Archive for March, 2010
Linux Integration Services v2.1 Beta for Hyper-V Now Available
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Microsoft just announced the availability of the beta version of Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V (version 2.1). In addition to the existing features (networking, storage, and fastpath boot), the 2.1 release adds the following:
SMP support for Linux workloads
Linux virtual machines running on Hyper-V will be able to use up to 4 virtual CPU’s
Timesync
Linux VM’s [...]
XIA Enterprise winner announced
Monday, March 29th, 2010After two weeks, it is time to announce a lucky winner of the XIA Enterprise (Bundle 2) software. All Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Virtualization blog visitors had a chance to participate in a raffle and get this software which can help them to get a lot of information about their infrastructure. Using random.org, we [...]
What is RemoteFX?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010A few days ago Microsoft announced a new technology called RemoteFX? What is that, one could ask. RemoteFX is not a standalone product, it’s a set of RDP technologies which will allow users of virtual desktops or virtual applications to receive a rich 3D, multimedia experience while accessing information remotely. With Microsoft RemoteFX, users [...]
Speaking at the Windays 2010 conference
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Last two years I had a chance to attend the Windays conference. Windays conference is the largest IT conference in Croatia, and one of the biggest in the region. This year I was selected to be a speaker! I will be speaking about Windows Server 2008 R2 technical features. I will be speaking about [...]
Report from the ITPRO User group meeting
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Microsoft ITPRO User group Split had an meeting last Thursday. After more than a year of inactivity, I decided to become a user group lead and start organizing events. On our first (third in total) meeting we had around 35 guests who came to listen a lecture about NLB clustering. I am very happy [...]
7 more days to win a XIA Configuration Server 2010
Tuesday, March 16th, 20107 days ago I wrote a post about XIA Configuration Server 2010. I decided to organize a raffle and give one license for this application to one lucky sys admin. This application is worth $1130!!! I had very little interest from my readers for this raffle so far, so you have a really big chance [...]
[RAFFLE] XIA Configuration Server 2010
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 XIA Configuration is designed to provide administrators with a single web interface for maintaining technical documentation for their networks. XIA attempts to engage a wider range of technologies and in greater detail than many traditional inventory products.
At the time of writing the system supports the following item types.
Active Directory and Group Policy
Windows Servers [...]
MSCommunity ITPRO User Group Split meeting
Monday, March 8th, 2010After many months of inactivity, IT PRO User Group in Split will finally get together this Thursday at 18:15h at Faculty of Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and naval architecture (FESB), room C502. Because IT PRO (as well as Developers) user group was inactive for such a long time, I decided to start it again. [...]