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Project Server 2010 Beta ensures organizations select and deliver the right projects, while gaining greater visibility and control of resources leading to improved productivity and better business performance.

Participate in the Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta and be the first to see how the innovative new capabilities can help organizations to:

    * Capture all types of work in a centralized demand management repository
    * Select the right project portfolios and maximize resource utilization
    * Build and conveniently update project schedules online
    * Create powerful dashboards and project reports


By adding Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta, enjoy powerful, visually enhanced ways to successfully manage and deliver a wide range of projects. Easier and more intuitive, Project Professional 2010 provides flexible choices to simplify planning, collaboration and resource management....

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 is a comprehensive management solution for the virtualized data center. It enables increased physical server utilization, centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator, delegated administrator, and authorized end users.

VMM 2008 R2 can manage all of the virtualization platforms that can be managed by VMM 2008 and adds support for Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes significant feature improvements to Hyper-V. VMM 2008 R2 leverages these new platform enhancements and extends the feature set of VMM 2008.

This download consists of five files that you extract into a single pre-configured VHD file. This VHD enables you to create a virtual machine to evaluate Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2....

Taylor Brown: This is a follow up on my previous post on Hyper-V WMI: What VHD’s/Physical Disks Are Associated With a Virtual Machine?.  I had been getting questions about how to better identify what disks are connected to what bus location/controller.  Specifically I have been getting a lot of questions about how back up or copy just the VHD that the guest sees as drive letter C or D etc… I wrote a revised script that gives a bit more information specifically the controller addresses and the Instance ID of the controller.  The reason that’s interesting is that you can determine that the C volume is on Disk Number 1 and that Disk Number 1 is connected to IDE Port 0/1 and on the parent you know that IDE Port 0/1 is backed by S:\vhds\foo.vhd well then you know what to backup…  So what about SCSI controller’s?  Well they are a bit more challenging but not to much – if you look at the PNP ID of the controller its VMBUS\ where the GUID is the same as the first GUID in the WMI instance id for the controller on the management OS. ...

Mark Harission writes: Just replaced my primary hard disk with a SSD - big performance improvements. These are the timings to start a SharePoint VM from scratch to displaying the first portal page. SSD disk : VHD and state files Slow secondary disk :...

Charles Sterling: I just started playing with Hyper V images for the Team System team and noticed the directory of our primary image contains 48 gigabytes of AVHD files! Looking it up on Technet it turns out AVHD files are Snapshots….Fair Enough...

Charles Sterling: I was in the process of installing Windows Server 2008 64 bit to be able to run Hyper V when I realized this is not a requirement. Turns out you can run Hyper V created VHD’s with Virtual PC as long as you have installed Virtual...

Cory: I have been trying to clone a Virtual Machine for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008. I have used the VM for a while and taken snapshots. I have finally found a way how to do it! Firstly you can not copy the VHD if there are snapshots . (The VHD will...

The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Virtual PC, Virtual Server 2005 and Hyper-V that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers...