The Hyper-V team and the Windows Server Performance team have been working closely for a long time now. It's good to see that John and Bill have started a Windows Server Performance team blog and have just posted up an entry about  Hyper-V and Multi...

There is one particular scenario where you could be faced with this when booting a VM using Hyper-V. The most obvious way you can immediately notice it is that when using Virtual Machine Connection to remotely control a virtual machine, you do not have...

This question frequently comes up, but most often is not the question people mean to ask. As written, the answer to the question is yes – there is no change to the VHD format specification used between any of these virtualization solutions. The...

Sometimes you find things out the hard way. This one started bugging me a few weeks ago, so I started to dig around to see what I could find. Have you ever been faced with this (HTTP Error 500) when remotely logging on to the console session of a machine...

Part four of my weekend project is to add the Hyper-V management applications to Terminal Server web access. Let’s see just how easy that is. Of course, I could have left it at the point of “TS’ing” to the Hyper-V machine directly...

Part three of my weekend project involves a little more reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to allow TS Web access the Terminal Services virtual machine running under Hyper-V beta. There are two rules I need to create on the ISA server to achieve this...

Part two of my weekend project involves a little reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to allow RPC access to the Terminal Services gateway running as a virtual machine under Hyper-V beta. There’s really three rules involved in the ISA server –...

So over the weekend, I found myself with a few spare hours, and got back to “playing with technology” – something I haven’t had a lot of time to focus on recently. What I ended up with was something which I classify mostly as “because...

Happy New Year! I've had quite a few direct emails about this in the last few weeks, so it's probably worth posting as an FAQ. As you probably know, and as I have stated before, Hyper-V (codename "Viridian", and formerly known as Windows Server...

Big news from my team today. Windows Server 2008 RC1 with Hyper-V Beta, the official name of what I've been previously referring to as Windows Server virtualization, has just gone live on Microsoft.com. The Beta has many improvements over the preview...

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. This post refers to pre-release software for Hyper-V, formerly known as Windows Server virtualization. I missed this one going up on microsoft.com, but the release notes for our preview release...

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. This post refers to pre-release software for Hyper-V, formerly known as Windows Server virtualization. However, there is no difference in the guidance provided in this post. Following on from my...

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. This post refers to pre-release software for Hyper-V, formerly known as Windows Server virtualization. However, there is no difference in the guidance provided in this post. I had many questions emailed...

Update 6/30/08. Windows Server virtualization is now Hyper-V, and it RTM'd on 6/26/08. The forum has also recently moved to http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en/winserverhyperv/threads/ Cheers, John. Here's a site I didn't even know existed until yesterday...

Now that Windows Server 2008 RC0 with the preview release of Windows Server virtualization is available, a timely list of upcoming webcasts relating to virtualization. Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails...

Update: Feb 2008. This post no longer applies for the Hyper-V (formerly known as Windows Server virtualization) Beta, as present on the Windows Server 2008 RTM (Release To Manufacture) media. To install the Hyper-V role from the Beta release onwards ...

Update June 2008. WSv is now known as Hyper-V and is available in RTM form (KB950050). The post below refers to pre-release software. Windows Server virtualization, (which I’ll generally refer to as WSv for short), is the Hypervisor-based Virtual...

Wow. Can't believe it's close to 3 months since posting - just shows how busy life can get sometimes. Anyway, I thought I'd share this script which will tell you how many domain-joined Virtual Server hosts are currently running in your organization. It...

Mike Neil, GM for virtualization strategy at Microsoft has written an interesting blog post on the Windows Server team blog outlining where we're heading with Virtualization at Microsoft. Take a read here . Cheers, John.

Can't wait to get home tonight..... just saw a pointer to this download on microsoft.com which is an addin for Windows Desktop Search, supported on Windows Vista which provides indexing capability for network shares. Given I've got hundreds of GB of data...

Hot news just in. Virtual PC 2007 is now released to the web for download and provides support for Windows Vista running as both the host and as a guest. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/default.mspx Cheers, John.

I thought this link was worth posting. A few days back a new calculator was posted on microsoft.com which makes it easier to assess operating system licensing costs for virtualization use. Note that the calculator only takes account of the host operating...

Here's a handy KB article just published if you want to run the Windows Server 2003 (SP1) Administrative Tools from a Windows Vista client machine. There's also a list of known problems with some of the management tools and workarounds where they are...

Happy new year :) As of this morning, a revised release candidate build of Virtual PC 2007 is now available on Microsoft Connect . You will need a passport account to login. If you're not already participating in the Beta, go to available connections...

Although I changed job roles earlier this year, I still get internal emails which get routed via inbox rules to folders rarely touched these days except for select all/delete. However, as I'm looking at migrating to Exchange 2007 when I find the time...