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Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:38 AM

HPC on the Edge

Great new interview over on the Edge with Kyril Faenov, the general program manager of HPC: http://edge.technet.com/Media/An-interview-with-Kyril-Faenov-on-High-Performance-Computing-HPC--Windows-Compute-Cluster-Server/ . Check out this site for follow
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:17 AM

VMM: Ops and Planning and Deployment Content Released

New in the SCVMM library today: Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment Installing and Configuring Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Tutorial: Getting Started Creating Virtual Machines and Operations You already knew about Virtual Machine Manager
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:55 AM

Edgey: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Overview

You already knew that *IT Pros have their own " Channel 9" now, right? It is out on the Edge . Check out Matt's Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Overview . Actually, the Edge is not C9, and it is not Facebook for IT, but it IS the place IT Pros can
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:33 AM

Holidays Come Early for IT Pros: $100 Off TechNet Plus Subscription

Thanks to chenley , who notes on his blog and in his webcast ( Deploying Remote Programs with Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services ) that you can get $100 of TN+ sub using the code : TMSAM03 This subscription also includes 2 free support calls to the
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:32 PM

VMM: Scripted Backup

Chris Wolf published an article on scripting backup of VMs here ( vsbackup.vbs ), based on Jeff Trumbull's VB backup script . His vsbackup.vbs script is shown in the code here: Set objShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") 'Load current date (formatted
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:18 PM

Workplace Writing Tips for IT Pros

According to this MSN article : "No matter what field you’re in or position you hold, the ability to communicate clearly, concisely and credibly in writing is a required and important skill for advancement in any organization." "The next time you’re writing,
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Monday, November 12, 2007 8:32 PM

Virtualization: And Oracle Makes Three

Is it just me, or is it getting crowded in here? According to this story : "Customers can download "Oracle VM" for free starting on Wednesday , the company said. Oracle will sell service contracts for the product ranging from $499 to $999 per year." According
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Friday, November 09, 2007 10:27 AM

VMM: IPD For Virtualization

The IPD for Virtualization is available in the donwload center . Infrastructure Planning and Design guides include: Definition of the technical decision flow through the planning process. Listing of decisions to be made and the commonly available options
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Friday, November 09, 2007 10:24 AM

VMM: Vox Populi

For October 1997: top 10 most-visited pages on the TechCenter (including the Library) were: o System Center Virtual Machine Manager TechCenter (home page) o Evaluate System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 o Evaluate System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Friday, November 09, 2007 10:16 AM

VMM: SAN Deployment

You can deploy Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) in an environment that has either a Fibre Channel or an iSCSI storage area network (SAN) and perform SAN transfers within VMM; however, your system must be properly configured as described in this topic in
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:59 AM

IT Pros: Finally an online game for you

Visio is running a contest/promotion/giveaway for IT Pros that shows some nifty prizes available: check out The Visio 2007 IT Pro Game Interested in breaking up your day with a hand of poker? How about learning more on how to visualize, explore, and communicate
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:41 AM

VMM: Son of FAQ - including "what is offline P2V?"

More FAQs: Q: Is there a way I can tell if a machine in my inventory is virtual? A: If the registry key -- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine is present, the machine is a VM. Q: What are the best cost/performance hard drives for hosts?
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:10 PM

VMM: Scripting Guide Goes Live

The VMM Scripting Guide is now available in the download center. The Virtual Machine Manager Scripting Guide explains how to create Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripts that execute Virtual Machine Manger 2007 commands, and provides more thatn 100 pages
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Monday, November 05, 2007 4:14 PM

VMM: Discover the Technical Library

Our first month's metrics about visitors to the VMM Technical Library worried the PTB, so they asked me to cruft up an alternate nav scheme. Here's a list of what I anticipate will the top-most-visited areas of the library... ...notice the self-fulfulling
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:58 AM

VMM: New Linux Additions for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

A new version of the Linux Additions for Virtual Server is now available from the Microsoft Download Center via the following webpage: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguestsupport.mspx These new Additions add support for
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