In the past I have talked about the different configuration options when running . One of the more interesting configurations I discussed then was having a Hyper-V server joined to a domain where the domain controller was a virtual machine running on the same instance of Hyper-V. This is actually a configuration I use all of the time when I am .. more »

While the vSphere Client does install fine in Windows 7, it is when you attempt to connect to your vCenter Server that you discover there is a problem. VMware doesn't officially support the vSphere Client under Windows 7 but there is a workaround to make it work. In this video, I cover how to get the vSphere Client working in Windows 7, step by .. more »

The Windows Server team is running a Haiku contest for Windows Server 2008 R2.  Come up with the best Haiku, and you could win a Home Entertainment System.  See http://www.r2haiku.com/ to enter. Maybe Remote Desktop Services will provide your inspiration!.. more »

A while ago we announced that Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 would support booting off of a USB flash device. We have now provided detailed documentation on how to set this up. Even cooler than booting Hyper-V off of a USB device is the fact that what we are doing is booting a VHD with Hyper-V installed on it off of a USB device: If you are like me .. more »

Power Shell is becoming widely used tool for Windows system administrators. PowerShell 2.0, which is also included in Windows 7, brings many new improvements and cmdlets for Windows Diagnostics, Active Directory, Internet Information Services (IIS) and more. It supports branching, looping, functions, debugging, exception handling, and .. more »

10) is when I start a virtual machine. A system that has this problem will either generate a continuous rate of TLB flushing above 100 or will generate spikes in the thousands. There are a couple of options here: Hopefully this has answered all of your questions satisfactorily. If you have any further questions please feel free to ask away. I .. more »

With Windows Server 2008 R2 we support two VDI deployment scenarios: What is a personal virtual desktop? - A personal virtual desktop is a virtual machine hosted on a Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) server and assigned to a user. Unlike a virtual desktop pool, where a virtual machine can be configured to rollback the .. more »

Till now, if you wanted to convert your host operating system to virtual one, you had to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It is great product, but it costs some money. But thanks to guys from Sysinternals, now you can create VHD file from your host operating system for free. They have.. more »

I don’t have any old application which doesn’t work on Windows 7, but two weeks ago I needed to test Windows XP Mode and show it during presentation to high-school teachers (here is the info on how to deploy Windows XP Mode). I was very surprised how easy is to install application in XP Mode.. more »

publishing in Windows Server 2008 R2 and how RDP resources can be published by using the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management service to users in RD Web Access. This blog post describes the third-party extensibility support available in the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management service, and how third parties (Enterprises or ISVs) can .. more »

Next week, from Nov 17th to Nov 19 I will be in Belgrade, to attend Sinergija conference. Sinergija is Serbian version of the Windays conference that we have here in Croatia, and I am looking forward to go there and compare these two events, as I compared Windays with TechEd conference a year ago... more »

I have been wanting to come up with a workable solution for mounting virtual hard disks by double clicking on them in Windows 7 for a while now. The problem is that: The best idea I could think of for a simple solution was to try scripting the DISKPART tool. Unfortunately once I got going I got a bit carried away. The result is this batch file: If .. more »

While this will not surprise my regular readers some of you will be interested to know that blogging is usually only a very small fraction of my job. My official title is Program Manager Lead which means that my responsibilities roughly break down into the following buckets: As you can see that is a lot of non-blogging work. The truth is that I .. more »

We have introduced a script to help the administrators tracking the usage trend of Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server (TS) Per User (PU) client access licenses (CALs), total usage of Windows Server 2008 TS PU CALs (including expired), and the usage of Windows Server 2008 TS PU CALs for a list of specified domains. The major scenarios addressed .. more »

I have been interested in StarWind iSCSI for a while and they have a new version coming out. It's called StarWind Enterprise HA 5.0. It's atechnology that makes sure your data is available and online even in the event of a failure. it allows you to configure an Active-Active 2 Node storage cluster while ensuring a highly reliable and fault .. more »

VMware has recently announced their 2009 third quarter earnings and it's looking really good. Revenues are at $490 million, up 4% from 2008 Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 22%; GAAP Operating Margin of 5% Non-GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.24; GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.09 US revenues for the third quarter declined 1% to $246 million from the third quarter of .. more »

If you are looking forthe best Apple Mac virtualization solution, the new VMware Fusion 3 is the answer. Donald Malm has the following comments about VMware's Fusion 3 ... “I am a Mac devotee, but most of my clients are Windows users,” said Donald Malm, who runs a consulting service. “The ease in switching between my files and my client’s files wh.. more »

Hello, this is Bryon Surace again.  I’m a senior program manager on the Windows virtualization team at Microsoft.   Recently, the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 beta 2 became available for public download.  Part of this release is the Beta 2 version of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management; an integrated solution to give you all t.. more »

Recently, I wrote about how you can make your life so much easier by using backing up using VMware virtualization-specific application. It is very robust with features like data-duplication and file level restore. VMware Data Recovery (or vDR as it is called) is included in vSphere Essentials Pl. more..... more »

Periodically we ask our readers to vote on the best virtualization products. The readers have spoken when it comes to the best hypervisor available today. 56% of our readers chose VMware ESX where only 30% voted for Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper-V. Read the full story at: VMware ESX - Voted VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Hy.. more »