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• Free-as-in-Beer Snacks from TechNet

  TechNet recently launched free-as-in-beer "learning" snacks . Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight... Posted Nov 18 2008, 02:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Language is a Virus, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• I Want My Hyper-V TV

  Back in the day, we use to sing "I Want My MTV". Hyper-V TV is here: Video: All Hyper-V Video This search brings you all the video tagged Hyper-V across: MSN, AOL, MTV, Hulu, ESPN, YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe. To search other video... Posted Nov 14 2008, 03:03 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Language is a Virus, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Manually Configure Hyper-V Pagefile

  Hyper-V automatically configures your pagefile settings, but if, for some troubleshooting purposes, you may want to change them manually. Here's how: 1. To check current pagefile stats, from the command line type: wmic pagefile get /format:list 2... Posted Nov 04 2008, 12:49 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, IT Pro Code Gallery, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Script VM Functions

  Check out the TechEd video Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Scripting & Programmatic Management for Fun & Profit (VBS & PowerShell ) by John Kelbley , and Alexander Lash. Some of John's example script are newly posed in the Official Scripting... Posted Oct 30 2008, 02:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, IT Pro Code Gallery, HyperV

• How Community Content is Supposed to Work

  There is something interesting going on WRT "community content" at Microsoft. See the example over in Official Scripting Guys forum : A customer asked for scripting help to check the OS version on his XP client machine and install patches .... Posted Oct 30 2008, 01:54 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, IT Pro Code Gallery, HyperV

• Video: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

  There is a new TechNet Edge screencast from Jeff Alexander demonstrates Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 . OBTW, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is free-as-in-beer....( read more ) Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 24 2008, 04:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Manually Patch Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

  By default, the free-as-in-beer Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is configured for manual updates. In other words, it is NOT configured out of the box to go fetch automatic updates. This is desired behavior for most installs. However, if there are critical... Posted Oct 24 2008, 11:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Virtualization Twitter Feeds

  Twitter http://twitter.com/Virtualpath http://twitter.com/govirtual http://twitter.com/STBNewsBytes http://twitter.com/latelier http://twitter.com/TechmemeFH http://twitter.com/MacReeg...( read more ) Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 22 2008, 01:48 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V ResKit

  Provides in-depth technical guidance and best practices on how to deploy, install, configure, administer, and support Hyper-V, along with drilldown into advanced configuration options; development and testing tools; migration, management, and scripting... Posted Oct 20 2008, 01:07 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• What is the value of social bookmarking to IT Pros?

  I recently recorded a podcast with TechNet's Social Platform team , discussing the social platform, and the new TN social bookmarking in particular. Listen to the podcast, and then leave feedback here. Some points to think about: Build authority:... Posted Oct 14 2008, 09:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, HyperV

• IT Value for Money

  In the coming months it will be even more important for IT to show how it adds value to the company. One way to add value is to shave costs, Microsoft can help: Get Virtual Now - Reduce server hardware acquisition and maintenance costs with Windows Server... Posted Oct 14 2008, 02:34 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• MAP 3.2 Beta

  You already read my blog post about MAP 3.1 , right? The beta of the newest version Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit (3.2) is available on Connect, including new modules: SQL Server 2008 Migration Proposals and Reports Security Assessment... Posted Oct 14 2008, 01:47 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Shrink a VHD File

  Our first guest post ( http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2008/10/07/your-hyper-v-blog-post-here.aspx ) comes from Jeremy Hagan . Thanks Jeremy! Background: One problem I have had when trying to do my first round of P2Vs for my Hyper-V implementation... Posted Oct 09 2008, 07:04 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Interop and Migration, Hyper-V, WS2K8

• Hyper-V How To: Change the HAL on your vm

  When you migrate your Virtual Server or Virtual PC virtual machine to Hyper-V, you: remove the VM Additions move the VHD create a new VM install the Integration Services in the new VM If you have trouble in this process, and it looks like the integration... Posted Oct 09 2008, 12:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Your Hyper-V Blog Post Here

  Think of it as a contest. Have a Hyper-V blog post you want to share with the world, but no place to post it? Send it to me, I'll post the best ones here and send the lucky blogger a prize from the vast pool of Microsoft swag we keep in a room on... Posted Oct 07 2008, 05:20 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: IT Pro, Language is a Virus, Interop and Migration, Hyper-V, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Script AzMan Scopes for RBAC

  In the scripting forum someone :-) asked: "Can anyone suggest the way to create AzMan scopes for VMs (I can assign VMs to scopes) with Powershell/WMI/VBScript?" 4 scripts are provided for managing your AzMan scopes in Hyper-V : CreateVMInScope... Posted Oct 07 2008, 05:05 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, IT Pro Code Gallery, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Make Hyper-V Install on Core Easier with HVCONFIG

  Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is out . Read about Hyper-V Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx . One of the differences between Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 core, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is that Hyper-V... Posted Oct 02 2008, 12:12 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Check Free Disk Space

  VHD proliferation or other disk-bloat make it necessary for you to move something? Need to check free disk space on the remote server before you move? Here's a couple of ways to do it. The WMI Command-line (WMIC) tool provides a simple command-line... Posted Sep 24 2008, 02:01 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, IT Pro Code Gallery, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Harden Your VM Security

  You should follow the best practice recommendations in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide ,for hardening your W2K8 VMs. The GPO Accelerator can make this easier. The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy... Posted Sep 23 2008, 01:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V Increases Logical Processor Support to 24.

  Install Windows Server 2008  Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB956710) enhance Hyper-V role's support for processors and virtual machines to now support up to 24 logical processors and 192 virtual machines. Read more at http://support... Posted Sep 23 2008, 12:50 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V Attack Surface Reference

  The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide includes a spreadsheet you can download that lists all the attack surfaces for Windows Server 2008. This guide was initially published before Hyper-V role RTM. When the Security Guide is updated, a new worksheet... Posted Sep 19 2008, 12:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Migrate VMs to Hyper-V

  Matthijs' blog blog post describes the VMC2HV tool you can use to only import your Virtual Server and Virtual PC VM configurations.  You can adjust almost any setting before creating the VM in Hyper-V. If you are an enterprise user, and want... Posted Sep 19 2008, 10:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Get Linux ICs

  Mike Sterling's blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikester/archive/2008/09/10/linux-integration-components-now-posted.aspx announces that the integration services for Linux (IC) are now available for download from the Connect site. Look for the Linux... Posted Sep 16 2008, 04:03 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• New IPD for App-V

  The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides has a new entry: Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5. Download the entire IPD series or download the individual guide . If you like IPD you may also like: Microsoft Assessment and Planning... Posted Sep 16 2008, 12:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Plan for Hyper-V Security

  My article on Hyper-V Security best practices has been selected as September tip of the month. Check out Planning for Hyper-V Security . Kai Axford has a good article in the same newsletter issue: " Security in a Virtual World ." For videos... Posted Sep 15 2008, 03:30 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV