Today, I am happy to announce immediate availability of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Beta. At TechEd EMEA we announced our commitment to ship the next version of App-V in H1 2010. In March of this year, as part of the MDOP 2009 launch, we indicated that the development of App-V 4.6 was underway. [...]
Aug
10
2009
10
2009
The Official MDOP Blog : App-V 4.6 Public Beta now available for download!
Jun
29
2009
29
2009
Terminal Services Team Blog: User Profiles on Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services
This blog post contains a high-level overview of different types of profiles, considerations for choosing a profile solution for your deployment, highlights of new profile features in Windows Server 2008 R2, and a best practices recommendation for deploying roaming user profiles with folder redirection in a Remote Desktop Services environment.
User Profiles on Windows Server 2008 [...]
Mar
13
2009
13
2009
New White Paper on Hyper-V and SQL Server Consolidation at Microsoft
Very timely. We were just having this discussion the other day.
New White Paper on Hyper-V and SQL Server Consolidation at Microsoft
A new white paper on how Microsoft IT is combining Hyper-V and SQL Server has just been published. This comes from a team that provides thousands of SQL Server instances for internal applications. [...]
Dec
12
2008
12
2008
Exchange Servers and Virtualization
This topic provides the Microsoft support policies for running currently supported versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in production in a hardware virtualization environment. This topic also provides recommendations for running Exchange Server in production in a hardware virtualization environment.
Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments
Oct
1
2007
1
2007
Project Pictor at Jeff Muir
An old article from last year about an initiative to help with graphically intensive
applications. I have seen some forum posts that suggest this may be part of the longhorn-version
release of Citrix.
Excerpt:
As you may have heard, we have a project code-named Pictor. This project is derived
from work done with Boeing to improve the responsiveness [...]
Jul
19
2006
19
2006
Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Softricity
REDMOND,
Wash. — July 17, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has completed the acquisition
of Softricity Inc., a leading provider of application virtualization and dynamic streaming
technologies. Virtualization is a key technology for reducing the cost and complexity
of IT management, and the addition of Softricity is another step in Microsoft’s ongoing
strategy to make virtualization more broadly [...]