David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture

Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud

The first part of a four-part article series titled Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud, by...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/18/2011

Demo any Virtualization Scenario with this Portable Setup

This week I had some folks ask me about the hardware and setup I use for customer meetings and...

Author: DavidZie Date: 09/14/2010

VMM 2008 R2 in a Multi-Forest Environment

In my continuing work on building a private cloud offering with Hyper-V and System Center, I started...

Author: DavidZie Date: 09/13/2010

Managing Virtual Switches and Networks Across Hyper-V Hosts

I was asked a question this morning about the following customer requirement: “Managing virtual...

Author: DavidZie Date: 09/09/2010

10 VDI Resources for Microsoft + Citrix Implementations

While preparing for an upcoming VDI project I went through my archives and inventoried some trusted...

Author: DavidZie Date: 08/01/2010

RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory Documentation

Concurrent with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta (available here), a bunch of...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/14/2010

From Virtualization to Dynamic IT

Issue 24 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal focuses on virtualization. My paper, From...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/12/2010

Creating a Microsoft Virtualization Practice

With the release of Hyper-V R2 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, many service organizations are...

Author: DavidZie Date: 01/06/2010

The Year Ahead

What is a dynamic datacenter? How does a dynamic datacenter enable private cloud computing and fit...

Author: DavidZie Date: 01/05/2010

Private Clouds: Believe it or not?

Recently there has been some healthy debate around the validity of “private clouds” and whether such...

Author: DavidZie Date: 08/23/2009

Everything you ever wanted to know about VHDs

The Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide is 61 pages of great info outlining all the relevant...

Author: DavidZie Date: 08/16/2009

Cloud Computing: Taxes Analogous to Atmospheric Pressure

In a blog posting earlier this week, the Azure team announced that they would be moving all Azure...

Author: DavidZie Date: 08/06/2009

TechReady9 Day 4 and 5 Wrap-up

Day 4 and 5 of TechReady were action packed, I didn’t even have time to post yesterday. I skipped...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/31/2009

TechReady9 Day 3 Wrap-up

Day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and several very cool demos on UI futures, what’s...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/30/2009

TechReady9 Day 2 Wrap-up

Day 2 at TechReady was packed with technical sessions, no keynotes. In the morning I attended a...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/29/2009

TechReady9 Day 1 Wrap-up

TechReady is always motivating and day one of TechReady 9 was no different as thousands of folks...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/28/2009

Great Advice

Sean Olson has a fantastic post called “What I Wish I Knew at 21”. Take five minutes and read it, I...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/09/2009

Virtualization and Cloud Computing Real-time Feeds!

As mentioned here and in a few other posts, I’ve been using Friendfeed and Twitter quite a bit over...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/07/2009

New Microsoft Security Site for Governments

A new Security section has been added to the government site on Microsoft.com. The site consolidates...

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/06/2009

Virtualization

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/06/2009

Cloud Infrastructure

Author: DavidZie Date: 07/06/2009

Dynamically Provisioning Customized Virtual Machines with VMM

There’s a good technical post over on Chris Adam’s blog about how to dynamically provision...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/30/2009

Head-to-Head: Workflow Studio vs PowerShell for Automation

Here’s an interesting and slightly amusing mock debate between Brandon Shell and Jason Conger on...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/28/2009

Threat Modeling Guide for IT Infrastructure

Over on the Solution Accelerators Security Blog is a post and link to the IT Infrastructure Threat...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/22/2009

Download the Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0

The Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2 has been posted to the web...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/22/2009

Published in the Microsoft Architecture Journal

I was able to get a small commentary on desktop virtualization and VDI published in the Microsoft...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/18/2009

Free OCS 2007 R2 eBooks!

I’m liking this MS Press monthly free ebook program. Especially with my new Kindle DX! Last month it...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/16/2009

Networking and Remote Desktop Technical Resources

The links below lead to a series of technical whitepapers on DirectAccess, BranchCache, and Remote...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/12/2009

Excellent Data Center Article in the NY Times Magazine

The New York Times magazine has a very interesting article by Tom Vanderbilt on datacenters and the...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/11/2009

White Paper: Comparing the Power Utilization of Native and Virtual Exchange Environments

The Exchange team has published a whitepaper on TechNet comparing the power utilization of a typical...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/10/2009

Updated: Introducing the Azure Services Platform

The main introductory whitepaper to the Azure platform written by David Chappell has been updated....

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/02/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 to RTM in July!

The Windows Server Division blog announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 is tracking with Windows 7...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/02/2009

Comparing MOF to ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000

Over on the MOF and Service Management blog, two new guides have been released detailing how the...

Author: DavidZie Date: 06/01/2009

New Remote Desktop Services VDI Step-by-Step Guides Released

New step-by-step guides have been posted for the new Remote Desktop Services (RDS) found in Windows...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/26/2009

Clustering SQL Server Virtual Machines

When planning server consolidation initiatives, particularly if using a structured offering and...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/25/2009

Free eBook: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit

The Terminal Services (now called Remote Desktop Virtualization) team has announced that the Windows...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/23/2009

New Import and Export Features in Hyper-V R2

Good news from the virtualization team. Over on their blog is a new post about the import/export...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/21/2009

Microsoft SDL: Get it to go

Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template. This was announced over on the...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/19/2009

Social Bookmarking: How to know where to go…

Continuing the foray into social networking I started on a couple weeks ago, today’s topic is social...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/16/2009

Hyper-V and VMM: Scale Up, Out, and to the Cloud

Between MMS and TechEd there have been a lot of announcements on the virtualization and cloud...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/14/2009

Finding the Hidden Costs of VDI

Brian Madden has an excellent post up today called The hidden costs of VDI. I’ve been working nearly...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/11/2009

Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!

So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/08/2009

Facebook for Windows Mobile

Microsoft has released Facebook for Windows Mobile. The application provides the following features:...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/08/2009

NASA Launches Space Station and Rover Photosynths

From the press release: “NASA and Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash., released an interactive,...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/08/2009

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC

The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been updated for the Windows 7 RC build. I’ve...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/06/2009

Are Solid State Drives in your Windows 7 Future?

The E7 blog has an interesting article on SSD performance and optimizations made in Windows 7 to...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/05/2009

Facebook via Silverlight and WPF

There was a lot of buzz last week with Facebook’s Open Stream API announcement. There were many...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/03/2009

Running Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Laptop?

Robert has a good post up for folks wanting to run Windows Server 2008 R2 on their laptops. A lot of...

Author: DavidZie Date: 05/03/2009

Windows 7 RC Available: What a day for my MSDN to expire!

By now you’ve probably heard that the Windows 7 RC is available for download for TechNet and MSDN...

Author: DavidZie Date: 04/30/2009

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