David Ziembicki on Infrastructure Architecture
Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud
The first part of a four-part article series titled Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud, by...
Date: 05/18/2011
Demo any Virtualization Scenario with this Portable Setup
This week I had some folks ask me about the hardware and setup I use for customer meetings and...
Date: 09/14/2010
VMM 2008 R2 in a Multi-Forest Environment
In my continuing work on building a private cloud offering with Hyper-V and System Center, I started...
Date: 09/13/2010
Managing Virtual Switches and Networks Across Hyper-V Hosts
I was asked a question this morning about the following customer requirement: “Managing virtual...
Date: 09/09/2010
10 VDI Resources for Microsoft + Citrix Implementations
While preparing for an upcoming VDI project I went through my archives and inventoried some trusted...
Date: 08/01/2010
RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory Documentation
Concurrent with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta (available here), a bunch of...
Date: 07/14/2010
From Virtualization to Dynamic IT
Issue 24 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal focuses on virtualization. My paper, From...
Date: 07/12/2010
Creating a Microsoft Virtualization Practice
With the release of Hyper-V R2 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, many service organizations are...
Date: 01/06/2010
The Year Ahead
What is a dynamic datacenter? How does a dynamic datacenter enable private cloud computing and fit...
Date: 01/05/2010
Private Clouds: Believe it or not?
Recently there has been some healthy debate around the validity of “private clouds” and whether such...
Date: 08/23/2009
Everything you ever wanted to know about VHDs
The Virtual Hard Disk Getting Started Guide is 61 pages of great info outlining all the relevant...
Date: 08/16/2009
Cloud Computing: Taxes Analogous to Atmospheric Pressure
In a blog posting earlier this week, the Azure team announced that they would be moving all Azure...
Date: 08/06/2009
TechReady9 Day 4 and 5 Wrap-up
Day 4 and 5 of TechReady were action packed, I didn’t even have time to post yesterday. I skipped...
Date: 07/31/2009
TechReady9 Day 3 Wrap-up
Day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and several very cool demos on UI futures, what’s...
Date: 07/30/2009
TechReady9 Day 2 Wrap-up
Day 2 at TechReady was packed with technical sessions, no keynotes. In the morning I attended a...
Date: 07/29/2009
TechReady9 Day 1 Wrap-up
TechReady is always motivating and day one of TechReady 9 was no different as thousands of folks...
Date: 07/28/2009
Great Advice
Sean Olson has a fantastic post called “What I Wish I Knew at 21”. Take five minutes and read it, I...
Date: 07/09/2009
Virtualization and Cloud Computing Real-time Feeds!
As mentioned here and in a few other posts, I’ve been using Friendfeed and Twitter quite a bit over...
Date: 07/07/2009
New Microsoft Security Site for Governments
A new Security section has been added to the government site on Microsoft.com. The site consolidates...
Date: 07/06/2009
Virtualization
Date: 07/06/2009
Cloud Infrastructure
Date: 07/06/2009
Dynamically Provisioning Customized Virtual Machines with VMM
There’s a good technical post over on Chris Adam’s blog about how to dynamically provision...
Date: 06/30/2009
Head-to-Head: Workflow Studio vs PowerShell for Automation
Here’s an interesting and slightly amusing mock debate between Brandon Shell and Jason Conger on...
Date: 06/28/2009
Threat Modeling Guide for IT Infrastructure
Over on the Solution Accelerators Security Blog is a post and link to the IT Infrastructure Threat...
Date: 06/22/2009
Download the Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0
The Hypervisor Functional Specification v2.0 for Windows Server 2008 R2 has been posted to the web...
Date: 06/22/2009
Published in the Microsoft Architecture Journal
I was able to get a small commentary on desktop virtualization and VDI published in the Microsoft...
Date: 06/18/2009
Free OCS 2007 R2 eBooks!
I’m liking this MS Press monthly free ebook program. Especially with my new Kindle DX! Last month it...
Date: 06/16/2009
Networking and Remote Desktop Technical Resources
The links below lead to a series of technical whitepapers on DirectAccess, BranchCache, and Remote...
Date: 06/12/2009
Excellent Data Center Article in the NY Times Magazine
The New York Times magazine has a very interesting article by Tom Vanderbilt on datacenters and the...
Date: 06/11/2009
White Paper: Comparing the Power Utilization of Native and Virtual Exchange Environments
The Exchange team has published a whitepaper on TechNet comparing the power utilization of a typical...
Date: 06/10/2009
Updated: Introducing the Azure Services Platform
The main introductory whitepaper to the Azure platform written by David Chappell has been updated....
Date: 06/02/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 to RTM in July!
The Windows Server Division blog announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 is tracking with Windows 7...
Date: 06/02/2009
Comparing MOF to ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000
Over on the MOF and Service Management blog, two new guides have been released detailing how the...
Date: 06/01/2009
New Remote Desktop Services VDI Step-by-Step Guides Released
New step-by-step guides have been posted for the new Remote Desktop Services (RDS) found in Windows...
Date: 05/26/2009
Clustering SQL Server Virtual Machines
When planning server consolidation initiatives, particularly if using a structured offering and...
Date: 05/25/2009
Free eBook: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit
The Terminal Services (now called Remote Desktop Virtualization) team has announced that the Windows...
Date: 05/23/2009
New Import and Export Features in Hyper-V R2
Good news from the virtualization team. Over on their blog is a new post about the import/export...
Date: 05/21/2009
Microsoft SDL: Get it to go
Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template. This was announced over on the...
Date: 05/19/2009
Social Bookmarking: How to know where to go…
Continuing the foray into social networking I started on a couple weeks ago, today’s topic is social...
Date: 05/16/2009
Hyper-V and VMM: Scale Up, Out, and to the Cloud
Between MMS and TechEd there have been a lot of announcements on the virtualization and cloud...
Date: 05/14/2009
Finding the Hidden Costs of VDI
Brian Madden has an excellent post up today called The hidden costs of VDI. I’ve been working nearly...
Date: 05/11/2009
Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!
So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very...
Date: 05/08/2009
Facebook for Windows Mobile
Microsoft has released Facebook for Windows Mobile. The application provides the following features:...
Date: 05/08/2009
NASA Launches Space Station and Rover Photosynths
From the press release: “NASA and Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash., released an interactive,...
Date: 05/08/2009
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC
The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been updated for the Windows 7 RC build. I’ve...
Date: 05/06/2009
Are Solid State Drives in your Windows 7 Future?
The E7 blog has an interesting article on SSD performance and optimizations made in Windows 7 to...
Date: 05/05/2009
Facebook via Silverlight and WPF
There was a lot of buzz last week with Facebook’s Open Stream API announcement. There were many...
Date: 05/03/2009
Running Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Laptop?
Robert has a good post up for folks wanting to run Windows Server 2008 R2 on their laptops. A lot of...
Date: 05/03/2009
Windows 7 RC Available: What a day for my MSDN to expire!
By now you’ve probably heard that the Windows 7 RC is available for download for TechNet and MSDN...
Date: 04/30/2009