyper-V . The scale here is BIG
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:54 PM

Will my server run Hyper-V? How do I tell?

The Windows Server Catalog shows an up to date list of all successfully Hyper-V tested systems. For older server systems, newer ones not o n the catalog yet, or non-server systems you can use the following tools to check if your system process supports
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Friday, June 20, 2008 10:57 AM

Microsoft It in the Forefront

IT Showcase (my old group) documents how Microsoft IT runs Microsoft using Microsoft products. They’ve just released a technical white detailing the IT deployment of Forefront Client Security solution to on 40,000 corpet PCs. Check out Deploying Microsoft
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:28 PM

Hyper-V Security Getting Started Guide

First have a listen to this 8 minute podcast with Senior Hyper-V Dev Lead Brandon baker on Virtualization Security Best Practices . Then, you’ll want to read up on Authorization Manager (AzMan). Here are some resources to get you started: AzMan Videos
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:16 PM

Windows Server 2008 Resources

Here are some resources for IT Pros on Windows Server 2008, compiled using the Social Bookmarking Preview on TechNet: Windows Server 2008 Component Posters Windows Server 2008 Component Posters, originally printed in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:43 PM

A (FREE) New Way to Find IT Pro Content

The UA team over at Operations Manager have just published a FREE System Center Content Search gadget for Vista. Built on Live Search macros , this gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros
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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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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:57 AM

Virtualization Security Best Practices – How to Lockdown a Hyper-V Host

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Brandon Baker, Senior Dev Lead on the Hyper-V team to get some security best practices. You can hear them in this 8 minute podcast on Virtualization Security Best Practices , including: Use Windows Server 2008
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:45 AM

How Microsoft Does Security

The IT Showcase group inside Microsoft IT writes up how we do things at Microsoft. Their latest white paper is just released: How Microsoft IT Manages Physical Security through Strategic IT Convergence . This paper details the strategy for physical security
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:44 AM

Updated Hyper-V Management Tools for Vista SP1

The updated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 management tools for the Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 are now available from the Microsoft Download Center, including:  The Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. The Hyper-V Manager MMC
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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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