Automating Windows 7 Installation for Desktop and VDI Environments | Book | Realtime Nexus

Chapter 1: Installation Fundamentals: Automatically Deploying Windows without Customization
Chapter 2: Creating a Universal Image that Installs Everywhere
Chapter 3: Techniques in Installing Applications during Windows Deployment
Chapter 4: Layering Applications On Top of Deployed Windows Images
Chapter 5: User Virtualization: Tools and Techniques in Preserving User Data
Chapter 6: Automating Application Inventory and Overcoming Incompatibility
Chapter 7: Creating a Complete Solution for Automating Windows 7 Installation
Chapter 8: Integrating Automated Windows 7 Installation into VDI Environments

Source: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/awidv.php

Advanced PC Manageability Delivers Cost Savings with the Intel Core vPro Processor Family

There’s good news for IT organizations searching for novel ways to stretch budgets while adding new services and functionality. This brief provides insights about how you can step up security and manageability using business PCs based on the Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family, available from a broad array of notebook and PC manufacturers including Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

These notebooks and PCs are based on a specific combination of hardware components (Intel Core processor, chipset, and network hardware). When activated, these system features provide security and manageability at the hardware level that improve on the robustness of software-only solutions.

Attachments:

• Advanced PC Manageability Usage Model Brief.pdf (777.4 K)

vPower and Veeam Backup & Replication v5

It's Here! vPower and Veeam Backup & Replication v5 - launch event replay from Veeam Software on Vimeo.

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Windows Server 2008 R2: Virtualization with Hyper-V: Technical Resources

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Featured Content

• Virtual Hard Disk Performance White Paper
• LiveMigration White Paper
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Overview Presentation
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Technical Overview Presentation
• Storage and Hyper-V - The Choices You Can Make and the Things You Need to Know - TechEd 2009 Presentation
• Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V Part 1 - TechEd 2009 Presentation
• Windows Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V Part 2 - TechEd 2009 Presentation
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Considerations for Hyper-V - TechEd 2009 Presentation
• Implementing Hyper-V on Clusters - TechEd 2009 Presentation
• Innovating High Availability with Cluster Shared Volumes - TechEd 2009 Presentation
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V FAQ
• Hyper-V VM Processor Compatibility In Brief
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Forum

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Microsoft Software Assurance Interactive Benefits Chart

Use this chart to compare program benefits available through Microsoft Software Assurance for Volume Licensing."

Download Chart here

Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2

Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2, by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft, can be downloaded here (XPS file, 28 MB) and here (PDF file, 11 MB).

Here is the book’s Content at a Glance:

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 Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines 25
Chapter 4 Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and Application Management 47
Chapter 5 Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access 65
Chapter 6 The File Services Role 91
Chapter 7 IIS 7.5: Improving the Web Application Platform 109
Chapter 8 DirectAccess and Network Policy Server 129
Chapter 9 Other Features and Enhancements 147
Index 163

And here’s part of the Introduction:

Introduction

Windows Server 2008 R2, or simply R2 for short, is the second release of
Windows Server 2008. It isn’t a completely new release, but rather adds
additional features and refinements to the existing release. In this book, we focus
on the new features and refinements in R2. We assume you have at least a general
knowledge of Windows Server, and that you have some familiarity with Windows
Server 2008, although we don’t assume you’re actively running Windows Server
2008. Where an R2 feature is a refinement of a feature that was new in Windows
Server 2008, we provide background on the Windows Server 2008 feature to
provide context.

Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Second Edition)

Here it is! Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook of last year; it’s now updated for Windows Server 2008 R2. You can now download Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the Datacenter in XPS format here and in PDF format here.

Six chapters adding up to 466 pages.

Cisco IPv6 Tutorial

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