Microsoft Virtualization Secrets

Unbeatable advice and expert tips for evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions

If you’re an IT professional, you know that virtualization is essential in today’s computer infrastructures. This valuable reference is your key to all things Microsoft virtualization. Written by a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), it breaks down all the various technologies, what they mean to your organization in terms of saving money and solving problems, and how to design and deploy various solutions effectively.

You’ll find invaluable tips and information on such topics as Hyper-V, the changes that Windows 8 brings, private cloud scenarios, and more.

• Written by well-known 11-time Microsoft MVP, Windows expert, and Microsoft insider, John Savill
• Provides practical advice and expert insights on understanding, evaluating, designing, and deploying virtualization solutions
• Keeps you up to date with how Windows 8 and Windows Server “8” affect your virtualization processes
• Covers virtualization in all its forms–machine, application, and user
• Explores the private cloud and public cloud and what they mean to your organization
• Focuses on Microsoft solutions such as Hyper-V, but also delves into Citrix, Quest software, AppSense, and other Microsoft partner solutions
• Discusses bringing your own device requirements through VDI and session virtualization and which one is right
• Features video demonstrations and walkthroughs of some processes

Microsoft Virtualization Secrets is like having a built-in Microsoft expert on hand to help you avoid mistakes and save time!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding Virtualization
Chapter 2: Understanding Windows 7 and 8 Client OS Key Technologies
Chapter 3: Virtualizing Client Operating Systems
Chapter 4: Virtualizing Desktop Applications
Chapter 5: Virtualizing User Data
Chapter 6: Virtualizing User Profiles and Settings
Chapter 7: Using Session Virtualization
Chapter 8: Working with Hyper-V
Chapter 9: Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Chapter 10: Implementing a Private Cloud
Chapter 11: Architecting a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Chapter 12: Accessing the Desktop and Datacenter from Anywhere and Anything
Chapter 13: Optimizing the Desktop and Datacenter Infrastructure
Chapter 14: Virtualizing with the Microsoft Public Cloud
Chapter 15: The Best of the Rest of Windows Server 2012