Tag Archives: Virtualization

Windows 10 gets Sandbox for applications

Posted on 2018-12-19 by guenni

[German]Microsoft is working on a sandbox mode for applications in Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise so they can be tested in a secure environment. Here is what Microsoft is planning.

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Office in Virtual Desktop Environments

Posted on 2018-09-30 by guenni

At Ignite 2018 Microsoft announced the ‘Windows Virtual Desktop’: virtual machines with Windows and Office running on Microsoft Azure. How Microsoft imagines Office in Virtual Desktop environments has been demonstrated in a session at the Ignite.

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Windows 10 Enterprise V1809 evaluation versions

Posted on 2018-09-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has released evaluation versions of Windows 10 Enterprise V1809 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 last week, during Ignite 2018 conference.

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Tip: Delete Hyper-V VMs with a GUI tool

Posted on 2018-09-23 by guenni

If you use Hyper-V on Windows, you can add, run, or remove guest operating systems from the Hypere-V administrative Console. More convenient would be a tool with GUI to delete VMs.

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Sysinternals Tools for Windows VM Performance Analysis

Posted on 2018-09-17 by guenni

Server administrators needs to fine-tuning virtualized workloads and diagnosing performance issues during virtualization. This can be done using certain Windows tools.

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Windows 10 V1803 supports VM Subscription Activation

Posted on 2018-05-28 by guenni

Another note for administrators running Windows 10 environments with hosts and virtual Windows 10 machines. You can pass on the activation from the host to the clients.

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VirtualBox 5.2.8 released

Posted on 2018-03-01 by guenni

[German]Oracle released VirtualBox Version 5.2.8 on January 27, 2018. This is a maintenance update.

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Knock-out: VMware Workstation 14 needs modern CPUs

Posted on 2017-10-03 by guenni

[German]VMware has released version 14 of VMware Workstation and VMware Player virtualization software. But there is a bad surprise: The new Workstation 14 requires newer processors.

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VirtualBox 5.1.28: Issues with Windows 10 guests

Posted on 2017-09-18 by guenni

[German]On September 13, 2017, Oracle has released VirtualBox Version 5.1.28. It’s a maintenance update, that fixes several issues. But it raises new issues with Windows 10 guests.

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Surface Ethernet-Driver crashes virtualization

Posted on 2017-01-30 by guenni

It seems that the newest Ethernet drivers are causing problems with Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, if virtualization is used. Here are the details.

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