Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

In my previous post titled Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) (1 of 2) where I covered Understanding and Deploying RDS, I gave an intro to RDS as well as the basic installation of the ...

But here’s the new scoop … the improvements in Server 2008 R2 will tightly link desktop Windows (particularly Windows 7, but Microsoft is also promising integration with Vista and XP) with Hyper-V, ...

The company collaborated with Citrix, Hewlett-Packard and others on the new virtualization features in R2, which will include a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), as well as enhanced, remote server ...

Exam 70-693 PRO: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator is the IT Pro exam that ties together 70-659 TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization and 70-669 TS: Desktop ...

It seems that OnLive Desktop is now based on Windows Server 2008 R2, and this change might have something to do with Microsoft licensing issues. It seems that OnLive Desktop is now based on Windows ...

Applies to the "Deploying and Managing a Presentation Virtualization Environment" objective of Exam 70-669 TS: Windows Server 2008 Desktop Virtualization. Q: Which distribution methods are available ...

The noisiest new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 promises to be live virtual machine migration, as Microsoft seizes the chance to show that Hyper-V is closing the gap with VMware Infrastructure. But ...

Here's how to connect users to remote virtual machines with Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services. Improvements to Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 include not only better performance ...