I encountered an issue where I needed to create a bootable ISO from a set of files. In my SCVMM R2/Hyper-V environment, it's much easier in some instances to attach an ISO containing content versus trying to copy over the network etc. Additionally, I...

I was recently tasked with setting up a DPM 2010 environment to troubleshoot a customer issue. When attempting to deploy the DPM agent from the DPM Administrator console, I received an error 349. “An error occurred when the agent operation attempted...

A customer reported an issue that they could not protect virtual machines running various Microsoft workloads on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Hyper-V Server. In Hyper-V terms, these virtual machines are defined as “Child Partitions”...

The case of the PSRemotingTransportException I have a SCVMM 2008 R2\Hyper-V farm in which we use Powershell to automate provisioning of virtual machines. All of the servers are Windows Server 2008 R2. During our deployment process I encountered a failure...

Usually I start these posts with "One of my customers..." but in this instance this happened to me while supporting a internal line of business application. The platform is Windows Server 2008 Enterprise R2 running workloads IIS, (SCVMM) System Center...

General availability of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 is almost here! As a result, I have been slowly absorbing all of the new features so I can better support my customers. Continuous Availability File Server is my favorite feature, so I wanted to...

My customer uses ADAM/AD LDS for directory aware applications instead up extending schema for Active Directory Domain Services. In short, they prefer to isolate line of business or 3rd party applications in their own sandbox and leave Active Directory...

SCVMM R2 Deployments with customization under the hood SCVMM streamlines and simplifies operating systems deployments by way of templates with customization. This technology creates a sysprep.inf or unattend.xml on the fly based on operating system...

I was recently contacted by a customer running VMM 2008 R2 managing a farm of virtual machines. This customer had a business requirement where all virtual machines must have an action when physical server stops as "Turn off virtual machine". Originally...

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica is a new feature that replicates all changes on a virtual machine to a counterpart virtual machine hosted by a different server. Replica overview and deployment considerations can be found here . This feature is well...

I recently encountered a situation where one of my Hyper-V virtual machines in production environment hung at Starting... 0%. This particular server had about 30 other VMs running normally used by customers. I wanted multiple methods and options to identify...

I recently saw a forum post asking for a procedure to deploy a sysprepped VM and have the keyboard layout something other than English. SCVMM builds an unattend.xml and by default sets English as default language. You can override that value by placing...

I recently spoke with a customer who owned roughly fifty virtual machines in his SCVMM environment and he needed to reassign ownership of all virtual machines to a teammate. As you can imagine he was not interested in double clicking on all those virtual...

Recently, I received a call from one of my customers reporting a new server deployed in their environment became unresponsive or‘hung’ almost daily. The customer explained that the server was deployed using their standard build process and...

I received a call from a customer who said they were experiencing networking problems with virtual machines running on Hyper-V. The customer had implemented a two node Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Failover Cluster using Live Migration for Cluster Shared Volumes...

I received a call today from one of my customers who was experiencing intermittent server hangs and time drift up to five minutes on a mission critical application server. No intervention by the customer was required to bring system back in service, it...