Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft virtualization blog

I quit!

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:39:43 +0000

Don’t be afraid, it’s nothing serious this time. After being a Microsoft Student Partner for more than 2,5 years, it’s time to say goodbye. I will graduate in a month, and this is the best time to say thanks to Microsoft for a chance to be one of only few thousand students around the world [...]

How NOT to install a virtual Windows Server?

Ilija Brajkovic — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:19:00 +0000

Few days ago I learned one "important" lesson from the field, which is actually my lab, which is actually my laptop. I’m in a process of writing my final thesis, and I write about Exchange Server 2010. I need to do some demo, so I decided to start a few virtual machines. Actually, 6! On [...]

Procedo no more

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:19:26 +0000

Today was my last day at company Procedo. I’ve been working there since February 15th. Although is learned many things while working there, I realized that I have to finish some other more important tasks first, and spend my time trying to achieve a “bigger goal”. First of all, I have to write my final [...]

Some info about Dynamic Memory

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:35:23 +0000

I’m sure many of you already know that Dynamic Memory feature will be added into Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. With this feature, it will be possible for administrators to provide a range of RAM to a virtual machine. Hyper-V will then dynamically provide RAM to a virtual machine, based on virtual machine needs. [...]

Redmond

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:24:54 +0000

Last week I had a chance to visit Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. A few months ago I worked on some project for Microsoft Croatia, and we had a review in Redmond. After a very long flight from Croatia (via Frankfurt and San Francisco) on Wednesday, we had a review meetings on Thursday and Friday, [...]

Windays 2010 report

Ilija Brajkovic — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:40:07 +0000

Last week I attended Microsoft Windays 2010 conference, the biggest IT conference in Croatia. This was the third year in a row that I attend this conference and first year as a speaker. I delivered a session “Windows Server 2008 R2 technical features”. I spoke about many new features in R2 version, like Live [...]

[Raffle] Win a Terminal Services Log!!!

Ilija Brajkovic — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:29:16 +0000

Terminal Services Log is a server monitoring application that allows you to easily monitor user activities on your Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services and Citrix XenApp server or farm. It tells you which users are logged on to your server, what applications they are using and more. At the moment Terminal Services log is able [...]

I am MVP!!!

Ilija Brajkovic — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:21:51 +0000

Today I got a long-wanted email from Microsoft. I am officially Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Virtual Machine!!! I am so proud and happy as this award is a recognition for the all hard work that I’ve done for the community in a past year. I would like to thank everyone who [...]

Linux Integration Services v2.1 Beta for Hyper-V Now Available

Ilija Brajkovic — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:11:02 +0000

Microsoft just announced the availability of the beta version of Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V (version 2.1). In addition to the existing features (networking, storage, and fastpath boot), the 2.1 release adds the following: SMP support for Linux workloads Linux virtual machines running on Hyper-V will be able to use up to 4 virtual CPU’s Timesync Linux VM’s [...]

XIA Enterprise winner announced

Ilija Brajkovic — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:39:36 +0000

After two weeks, it is time to announce a lucky winner of the XIA Enterprise (Bundle 2) software. All Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Virtualization blog visitors had a chance to participate in a raffle and get this software which can help them to get a lot of information about their infrastructure. Using random.org, we [...]