• Microsoft released the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1. Download the correct version for your operating system: x86 | x64
  • They also released an update to enable remote management of Hyper-V RC0: x86 | x64
  • If you did not take a look at Hyper-V yet, now is a good time. The release candidate works a lot better than the beta. I installed it on a quad core box with 8GB of RAM and it is quite fast. And with support for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 it is much more useful especially as a test environment.
  • You don't like to configure Windows Server 2008 Server Core using the command line? Then this is something for you: CoreConfigurator.
  • If you want to setup your own ESX 3.5 (or 3i) server, take a look at the ASUS P5BV-SAS motherboard. It comes with an LSI Logic 1068 RAID controller, built-in VGA and supported network cards (2x 1Gb). I plugged in a quad core Intel CPU, 8GB of RAM and 4 500GB SATA disks. ESX installs perfectly on this box and the performance is quite good!