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How Do I: Setup a Template in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Reduce the Time Taken to Deploy New Virtual Machines?

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 lets administrators and users setup virtual machine templates that allow for faster deployment of virtual machines within your environment. In this video Gordon Ryan shows you how to setup an Operating System and Hardware profile and then use those to create a virtual machine template.

Presented by Gordon Ryan,www.longneckconsulting.com
Monday, Mar 9, 2009

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Virtualization How-to Videos

How Do I: Build and prepare a Windows XP virtual machine image for use with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0?
How Do I: Build and prepare a Windows XP virtual machine image for use with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0?
Is your Windows Vista deployment being blocked by a custom application that won't run on a newer operating system? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 might be what you have been looking for. In this the third in a 5 part series, Gordon Ryan shows how to build and prepare a Windows XP virtual machine that will be deployed to MEDV clients. In this series he will show how to configure MEDV so that when users access an intranet web site it will load in IE6 within a Virtual XP image.
Friday, Jul 31
How Do I: Deploy a Windows XP virtual machine with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0?
How Do I: Deploy a Windows XP virtual machine with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0?
Is your Windows Vista deployment being blocked by a custom application that won't run on a newer operating system? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 might be what you have been looking for. In this the fourth in a 5 part series, Gordon Ryan shows how to deploy a Windows XP virtual machine using MEDV. In this series he will show how to configure MEDV so that when users access an intranet web site it will load in IE6 within a Virtual XP image.
Friday, Jul 17
How Do I: Create a policy with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization to deploy IE6 for an intranet site?
How Do I: Create a policy with Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization to deploy IE6 for an intranet site?
Is your Windows Vista deployment being blocked by a custom application that won't run on a newer operating system? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 might be what you have been looking for. In this the last of a 5 part series, Gordon Ryan shows how to create a policy that will invoke a virtualized instance of Internet Explorer 6 when a user visits a specific URL. In this series he will show how to configure MEDV so that when users access an intranet web site it will load in IE6 within a Virtual XP image.
Tuesday, Jul 7
How Do I: Install and configure the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 Management Server?
How Do I: Install and configure the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 Management Server?
Is your Windows Vista deployment being blocked by a custom application that won't run on a newer operating system? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 might be what you have been looking for. In this the first of a 5 part series, Gordon Ryan shows how to install and configure the MEDV management server. In this series he will show how to configure MEDV so that when users access an intranet web site it will load in IE6 within a Virtual XP image.
Friday, Jun 26
How Do I: Install and configure the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 Management console and client?
How Do I: Install and configure the Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 Management console and client?
Is your Windows Vista deployment being blocked by a custom application that won't run on a newer operating system? Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 1.0 might be what you have been looking for. In this the second of a 5 part series, Gordon Ryan shows how to install and configure the MEDV management console on Windows Vista. In this series he will show how to configure MEDV so that when users access an intranet web site it will load in IE6 within a Virtual XP image.
Friday, Jun 26
How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?
How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup?
With virtualised workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. Whilst large companies can use products such as System Center Data Protection Manager to back up multiple servers, that may not always be appropriate for and, in this video, Mark Wilson takes a look at backing up a Hyper-V deployment using the Windows Server Backup utility provided with Windows Server 2008.
Sunday, Jun 21
How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?
How Do I: Create a cluster on Hyper-V?
Not all virtualisation deployments run on huge farms of clustered servers. In this video, Mark Wilson shows how to create a failover cluster for high availability with both nodes running virtualised on Hyper-V.
Thursday, Jun 18
How Do I: Back up Hyper-V with System Center Data Protection Manager?
How Do I: Back up Hyper-V with System Center Data Protection Manager?
With virtualised workloads, data backup and recovery becomes even more critical. In this video Mark Wilson takes a look at using System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 to back up a Hyper-V host.
Wednesday, Jun 3
How Do I: Configure the Virtual machine Manager 2008 self service portal to enable users to create their own virtual machines?
How Do I: Configure the Virtual machine Manager 2008 self service portal to enable users to create their own virtual machines?
The VMM Self-Service Portal is an optional, Web-based component that a VMM administrator can install and configure to allow users to create and manage their own virtual machines within a controlled environment on a limited group of virtual machine hosts. In this video, Gordon Ryan shows how to create and configure a new self service user role, then create a new virtual machine using the self service portal.
Wednesday, May 27
How Do I: Install and Configure the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Client on Workstations and Terminal Servers?
How Do I: Install and Configure the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Client on Workstations and Terminal Servers?
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 can save administrators money by reducing the management overhead associated with application deployment and maintenance. In this video, Gordon Ryan demonstrates how to install the Application Virtualization client software in Terminal Server and desktop environments and how to use group policy to configure the clients.
Tuesday, May 19

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