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Microsoft announced last week that they have a new tool to work for P2V desktops. Simply put this tool will allow you to desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.The tool works with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and/or System Center Configuration Manager plus the Disk2VHD virtual hard disk solution […]
Here is a overview of all the supported command line options in App-V. The table describes the Microsoft Application Virtualization (also known as App-V), command-line parameters that are available for the Microsoft App-V 4.5 Management Server. Parameter Value(s) Description OPTIN True\False Configures the MU optin. USERNAME String value that specifies the user name who is performing […]
Microsoft has now have released a fully configured virtual machine for ConfigMgr v.Next Beta 1. Based on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 OS, this is a fully built virtual machine ready to import into your Hyper-V environments. This is something the ConfigMgr team over at Microsoft has done for a few major releases, starting […]
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MEDV) provides companies with a way to provide virtual machines to end users that are managed centrally. It helps solve application compatibility problems – you can give users a virtual machine with their legacy apps, and the apps appear to run seamlessly side by side with other apps on their Windows […]
Microsoft today announced the availability of The RD Gateway Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2.The document contains scalability results, testing methodologies, analysis, and guidelines for RD Gateway. It describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate capacity for specific deployments, and a set of experimental results […]
When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. These components take advantage of the new high-speed bus, VMBus, which […]
With the release of Beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 a number of you have asked about Service Pack 1 for the standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, and whether the new capabilities of Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX will be available for it. Absolutely, both Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX have been […]
Here is a list of good Hyper-V Tools. Some of them also gives you the ability to use them with Citrix XenServer, since they are based on the VHD image format. Wim2VHD Creates a Windows Server 2008/Vista/Win7 VHD from media in 5 minutes. VHDtool Command-line tool for VHD manipulation including instant creation of large fixed-size […]
From an App-V point of view, this deployment method is not too complicated, but there are some aspects that have the potential to cause confusion in the community and with this I hope to avoid the confusion and hopefully, one can test, play and deploy this method with confidence. In this article, we will discuss […]
Although customers can already download version 4.6 of Microsoft Application Virtualization, Microsoft is now offering for download the second major upgrade to its predecessor. Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.5 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available through the Microsoft Download Center, bringing to the table the latest updates to App-V 4.5. The main changes highlighted by […]
