Posted in Freeware on May 18th, 2010
When a bundle of free software boasts features beyond what the Windows 7 System Image tool can do, I’m typically doubtful. However in the case of the free product Comodo Time Machine, they deliver. While not exactly allowing you to traverse the space time continuum, it can create system snapshots efficiently and protect you from unwanted system changes.
Posted in Microsoft on Mar 19th, 2010
Great news for all you groovyReaders who haven’t got a new PC yet this year. Microsoft has just announced that they will be making Windows 7 XP mode available to more users. To kick start this plan they’ve released an update which removes the…
Posted in Microsoft on Feb 14th, 2010
If your a systems Admin and you want to evaluate Windows 7 before you begin rolling it out to your customers, Microsoft has made it easy for you by providing pre-configured VHD files (virtual hard disk) already setup and ready for import into Microsoft’s new Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtual Server Platform / Hypervisor. The Windows 7 VM Image has a 90 day evaluation time bomb but, that should be plenty of time to play around and get prepare with your GPO’s and other testing with your BUIT apps. Let’s take a look.
Posted in Freeware, Release Alert, Virtual Server on Aug 28th, 2009
Today Microsoft released their Free Virtual Server Hypervisor Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 1.0 (not sure what’s up with the 1.0) and made it available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. The release candidate was released…
Posted in Geek Stuff on Aug 24th, 2009
Just came across a free offer from Microsoft Press. Looks like they are trying to get out the word it seems. Today the App-V Team Blog announced Microsoft will be giving away a…
Posted in Virtual Server, groovyRelease on May 5th, 2009
Today Microsoft released the Release Candidate for Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Full speed ahead it seems at Microsoft. Microsoft is trying to narrow the gap with VMWare with the R2 release of Hyper-V Server but they still have a long way to go… …
Posted in Virtual Server on Feb 5th, 2009
Recently in our groovy Community Forum, goLfie (one of our groovy readers) asked a Question about Computer Component Advice. Over time the discussion turned to questions about building a Virtual Server. …
Posted in groovyRelease on Dec 19th, 2008
Today Microsoft released Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (Sp1). It’s a big release which is why I thought I was worth a mention this morning.
Although I’m not using it on any of my Production systems yet, DPM is a…
Posted in Freeware, Virtual Server, Windows Server, groovyRelease on Oct 2nd, 2008
Last month I attended the Get Virtual Now event Microsoft hosted. Bob Muglia announced they were working on and would be releases within 30 days a Free Standalone HyperVisor called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
I was very happy to discover…
Posted in Virtual Server, Windows Server on Jul 31st, 2008
So, you’ve successfully migrated a few Virtual Servers Guests to Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V but now you want to manage the Hyper-V Server remotely from another…