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With the new version of Hyper-V which comes with Windows Server 8 Developer Preview you can now manage the Network Bandwidth with a Maximum and a Minimum value.
This allows you to create some SLAs for hosted Virtual Machines.
For example this is a possible scenario:
There are a lot of other networking improvments in Windows Server 8 and Hyper-V 3. You can get some of them in my little Overview about new features in Windows Server 8 Hyper-V: Hyper-V: “Version 3 kills them all”.
Today I had some time to test some of the new Windows PowerShell 3.0 feature and changes. And after playing a while with the Windows PowerShell 3.0 CTP I have to say Microsoft did besides the big new features, like workflows, a lot of small but really important improvements.
First I will show you two very small but very cool things which make working with PowerShell a lot easier.
New help view, which I really like. Here quick PowerShell 2.0 versus PowerShell 3.0:
Second I would like you to show how they simplified PowerShell for daily use. Here Get-Childitem for an example:
In PowerShell 2.0:
Get-Childitem | Where {$_.name -eq "Desktop"}
In PowerShell 3.0 you can do this now much friendlier:
Get-Childitem | where name -eq Desktop
One of the biggest new features in Windows Server 8 Hyper-V is Hyper-V Replica. Hyper-V Replica allows you to replicate Virtual Machines over the network to another Hyper-V Hosts. This is great if you replicate the VM to another datacenter or if you don’t want to create a Hyper-V Cluster and still have the requirement to start the Virtual Machine in 30 minutes on another host.
With the Hyper-V VM Move feature you can even push this and live migrate a Virtual Machine to another host even if you don’t have a cluster. This can be useful if you have a maintenance window on your Hyper-V hosts.
Yesterday Microsoft started the rollout process for Windows Phone 7.5 Codename Mango. This morning I got the Mango update and a HTC Windows Phone Update for my HTC 7 Trophy (Swisscom branded).
OS Version: 7.10.7720.68
Firmware revison number: 2250.21.40600.166
UPDATE: For those who don’t see a update notification can force the update with a little trick: http://www.wpcentral.com/force-mango-update-early-through-zune-software
Some days ago the Microsoft Powershell Team released the Community Technology Preview of the Windows Management Framework 3.0 which includes Windows PowerShell v3. You can download the the CTP1 here and it requires Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1.
You can use very easy both PowerShell versions sie by site.
powershell.exe -Version 3.0 powershell.exe -Version 2.0
But the Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP1 does not only includes PowerShell 3, it also contains new versions of WMI, WinRM and the new Windows PowerShell Webservice.
Windows PowerShell Web Service enables an administrator to expose a set of PowerShell cmdlets as a RESTful web endpoint accessible via the Open Data Protocol (OData). This provides remote access to invoke cmdlets from both Windows and non-Windows clients.
You can get more Information about the Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview on the Windows PowerShell Team Blog.
With the release of Windows Phone 7.5 you can find Whatsapp in the Windows Phone Marketplace. It also apears if you use the Developer version of Windows Phone Mango.
Seen on Winrumors.com