Partition Manager 10 for Virtual Machines free to first 5000 downloads

Make that free to first 4999 as i downloaded mine already.

What is Partition Manager 10 for Virtual Machines?

“Partition Manager 10 for Virtual Machines is a special version of our Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully functional Partition Manager 10 Professional. It’s optimized to work with virtual disks of any virtualization software vendor – backup/restore virtualized systems, re-partition and clone virtual disks, fix boot problems, optimize performance of NTFS and FAT file systems, etc. If you do care about effective data organization and speed of your virtual disks – this very tool is exactly what you need.”

Download the software and the user manual here.

Check out Aidan’s blog here.

KB977894: VERY Important Hyper-V Security Update

One of the patches released by Microsoft is a critical security fix for Hyper-V.  It affects all installation types on both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

“This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a malformed sequence of machine instructions is run by an authenticated user in one of the guest virtual machines hosted by the Hyper-V server. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally into a guest virtual machine to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users”.

See Aidan Finn’s blog.

In the process of moving my blog

I am in the process of moving my blog to WordPress.

I have been unable to publish any content to my existing Dotnet Blog (not that i blog that much in any case) for sometime now. I will however still keep the Dotnet blog for history.

Visit me at my new home soon and remember to change your feeds!

WOW what a way to start 2010!

1 month 8 days (Almost) since i became an MVP for Team System.

On my return from leave on the 4th of January, one of my email subjects read “Congratulations 2010 Microsoft MVP!”.

YES i was awarded with the 2010 Microsoft MVP Award for Team System. My fellow colleague Robert MacLean was also awarded the Team System MVP award, check out his blog here.

Robert and I have been involved in Team System Rangers projects since April last year, working closely with some of the other great MVP’s and community leads on various projects check out the Team System Rangers site.

What are Team System Rangers you ask, well a simple definition is “Team System Rangers deliver out of band solutions for missing features and guidance in the Team System suite of products.”

Check out the rest of the Rangers Solutions and Projects. 

Again a BIG congratulations to all new and renewed MVP’s!

Funstuff: The Mind of a Web Developer

For my fellow developer friends. I wonder if there is an image that depicts “The Mind of an IT Professional”?

Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance ships to Codeplex

“Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in 5 minutes” was what initiated this project.

The Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance consists of compact cheat sheets for Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and Visual Studio (VS) 2010, addressing the core problem of teams in the field who are unaware of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server capabilities or have little time to invest in detailed education.

You can take these to your 5-min coffee break discussions or use them as a stepping stone to the more detailed and in-depth guidance you will find on MSDN.

What does the package contain?

The download package consist of three ZIP files containing a number of quick reference posters and quick reference sheets in XML Paper Specification (XPS) format:

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Overview

An overview of the guidance and focus areas, contained in one index table and overview quick reference poster.

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Basic Guidance

A collection of basic guidance sheets, focusing on the “what” are the key features and “why” to consider them.

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Supporting Guidance

A set of documents and quick reference posters, supporting the basic guidance sheets

Get your Quick Reference Guidance package at http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com/.

Post your comments \ feedback on the Discussions page the Rangers would love to hear from you.