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TechNet Webcast: Using Virtual Machine Manager and Windows PowerShell to Deploy HP Windows Server 2008 Academy Labs (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast summarizes the IT professional experience of using a Windows PowerShell script and Virtual Machine Manager to automate the deployment of Virtual Machines (VMs). It reviews the HP academy, introduce Virtual Machine Manager and its...
[March 24, 2008, 0:02]
Cray turns to Windows for new supercomputer line
News Microsoft's entry into the supercomputing market took another step on Tuesday as high-end system leader Cray announced plans for its first machine running the Windows HPC Server operating system. It said the machine will be "the world's highest...
[September 16, 2008, 16:55]
Unisys revamps server tools
News One new feature will let Server Sentinel software move a computing task from one server to a backup machine if the software decides the primary machine is about to fail, said Jon Burns, director of Unisys' Sentinel programme.
[March 25, 2003, 10:22]
Microsoft blesses VM technology
News Many companies don't realise that Microsoft requires a license for every copy of Windows running, whether on a physical or virtual machine. To some, it was a great way to use the extra cycles and machine resources sitting idle in the data center...
[March 11, 2003, 8:25]
Windows Services for Unix 3.5 review
Reviews The NIS server allows the Windows machine on which you’ve installed SFU to act as the NIS master for all the Unix systems on your network. This typically includes shell scripts to automate various tasks, but can include running applications written...
[April 5, 2004, 15:55]
Microsoft: Virtualisation is over-hyped
News It took about the same time to deploy a virtual machine as it did a physical server," he said. The hype around virtualisation is so strong, literally the next thing that happens after you deploy it is VM [virtual machine] sprawl.
[February 29, 2008, 8:03]
Microsoft urges urgent action on Windows security hole
News Systems running beta versions of Microsoft Windows XP, as well as production versions of Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server have a bug that allows a remote intruder to run any code on the victim machine...
[June 20, 2001, 10:35]
Bug leaves Windows open to Java attack
News The three warnings, all issued on Wednesday, involve the Microsoft Virtual Machine for running Java applets on Windows; a cross-site scripting bug in a component of Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0; and a denial-of-service bug affecting Proxy...
[April 10, 2003, 11:30]
Microsoft, Red Hat kick off mixed virtualisation
News The move was first announced in February, when the companies said they intended to validate and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, as well as Windows Server running on RHEL using the Kernel-based...
[October 8, 2009, 12:19]
Fujitsu to unleash Itanium leviathan
News Fujitsu is expected to announce a major new server design in coming weeks, a wardrobe-size machine that uses up to 64 Itanium 2 processors and promises high-end features incorporating the company's mainframe expertise.
[February 25, 2005, 8:10]
Administer Windows from Linux with rdesktop
News For easier access, you can create a little script or an alias for each remote Windows machine you need to access. By default, rdesktop will use TCP port 3389 to connect to a Windows machine. With rdesktop, you can open a remote control session on a...
[November 26, 2002, 10:38]
Firm exposes WinNT security hole
News Microsoft advises customers that a long list of steps, posted at its site, should be taken whenever an NT/IIS machine is placed on the Net as a Web server. The engineers quickly realised that the bug could be exploited not only to crash the NT...
[June 17, 1999, 9:04]
What .Net actually means for CIOs
News Virtual machine technology First of all, where the JVM interprets Java Byte Codes each time the program runs, the CLR compiles applications the first time they run into native machine code and then executes these compile images on subsequent...
[February 5, 2003, 14:34]
Linking Unix and Windows 2000, the Microsoft way
News If a Windows workstation requests a file, the Windows server retrieves the file from the Unix machine and passes it to the Windows workstation. This means that if a Windows client wants to access files and other resources from a Unix server, the...
[December 24, 2002, 22:21]
Microsoft's Muglia: No Azure in a box
News Instead, he said, Windows Server, System Center and Virtual Machine Manager will get a lot better at operating in a cloud-based environment, while still offering customers lots more choice. We will be taking our Virtual Machine Manager product and...
[July 15, 2009, 16:52]
Microsoft changes course on licensing
News Starting with Windows .Net Server 2003, which is slated for release in April, businesses also will have the option of purchasing CALs per user, rather than just per machine. Under the current model, a person who connects to a Windows 2000 Server...
[December 3, 2002, 8:08]
VMware demo reveals ESX 4.0 features
News The current version of ESX Server supports a maximum of 64GB RAM and four CPUs per virtual machine. In the demonstration, the Exchange server virtual machine was upgraded from 1GB to 4GB of RAM without a reboot.
[September 17, 2008, 13:51]
Hyper-V and SCVMM Cloning
White Papers Hyper-V servers and VMs can be centrally managed by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to enable centralized management and advanced features. This demo video shows Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM.
[October 15, 2009, 22:30]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment Then I realized that my Celeron test machine doesn't have a DVD reader! I haven't tried installing the ISOs yet and I will wait until I'm able to do it with a DVD burner installed in the Celeron test machine.
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment Depending upon what the Windows boxes are to be used for, it might be possible for you to run Windows in a virtual machine on the server. Things run slower in a virtual machine in any case. SAMBA is said to server Windows boxes better than Windows...
[May 28, 2007, 2:55]
