OCTOBER 10, 2008

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...