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Customers looking to get started using the hypervisor that Microsoft provides with its latest version of Windows Server can watch the video embedded above in order to gain some insight into the technology.
Put together by Dave Northey from Microsoft Ireland, the video demo is focused on installing and getting Hyper... |
14 November 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Private Cloud Community Evaluation Program is just a few days from start, with the debut planned for November 1, 2011, but customers can still sign-up. All they need to do is head over to this page on Microsoft Connect.
The Redmond company’s considerable Cloud investments continue to grow at... |
28 October 2011
08:07 GMT |
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Early adopters running Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) as a hosted OS inside a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual machine might come across some issues, Microsoft confirmed.
The problem impact not just Windows 8 client, but also Windows Server 8 Developer Preview, both of which were r... |
27 September 2011
08:21 GMT |
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The evolution of the Windows 8 client includes some goodness from Windows Server 8, Microsoft has now confirmed, revealing that both platform flavors will feature a hypervisor.
Customers running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are undoubtedly familiar with Hyper-V, the machine virtualization techn... |
8 September 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 R2 does not support the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) feature which was recently introduced in AMD’s Bulldozer CPU’s. This detail has not changed with the advent of Service Pack 1, since Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is also not playing nice with AVX. As a direct result, customers ru... |
18 August 2011
08:18 GMT |
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Microsoft has moved onward with its plans to isolate the heart of Windows, and as such MinWin has evolved as the Redmond company made its way from Windows 7 to Windows 8. The next major iteration of Windows features in excess of 6,000 references to MinWin, that’s 60 times more than the 100 references sported b... |
4 August 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Detail on the upcoming Windows 8 client and Windows Server 8 operating systems are scarce at best, especially considering only the official information coming directly from Microsoft.Jeff Woolsey, the Principal Program Manager Lead for Windows Server Virtualization shared some additional info this week around the hy... |
3 August 2011
13:01 GMT |
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The currently supported RAM limit is bound to go up with the advent of Windows 8 client and Windows Server 8, if the evolution of previous Windows operating systems is to be taken into account. The next generation of Microsoft’s virtualization technology will also be able to play nice with more memory tha... |
2 August 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Version 3.1 of the Linux Integration Services Version for Hyper-V is now available for download from Microsoft. As was the case in the past, Linux Integration Services Version 3.1 for Hyper-V can be grabbed free of charge via the Microsoft Download Center. The resources are essentially a collection of drivers &ldqu... |
28 July 2011
10:00 GMT |
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The first sneak peek at Windows Server 8 is now available (just watch the video embedded below). Microsoft showcased the next iteration of Windows Server last week at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, as some Softpedia readers know by now, demoing one of what the company promised will be hundreds of new feature... |
19 July 2011
11:46 GMT |
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After Windows 8 was showcased at CES 2011, Computex 2011 and D9 events, it was the turn of “the other” Windows 8 to also be demoed, with Microsoft selecting its Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 as the venue to introduce some new details about Windows Server 8. Since Windows Azure is at the core of the c... |
13 July 2011
03:23 GMT |
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Microsoft is among a very select group of companies deemed as leaders in the x86 server virtualization infrastructure market by Gartner. The software giant is joining VMWare and Citrix Systems in Gartner’s x86 Server Virtualization Magic Quadrant at a crucial time when virtualization uptake is trending up with... |
9 July 2011
07:07 GMT |
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Customers that want to test the latest iteration of Microsoft’s unified communications offering but without all the hassles associated with setting up a testing environment, deploying the solution, etc. need to download the Lync Server 2010 virtual hard disk.
