Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1 VHD download

 

New VHD available from Microsoft – Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Rc1. This VHD is really useful to get you going with FIM, because clean FIM installation and configuration can take pretty much time. You need to install all FIM components (and believe me, there are a lot of components), configure provisioning etc, etc.   Anyway, now with FIM 2010 VHD available for [...]

Windows Server 2008 R2 Free E-Book

Hello again. I am happy to announce that Microsoft published free Windows Server 2008 R2 E-Book (with two virtualization chapters), and you can download it from here (PDF file, 11.1 MB). Book has 200 pages and following chapters :
Introduction    xvii
Chapter 1    What’s New in Windows Server R2    1
Chapter 2    Installation and Configuration: Adding R2 to Your World    9
Chapter 3    [...]

Great new Bing feature – Visual Search

Bing.com just released new great, fun and useful feature called Visual Search. Visual Search is new type of search organized by categories and then when clicked on category, sorted by criteria. For example; open Bing.com/VisualSearch (before clicking on that link make sure your country/region is set to United States), click on Digital Cameras,  and then on [...]

Using Windows or not using Windows, that is the question.

Howdy… Herby I would like to mention great post written by my collegue Ilija Brajkovic on brajkovic.info. Found out why is Ilija prefering Windows, rather than other operating systems. Get some intersting facts, and conclusions about Linux, Mac and others… Read the rest of this entry here.

Replica inconsistent after mailbox database recovery with DPM on Exchange CCR

Yeah I know. You are probably wondering what does DPM or Exchange have to do with virtualization. Well it doesn’t, except that with DPM you can backup Virtual Server or Hyper-V virtual images, and Exchange is officially supported in virtual environment. Be that as it may, this post has really nothing to do with virtualization. [...]

Microsoft Office Service Pack 2

Office SP2 is published and it is available for download here. Among many other improvements I would like to mention here realy great improvement in Outlook performance:

Startup
Removes lengthy operations from initial startup.
Shutdown
Makes Outlook exit predictably despite pending activities.
Folder View and Switch
Improves view rendering and folder switching.

Try it and feel it.

Virtualization now and here

by Domagoj Pernar