For those of us in IT who lean more to the security side of things, Microsoft announced a new tool to help out within our virtual environments. The Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool ...

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has added agentless malware scanning for servers hosting virtual machines. The new agentless malware scanning capability is available to organizations that have ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.

Running macOS on Windows is very much possible. PC aficionados may have already guessed it, but if you’re still wondering, we’re talking about running macOS on Windows using virtual machines. As the ...

If the Hyper-V Virtual Machine is removed after reboot, ensure the host is updated. So, if you are on Windows 11/10 or Windows Server, make sure to check for updates. If the host machine is updated, ...

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In the modern IT workflow, the maintenance of infrastructure and software dedicated to supportVM-based applications, can often be at odds with modernization in the areas of containerization and hybrid ...

Microsoft has released a new set of free virtual machines for developers. The Windows Development Environment (WDE) has been updated to version 2306, and you can download it for free from the official ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...