VHD Test Drive - Lync Server 2010 VHD is live o... |
11 June 2011
02:10 GMT |
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Microsoft regards virtualization as a stepping stone to private and public Clouds, and it should not be a surprise that the company is invested in driving adoption as much as possible. Part of the Redmond company’s strategy is to provide cost cuts as well as streamline IT operations, ensure reliability, boot e... |
7 April 2011
11:42 GMT |
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It shouldn’t really be a surprise that Microsoft prefers customers to leverage its own hypervisor technology for their virtual desktop infrastructure needs and not rival solutions.But the company has taken it one step further, providing a whitepaper titled “Hyper-V for VDI” in which it argues the c... |
1 April 2011
05:38 GMT |
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The release of the first upgrade for Windows Server 2008 R2 also impacts customers running the platform’s hypervisor role. In fact, this is perhaps an understatement, considering that Windows Server 2008 R2 received the most consistent changes with the advent of Service Pack 1, including two new features. Bot... |
19 February 2011
07:12 GMT |
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Windows Server 2008 R2 customers that are leveraging the platform’s hypervisor can grab a collection of updates from Microsoft designed to resolve a range of issues. The software giant made available a Hyper-V update rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 a while back, and posted the most recent revision at the end... |
16 February 2011
05:36 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a hotfix designed to resolve some problems related to the backup and restoring of virtual machines in Windows Server 2008 R2. According to the Redmond company, the issues have been dealt with and resolves will be provided with Service Pack 1 (SP1). However, the software giant has recently delive... |
22 November 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Microsoft partnerships with leading members of the open source community should no longer come as surprises, and the latest move from the Redmond company designed to open OpenStack to its hypervisor is illustrative of this. At the end of the past week, Microsoft, Rackspace and Cloud.com announced that they joined fo... |
25 October 2010
05:24 GMT |
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One of the tools included in the Windows Sysinternals suite has suffered a consistent upgrade in the latest update introduced to the package of tools developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. Some IT professionals are undoubtedly well aware of the LiveKd, and its associated functionality. By leveraging ... |
15 October 2010
09:03 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to make it easier for customers to resolve a few issues involving the hypervisor role in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Nehalem and Westmere CPUs. In this regard, the Redmond company has released update rollup package for the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008 R2 on August 24, 2010. The update roll... |
25 August 2010
07:30 GMT |
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Version 2.1 of the Integration Services Microsoft is offering for the open source Linux operating system is extremely close to finalization. On May 5th, 2010, the Redmond company started offering Linux Integration Services v2.1 Release Candidate to early adopters running mixed source environments. The RC development ... |
6 May 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a new server management tool designed to help IT professionals optimize the way they administer the hypervisor role included in the latest Windows Server operating system. Offered as an Update for Best Practices Analyzer for HYPER-V for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB977238), the utility... |
3 May 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Customers that are using Linux and Windows Server in the same environment can also turn to a free resource from Microsoft designed to enhance the performance of the open source operating system when used together with the Redmond company’s hypervisor role. Best Practices for Running Linux on Hyper-V is a whitep... |
29 March 2010
06:53 GMT |
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As of the end of the past week, customers running SAP will be able to leverage the latest iteration of the Windows Server platform along with the associated hypervisor from Microsoft. Starting with February 5th, 2010, SAP allows users to take advantage of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 in scenarios that also invo... |
10 February 2010
05:40 GMT |
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PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V is a rather self-explanatory label for any project, and to little surprise, it delivers just what it promises, namely a PowerShell management library for Microsoft’s hypervisor role in Windows Server. Put together by Microsoft Evangelist James O’Neill, the new Pow... |
8 February 2010
05:42 GMT |
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The Network Virtual Service Provider Bind is a free command line tool made available for download to customers running the company’s hypervisor. NVSPBind, for short, is designed to offer customers running core installations of Microsoft’s server operating system the same options as the network control pan... |
26 January 2010
07:32 GMT |
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The new version of Citrix’s virtualization management solution for Microsoft’s hypervisor is designed to streamline the adoption of site recovery for virtual environments. The promise is that Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V will not only simplify deployment, but also reduce complexity and the costs of ... |
16 December 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Microsoft has delivered a hotfix designed to resolve an issue in which virtual machines running in Hyper-V on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 are impacted by severe network instability. Customers running ISA Server, IAG, Forefront TMG or Forefront UAG on Hyper-V R2 might have already noticed that the connection betwee... |
14 December 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Microsoft is allowing customers to easily get an insight into the features that mark the evolution from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2. Of course, the company has documented all aspects of its Windows 7 Server, but fact of the matter is that some users might be discouraged when confronted with thousand... |
3 December 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Following the release to manufacturing of Windows Server 2008 R2, Citrix moved to provide its own virtualization management and automation solution tailored to the latest iteration of Windows Server. In this regard, while Microsoft delivered the R2 flavor of Windows Server 2008 along with the Hyper-V hypervisor techn... |
