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Free e-book on Microsoft Virtualization

posted Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:15 AM by Fawzi
“Microsoft has a broad portfolio of Virtualization technologies and you talk about the concept of ‘from the Desktop to the datacenter’; what does that really mean?” The short answer is that there are many ways to approach virtualization, depending Read More
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Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Could Allow Denial of Service

posted Friday, February 12, 2010 6:57 PM by Fawzi
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a malformed sequence of machine instructions is run by an authenticated Read More
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VMM Tricks: Manage VMM in restrictive Active Directory environment

posted Friday, February 12, 2010 6:55 PM by Fawzi
So you want to manage your VMM infrastructure while keeping an eye on your Hyper-V hosts security. looks like everyone wants to do that. So have you through before about using restricted Group group policy to limit membership for your local admins Read More
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Hyper-V tricks:Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs

posted Friday, February 12, 2010 6:55 PM by Fawzi
The Windows Server Performance team have done a really interesting post on how to optimize network performance inside of virtual machines by increasing the size of the VMBus buffers used by our network adapters. You can found it there http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2010/02/02/increase-vmbus-buffer-sizes-to-increase-network-throughput-to-guest-vms.aspx Read More
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Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2

posted Friday, February 05, 2010 12:31 PM by Fawzi
When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and Read More
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SQL Server Consolidation with Microsoft Virtualization

posted Friday, January 29, 2010 11:19 PM by Fawzi
Source Hello, my name is Vipul Shah and I’m a Senior Product Manager with the Virtualization Team. Due to its ability to drive down costs and drive up resource usage, Microsoft SQL Server consolidation is top of mind for our customers these days. Read More
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VMM Tricks: V2V failed with Error (protocol error : too many authentication failures for root)

posted Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:19 AM by Fawzi
When you perform a V2V from a VMware ESX 3.5  host and I get the following error: Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error:  Server sent disconnect message: type 2 (protocol error : too many authentication Read More
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VMM tricks:Manage Certificate to connect to VMs in the Perimeter

posted Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:08 PM by Fawzi
Most of the times you may need to host some VMs on the Perimeter host, After adding this host to VMM console you still can't connect to the VMs on that host. Your remote desktop connection failed because the remote computer cannot be authenticated..Certificate Read More
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Microsoft's Desktop Virtualization product line as of 2009

posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:48 AM by Fawzi
Gabe Knuth has wrote a very good article about Microsoft's Desktop Virtualization product line as of 2009 Last up in our rundown of the Big 5's desktop virtualization product lines is Microsoft.  This is probably the most ambiguous vendor, because Read More
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Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology

posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:16 PM by Fawzi
This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server™ 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.OverviewOffice Communications Read More
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The ultimate Hyper-V Resources Guide

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:09 PM by Fawzi
Source It’s all available at : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dd565807.aspx Read More
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:47 PM by Fawzi
Source: Ask the Core TeamWindows Server 2008 R2 has been publicly available now for only a short period of time, but we are already seeing a good adoption rate for the new Live Migration functionality as well as the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Read More
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Do you want to script RDS for VDI

posted Wednesday, December 09, 2009 7:11 PM by Fawzi
Source If so the Technet Script Center has plenty of resources, view them here Some scripts I’d like to highlight: Virtual Machine Management Configure Guest OS for VDI (PowerShell) Configure Guest OS for VDI (VB Script) Virtual machine assignment Read More
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VMM Tricks: How to get the audit trail records from a VMM Job

posted Friday, November 27, 2009 10:42 AM by Fawzi
SourceToday, in VMM, you can open the Administrator Console and click on the Jobs view to see all the Jobs in VMM. When you select an individual job, you can click on the "Change Tracking" tab and view any changes that were recorded in VMM as part Read More
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Hyper-V pass-through disk performance vs. fixed size VHD files and dynamic VHD files in Windows Server 2008 R2

posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:24 AM by Fawzi
Daveberm on Clustering For Mere Mortals had did some good effort to test new Dynamic VHD files in windows 2008 R2, With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, one of the enhancements was improving the performance of dynamic VHD files. Prior to R2, writes Read More
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