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Client-side virtualisation support for Communicator (updated)
Microsoft has updated its support documentation for virtualised communications clients. New scenarios include: Office Communicator 2005 supports Terminal Services and Citrix MetaFrame only when Office Communicator is used for text chats and presence functions...
Posted 30 Sep 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Virtualisation architectural issues may have been overcome by Microsoft Research
A number of benefits can be realised with the take on of Vitualisation in the data centre, but with this comes a number of shortcomings. These issues are discussed and potentially addressed in a paper published by Microsoft Research. Taken from Computerworld...
Posted 22 Aug 2009 by Adam Jacobs | 1 comment(s)
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Windows Blog talks up Med-V
To ensure XP hold-ons make the jump to Windows 7 Microsoft have launched "Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation" or "Med-V". From a "very" high level this provides a virtual version of XP that can host legacy XP applications...
Posted 8 Aug 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Virtual PC RC and XP Mode RC for Windows 7 RTM released
Virtual PC overview: Windows Virtual PC (RC) is the latest Microsoft virtualization technology that allows you to run many productivity applications on a virtual Windows environment, with a single click, directly from a Windows 7-based PC. For more information...
Posted 4 Aug 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Let us not forget Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has RTM'ed
We should not forget that with a new version of Windows Server comes an updated Hyper-V (Hyper-V Server 2008 R2), this brings a wealth of new functionality and gives VMware's equivalent a real kicking! "Market dominant VMware has something to...
Posted 30 Jul 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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VMware eats humble pie
Update on the Virtualisation debacle: At long last Scott Drummonds from VMware has come to his senses and apologised in the VMware blog post: "I made a bad call. About a month and a half ago, I anonymously posted a YouTube video depicting a controversial...
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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OCS 2007 R2 support under Hyper-V made crystal clear
In case it was not already clear Enda over at the TechNet Ireland Blog has just posted an article on OCS virtualisation-friendly roles. Source: here
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and AMD's 6-core Opteron
Hello, this is Bryon Surace . I’m a senior program manager on the Windows virtualization team at Microsoft. The recent announcement by AMD regarding the 6-core AMD Opteron processor (codenamed ‘Istanbul’) marks another milestone in AMD’s...
Posted 10 Jun 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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VMware still keeping alleged Hyper-V crash under wraps
VMware in early May alleged that there was a fault under the hood of Hyper-V, since this statement they have not been playing nice with Microsoft. The Microsoft Virtualisation Team is desperate to address any issues with Hyper-V by means of hotfix etc...
Posted 8 Jun 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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HP Insight integrates with System Center
Recently published over at the Windows Virtualisation Team Blog... Hello - I’m Zane Adam, senior director of System Center and Virtualization marketing at Microsoft. I wanted to share some exciting news related to Microsoft’s virtualization...
Posted 2 Jun 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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VMware Marketing guy continues to look stupid in desperate attempt to slam Hyper-V
Well it just seems to keep heating up in the world of "who has the best hypervisor" (well I know, Hyper-V ehum) and Jeff has made another great post over at the Windows Virtualisation Blog.
Posted 19 May 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 supported Virtually (except voice & video)
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is now officially supported Virtually. However voice, video, live meeting and desktop sharing roles must still be run physically (and not on the Virtual hosts either!) Q&A: here
Posted 13 May 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Running legacy XP applications in Windows 7
There has been quite a bit of buzz around a Windows 7 feature called "Windows XP mode", essentially the addition of Virtual PC for 7 including a Windows XP SP3 license. This feature could really help a number of businesses who have not yet widely...
Posted 27 Apr 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Windows 7, a big YES on backwards compatibility
As we all know by now one of the issues with Vista (when in its infancy) was mainstream driver support. With Windows 7 this seems to be a thing of the past, a good example is Virtualisation, I remember that Virtualising Vista was almost impossible with...
Posted 24 Apr 2009 by Adam Jacobs | 1 comment(s)
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