5 November 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Microsoft has wrapped up the next iteration of its standalone hypervisor and is now offering it for download to customers. As the Redmond company promised in the first half of the year, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 continues to be free even after the evolution to R2. The software giant promised that customers would ... |
31 August 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is on a mission to play its cards right in game over a larger share of the virtualization market. Little shy of taking jabs at the main competitors, the Redmond company is dangling consistent cost savings in front of potential customers provided that they switch from VMware solutions to its own virtualizati... |
28 August 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to manufacturing on August 24th, 2009, and is already permitting customers to test drive the solution. The gold development milestone of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 started being offered on the Microsoft Download Center at the begi... |
25 August 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Nissan North America Inc. has turned to Microsoft’s virtualization technology in order to shift server spending in reverse at two of its plants in the United States, namely Smyrna and Decherd. According to the Redmond company, the number of servers necessary to run manufacturing operations at the two locations ... |
19 August 2009
10:57 GMT |
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It’s that time again! Microsoft traditionally doesn’t allow the benchmarking of its products as long as the software is still in development, but both the Windows 7 client and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been released to manufacturing on July 22nd, 2009. The RTM status opens up comparison scenarios, but ... |
18 August 2009
12:00 GMT |
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Are you looking to test drive Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 without having to go through the hassles associated with the deployment process? Then Microsoft has the right download for you. The Redmond company is offering a trial version of Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 packaged as a virtual machine. Cust... |
10 July 2009
03:59 GMT |
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The first Mediaroom with virtualization service is coming to Europe by the end of this year. Microsoft revealed that it had inked an agreement with Viapass, for the adoption of Mediaroom as the French network services and telecoms operator's Internet Protocol television service. At the end of May 2009, the Redmo... |
9 July 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Following the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 Microsoft has literally joined its client and server operating systems at the hip. So much so that the client can stretch all the way to the server and manage the hypervisor role. This scenario was valid with the first service ... |
6 July 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Microsoft is working its way to release to manufacturing and subsequently to launch Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 Server) concomitantly with the Windows 7 client. The R2 version of Windows Server 2008 delivers the second-generation of Hyper-V. In this regard, the Redmond-based company is currently offering for do... |
22 June 2009
06:33 GMT |
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At the end of May 2009, Microsoft made available for download and started offering as an update the second service pack for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. In the time passed since the RTM of Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, bundled in the same package, the Redmond company revealed that it had seen &ldqu... |
18 June 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Customers running virtual machines leveraging the Microsoft server hypervisor role that are looking to update their server OS to the latest service pack release available can effectively cut access to virtualized platforms. Microsoft explained that the problem was associated with virtual machines put together with th... |
11 June 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Microsoft's Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform has evolved with the addition of virtualization support, the company informs. In this sense, the software giant becomes the first provider of IPTV platforms to bring virtualization to the world of IPTV. And in order to do this, the company is leveraging th... |
27 May 2009
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of applauding every technological success, no matter how small, especially when it could potentially end up in additional customers embracing its software products. The latest example in this regard is A & A Contract Customs Brokers, which adopted solutions from both Microsoft and NetApp. With... |
7 May 2009
09:54 GMT |
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It's a veritable Release Candidate fiesta over at Microsoft. Along with the latest development milestones for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the Redmond company has also released a variety of software in RC stage. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate accompanied the RC milestones of both Windows serve... |
6 May 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of serving VMware the same treatment that it is using to fight Apple. The Redmond company is betting on a numbers game strategy that makes all the sense in the world, especially in the context of the global economic downturn. With IT budgets shrinking and no end to the financial crisis in sigh... |
5 May 2009
05:47 GMT |
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The Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V are now live on the Microsoft Download Center, and up for grabs as version 1.0. Prior to being offered through the Download Center, the Linux Integration Components could be accessed only via Microsoft Connect. What Microsoft is essentially delivering i... |
17 April 2009
05:48 GMT |
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With the advent of Windows Vista Microsoft introduced Solution Accelerators, resources accompanying the operating system designed to streamline common processes and tasks. The strategy continued with Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft is committed to the model even for its hypervisor. The latest Solution Accelerator o... |
1 April 2009
07:46 GMT |
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Microsoft is applauding its virtualization and management solutions for enabling US ice cream manufacturer Wells’ Dairy to save no less that $500,000. However, at the same time, the Redmond company is using the opportunity to take a jab at rivals VMware, by advertising the cost advantages of its own products. A... |
30 March 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Citrix is expanding support for Linux running as Hyper-V guest operating systems. Having acquired XenSource, Citrix Systems continued with the Satori Project, an initiative initially from XenSource / Microsoft, designed to enhance the performance of Xen-ready Linux guest platforms running on the Hyper-V hypervisor. T... |
25 March 2009
06:35 GMT |
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