Now that you’ve decided to take the leap and migrate your Virtual Server 2005 R2 or Virtual PC environment to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V; Welcome! I know you’re going to love it! Some of the hurdles that you can run into may be a little worrisome...

If you Inspect the disk in Hyper-V Manager that you just altered it will show the correct new maximum size however. Even though the disk is a Dynamically Expanding type disk, we still need to tell the Operating System about the container size change....

A commonly asked question among people looking at a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 installation is “why is the WinSxS folder so big?!”   To answer that question I need to first describe componentization, and how components...

One of the most common questions asked about using Hyper-V is, "How can I access files on the Parent partition from inside the Child Partition?". In other Microsoft virtualization products like Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005, this was possible...

Windows Server 2008 Clustering includes resource type specific options which are available by right clicking on the group under Applications and Services.   For Hyper-V, we have the following options. Manage virtual machine. This option opens Hyper...

Hello, my name is John Marlin, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft Platform Cluster Services Support team.  I wanted to talk about the Windows 2003 Cluster Resource Monitor along with what happens when it crashes as well as how...

Technorati Tags: Hyper-V , Windows Backup , Virtual Machine In order to enable VSS based backups of Hyper-V VMs using Windows Server Backup, you must add the following registry keys to register the Hyper-V VSS Writer with Windows Server Backup. Note...

The purpose of this posting is to provide information about the Windows 2003 Cluster Resource Monitor, along with what happens when it crashes as well as how to debug it to find out why it crashed. But first, we need you to understand what the Cluster...

KMS 1.1 For Windows Server 2003 Installation Issues Hello my name is Scott McArthur and I am a support escalation engineer in the Windows Platforms group and specialize in activation issues. We have had a number of support calls around issues with KMS...

If you’re still running the Beta or RC version of Hyper-V with configured VMs, you’ll want to make sure you do not have the Windows Update feature configured to “Install Updates Automatically”. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 950050, the RTM Update...

Virtual Machine Manager (“VMM”) is a manager of Windows Virtual Machines (“VM”) and the Hosts (physical machines) on which the VMs reside. Depending on hardware configuration, a single Host can house several VMs. A large volume...

After installing KB949779 which is the new DPM 2007 Feature Pack, you have the ability to enable to new tape based media capabilities. This provides improved flexibility for tape based backups in your DPM 2007 environment. Tape media sharing – so that...

1. Install the Terminal Services Role using Server Manager. Include all the necessary roles. Since we will distribute the application using Terminal Services Web Access, make that selection as well. 2. Install the Hyper-V Role or the Hyper-V Role Management...

In the previous post, we covered the steps necessary to setup DPM and SharePoint to allow recovery of any SharePoint object from a single file up to the entire Farm.  In this post, we will cover the worst-case scenario in which the entire farm has...

To enable the end-user recovery in DPM 2007 on a Windows 2008 Server you should click on the recovery tab and then under actions (on the left hand side) click on “Configure end-user recovery…” link.   This will launch a wizard to...

  When installing the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Self Service Portal on a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, you may encounter a Fatal Error if IIS is configured to run in 32-bit mode. This issue occurs when installing the SCVMM...

With the RTM release of Hyper-V just around the corner, I thought it would be a good idea to re-visit some of the top things we have seen customers encounter when installing and configuring Hyper-V for the first time and give pointers to resources we...

With SharePoint gaining popularity in the last year and the recent release of DPM 2007 which supports the protection of SharePoint this has become a hot topic in the last few months. The protection and recovery of SharePoint data is not small undertaking...

Article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808814(TechNet.10).aspx describes how to install DPM on to a 2008 Server. However I have found that this article is incomplete. The following is how to install DPM onto a 2008 Server. After the 2008...

There are a lot of administrators that need to maintain a highly available Print Server running on Windows Server 2003 RTM/SP1/R2/SP2 Failover Clusters Hopefully with this series of blog posts, you will be able to create a solid printing environment where...

In Data Protection Manager 2007, when configuring a protection group for protection of Exchange data for the versions that DPM supports (Exchange Server 2003 w/SP2 or higher and 2007), you are given an option to enable execution of ESEUTIL.EXE against...

If you are protecting more than one domain controller, and using more than one DPM server to do it, you may experience an issue where at random times, all servers being protected by Data Protection Manager ("DPM") may lose connection with the...

In the last episode, Indy was hanging precariously from a ........ No seriously..... a high-demand commodity right now is information about Microsoft's new virtualization technology - Hyper-V.  There is actually a good bit of information floating...

If the information under the Libraries tab in the Management Task area does not show up correctly: Follow the steps below to remap the tape drive information. Stop the DPMLA service if it is running Remove any tapes from the drive and insert at least...

The networking model changed significantly in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering. First, and foremost, when we start talking about networking in 2008 Failover Clusters we need to drop some of the older concepts that have been around for awhile. Probably...