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• Hyper-V How To: Plan Security

  The Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide has just been updated with information about security best practices (including AzMan) and backup: Planning for Hyper-V Security Planning for Backup Using Authorization Manager for Hyper-V Security Configure Hyper... Posted Nov 20 2008, 12:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Manually Patch Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

  By default, the free-as-in-beer Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is configured for manual updates. In other words, it is NOT configured out of the box to go fetch automatic updates. This is desired behavior for most installs. However, if there are critical... Posted Oct 24 2008, 11:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Make Hyper-V Install on Core Easier with HVCONFIG

  Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is out . Read about Hyper-V Server here: http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx . One of the differences between Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 core, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is that Hyper-V... Posted Oct 02 2008, 12:12 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Harden Your VM Security

  You should follow the best practice recommendations in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide ,for hardening your W2K8 VMs. The GPO Accelerator can make this easier. The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy... Posted Sep 23 2008, 01:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V Attack Surface Reference

  The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide includes a spreadsheet you can download that lists all the attack surfaces for Windows Server 2008. This guide was initially published before Hyper-V role RTM. When the Security Guide is updated, a new worksheet... Posted Sep 19 2008, 12:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Plan for Hyper-V Security

  My article on Hyper-V Security best practices has been selected as September tip of the month. Check out Planning for Hyper-V Security . Kai Axford has a good article in the same newsletter issue: " Security in a Virtual World ." For videos... Posted Sep 15 2008, 03:30 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• Hyper-V How To: Share Resources

  In Virtual Server (and VPC) it was fairly easy to create a share and place resources on it that you want to share between Host and VM. Easy, not secure for enterprise use. You can;t do this anymore in Hyper-V. To move/copy.share files/resources between... Posted Sep 09 2008, 01:02 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, Hyper-V, WS2K8, HyperV

• New TechEd 2008 Hyper-V Videos Posted

  Video presos on Hyper-V From TechEd 2008 are now posted on TechNet, check these out: Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking , Jeff Woolsey, Mike Sterling Deploying Windows Server 2008 Hyper V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Best... Posted Jul 30 2008, 11:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, WS2K8

• Where is the BitLocker Drive Preparation Tool?

  It gets a bit confusing if you want to improve the security of your Windows Server 2008 virtualization server and the VMs on it by running BitLocker Drive Encryption. Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption is a feature that encrypts one or more volumes (drives... Posted Jul 16 2008, 04:25 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, WS2K8

• Hyper-V Security How to: Use BitLocker to Protect Your VMs

  Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption was recently published to the download center, but some folks are having trouble accessing it (it seems there is a lot of interest in all things Hyper-V). So, here are the procedures in the doc... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:04 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, WS2K8

• Hyper-V Security Getting Started Guide

  First have a listen to this 8 minute podcast with Senior Hyper-V Dev Lead Brandon baker on Virtualization Security Best Practices . Then, you’ll want to read up on Authorization Manager (AzMan). Here are some resources to get you started: AzMan Videos... Posted Jun 11 2008, 03:28 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, WS2K8

• Virtualization Security Best Practices – How to Lockdown a Hyper-V Host

  I recently had the opportunity to chat with Brandon Baker, Senior Dev Lead on the Hyper-V team to get some security best practices. You can hear them in this 8 minute podcast on Virtualization Security Best Practices , including: Use Windows Server 2008... Posted May 28 2008, 11:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, WS2K8

• Updated Hyper-V Management Tools for Vista SP1

  The updated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 management tools for the Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 are now available from the Microsoft Download Center, including:  The Hyper-V Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. The Hyper-V Manager MMC... Posted May 27 2008, 01:44 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Tools 2 Use, IT Pro, MidMarket IT, WS2K8

• Brandon Baker on Virtualization Security

  With heavy server consolidation through virtualization comes some new things to thing about from the operations perspective. In many ways, you have to start thinking of a box in the same way as you used to think of a branch office or small data center... Posted Apr 30 2008, 12:07 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Virtualization, IT Pro, SCVMM, MidMarket IT, WS2K8