Yesterday, Microsoft’s Get On The Bus tour came to Philadelphia, PA. We got to see the sites, try some Cheesesteak sandwiches and meet with some amazing IT pros, We even got to meet the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. It was a great stop with many more to come. If you in DC, Charlotte, Richmond...

An update to our Feb 23 rd blog post on the new Med-V v2 SP 1 RC. Med-V 1.0 SP has RTM’ed and is now available for production deployment on Windows 7. Med-V 1.0 Sp1 now offers support for Windows 7 hosts – 32bit and 64bit, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows XP SP3. Existing MDOP customers can download...

The Get On the Bus Tour is back home and we’re kicking off our new tour with a visit to Canada! Montreal marks our first location on a 10-city North American road show en route to TechEd in New Orleans, June 7. Come spend some time with us as we tour the East Coast for a deep dive into both Windows...

The Bus Tour gets to our nations capitol in Washington DC for two days of presentations on Windows 7 , Office 2010 and MDOP . The crowd was great and the city is amazing. Check it out! For more on the Get On The Bus tour or to sign up for sessions in one of our remaining cities, check out the site here...

Today’s post is from AJ Smith, MDOP Product Manager Each time I go to the home improvement store, I look at the multifunction tools—you know, the all-in-one tools that have a screwdriver, pliers, a bottle opener, and everything else attached. It’s a strange obsession that I’m sure a therapist would be...

Today’s post was written by Virtualization MVP Ruben Spruijt. Today, Microsoft has released the latest version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), MDOP 2011, containing Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 SP1 and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V...

With the release of the XP Mode Release Candidate, there has been a lot of talk and confusion around when XP Mode is a ideal solution and when you should look at Med-V as a solution . I thought I would take a few minutes to clear up any confusion. Well, let me start with actually talking a bit about...

Our third stop on the Get On The Bus Tour was New York City. With over 450 people registered, it was largest attended event to date. Check out what the people had to say about the tour, Windows 7, IT pro Certification, Office 2010, Virtualization and get a sneak peek inside the Get On The Bus tour bus...

Did our VRT wrap-up post wet your appetite for more? Looking to learn about virtualization as a application compatibility tool? No need to worry if you missed the live event as the is now available to stream or download here . Windows 7 Application Compatibility Part 2: Virtualization In part two of...

We are pleased to announce the release of the Microsoft Desktop Virtualization zone on Springboard Series on TechNet that provides dynamic information and structured resources to help you explore, test, pilot, and deploy the latest Windows OS in your environment. With Microsoft Desktop Virtualization...

Today’s post comes to us from David Trupkin, Sr Product Manager for App-V and MED-V One of the ways I can tell it’s going to be a good day at work is when I look at my calendar in the morning and see that I’ve got some sort of IT Pro related activity on my schedule. As the product manager for Microsoft...

This week we recently released a new version of MDOP that includes six virtualization and management tools for Windows desktops. Along with the new App-v 4.6 , we have also released the MED-V v1 SP1 Release Candidate, with support for Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit for download . It’s final release is expected...

Todays post is from Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for App-V and Med-V I’m coming to you live from Tech·Ed Berlin. Karri Alexion-Tiernan just posted over on the Windows for Your Business a blog outlining Microsoft’s position on Desktop Virtualization describing the “layers” and the importance of...

The Get On The Bus Tour visited Boston, MA yesterday. Here’s a peek at what you missed. To join us in New York, Philly, DC or any of our other stops, make sure to visit the Get On The Bus site and find out how you can attend one of our Windows7/Office 2010 seminars...

Thank you again for all of you who tuned in live for our most recent virtual roundtable. We had so many questions asked during the broadcast, we were unable to get to all of them so I am dedicating this blog post to the questions and to the answers provided by our product teams involved in the broadcast...

Date: Thursday, September 24 Time: 9:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard Hear Mark Russinovich, Chris Jackson, Jeremy Chapman and our panel of experts chat about how virtualization tools can help you with application compatibility concerns whether you’re migrating from Windows...

Today’s post is from David Trupkin, Sr Product Manager from our Windows Virtualization Team. As I’ve talked to IT pros at events around the world, many of you have told me that the biggest barrier to your Windows 7 deployments has been incompatible legacy applications. These applications may run on Windows...