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  • New tool for precompacting virtual hard disks

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    Compacting your dynamically expanding virtual hard disks (VHDs) reduces the amount of disk space they use. Preparing a disk and compacting it is covered in the Virtual Server 2005 Administrator’s Guide, so I won’t go into it here. What’s new is this:...

  • Sandboxing a virtual machine under Virtual PC

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    Michael asked the following question about sandboxing a virtual machine. I thought it might be of general interest, so decided to post the answer, which Ben Armstrong, our resident Virtual PC guru has provided ( http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy )...

  • iSCSI and Virtual Server

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    David B. asks, "I've been looking to see if Virtual Server 2005 and iSCSI will work together - any idea on this?" Jeff Woolsey responds, "People have reported success using the Microsoft iSCSI client in a guest operating system. This scenario is not yet...

  • Migrating a dynamic physical disk to a virtual hard disk

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    [Updated on 1/6/05.] Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit (VSMT) doesn't support migrating a dynamic physical disk to a virtual hard disk (VHD). One option for dealing with this is to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk and then perform the migration...

  • Question for Virtual Server users

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    Here's a question for all of you from the Windows Server User Assistance team. For the first time, with the Virtual Server 2005 documentation, we've made a Getting Started Guide available from the Start menu (Start > All Programs > Microsoft Virtual...

  • Domain in a box

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    This article tells you how to set up a self-contained domain on a single computer under Virtual Server. Ed Reed, a virtualization developer here at Microsoft helped me out with it. Thanks Ed! Although you can set up a production domain controller on Virtual...

  • Domain in a box

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    I just posted an article in the "Deployment" category ( http://blogs.technet.com/megand/articles/278532.aspx ) that tells you how to set up a self-contained domain on a single computer under Virtual Server. Ed Reed, a virtualization developer here at...

  • Upcoming TechNet Webcast: Virtual Server 2005 COM API: Automating Your Virtual World

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    On December 14, 2004, Robert Larson showed us how to work with the Virtual Server 2005 COM API and create scripts for automating tasks like virtual machine creation, configuration, enumeration, and provisioning virtual machines for a test lab. This was...

  • Increasing the speed of an OS install when using SCSI disks

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    This article is contributed by Jeff Woolsey, our Virtual Server 2005 Program Manager. Thanks Jeff! To increase the performance of the OS install (F6 option) when using emulated SCSI disks you can create a diskette to load the faster SCSI drivers that...

  • Increasing the speed of an OS install

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    I've just added an article contributed by Jeff Woolsey, Virtual Server Program Manager, to the "Deployment" category ( http://blogs.technet.com/megand/articles/274783.aspx ) that describes how to increase the speed of an operating system installation...

  • Upcoming Webcast: Options for Upgrading NT4 LOB Applications Including Using Virtual Server 2005

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    On Friday, January 07, 2005 11:30 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada), Kevin Remde, a Technet presenter, will discuss ways you can upgrade your existing NT 4 applications. As Windows NT 4.0 Server comes to the end of its supported life, many...

  • Fixing network connectivity issues with Broadcom NICs

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    Virtual Server sometimes takes issue with Broadcom NICs. If you're experiencing any connectivity problems, and you're using a Broadcom NIC, turn off the Offload TCP Segmentation, Checksum Offload, and Large Send Offload settings for the NIC, as follows...

  • Deploying Virtual Server: Q&A

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    I just listened in on a conference call between Ben Armstrong ( http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy ) and Barbara, an IT manager who’s considering deploying Virtual Server in her enterprise. I thought you all might be interested in the questions and...

  • Q&A on deploying Virtual Server

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    I just listened in on a conference call between Ben Armstrong ( http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy ) and Barbara, an IT manager who’s considering deploying Virtual Server in her enterprise. I thought you all might be interested in the questions and...

  • Virtual PC 2004 SP1 available for download

    Posted over 10 years ago
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    Some of you may not know that Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. It includes some fixes as well as reliability, performance, and management improvements. It's also essential if you want to run Windows XP with Service Pack 2. To download...