Archive for June, 2009
Free Hyper-V training
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009I just wanted to share this short information with you: Microsoft is offering free Hyper-V training! Here is the copy-paste of the post found on Microsoft virtualization user group blog:
Microsoft is offering some free Hyper-V training. You will need to enter a specific access code 9350-Y2W6-3676 and sign in with your Live ID. The course [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 boot from VHD
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009One of the great new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ability to boot the operating system from VHD file. Why? Look at this example. My colleague, Ales Rosina, Microsoft Student Partner from Slovenia recently wanted to have Windows7 as a virtual operating system inside VirtualPC, for quick access, testing… [...]
Windows XP mode
Friday, June 26th, 2009As I wrote in my post Virtual PC is completely integrated in Windows 7, new Windows Virtual PC has new great feature, called Windows XP mode. It is free Windows XP operating system that you can download with a new Windows Virtual PC, you can of course run it virtually, but that’s not the point. [...]
Virtual PC on Hyper-V – is that possible?
Thursday, June 25th, 2009If you recall my previous post about trying to start Hyper-V virtual machine on Hyper-V virtual machine, you would see that it’s not possible. But what if you want to have Virtual PC (which does not have hardware requirements) on Hyper-V? Is that possible? Domagoj Pernar, Associate Consultant for virtualization technologies at Microsoft Croatia has [...]
Guest post – Web Start Contest Finals
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Web Start Contest is a competition in creating web start-up projects from the scratch. Students need to think of the idea, to document it an present and then to develop a project that implements the whole idea or solves greatest problems that are presented in the project plan. Read full report about Web Start Contest [...]
Hyper-V on Hyper-V – is it possible?
Sunday, June 21st, 2009As you all know, Hyper-V uses microkernelized hypervisor, which means that when you install Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008, it “sits” beneath Windows Server 2008 home operating system. Windows Server 2008 now acts as a “virtual” operating system, it is in the same level (ring) with other guest operating systems (see picture on the [...]
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Sunday, June 21st, 2009While continuing to develop Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is developing R2 version of it’s free virtualization product, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. As I said in my first post about Hyper-V Server 2008, Hyper-V Server 2008 is basically Hyper-V-only product (Microsoft is promoting it as a product, not as a operating system), that enables you to have Hyper-V on [...]
KulenDayz is the best conference
Thursday, June 18th, 2009In the past year and a half, from the moment I became Microsoft Student Partner, I attended quite few conferences, like Windays, Teched, Security Days… but after attending KulenDayz 2009 for the second time, I can see, for me, this is the best conference. From my report that I wrote a year ago, you can [...]
First MSP Adria workshop
Monday, June 15th, 2009From 4th to 6th of June, Microsoft organized first MSP Adria workshop that was held in Split, Croatia. There was 15 MSPs from Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia on this first workshop. With them came ADE from their country, Zoran Subic from Serbian sub, Oliver Zofic from Slovenian sub and Marko Sever from Croatian sub. Here is a [...]
KulenDayz 2009
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009This weekend I am going to attend KulenDayz 2009 conference, organized by Microsoft Community in Beli Manastir, little town in the eastern part of Croatia. I attended this conference last year, and here is my report from Kulen Dayz 2008. As you can see, I had great time last year, and I’m looking forward to [...]