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Sign-up for the Microsoft virtualization newsletter
You’ll be interested to register to receive the Microsoft virtualization newsletter, which features blogs and articles by Microsoft virtualization experts, customer success stories, news and links to key resources. Patrick -
Planning and Design Guides for SoftGrid and Windows Server Virtualization
InfoWorld’s Dave Marshall blogged about a program that may be of interest to you. Here’s an excerpt from Dave’s post: the Infrastructure Planning and Design guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series are expected to help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies where each guide -
IDC publishes whitepaper on x64 Windows Server adoption
[re-posted due to format issues] A colleague, Dan Reger, pointed me to a new IDC white paper on Windows Server x64 adoption. The white paper is titled, “Understanding the Business Benefits Associated with x86 64-Bit Windows Server.” The paper explains both the value of pairing x64 editions of Windows Server with today’s widespread x64 server -
Forefront security blog launched
The Forefront Security Team just launched a new blog about all things Forefront, including: Forefront Client Security, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Intelligent Application Gateway, and Forefront Sever Security for SharePoint. Find news about product updates, what the Forefront team is seeing in the latest security threats, and deployment tips -
10 Virtualization Webcasts coming up
The following webcast series dives into the technology and looks at products in the market that deliver virtual solutions. Register today. http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/windowsserver2008.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42531 Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032351359&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US On-demand In this webcast we provide an overview of the virtualization role, the scenarios, and the features that make server virtualization an important pillar of -
October Marketing Waves
October is just around the corner, the focus of the Windows Server 2008 Marketing team for the month is Web & Application Platform. October is chalked full of events, including 8 webcasts, an executive chat, and an On Demand virtual lab. Chat: Windows Server 2008: Meet the people who are changing the Web at MicrosoftAdd -
Off to a good start – eWeek reviews Viridian CTP
With availability of Windows Server08 RC0 and the CTP of Windows Server virtualization (aka, Viridian), I’ve seen the first review/comments on Viridian CTP. eWeek’s Jason Brooks posted a review under the title “Hypervisor Showdown: Microsoft vs. VMware.” Jason’s summary is: Along with the Release Candidate 0 build of Windows 2008 that Microsoft recently released came -
so how do I deploy windows server 2008?
For those of you in the server world who are looking at an easy way to deploy Windows Server 2008 need to look no further than the latest version of our deployment solution currently named ‘Deployment 4 Beta 3’. This is the next generation of the Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) toolkit built to support Windows -
Windows Server 2008 Rc0 Released!
Yehaw! , today I pleased to announce the availability of Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0, and with it…the very first public release of Windows Server virtualization (codenamed Viridian). You can download the bits today as part of our customer technology preview (CTP)program. Not only does this milestone indicate that Windows Server 2008 is ready -
VMworld 2007: training, tech support, a comeback
One of last week’s more interesting booth conversations had nothing to do with one of the demos in the booth. It had to do with training and support. A gentleman from a pharmaceutical company was saying that he’s looking forward to Windows Server 2008/Viridian and SCVMM because he’ll be able to reduce his training budget for -
VMworld 2007: MS booth noise
The show floor has been busy. Lots of people interested to kick the tires of Viridian and SCVMM. The funny thing is, after exhibiting at this show for 4 straight years, some people still say, “I’m surprised to see Microsoft here.” To which I always say, “what OS and apps are you running in ESX?”