Top 5 things to know about Hyper-V

My name is Ronald Beekelaar. I'm a Microsoft MVP of Virtual Machine Technology, based in Amsterdam. I have my own consultancy firm, and since 2002 I focus on virtualization. At first, this was strictly VMware-oriented, but a few years later this...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on July 01, 2008.

Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available on Windows Update!

The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Hyper-V is now available as a optional update on Windows Update.  Optional updates are not installed automatically by default.  To install the update open the Windows Update control panel and click “View...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 27, 2008.

MSDN and TechNet Powered by Hyper-V

Hi—I am Rob Emanuel from the Microsoft.com Operations team.  For those of you who may not know what we do, our group designs, deploys, manages and sustains highly available, highly scalable Web and SQL systems for Microsoft for some of the...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 20, 2008.

Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 2

In part 1 we went over some basic scripts and tools for gathering information about running virtual machines.  In part 2 I am going to cover two things, first basic VHD creation and second determining if Hyper-V WMI methods are succeeding or...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 04, 2008.

Analyst perspectives on Microsoft's Integrated Virtualization strategy & System Center evolution, from MMS 2008

Greetings! My name is Robb Mapp and I’m the analyst relations manager in Server & Tools focused on System Center management tools and Integrated Virtualization. This week at MMS, we had nearly 60 industry analysts participate in a summit focused...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 02, 2008.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta has arrived

Hi - this is Hector Linares, I am a Program Manager on the team that built System Center Virtual Machine Manager. I'm happy to report that we released the feature complete public beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (formerly known as...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 02, 2008.

Rationalizing a Virtual Desktop Architecture

Hi, my name is Manlio Vecchiet, and I am a group product manager in the Windows Server marketing group at Microsoft. I am on my way back from Interop where I participated in an industry panel about Virtual Desktop Architecture. I was joined by...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 02, 2008.

Application Virtualization and Streaming

I am Gavriella Schuster and I am responsible for the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) within the Windows team.  This week I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel discussion at Interop with my peers at Symantec, Citrix, and...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on May 02, 2008.

MS Management Summit sightings - VMware and Kidaro

I arrived into Vegas (baby!) today for 3 days spread across Microsoft Management Summit and Interop Las Vegas 2008. And the conferences couldn't have been timed better as it was pooring rain when I left SeaTac and sunny and hot (for me) upon arrival...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 29, 2008.

Hosting Virtualization MVPs

This week, Microsoft hosted 1,800 tech professionals here in Redmond for the annual MVP Global Summit, and I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to chat with a number of Virtualization MVPs from the community.  Since you might not be...

News item from Windows Virtualization Team Blog on April 19, 2008.