Virtualization
Recent Blog Posts from the Virtualization Community
Microsoft unveiled a new look for the Windows logo for Windows 8. There seems to be a dramatic rise in branding and style expertsonline, and some significant backlash around the Internet, but all of that misses the point of why the new Windows 8 logo is a brilliant move.......
During initial launch of the ThinApp EXE, a new sandbox is created, which holds the runtime modification of the application. After an uninstall of the ThinApp software the sandbox is not deleted.......
Take a look at Jeffrey Snover's blog post, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Window Server, where he discusses standards-based storage management in the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8".
Read Jeffrey's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog....
Check out Thomas Pfenning's blog post, General Manager Server and Tools, where he discusses the storage and availability enhancements in the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8".
Read Thomas' post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog....
Take a look at Jeffrey Snover's blog post, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Window Server, where he discusses standards-based storage management in the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8".
Read Jeffrey's post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog....
Check out Thomas Pfenning's blog post, General Manager Server and Tools, where he discusses the storage and availability enhancements in the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8".
Read Thomas' post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog....
VKernel, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud... Read more at VMblog.com....
VKernel, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud... Read more at VMblog.com....
Just a quick FYI that we recently released Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP1 dated December 2011. I don’t think I mentioned this one before so if you haven’t seen it you’ll want to check it out: ===== This article describes a hotfix package that contains the latest fixes for Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This hotfix package is dated December 2011. This hotfix package addresses the following issues: - Assume...
Hi everyone, John Behneman here. The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to migrate or move a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Database from one SQL server 200X to SQL server 2008 R2. This article assumes that the App-V database name stays the same on the source and destination database servers although if the database name is changed this procedure will still work. This article also assumes a basic understanding of SQL 2008 administration concepts. -Quic...
A little while ago I published a number of posts discussing the process I used to move my virtual machines from using dynamically expanding virtual hard disks to using fixed-size virtual hard disks. There were some interesting questions / discussions in the comments – so I thought I would try to sum them up here: Why would I use dynamically expanding VHDs? Dynamically expanding VHDs are easy and flexible. They are great for quick deployment, and allow you t...
A long time ago – I blogged about how to handle WMI job objects in Hyper-V. The short story here is that if you script or program against Hyper-V – chances are you will need to look at WMI jobs to find out whether requested operations have completed (operations like starting a virtual machine, creating a virtual hard disk or taking a snapshot all return their status through job objects).
When we first started implementing WMI job objects, we built the system to update the s...
Today is my last day at Microsoft after 10 years, it’s sad to be going, but as someone said once “Regrets. I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention.” I’ve met some great people while I’ve been here and I look back on my time here with more pleasure than regret.
That’s the end for this blog. My new blogs is at http://jamesOne111.wordpress.com. If you’ve found what I had to say interesting, update your bookmarks.
James....
In my previous post I was talking in general terms about why BPOS was a sound idea. The recent announcement of Ray Ozzie’s retirement set people quoting his mantra “Three screens and a cloud” – the three screens being Computer, Mobile device, and TV. The unwritten part of “Three screens” is recognising their diversity: people should interact with the best possible client – which means adapting to the specifics of each “screen”; it’s not “any browser and a cloud”: ma...
Just a quick FYI that we recently released Hotfix Package 5 for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 SP1 dated December 2011. I don’t think I mentioned this one before so if you haven’t seen it you’ll want to check it out: ===== This article...(read more)...
Hi everyone, John Behneman here. The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to migrate or move a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Database from one SQL server 200X to SQL server 2008 R2. This article assumes that the...(read more)...
Here’s a new Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a restricted user can attempt certain actions that they don't have permission to yet get a (false) message indicating it was successful. ===== Symptoms Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V 2.0) URL redirection does not work and no temporary URL file *.mdvurl is created in %localappdata%\temp (e.g. C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\t...
Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover most of the major product lines. This will be a 35,000 foot view into the following areas: Windows Family Virtualization Office System Unified Communications IT Management Security This particular webcast is scheduled for Friday, January 20 at 1:00pm Pacific Time although others are scheduled as well. See this link for more information. J.C. Hornbeck | System C...
Here’s a small script that automatically creates network teams with Broadcom nics. Once Windows 8 Server rolls around this won’t be needed since the teaming functionality (probably) moves into OS level. But for now… The script requires you to install the Broadcom utilities (or let the script do that for you) and supports three different [...]...
At the moment there are lots of stuff happening, both in our industry and at home. This week I’ve started programming PowerShell seriously, trying to convert an “advanced” script to PowerShell since it’s supposed to be fewer lines of code. I bet it is, once you get past the initial irritation… Like why can’t I [...]...
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