Archive for November, 2009
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Monday, November 30th, 2009With virtualized workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. Whilst large companies can use products such as System Center Data Protection Manager to back up multiple servers, that may not always be appropriate for and, in this video, Mark Wilson takes a look at backing up a Hyper-V deployment using the Windows [...]
How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?
Monday, November 30th, 2009 Not all virtualization deployments run on huge farms of clustered servers. In this video, Mark Wilson shows how to create a failover cluster for high availability with both nodes running virtualized on Hyper-V.
Length: 18 minutes 49 seconds
The Microsoft Security Update Guide
Friday, November 27th, 2009Just a short share for you: The Microsoft Security Update Guide is available to download. This is 113-pages document that has been designed to help IT professionals better understand and use Microsoft security release information, processes, communications, and tools. In this Guide, you will find a convenient glossary of terms, an overview of the [...]
System Center Influencers Program
Friday, November 27th, 2009The Influencer Program is a community program that will give influencers — user group leads, MVPs, popular bloggers, and others recognized as influential in the community around System Center — the technical training, content, people connections, and general guidance they need to enhance their credibility and impact in the community. This program is intended [...]
Looking for an internship
Monday, November 23rd, 2009As you are maybe aware of, I am student of the Computer science at the University of Split, Croatia. Next semester (starting at March) I have to write my master’s thesis, and I want to write something about computer networks. I can choose the subject, take some book, online tutorials etc. and write about [...]
PowerShell pack and PowerShell cheat sheet
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Power Shell is becoming widely used tool for Windows system administrators. PowerShell 2.0, which is also included in Windows 7, brings many new improvements and cmdlets for Windows Diagnostics, Active Directory, Internet Information Services (IIS) and more. It supports branching, looping, functions, debugging, exception handling, and internationalization. Learning PowerShell should be must-do for all [...]
Free physical to virtual tool Disk2vhd
Monday, November 16th, 2009Till now, if you wanted to convert your host operating system to virtual one, you had to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It is great product, but it costs some money. But thanks to guys from Sysinternals, now you can create VHD file from your host operating system for free. They have [...]
How to install an application in XP Mode?
Monday, November 16th, 2009I don’t have any old application which doesn’t work on Windows 7, but two weeks ago I needed to test Windows XP Mode and show it during presentation to high-school teachers (here is the info on how to deploy Windows XP Mode). I was very surprised how easy is to install application in XP Mode [...]
Going to Sinergija conference
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Next week, from Nov 17th to Nov 19 I will be in Belgrade, to attend Sinergija conference. Sinergija is Serbian version of the Windays conference that we have here in Croatia, and I am looking forward to go there and compare these two events, as I compared Windays with TechEd conference a year ago. [...]
VIDEO: Hyper-V Virtual Networks Overview
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009As me and some of my readers noticed, lately I write a lot (or too much) about Windows 7. As this blog is about Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization, let’s get back on the track. I’ve just found nice video which has been made by Janique Carbone, where she describes Hyper-V virtual networks. In [...]
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