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Updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, outline
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The Belgian Microsoft Virtualization User Group organizes their second get together on May 28th and will talk about following topics: Hyper-V scripting (Part2) - PowerShell So, you want to Script Hyper-V ? After the April session where we discussed WMI
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Today I received a mail from one of our Belgian SQL Server MVP’s titled speaking in public tips & tricks. I don’t why he sent this to me, maybe he thinks I need more tips & tricks to make my presentations better, well he is right. Once you get
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Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions from Microsoft Press is available as a FREE download. This 15MB E-Book is over 400 pages long, so it is quite comprehensive. It covers all current Microsoft Virtualization technologies even
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One of the new functionalities of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is that you can boot directly from a VHD file. Next to that you will also be able to natively create and mount VHD files using either the diskpart command or the Diskmanagement mmc
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This afternoon I was reading a document and I needed to translate a word from that document of course I navigated to translate.live.com by using the IE8 accelerator. On this page I came across the TBot which is a Messenger bot that will help you with
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Do you have the same e-mail problem as I often have? I’m getting easily distracted from the things I’m doing when a mail comes in and I can assure you I get quite some mails per day. But know I found a possible solution it’s called “Email Prioritizer”
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While learning more about Hyper-v I came across some interesting KB articles: KB 957006 – This article discusses the support policy for running Microsoft server software in the supported virtualization environments. KB 953828 – Hotfix to run NLB (Network
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What’s New in MDT 2008 Update 1? MDT 2008 Update 1 includes new capability for OEM preload scenarios, a revised System Center Operations Manager Management Pack, bug fixes, and revised documentation. This updated version provides guidance in the .chm
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Learn About Microsoft Volume Activation 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Get answers to your questions about Microsoft Volume Activation 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Hear how Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 activation
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Windows Administration: Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 and the new Windows Server Backup utility bring many changes and welcome enhancements to backing up. Here is an in-depth guide to backing up and restoring
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Going through my blogs I spotted this handy tip regarding Registry settings in the child partitions of Hyper-V. Imagine you have multiple Hyper-V hosts serving multiple guests or child partition, in my setup I always use a tool called BGInfo to put machine
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A few weeks ago when I was presenting the Windows Server 2008 overview session at our launch event in Ghent I talked about the fact that with Windows Server 2008 and the new admx Group policy administrative templates we would be introducing something
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I had this in my inbox for quite a while now but finally found the time to share this with you. Group Policy preferences are made up of more than 20 new Group Policy client-side extensions (CSEs) that expand the range of configurable settings in a Group
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Last Saturday during the IT-Talks UG meeting I was talking about the fact that with RDP 6.1 the /console switch has been depreciated and to connect to a console session on a W2K3 box you now need to use the /admin switch. With the /console switch you
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