NOVEMBER 26, 2009

For those of us in IT who lean more to the security side of things, Microsoft announced a new tool to help out within our virtual environments. The Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool...

I was fortunate to receive a Twitter message from the Microsoft virtualization team after writing my blog post A Weekend With Hyper-V. If you aren't familiar with the Windows Virtualization Team...

And, of course, you can find position papers about the green-ness of its different products. Given the attention to power management in Vista, it’s little surprise that it’s also a big deal for...

For this test, we examined power consumption as a way to judge whether Windows Server 2008 or Linux is, in fact, the "greener" operating system. As the price of power hits record heights,...

When we released ASP.NET, we did not want to force customers to upgrade. As a result, we ensured that ASP would work in each subsequent release of IIS. Today, we still continue to support the ASP...

Network World released a report focusing on power consumption comparison tests that were run between Linux and Windows 2008 on Dell, IBM and HP machines. The findings? Overall, the Linux server...

As part of Tuesday’s virtualization-focused announcements, Microsoft launched a program that will allow any software vendor to test and validate its virtualization software to run on any version of W...

Alan next moves on to a discussion of SCVMM’s failover clustering integration. He does clearly define Quick Migration as a solution that does involve downtime, but he quickly repositions Quick...

Today Microsoft makes a further step to simplify the process with the launch of a Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). The program is open to any vendor which offers hosted or...

At the TechEd 2008 IT Professionals conference this week in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft executives were talking up the company's Dynamic IT vision and the specific products designed to implement it. ...

Microsoft has published a Windows Server 2008 white paper today (DOCX format) that might be of interest: In Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is introducing new features and technologies, some of...

Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software. But everything the company is...

With electricity prices continuing to skyrocket and processors getting ever hungrier for power, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) chimed in with claims that its latest...

New multi-site clustering features in Windows Server 2008 is prompting Microsoft's partners to take a slightly different approach to serving the market for highly available Windows servers clusters. ...

Yes, yet another System Center VMM session…it’s pretty clear that System Center is a major component of Microsoft’s server virtualization strategy. This session is VIR350, System Center VMM Advanced ...

Windows IT Pro Magazine and SQL Server Magazine announced the winners of their Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards yesterday evening. Jeff Lewis, the Group Publisher of the Windows IT Group, ...

Are your existing servers and desktops capable of running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista? Do you wish to determine quickly if your existing servers are good candidates for server...

My last couple of blogs discussed how the new Network Access Protection service provided by Windows Server 2008 can help you keep client OS software up to date with the latest patches, antivirus...

TechEd 2008 in Orlando was a whole new world in my eyes. I sat in on a session by Doug Spindler called "Why IT Pros Will Want to Deploy Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 NOW!," which was an...

Cisco started bringing out some stand-alone NAC tools about a year after its announcement, but the job of integrating NAC functionality into its switches and networking gear is still mostly a work...

Over the weekend I installed the released version of Windows Server 2008 (after having worked with the release candidate previously), and the experience reminded how impressed I am by Win2008's ease ...

To meet the needs of Active Directory (AD) admins, ScriptLogic announced a "major" upgrade to its Active Administrator 5.0 product to include Windows Server 2008 support and a more navigable UI....

Novell Monday released updates to its Suse Linux kernel designed to make the operating system more efficient when running on top of VMware...

We have been working across multiple teams at Microsoft since last October, and are pleased to release today; a new whitepaper (link) that outlines the key power savings benefits of Windows Server...

Novell's participation will allow customers to run Windows Server 2008 as a virtualized guest on top of Xen hypervisor in SuSE Linux Enterprise 10, with the ability to receive cooperative support...

Microsoft said the virtualization training will be delivered in a variety of virtual, distance learning, and instructor-led options that focus on the fundamentals of virtualization, the underlying...

Jeffrey started the session by talking about the acceptance/implementation state of the current Powershell. In the 18 months since it launched, Powershell has been downloaded over 2 million times....

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 introduces the following new features: Support for Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server...

This book is our July selection for Microsoft Subnet's book giveaway and author guest blog. Check out the author's one-month guest blog. Enter to win one of free copies of the book of the month....

Want to go green? If cutting power costs or curbing greenhouse emissions are important to you, you should be running Windows Server 2008, according to Microsoft. The new operating system brings new p...

The writing is on the wall. Every day we all move faster towards the inevitable world of SaaS software, cloud utility computing and storage, and virtualization right up to and including the software ...

Microsoft today promoted its Failover Clustering Configuration Program (FCCP) for Windows Server 2008 products. FCCP is a partner-supported offering that promises to make it easier for organizations ...

When was the last time you saw a fully open-source vendor sharing the conference keynote stage with Microsoft? If you were at Microsoft's recent Tech-Ed show in Orlando, you could say, well, then....

Last April, the vulnerability spotlight was turned once again on Microsoft, as it found itself answering charges that it had enabled a "wave" of SQL injection attacks on Web servers running Internet ...

There are a few minor changes, such as the ability to update and manage Vista clients more easily, but the most significant is the faster TCP/IP networking protocol stack used in both Windows Server ...

Veteran network administrators, prepare for a blinking cursor flashback: When you log in to a Server Core build of Windows 2008 Server, all you'll get is a DOS box. And unlike with PowerShell, if...

It may be nearly six years since Microsoft bought the ERP suites called Axapta and Navision from the two merged Danish ERP software suppliers, Damgaard and the Navision, who merged two years earlier ...

OK, I admit I was too optimistic. I couple of months ago Thincomputing.net predicted that Hyper-V was going to be released ahead of schedule. As it turns out, it was not released so much ahead of...

Well, you probably heard this already, that Microsoft’s long awaited dabbling in virtualization has finally been released. It’s perhaps a good idea now to give you a couple of links here to give you ...

This weekend I spent a good bit of time working with Microsoft's Hyper-V in the Converging Network Labs, following my daughter's baby shower on Saturday (which went swimmingly well thanks to all...

A new feature that Microsoft is integrating with Windows Server 2008 will allow several operating systems to run simultaneously on a single physical computer, a move that will turn the heat on the...

This is what I can conclude from: - This post - My past experience of using Microsoft's products - Microsoft's proven bet-low, diagonal penetration strategy - We all use Exchange, SharePoint, SQL...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that Hyper-V was released to manufacturing, and then about two seconds later the media frenzy...

Now that Microsoft is ready to ship its Hyper-V virtualization platform to market, there has been a lot of talk around the water cooler as to what this really means for the industry and its current p...

Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were q...

Microsoft did something that it rarely does last week when it announced availability of its Hyper-V server virtualization technology months ahead of schedule. Unlike Microsoft Virtual Server which...

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it started selling its new server virtualization software about six weeks ahead of schedule, putting pressure on market leader VMware...