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Orchestrate Software Distribution with Windows Intune 2

 

Orchestrate Software Distribution with Windows Intune 2

A mere seven months after introducing its cloud-based PC-management service, Microsoft delivers a worthy update.

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Sean Deuby, Jeff James, and Michael Otey travel to Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 and discuss VMware’s Project Horizon and Horizon Mobile as well as their interview Microsoft’s Edwin Yuen regarding a study on private cloud that compares the cost of Microsoft’s private cloud to VMware solutions.

Virtualization Articles

Q: What are logical networks in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012?

By John Savill, 02/23/2012

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 includes management of computer, storage, and network fabrics, and it lets you define logical networks.

Q: How do I control which virtual machines use Virtual Machine Device Queues with Hyper-V?

By John Savill, 02/23/2012

Native Hyper-V lets you control which virtual machines use Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq).

Q: What is XDPing used for?

By Greg Shields, 02/22/2012

XDPing is a command-line tool used to check for common misconfiguration problems in a Citrix XenDesktop environment.

Product Review: VMware Protect Essentials Plus

By Orin Thomas, 02/22/2012

The capabilities of VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus go well beyond what's available in tools such as the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA).


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2011 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards

By providing two distinct perspectives on the market, our annual award programs offer a unique way to recognize the hottest products among the past year's offerings. ...

Q: What's the difference between a Catalog and a Desktop Group in Citrix XenDesktop 5.5?

Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 aggregates Catalogs, Desktop Groups, and Active Directory (AD) security groups together to dictate which users get what virtual machines (VMs)....


Editorial: Reasons to Virtualize SQL Server

There are several motivating factors that drive DBAs to virtualize SQL Server, including cost and power savings, improved hardware ROI, and improved availability....

Q: To see my machine’s virtualization capabilities, I’m trying to run Coreinfo -v on my Hyper-V server, but I'm not getting detailed information. Why not?

If Hyper-V is already enabled, it might be intercepting access to the CPU....


SCVMM 2008’s Virtual Machine Templates

SCVMM’s VM template feature lets you quickly and consistently provision VMs....

Q. Which edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 should I buy for my Hyper-V server?

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Product Review: VMware Protect Essentials Plus

By Orin Thomas, 02/22/2012

The capabilities of VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus go well beyond what's available in tools such as the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA).

Product Review: Acronis Backup & Recovery

By Eric B. Rux, 02/21/2012

If you have a hodgepodge of Windows, Linux, and virtual machines that need to be backed up by one product, Acronis Backup & Recovery delivers.

Q: How do I configure Citrix Web Interface 5.4 with XenDesktop 5.5 to deploy Citrix Receiver?

By Greg Shields, 02/21/2012

If Citrix XenDesktop's Web Interface doesn't install the Citrix Receiver client-side software, you'll need to make a change to Web Interface's webinterface.conf file.

Microsoft Windows Server 8 Hyper-V

By John Savill, 02/21/2012

New high-availability and migration features put Hyper-V ahead of the pack when it comes to machine virtualization.

Comparative Review: VMware Fusion 4.1 vs. Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac

By Jeff James, 02/20/2012

The competition between VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop has made both products better. Find out which one has the edge.

Q: Does Hyper-V support SR-IOV?

By John Savill, 02/20/2012

See which Windows Hyper-V version supports Single Root I/O Virtualization, the PCI-SIG standard.

Q: Does Windows Thin PC support touch?

By John Savill, 02/20/2012

Windows Thin PC would support touch if it could. Who wouldn't?


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Virsto Updates Hyper-V Offering, Brings Storage Virtualization to VMware vSphere

I recently interviewed Gregg Holzrichter, the VP of Marketing for Virsto Software, about two of his...

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Microsoft System Center 2012 Enables the Private Cloud

This past week Jeff James, Sean Deuby and I attended a Private Cloud Workshop that Microsoft held...

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System Center 2012 RC Ships, Showcases Revamped Licensing and Branding Strategy

Over the last decade or so, Microsoft's System Center product family has grown to resemble that...
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Hyper-V Live Migration FAQs

Without a doubt, the introduction of Live Migration with Windows Server 2008 R2 was that release's...

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VirtualizationPro Summit 2010, Part 1

Some highlights from last month's summit in Las Vegas....

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Xsigo uses supercomputer tech to improve virtualized networks

When you move from physical servers to virtual servers, you suddenly have a lot fewer NICs. Any...
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Windows Server 8: Hyper-V 3.0 Evens the Odds with vSphere

At the recent Windows Server Workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington Jeff Woolsey,...

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Virsto Updates Hyper-V Offering, Brings Storage Virtualization to VMware vSphere

I recently interviewed Gregg Holzrichter, the VP of Marketing for Virsto Software, about two of his...

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DATES: 3/26/2012-3/29/2012

LOCATION: Las Vegas, MGM Grand

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DESCRIPTION: The Windows Azure Platform is Microsoft’s cloud computing initiative supplying an operating system in the cloud— hosted in Microsoft data centers—in addition to data storage and other infrastructure and application services. Join us Las Vegas and get a top to bottom view of the platform and what it means for your  business.

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