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Back from TechEd China

Hopefully you have noticed that I have not posted in a while. The reason for this is that I have been traveling a lot over the last month. Most recently I was in China presenting at TechEd China ( http://www.microsoft.com/china/technet/teched/default.aspx

Illustrated Installation of Hyper-V Server

As the stand-alone Hyper-V Server is now available, I would like to demonstrate what the process is for installing Hyper-V Server on a physical computer.  The requirements for Hyper-V Server are that your computer be a x64 computer with hardware

The Server Unleashed

Okay, I admit it, I am a sucker for IT advertising - so I am really happy to see some cool advertising coming out for Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V: That's right - it is a robot computer holding a can of "Hyper-V".  Now a number of you

TechEd Australia and New Zealand

Next week I am going to be jumping on a plane and going to New Zealand and Australia to talk virtualization. Here is my speaking schedule: New Zealand: Session: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking Deep Dive Date:  

Microsoft Server Software and Supported Virtualization Environments

This KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957006 Outlines all of the Microsoft Server Software products that are supported under Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms that are part of the Server Virtualization Validation Program . Cheers,

Ben is back, some quick links

You may have noticed my absence for the last couple of weeks - I have been on vacation for some post-Hyper-V release unwinding.  But I am back at work now (and digging through a mountain of email).  To kick off blogging again I am going to throw

Windows Server 2008 VHDs Available for Virtual Server / Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition evaluation VHDs are now available for Virtual Server and Hyper-V.  They are available full and core installation options.  You can get the Hyper-V VHDs from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&DisplayLang=en

Hyper-V RC1 Available

In case you missed it - Hyper-V RC1 is now available for download.  Full details can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx And the release notes are

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update now Available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948515 Details: This update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 adds support for the following operating

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 now available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28c97d22-6eb8-4a09-a7f7-f6c7a1f000b5&displaylang=en Release notes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9f3d3eb5-5e03-4712-999c-e96f91bdf128&displaylang=en

It doesn't feel like a hypervisor to me...

When I have talked to people about Hyper-V - I have often come across the sentiment that Hyper-V doesn't feel like a hypervisor based virtualization solution. You install Windows, enable a role and then have virtual machines - how is this different from

Some Random Links

Sorry for the dearth of posts - I have been rather busy lately.  As such I thought I would quickly throw out some nice links. My colleague - John Howard - has done a great series of posts on using Terminal Servers Gateway + Terminal Services Web

Virtualization Announcements

We had a bunch of announcements today: Bob Muglia sent out an executive email on Harnessing the Power of Virtualization for Dynamic IT , and we also our Vision and Strategy to Accelerate Virtualization Adoption . Some key items here: Microsoft has acquired

Virtualization Podcast with Eric Traut

Go check it out: http://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=43 Stolen directly from DABCC: In the following Microsoft Virtualization Podcast, Douglas Brown interviews Eric Traut, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. Eric is responsible for the Windows Kernel

Server and Domain Isolation Demo VM's

Thanks to Dugie for bring this to my attention - there is a great server and domain isolation demo set of virtual machines available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=13a0ab69-2113-482e-a6d1-911aff9e9e2d&displaylang=en
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