VolkerW's WebLog

MSDN subscribers have access to the beta 1 version of Visual Studio 2010. Go download the awesome beta 1 of Dev10 and the .Net Framework 4 from MSDN .

Microsoft Press celebrated 25 years of publishing. Congratulations! As part of their ongoing celebration they give away free e-books. The latest 2: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit , by Christa Anderson and Kristin L. Griffin with the...

Today Microsoft made available the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Based on Windows Server 2008 R2, the CTP is a preliminary release, allowing an early preview of planned functionality for HPC Server 2008 R2. Check...

This morning Steve Ballmer announced the new Microsoft search engine at D7 . The product’s name is Bing. Bing will launch on June 3rd at http://www.bing.com . Bing goes beyond just search. Find out at decisionengine.com . With Bing, Microsoft wants to...

Just got word about an amazing collection of resources about Hyper-V and virtualization in general. Anything you ever wanted to know about Hyper-V but didn’t know where to find. Hyper-V Technical Information and Resources for IT Professionals Technical...

There’s a series of great screen casts up on Channel9. In just 10 minutes you will get a basic aunderstanding on how to implement/use the new feature. Each episode also includes downloadable source code : Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Overlay Jump Lists Preview...

"There are a number of ways to invite Linux, UNIX, and OS X to the Windows Server Active Directory party. The operating systems we use today will interoperate in many ways because each includes some level of common protocol support. Support for HTTP...

Jeff Woolsey – after the #TechEd session – posted an update on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on the Virtualization team blog . Here’s test gist of it: Support 64 logical processors 384 concurrently running VMs per server Greatly enhance processor compatibility...

The TechNet Edge Lounge is back. Like the year before, Microsoft worldwide ITEs host friends, guests and celebrities at the lounge for IT Professionals, Developers, Architects, basically everyone at TechEd US. You find the lounge in TechEd’s center of...

Last week TechEd 09 happened in LA. The Edge team talked to a lot of important and interesting folks at the event. You can watch all videos on the portal. Look for the teched09 tag. BTW, the team did not manage to finish and upload all interviews....