- Hyper-V updated support for Linux - We are pleased to announce the release of the new Linux 3.1 Integration Services and support for the following Linux distributions as supported guests within Hyper-V: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (x86 & x64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86 & x64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (x86 & x64) CentOS Linux 6.x (x86 [...]
- VMWare changes costs - As all things seem to change the company that currently hold the largest virtual market has decided to change how you are billed today. This could increase cost for some customers by 2 – 4 x’s…….. The article below by Brian Madden provides incite to the changes……. http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2011/07/14/Is-vmware-screwing-the-non_2D00_view-vdi-community-with-the-vsphere-5-licensing-changes.aspx by Brian Madden Yesterday VMware announced Version [...]
- Microsoft releases Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 - Today Microsoft released Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0b55e26a-e969-4692-a0f3-36680bd49b01&displaylang=en
- Exchange report - I wanted to give a shout out to Steve Goodman who put togethor a little powershell script that you can run to produce a nice little html report of your exchange envrionment. Generate Exchange Environment Reports using Powershell Update 20th June – V1.1 – Bug fixes, Exchange 2007-only support in addition to 2010/2010+2007, and new features [...]
- Exchange 2010 Poster - Download the Exchange 2010 Architecture poster Exchange 2010 Poster
- Microsoft announces next version of Windows Phone update code name “mango” - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2015138442_windowsphone25.html Microsoft’s Windows Phone update smooth move Microsoft brands and products seemed to work together like organs in a body Tuesday in demonstrations of an updated Windows Phone code-named Mango. By Sharon Pian Chan Seattle Times technology reporter Related Slices of Mango HERE ARE new features in Mango update for Windows Phone.Integrating conversations. [...]
- Microsoft adds new Virtualization support for Exchange 2010 SP1 - The Unified Messaging server role is supported in a virtualized environment. Combining Exchange 2010 high availability solutions (database availability groups (DAGs)) with hypervisor-based clustering, high availability, or migration solutions that will move or automatically failover mailbox servers that are members of a DAG between clustered root servers, is now supported. Read more here http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/16/announcing-enhanced-hardware-virtualization-support-for-exchange-2010.aspx
- Free Virtualization training - Microsoft has recently posted a free training course to assit IT professionals with many virtualization questions https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/Studies/EducationDetails.aspx?id=41&o=42
- Why does my Virtual Machine show a 10GB Nic - Article by:Jeff Woolsey Question of the Day Q: When I go to the network control panel within a virtual machine, the connection speed is displayed as 10.0 Gb/s. I don’t have a 10 Gb/s network adapter in my system. What’s the explanation? A: We have to label the Hyper-V virtual NIC with some moniker and [...]
- Apple, Google tap phone location data: report - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42717490/ns/technology_and_science-security By Suzanne Choney and Rosa Golijan Apple’s iPhones and Google’s Android phones send back data about the locations of the users to the technology companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. And at least two members of Congress are pushing for more information about why it’s happening. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., has asked [...]