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Windows XP will go end of life in the next 4 months

9 December 2013
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are only 4 months left to plan you upgrade (or better your migration) to Windows 7 or Windows 8 (or 8.1). As written in previous post, on April 8th 2014 Windows XP goes end of life (after a very long period)! Note that this will impact both Windows XP SP3 and also Office 2003. For a complete list of all Microsoft’s products lifecycle see this page. And an Operating System without security patches is not suitable for an usage in an connected world. So the only solution is migrate to new OS versions (or […]

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Running Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 in a VM

12 September 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe new releases of Windows OS products (both Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2) are actually in a RTM state for OEM and will be public available on October (probably the 17th or the 18th). Actually, in the last days, Microsoft has announced that the RTM is also available on MSDN and Technet. Or you can simple ask to download the evaluation product (but in this case it’s just a beta version).

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VMware Tools 5.1 upgrade may restart your Windows VM

6 September 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the new features of vSphere 5.1 was upgrade procedure of the VMware Tools on Windows VMs: when you upgrade them the first time to version 5.1 (the right version number it’s 9.x), other upgrade will not require any reboot of your Windows system. For Linux VMs there is no need to reboot the system (but I suggest in order to be sure that the kernel modules are loaded proprerly), and now also Windows VMs could have a zero downtime upgrade. But it’s really true?

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Using Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with VMware vSphere

28 May 2013
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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 5.x According with KB 2006859 (Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012 Operating System does not boot or install on ESXi or ESX) Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 VMs are fully supported for ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.1 U1, ESXi 5.0 U1 and ESXi 5.0 U2. Note: For Windows Server 2012, you must install the patch ESXi500-201209001(Patch 04) on ESXi 5.0 U1. For more information, see VMware ESXi 5.0, Patch Release ESXi500-201209001 (2032584).

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Windows XP will go end of life in the next 12 months

8 April 2013
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou have “only” 12 months to plan you upgrade (or better your migration) to Windows 7 or Windows 8. On April 8th 2014 Windows XP goes end of life (after a very long period)! Note that this will impact both Windows XP SP3 and also Office 2003. How migrate has not a single possible response: you can use VDI, but also other solutions like, for example, VMware Mirage, Liquidware solutions, Dell Quest Migration services, …

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Build a Windows 8 pool with VMware View

24 January 2013
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Reading Time: 3 minutesActually Windows 8 is not (officiall) supported with VMware View, at least not as a virtual desktop. About the View Client, starting with the 5.2 version it support also Windows 8 as a client (for more information see the previous post). But in order to use Windows 8 as a virtual desktop it is more complicated. First you must run Windows 8 on vSphere (and this is really simple with vSphere 5.1 where both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are supported as a guests). Just remember to enable the 3D support in the video […]

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Manage an “isolated” Windows Server

11 January 2013
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere could some cases where you may have some Windows (Server) completely isolated from the Internet, for example in some appliances or storage solution. One interesting aspect that learn on Windows products during a DataCore training was that in this case you can have some delay in the user interface, both on the DataCore GUI, but also on the Windows one.

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