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You may notice that you cannot choose to store Shadow Copies on an attached VHD, and that when configuring Shadow Copy protection on an attached VHD, there are no other locations available to store the copies on, other than the protected VHD volume. This
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In my quest to better understand the interworking of how NTFS stores information on disk, I have been researching what happens to a file as it grows in size and complexity. The reason I’m after this knowledge is so I can better troubleshoot certain
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Hello, my name is Scott McArthur. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover an issue involving KMS activation and deployment of images. This issue seems to be more prevalent today
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Hello, my name is Kevin Ledman. I am a Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover how to run the new Sysprep and Capture Task Sequence included with MDT 2010. If you choose to deploy an operating system manually or need
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Hello, my name is Scott McArthur. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover an issue involving specifying MAK Product Keys during setup of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. When deploying
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An issue involving a firewall configuration error in the cluster validation process just surfaced here in Microsoft Support so I thought I would post a quick blog in an effort to not only inform our readership, but to ‘nip this in the bud’ before we start
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It is time for the final installment of a year-long segment on the top issues in Hyper-V. It is appropriate since Windows Server 2008 R2 has finally released, and we can look forward to tracking\reporting any issues we may find in the new version
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Hello, my name is Scott McArthur. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover a number of issues we have encountered here in support with the following update. These updates will eventually be incorporated
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Windows 7 is only a few weeks away! The buzz is building! However, if your applications aren’t quite ready for Windows 7 (or even Vista) and having you’re having issues, then maybe you’re not quite as excited as I am. But – there is
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This post is about Windows Server 2008 with the Hyper-V role installed, that are being protected by System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. There may be one or many Virtual Machines on each Host/Parent Partition, and they may be running Windows
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Hello, my name is Scott McArthur. I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in the Windows group and today’s blog will cover specifying new and updated timezones in sysprep.inf for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. When deploying Windows XP or Windows
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The Migratedatasourcedatafromdpm.Ps1 DPM Powershell Script is Included in Service Pack 1 of Data Protection Manager 2007. The MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM is a command-line script that lets you migrate DPM data for individual “data source(s)”
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John Marlin here from the Windows Cluster Support Team again and today I want to talk about the Stop 0x0000009E and hang detection in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. Just to set some expectations for the blog, I am not going to tell you exactly
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The Hyper-V Snapshot feature(Checkpoint in SCVMM) is a very useful feature for Support Engineers. This allows us to revert the VM to a previous state irrespective of the local* changes you’ve made after the snapshot was taken. Working with customers on
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Hello m y name is Sean Dwyer, and I'm a Support Escalation Engineer working in the Windows CORE team here at Microsoft. While working with snapshots that are attached to a highly available VM in a Cluster, you may notice after deleting a snapshot, it
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