Monthly Archives: December 2008

Microsoft E-Learning collection : Exploring Microsoft Virtualization Technologies

This is a free Microsoft E-Learning collection on Microsoft Virtualization technologies. I saw this linked to from the Systems Center Forum blog a while back. Collection 6333: Exploring Microsoft Virtualization Technologies This collection of three 2-hour online clinics and an … Continue reading

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Upgrading DPM 2007 to DPM 2007 SP1

With the release of Service Pack 1 for DPM, I then went on to test the installation on a test system. The installation was pretty straight forward. When you go to download the service pack, there are 3 files. One … Continue reading

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EBook on Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

There is an ebook download that covers the Microsoft Virtualization technologies, it covers Hyper-V, VMM, App-V, Terminal Services and some other technologies. The link to download the book is as follows. https://www.getvirtualnow.com/usevents/education/download/693371eBook.pdf Credit : Keith Combs

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 released

This is one I have been waiting on for a while. The ability to backup running Hyper-V machines is the feature that interests me most. There are some improvements for SQL 2008 and Sharepoint backups. More information at the DPM … Continue reading

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Virtual Machine Manager 2008 update – Error ID 13807

So in a previous post I was talking about the issues that I was having with getting VMM 2008 working with my test Hyper-V cluster. I was getting the error below when I was trying to add the cluster as … Continue reading

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration Analyzer

On the Microsoft download site, might be of interest if you are using VMM Brief Description Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration Analyzer (VMMCA) is a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings for computers that either … Continue reading

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