Windows Server Virtualization System Center Virtual Machine Manager The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualization guides, Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, now available for download here. Introduction These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager…
Year: 2009
Back from the Wedding/Honeymoon!
As some of you may or may not know I took a little time out. The last 3 months have probably been the most hectic for me in Microsoft as the number of Virtualization requests in EMEA have been staggering. Customers are doing some amazing stuff with Virtualization (not just Microsoft Virtualization) which kept me…
MDOP 2009 R2: What’s New in MDOP for Windows 7
My buddies over on the mdop blog have just done another major announcement with the details of when the updates for the MDOP will add support for Win7. Bring on MDOP 2009 R2! ————— Today I am excited to announce that Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 will be released in late October 2009…
How to Download the App-V 4.6 Beta
So you have heard lots about it! and you are so eager to get going and playing with the 4.6 Beta. And trust me its well worth it. 4.6 is awesome even in beta and playing with the Beta is a good way to get you and your organisation ahead of the game! So how…
x64 and App-V 4.6 A Match Made in Heaven
The beta has been running for a while now….. and I have been over the moon with having the 4.6 client on my windows 7 x64 machine. I was one of the many that moved away from x86 to x64 with Windows Vista, and had to make a massive sacrifice (My Beloved App-V apps!). With…
Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode Team Blog
There’s a new blog in town! The Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode team have created a blog to assist in understanding some of the work that goes on in the product! They have just posted a great article around Windows Virtual PC…… Windows® Virtual PC (WVPC) is a client virtualization software, which can…
App-V 4.6 Public Beta now available for download
Wow oh wow!! Big news! Huge News!!! The MDOP product team just announced the immediate availability of the Microsoft App-V 4.6 beta, the first version to not only support 64-bit clients but also the virtualization of true 64-bit applications: Today, I am happy to announce immediate availability of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Beta. At…
How Do I Develop V12N-Friendly Apps?
There was a great video I came across on Channel 9. It was a session that John and Elsie did at PDC recently. One of the bits I really enjoined was at 31:20 in the video. Its a section in the presentation thats called “How Do I Develop V12N-Friendly Apps?” Why is this important? well…
Windows 7 RTM – Its done!
Congratulations to all the engineering teams involved and to all you Beta and RC testers out there. Read the the official post here Engineering Windows 7
How to use the new VHD features of Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2
Did you think that VHD files were only for Virtualization ? In this screen cast you can see the different ways that Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 can use VHD files, this will show different ways that we can configure boot from VHD, how we can work with VHD files from the command line…