I’ve had the pleasure of talking with customers in the last few months and the Hyper-V R2 reception has been nothing but unequivocally positive. Whether it’s been folks in small, medium or the enterprise, they appreciate the new capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 . At the same time, we’re new capabi.. more »

to create technology that allows remote workers to enjoy the same rich user experience over a network as with a locally executing desktop. This experience includes full-fidelity video with 100% coverage for all media types and highly-synchronized audio, rich media support including Silverlight and 3D graphics, and of course Windows Aero. during its .. more »

A while ago I noticed that when I started virtual machines on Hyper-V on my laptop – they were taking just over a minute to start. Looking at the Hyper-V management console showed that for most of this time the virtual machine was sitting at “Starting (6%)” under the status column. After a bit of investigation I discovered that this was the result.. more »

Looking at Desktop Virtualization including VDI? Thinking about Windows 7 migration; Want savings, but wondering about ROI? Microsoft is leading a "Desktop Virtualization Hour" on March 18 at 9:00 AM PST. Be sure to check it out as I'm sure some cool new announcements will be made concerning Microsoft's VDI suite of products. Continue at source... .. more »

Some people have noticed that when they attach a CD or ISO image to a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine, it does not autorun. But others have reported that autorun is working correctly for them. So what is happening here? The key to understanding what is happening is to remember that in Windows Virtual PC, integrated mode uses Remote Desktop .. more »

Michael Kleef has an interesting new blog post explaining why Remote Desktop Session Host can be better in the exact same scenarios than pooled VDI... more »

Microsoft ITPRO User group Split had an meeting last Thursday. After more than a year of inactivity, I decided to become a user group lead and start organizing events. On our first (third in total) meeting we had around 35 guests who came to listen a lecture about NLB clustering. I am very happy.. more »

7 days ago I wrote a post about XIA Configuration Server 2010. I decided to organize a raffle and give one license for this application to one lucky sys admin. This application is worth $1130!!! I had very little interest from my readers for this raffle so far, so you have a really big chance.. more »

The first thing that I needed to do as part of was to move non-critical virtual machines to a remote file server. The easiest way to do this would have been to export the virtual machines to a local location and then move them up to a network share. Unfortunately I did not have enough space on the local hard disk to do this. So what I needed to do .. more »

about software availability and roadmap news for the Opalis software in December. Since all of you care about systems management as much as virtualization, I wanted to make sure you saw Louise's post. Here's some excerpts: We have started the process of sending notifications of the grant of Opalis software to all customers who are licensed for .. more »

Many of our customers have multiple versions of Remote Desktop Session Host servers (formerly known as terminal servers), such as Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, in their environment. A remote desktop connection to any of these host servers requires a client access license (CAL) of the same .. more »

Virtualization affects how we plan, build, deploy, operate, and ustomers are creating large libraries of virtual machines containing various configurations. The patch-state of these virtual machines are not always known. Ensuring that offline virtual machines are properly patched and won’t become vulnerable the instant they come online is cr.. more »

Two weeks ago I discussed some bad experiences I had with . Since then I have spent a bunch of time setting up Hyper-V + backup on a couple of systems – and none were as problematic as my first attempt. I have also setup my home Hyper-V server to perform nightly backups – which have been proceeding without a hick up: However a lot of you let me know.. more »

A while ago I talked about how I use , and more recently I talked about trying to . This discussion of backup was actually in preparation for a significant rebuild of my home Hyper-V server, that I undertook a week and a half ago. There were several goals that I had with this rebuild: The challenges that I had with this process included: It took .. more »

connected to a 50TB storage solution from NetApp. Overall, they reduced servers by 85% and improved performance by 50%.  ) that discusses their testing with consolidation of multiple workloads: Exchange Server 2007 (2000 heavy users; 250 MB Mailbox), SharePoint 2007 (3000 users; 500MB user quota) and SQL Server 2008 (3000 users using OLTP wo.. more »

This blog is a follow-up to the RemoteApp for Hyper-V blog at Similar to RemoteApp, the RemoteApp for Hyper-V feature allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. When using RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp for Hyper-V enables remote access to .. more »

XIA Configuration is designed to provide administrators with a single web interface for maintaining technical documentation for their networks. XIA attempts to engage a wider range of technologies and in greater detail than many traditional inventory products. At the time of writing the system supports the following item types. Active Directory .. more »

After many months of inactivity, IT PRO User Group in Split will finally get together this Thursday at 18:15h at Faculty of Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and naval architecture (FESB), room C502. Because IT PRO (as well as Developers) user group was inactive for such a long time, I decided to start it again... more »

about the availability of the TechNet Wiki beta. You can go and check it out here: There is already a bunch of Hyper-V content up there. I have already had people ask me why we are looking at doing a wiki when we already have Technet + KBs + Blogs + Forums. There are a number of reasons for this (and to be clear – the Technet wiki is run by a di.. more »

I read a recent post on how to use PowerShell to create a large number of test virtual machines with sequential names. I can see this being so useful in testing and it's really amazing what you can do with PowerShell! Check out the full post at: Quick and Dirty PowerShell to create a large number of test VMs with sequential names. more..... more »