"When I were a lad" (you have to say that in a northern British accent for authenticity), I used to catch the “ Number 64 ” bus outside Fairfield Halls in Central Croydon as a leg of my journey to Junior school. The busses never arrived as scheduled some six or seven minutes apart during rush hour...

Just thought I'd add a quick blog entry - cool thing at the office today. Cans of Hyper-V ‘Pure Consolidated Energy for your Server’ turned up at our office this afternoon for the development team. Thank you marketing team! More info at www.serverunleashed.com   Cheers (literally!), John.

Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my Virtual Server “production” VMs across to Hyper-V. But when nearing completion, I noticed that Server Manager was reporting a role error: Looking at the detail of the event logs, it was Event ID 4096...

While working on the next version of HVRemote yesterday evening, one of the things I wanted to address based on feedback from various people was to have the tool (written in VBScript) detect whether it is being run from an elevated command prompt. While this is relatively easy to determine using low...

Update 19th Nov - v0.3 now released! It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at least in this case, I hope I've come up with something worth waiting for. Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote Management. (Amazing what can be done with a...

This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection  - specifically hitting an error “Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER’ and ‘CLIENT’”. In some variations,...

For Hyper-V to operate correctly, it is strongly advised, and in many cases, required, to install the latest BIOS onto your hardware for hardware virtualization features to operate correctly. While some OEMs provide fantastic information, my experience is that all too often, you get frustratingly minimal...

This week has been a little strained, hence quiet on the blogging front. Apart from a hectic week at work (more to follow on that shortly), the reason was a "disaster" which happened late last Sunday evening - everything was working at home one moment, and dead the next. Since the move over from the...

So after numerous emails about this, and some comments on my previous blog post back in June , I spent a couple of hours this afternoon improving the backup script (which although was written as a generic Exchange backup script, is suitable for file system, system state and more - it just depends entirely...