The IPD team at Microsoft has released an updated guide for App-V 4.6. This guide provides actionable guidance for planning your application virtualization infrastructure. Updates now include support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, including...
Considering implementing App-V, well here are some useful URLs on App-V, now that version 4.6 is available: App-V Application Listing Tool You can use this tool to display a list of virtualized applications that are currently running. http://www.microsoft...
As Windows 7 continues to gain momentum across the industry, enterprise customers are evaluating their desktop Strategy and considering the move to Windows 7. To support that move Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6, including App-V for RDS, is now...
The Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities package ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c1ec14a-e9d7-46ea-9c6e-73d6bc4219b4&displaylang=en ) works with Windows Server Migration Tools to let you migrate Hyper-V virtual machines...
This whitepaper provides detailed best practices to architect and deploy the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) in a highly available virtualized infrastructure using Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2. These test-proven best...
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At TechEd Berlin, back in November 2009, the subject of stretched Cluster Shared Volumes, or Geo-Clustering and Cluster Shared Volumes came up. The feedback I personally got was that this was not supported by Microsoft. However, after some discussion...
See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-010 — Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Could Allow Denial of Service (977894) and KB977894 — MS10-010: Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V could allow denial of service for more details...
Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate is now available for download at https://connect.microsoft.com/site840/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=26452&wa=wsignin1.0 Patrick Lownds
The above white paper is intended to provide some guidance for capacity planning of RD Session Host on Windows Server 2008 R2. It describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate capacity...
The Failover Cluster Configuration Program (FCCP) was designed to help identify tested and validated hardware configurations for Failover Clustering and this program was introduced during the Windows Server 2008 timeframe. However when you check the FAQ...
VERY interesting article around increasing network performance for virtual machines by increasing the VM bus receive buffer from 1Mb to 2Mb. Read the full article at http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2010/02/02/increase-vmbus-buffer...
The Hyper-V team recently released a tool which can convert a VM saved state to a full memory dump file. This tool enables easier debugging of issues in the VMs and provides the fastest way to generate a memory dump file from a VM. You can download the...
I am currently working on a project where the customer has MOM 2005 and is looking to implement SCOM 2007 R2. As part of the design we have been looking at scalability differences between the older version, MOM 2005 and the newer version, SCOM 2007 R2...
Interesting article from Citrix desktop virtualization and what to expect in 2010. To read the full article at http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/02/08/Desktop+Virtualization+-+What+To+Expect+in+2010 Patrick Lownds