Microsoft has released today the Windows 10 Insider build 19631 for Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring, along with ARM64 VHDX which will allow Insiders with Windows 10 on ARM devices to run Windows 10 Insider build 19624 as a guest host in Hyper-V.
As with almost every Insider preview, there is also a laundry list of things that have been fixed or broken during the process of adding new features to the Windows 10 experience.
The new Android emulator only works on the freshly- released Windows 10 April Update, and it can also use the new Windows Hypervisor Platform for hardware acceleration.
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Microsoft's Nitin Soneji, current program manager of Cloud and Enterprise, announced the addition of Exclude Disk Support to Hyper-V Virtual Machines (VMs) with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). Based on customer feedback, ASR now gives users to ability to exclude disks from replication.
Windows 10 preview 14965 is currently rolling out to Insiders
Microsoft appears to be bolstering its Azure service proposition with the addition of Rackspace support for Managed Identity and Access.
The Windows Server team is taking its shot at luring VMWare customers by announcing a new migration offer that would help former VMWare users move over to Windows Server 2016.
Microsoft has just announced that it is releasing its August 2016 edition of its evaluation Windows developer virtual machines (VM) on Windows Dev Center.
Hyper-V goes DPI-aware in the latest Windows Insider builds, or at least half of it.
Microsoft has explained in a new blog post how Windows Insiders can test Hyper-V containers on Windows 10, a new virtualization solution to allow applications to run without affecting the rest of your operating system.
Microsoft has confirmed that it is building in support for Hyper-V containers into Windows 10 and that the option will be “opt-in” while Windows Insiders receive newer builds in the coming months.
Fortunately, as the Windows team gets a collectively better handle on Windows 10 development, the list of broken items or “known issues” has gradually shrunk over time.
Microsoft has already announced plans to add two types of Containers to Windows Server 2016, but now it looks as if Microsoft may be adding containers to Windows 10 client too. Based on a report about a Microsoft job posting, ... Read more
Hot on the heels of a new Windows 10 Mobile build, Microsoft has released Windows 10 desktop build 10576 with some new spit and polish. Windows 10 is heading into a pretty major update in early November for non-Insiders, and ... Read more
With each release of Windows 10 Insider Preview builds, more and more advanced features are being introduced. As Microsoft preps for the first public preview of Hyper-V Containers, Windows 10 build 10565 introduced a preview of nested virtualization. Nested virtualization ... Read more
Many times Microsoft’s technologies are held as the gold standard for business productivity, so when the healthcare IT company Epic was looking for a partner, Microsoft was the obvious choice. Microsoft has a rich history of developer tools and data ... Read more
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At the heels of the general availability of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft also pushed Hyper-V Serve
ServeTheHome.com takes an in-depth look at how to configure Microsoft's Hyper-V to use raw disks and RAID volumes:
After the recent article on passing controllers through to ESXi virtual machines, I did get some questions around pass-through in Hyper-V. First off, it works a bit differently in Hyper-V, but you can still expose raw disks and RAID volumes to Hyper-V virtual machines, and this does not require Intel VT-d. This is an important feature of Hyper-V because it allows for the virtual machines to get raw disk access which is important when you have a storage operating system controlling the drives.
Capacity-management tools provider VKernal, working with Microsoft, has fashioned a chargeback tool