These documents include: 1) A What’s New in Windows 7 Guide, covering many new and changed Windows 7 features of interest to IT professionals, including DirectAccess, BranchCache and other networking technologies, VHD boot and other deployment technologies, and AppLocker, Biometrics, and other security technologies 2) A Windows 7 Manageability Overview Guide, covering the manageability improvements …
More Hyper-V docs
I found some more Hyper-V docs to read as well as some webcasts. Enjoy!! How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974012.aspx Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Machines by Using Hyper-V Virtualization Technology http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd578346.aspx
SQL Server MP update – 6.0.6569.0
The SQL 2000, 2005, and 2008 MP’s have been updated. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx Changes in this release, from 6.0.6460.0: Fixed performance issues caused by excessive CPU utilization and script timeouts from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries in the following management pack discoveries: Discover SQL Server 2005 Database Engines (Windows Server), Discover SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Windows …
Integrating Telephony with Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2
Brief Description This document describes the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 telephony integration strategy. You can grab it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8CDE0C3A-042E-445B-A514-2D12ED5B2AC2&displaylang=en
Try Office Communications Server 2007 R2
You can now download a complete pre-built test environment for trying out all these features of OCS 2007 R2. This environment contains prebuilt domain controller, exchange server and different flavours of OCS R2. They are all in a 60-day trial period. They are all VHD files and you will need Hyper-V to run them. You …
Download the Hyper-V Security Guide
The Hyper-V security guide has just been released. You can download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd569113.aspx About This Solution Accelerator The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization. Microsoft Hyper-V technology allows consolidation of workloads that are currently spread across multiple underutilized servers onto a …
Live Mesh Updated
Live Mesh has been updated: We are pleased to announce that our next update is now available. The new build contains a number of reliability and performance improvements; we’ve highlighted the key fixes below. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but …
.NET Framework v3.5 SP1 (Beta Installation) on Windows Server 2008
I am looking to run Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 to have a play with and thought I’d set myself a challenge of getting it up and running on a SQL 2008/2008 Server platform. Obviously one of the pre-requites of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 is SQL so I am using SQL 2008. This post …
Group Policy Articles
Here’s a link to some very good articles regarding Group Policy Refresh Cycle: http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/archive/2008/06/19/understanding-group-policy-and-preferences-refresh-cycles-part-1.aspx http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/archive/2008/06/23/understanding-group-policy-and-preferences-refresh-cycles-part-2.aspx
Implementing Windows Server 2008 Small Business Server RCO on HP Proliant servers
HP have released a document on HP Proliant hardware and software is required to run SBS 2008 RC0 on Proliant servers. You can read this document at: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01479108/c01479108.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN