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With Service Pack 1 now released for Hyper-V R2 it is about time to start deploying it and updating your VMs.  As with anything there is a process to follow to ensure that everything goes smoothly and that the virtual machines can take advantage of all the features available in SP1.  We’ve already covered these new features in articles ...

Almost all workloads are now supported on one virtual platform or another.  There is a knowledge base article from Microsoft that outlines the support policy of it’s products that will help you determine what level of host OS, guest OS and application version you need to be at to obtain support but how do you determine if a machine should be ...

Some time this week the last of the public IPv4 addresses will be distributed.  You read that right, no more public IPv4 addresses.  If you’ve been following along this might not be a surprise but if you’ve been buried under a pile of projects the last year or two you might have missed this.  Regardless now more than ever IPv6 is ...

There are a lot of webcasts, videocasts and resources available for those planning, piloting, deploying or managing Windows 7 at the Microsoft Springboard site.  There are case studies and stories of deployment success and while still relevant they are typically based around US customers and scenarios.  But we’ve got something totally ...

During the recent Deployment Deep Dive on Windows 7 Community Tour there were a few questions on how best to tackle an application compatibility problem.  There are a number of ways you can go about it from new apps, to shims to virtualization.  The other day Microsoft and ChangeBASE announced a partnership that will allow you to asses ...

During the course of EnergizeIT I got a few questions about how to maintain your library of offline VMs that you have built for your test/lab environment or you have stored for various reasons.  I had mentioned the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Toolkit and saw today that they kicked off the beta for v3. VMST 3.0 helps customers more ...

He’s back!  On April 29th, join Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich, as he will be leading a discussion around the process of planning, testing, assessing and rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise organization.  Having just finished up the Windows 7 Deployment Deep Dive Community Tour I know there are a lot of plans to deploy ...

Webcast, video cast, white papers, resource links, there are plenty of all of these scattered throughout the web.  Finding them and having them available when and where you need them can be a challenge.  Searching, missing plugins, and a requirement to be online all pose challenges to access the information we want when we want it.  ...

As part of EnergizeIT 2010 we have partnered with RunAs Radio to produce some podcasts on Office 2010.  In this episode Richard and Greg talk to Nick Simons about the upcoming Microsoft office Web Apps. Web Apps are lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote available through Sharepoint 2010 or soon via Windows Live SkyDrive. ...

It’s obvious by the number of comments to Rick’s post, and my last post on Azure, that there are a lot of questions still on your mind in regards to cloud computing.  IT Pro Technical Evangelist Joey Snow and Senior Architect Evangelist Brian Prince are back at it again! This time Brian gives the white board a workout as he describes the ...