There's no doubt that server virtualisation will fundamentally change the way IT administrators think of servers and service delivery. It's not hard to imagine a future where applications run on ...

It’s time to reign in the virtual machine revolution taking over your network. In the first part of a series of testing-based articles looking at the various virtual machine management tools available ...

On Monday, Microsoft will unveil forthcoming Service Packs for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), Systems Management Server (SMS) and Automated Deployment Services that will support Microsoft virtual ...

A few months ago when VMware released a free VMware Player, I challenged Microsoft to do the same. Not only has Microsoft answered, but they've gone a step further and made their Virtual Server 2005 ...

In the last installment of this article, we looked at building a basic development environment and took the first steps to learn about scripting for Virtual Server 2005 R2. We explored how to ...

Microsoft this week talked more about its Shielded Virtual Machines datacenter security technology. The idea behind Shielded VMs is to protect workloads in public and private datacenters from ...

Physical-to-virtual conversion is back in the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC). MVMC 3.0, made available for download Monday, has brought back the ability to do physical-to-virtual (P2V) ...

Secure and patch those powered-off Microsoft virtual machines with the latest version of Microsoft's free Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Microsoft has quickly updated its patch management ...

Microsoft is preparing an expansion of the Windows Azure virtual machine hosting technology that will let customers run either Windows or Linux virtual machines, as well as applications like SQL ...

Virtual PC software can ease migration and give any robust machine multiple personalities. Here’s what you need to know to take full advantage. There used to be six computers in my test lab, ...

A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated ...