The cover of the January issue of TechNet Magazine splashed “Living in a Virtual World: Powerful New Tools to Manage a Virtualized Datacenter” and prompted readers to explore the 4,000+ word overview of VMM 2007 by VMM’s own TPM Edwin Yuen. Initially, this issue was intended to highlight the larger System Center story (with VMM…
Year: 2008
Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server
I was giving a presentation the other day about SCVMM and our experiences. In the conversation a question was brought up “can you use Bitlocker in a Virtual Environment”. Ben Armstrong wrote a nice little article on just how you do this. Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption…
Storage options for Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V
Jose Barreto’s wrote a great article on the Storage Options for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Its funny as I was talking to my college who was trying to set up a few clustering options for Hyper-V and needed a good guide to work from. ——————- Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V has been in public beta…
MCS Sequencing Guidelines
So the team has just published the MCS Sequencing guide! Which is really handy for newbies and re-enforces concept to all the old heads :o) for sequencing. All of us have added one bit or another to the guide so it use to be a helpful internal tool to help people …….. Now its yours…
Hyper-V WMI API’s Publicly Available
The virtualization team is pleased to announce the public beta release of the Hyper-V WMI interfaces. Hyper-V WMI APIs. Hyper-V uses WMI APIs (similar to the Virtual Server COM API) to create, manage, monitor, configure virtual resources. We expect the Hyper-V WMI APIs to be used widely in a variety of ways such as: ·…
Beta 4.5 Getting Dynamic Suite Composition (DSC) to work (Client Build 4.5.0.608/Server Build 4.5.0.606)
So it was late one weekend when I started to build my 4.5 test lab. The goal was to do it with every future technology we had. So I downloaded every beta I could possibly find….. Windows 2008 RC1 (x64 off course!), November SQL 2008 CTP, November Microsoft Application Virtualization…. and there were a few…
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Beta Refresh – Now Available!
I will keep harping on about this tool as the more I use it in projects and work activities the more I think its brilliant! I have been chatting to Baldwin over in the MS MAP team. This tool is just one of these essential little gadgets that just get you from A-Z quickly and…
4.5 Beta and Globalization/Localization
I saw this from Shelley Lau on the Application Virtualization Team blog and thought this is actually a really important message. I mean think about it…… how many Windows Platforms dont use English? and what is Softgrids current support policy on non-English languages ….. don’t remember well read here http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld/archive/2007/06/11/softgrid-on-windows-platforms-internationalization.aspx Basically, today does not have…
SFT Explorer 1.2 (Updated)
Quick Post to just let everyone know that Kalle has updated the SFT Explorer tool to version 1.2. This now shows the deleted registry keys from a sequenced application! Very handy when trying to troubleshoot or understand the reg keys that are in the virtual registry. As always brilliant to use and Brilliant to have!…
4.5 Beta Settings for Autoload Application’s
Here are some great registry settings that you may want to know about when dealing with 4.5 beta and the clients that you are trying to manage. In 4.5 we will support Autoload. Essentially, you can configure the client to ensure after the application launches (FB1 downloaded) the client will continue to stream FB2 (in…