Tag: Microsoft

FreeBSD Support for Windows Server Hyper-V announced

FreeBSD is now officially supported by Microsoft in Hyper-V. In order to achieve this Microsoft collaborated with NetApp and Citrix. Here is the official announcement at Microsoft blog.

Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell RC is available

Microsoft® Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell®  helps scripters find Windows PowerShell scripts, snippets, modules, and how-to guidance in online repositories such as the TechNet Script Center Repository, PoshCode, local or network file systems and Bing Search Repository. Microsoft® Script Explorer enables:

  • Integrated community and Microsoft resources to help you unlock the power of Windows PowerShell.
  • Seamless searching across online repositories to locate script samples relevant to you.
  • Establishing and searching local, network, and corporate script repository is easy.

I recommend this application to every engineer who uses PowerShell. It will help you to find PowerShell solutions more easily.

You can download the tool from here.

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages – Microsoft vs. VMware

More than a dozen videos were released at Technet site related to Hyper-V and System Center 2012. These videos are 4 courses part of Microsoft Virtual Academy. All these videos compare Microsoft Technologies against VMware’s. Even though these videos are created by Microsoft they show very accurate the difference between the technologies that are compared. We can see that how Microsoft is turning from follower to a leader in a lot of areas in the Virtualization and the Private Cloud. No further explanation is needed you can just watch the videos and make up your mind for the capabilities that both companies offer:

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Hyper-V Server 2012 over VMware ESXi 5.0

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of System Center 2012 over VMware’s Management Technologies

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over VMware vSphere 5.0

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Competitive Advantages of the Microsoft Private Cloud over the VMware Private Cloud

BUILD 2012 Conference Announced

Microsoft announced on their official blog that the next BUILD Conference will be held on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., from October 30 to November 2. More information read here.

Microsoft IT and their Private Cloud

Microsoft published for download 3 documents on how Microsoft IT (Microsoft internal support) implemented the Private Cloud. The documents are general documentation and can be downloaded from these links: