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Microsoft virtualisation news
Some time back, there was talk of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (then called SCVMM vNext) shipping within 90 days of Hyper-V. This link was later denied, or at least downplayed (depending upon who you spoke to at Microsoft) but it seems that...
Microsoft's Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool has been released
One of the problems associated with virtualisation is "virtual sprawl" - the proliferation of virtual machines (which can totally negate the idea of "server consolidation" if not carefully controlled. Management becomes critical -...
Virtual PC and Virtual Server updated to support the latest Windows releases
Those who thought (as I did until a few weeks back) that there would be no more Virtual Server development as Microsoft focuses its efforts on Hyper-V may be interested to hear that they have just announced an update for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 , providing...
Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
In my recent article about the realities of managing a virtualised infrastructure , I mentioned the need to patch offline virtual machine images. Whilst many offline images will be templates, they may still require operating system, security or application...
Microsoft's support policy for software running in a non-Microsoft VM
I'm troubleshooting some problems with my Exchange server at the moment and the ExBPA led me to a knowledge base article about running Exchange Server in a virtualised environment. Whilst reading that, I can across Microsoft knowledge base article...