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Last week we organized a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure day together with Citrix. We’ve published the sessions onto TechNet Edge . Session 1: VDI Day: Citrix & Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Strategy In this session we will guide you through...
This new white paper discuss how you can run SQL server workloads on our Hyper-V (R2) infrastructure. The tests in this white paper demonstrate that Hyper-V provides the performance and scalability needed to run SQL Server workloads in consolidation scenarios...
VMST 3.0 helps customers more effectively—and safely—manage the workflow of updating their offline virtualization environment. Using VMST 3.0, customers can now service: · Offline virtual machines in a SCVMM library. · Stopped and saved state virtual...
I often get the question if you can use System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. The answer depends on how many virtual machines you want to manage today and in the future. SCE 2010 includes Virtual Machine management...
2010 will definitely be the year of the cloud. During the keynote you will hear about the continuum of cloud services spanning from Iaas to Saas that Microsoft is offering and that will allow organizations to move between cloud computing models with the...
There was still one session in the IT Pro track that I could not disclose because the announcement was not made yet. But now that we announced the Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX capabilities in SP1 I can disclose the following session: Windows Server 2008...
This IPD guide, updated for App-V 4.6, provides actionable guidance for planning your application virtualization infrastructure. With App-V, your organization can respond to the complex challenge of managing applications. This guide simplifies your App...
Come to the TechDays 2010 and attend the following session: Virtualization in Microsoft IT Lessons learned in 5 years of implementing Microsoft’s virtualization platform and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, driving from 5 pilot Virtual Server 2005...
I’ve just added a new Opalis session in the IT Pro track. IT Process Automation with System Center and Opalis In this session OpsMgr MVP Maarten Goet will talk about how IT Process Automation or Run Book Automation (RBA) can orchestrate tasks across...
Get Ready Sessions are 1 day level 200-300 technical trainings given by top level speakers, generally acknowledged as experts in their field. The sessions are organized by Microsoft Partners, more specifically Certified Partners Learning Solutions (CPLS...
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 has free, tested guidance and automated tools to help customers keep their virtualized machines updated, without introducing vulnerabilities into their IT infrastructure. The tool combines the...
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides, Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology and Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. With the release of these updated guides, the Infrastructure Planning and Design...
Are you looking for Technical information to help you with your Hyper-V Infrastructure? We have quite a lot of resources available to help you with: Planning Installation Guidance Best Practices Deployment Pre-Deployment Tools Management Performance Workload...
As Infrastructure Architects, you obviously are passionate, knowledgeable and experienced in IT infrastructure technology and want to keep in touch with the upcoming technology trends. Evenly important, and increasingly important in these crisis period...
This session focuses on the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. We will also covers the base architecture of Hyper-V and provides guidance...
TechNet Event: Learn how to use Virtualization from the Desktop to the Datacenter Using products that span the desktop to the data center, you can bring capacities online in real-time, as needed; streamline and provision applications, services and data...
Hey All, Microsoft just released the new VMMCA for vmm 2008 and vmm 2008 r2. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=02d83950-c03d-454e-803b-96d1c1d5be24&displaylang=en Brief...
You want to make sure your Virtual machine are always up and running ? Come to this session and see for yourself how simple it is to make a Hyper-V Cluster,Live migrate Virtual Workloads and best of all...
Securing Hyper-V (with the Winsec User Group) Date and time: THURSDAY 1st October 2009 , start at 18u30 until around 21u00. Event Location: Microsoft BELUX - Corporate Village - Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3...
Now that Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 are released to manufacturing you could need some help to deploy those operating systems.Get a head start with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 . Over 690,000 Microsoft customers and partners including...
The Belgian Microsoft Virtualization User Group organizes their second get together on May 28th and will talk about following topics: Hyper-V scripting (Part2) - PowerShell So, you want to Script Hyper-V ? After the April session where we discussed WMI...
While SCVMM 2008 R2 is still in Beta the team is quietly working on improvements for the Release Candidate. There are some great new features coming up: Storage Migration where you will be able to migrate the storage of a VM within the same host...
Technology preview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager which is capable of managing Virtual Machines hosted in the cloud.
Microsoft Mythbusters: Top 10 VMware Myths
Normal 0 21 false false false NL-BE X-NONE X-NONE Nice, Microsoft just released vmm 2008 cmdlet reference.....and it's about 442 pages long! Have fun! Abstract: System Center Virtual Machine Manager...
VMM 2008 R2 Beta is a comprehensive management solution for virtualized infrastructure that takes advantage of many of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta including: Live Migration: Enables the movement of running virtual machines from...
This newly-released collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the Microsoft suite of Virtualization products. Collection 6333 includes four two-hour clinics, covering Hyper-V and Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, System Center Virtual...
A few weeks ago my colleague installed Hyper-V onto her laptop and she copied one of her Virtual Machines onto this server. When she booted the server there where some issues with the virtual machine, the main issue was that the vmbus technology was not...
Many of our customers do not know what computers are in their IT environment or what applications have been deployed. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 3.2 Beta makes it easier for customers and partners to quickly identify what...
System Center Virtual Machine manager is RTM! Microsoft made an announcement today on theire website ! Microsoft is pleased to announce the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine...
Whilst preparing for the TechNet Virtualization roadshow I came across some interesting links to help me with the configuration of the integration of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 . Opsmgr 2007 Management...
With the TechEd IT Professional EMEA coming closer I wanted to start share some of the top sessions in different tracks in this first post I will share with you what I think will be the 5 best rated or attended sessions in my track: Windows...
Virtualization: An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today’s virtualization market and see how Hyper-V improves...
Later tonight we will officially launch our new virtualization products with the “Get Virtual Now” campaign but the news is on the web now. Now you can virtualize from the data center to the desktop, and manage with the same tools you're already using...
The “TechDays 08” are coming to Luxembourg on Sept 30th, the registration for this event is open. It’s a free event organized by the MS Belux team so be quick to register as places are limited. During this event you will have the possibility to choose...
TechEd IT Professionals 2008- Available Videos TechEd IT Professionals 2008 Event Page: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/event.aspx?id=104 Links to Session Videos: Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM , Susan Sauls Intro to SQL Server Data Services...
Here is a list of the different Virtualization Solution Accelerators we have at Microsoft: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V and App-V - http://www.microsoft.com/MAP Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Hyper-V, App-V...
Today I finally found the time to update my demo environment which was still based on Hyper-V RC0 and SCVMM 2008 Beta. I want to share all the steps needed to perform the upgrade and updates. My demo environment consists out of 3 physical servers, one...
Last Saturday I presented at an event in Croatia called KulenDayz (aka Cool’n’days). Kind of funny to present at a Sausage (salami) event. Sausage? Yes Kulen means sausage and actually it’s a local spicy sausage, tastes nice. This event is organized by...
Install this update to enable Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta (VMM) to function with Release Candidate 1 (RC1) to the Hyper-V role. After you install this update, you may have to restart your computer. Once you have installed this update, it cannot...
Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images are now available for Hyper-V and Virtual Server Download the Hyper-V VHD's from here Download the Virtual Server VHD's from here Technorati...
Earlier this week we released the Hyper-V RC1 package to the connect.microsoft.com site. What has been improved: In addition to bug fixes and stability improvements we also made some additional changes largely based on feedback from customers Integration...
In the first part of this blogpost I’ve explained how you can install and what to expect during the installation of the server components of SCVMM 2008 Beta. Now we are going through the Console installation ( not much to go through though) and I’ll show...
As I mentioned in me previous post System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 Beta is available for download and as a coincidence (believe it or not but it's true) I installed the bits today to test this new management tool. The installation...
It has been announced at MMS conference during Bob Muglia his keynote System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta is publicly available at the connect site. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables customers to configure and deploy new virtual...
Last week I gave a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 session for a Belgian partner and I had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT Pro's who attended my session and here is an excerpt of a mail I received from one of those IT Professionals...
Hyper-V is changing the way networking works if you compare it to Virtual Server. Today I was reconfiguring my Hyper-V server and suddenly I've lost my RDP connection. Why did I lost my connection to the server? Well I was reconfiguring the networking...
As promised I'm writing another post about what feedback I receive from our IT Pro's in the IT Pro Momentum Program . Hyper-V: Installing W2K8 and Hyper-V was very easy. We’re heavily using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Virtual Machine...