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Microsoft Management Summit 2013 (#MMS2013) - 4.8-4.12 Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas
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There are lots of excitements at MMS 2013 ( #MMS2013 ) in Las Vegas. Many opportunities to learn about Microsoft Private and Public Clouds, Cloud OS and celebrate many milestones achieved by Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 SP1, Windows...
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All About Windows Server 2012
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3 months ago
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Windows Server 2012 (aka The Modern Cloud OS) has been out for over 6 months now With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft delivers a server platform built on our experience of building and operating many...
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June 2012 Datacenter Newsletter
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11 months ago
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Download the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) Try the release candidate of Windows Server 2012, a scalable, dynamic, multitenant-aware, and cloud-optimized infrastructure. This section contains information to design, deploy, manage, and...
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Differencing Disk or Snapshot Parent/Child Chain
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over 2 years ago
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Hyper-V differencing virtual hard disk (VHD) is an interesting and sometimes very useful subject in virtualization world. As a matter of fact Snapshot AVHDs are also differencing virtual hard disks. My favorite scenarios for using snapshots are...
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What’s the story of Pagefile size on Hyper-V Servers?
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over 2 years ago
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This question comes up frequently. So, how do we size the pagefile on Hyper-V host servers and how about Virtual Machines? Here’s the all you should know; Paging File Configuration within the VM Proper paging file configuration is vital to the...
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Case of Hyper-V Role install issue
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over 2 years ago
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In this post, we're going to look at an issue that was happened when I was teaching a Hyper-V R2 class few weeks back. Students were experimenting Hyper-V Role installation options using Server Manager Console, DISM.exe, ocsetup.exe and ServerManager...
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Error ID:404 while Adding Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2008 R2
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over 3 years ago
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Yesterday while working on installing a new SCVMM 2008 R2 server setup, we encountered an issue when tried to add a new 2-node Hyper-V R2 host cluster to the VMM console. Here’s how we were able to reproduce the error; In SCVMM 2008 R2 console...
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Problem with Compacting VHDs in Hyper-V Management Console
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over 3 years ago
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If you are using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, you might be familiar with expand and compact of VHD (virtual hard disk) process. Few days back when I was trying to compact one of my VM’s Dynamic VHDs (Guest OS: Windows Server 2008 R2...
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Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer PowerShell Automation
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over 3 years ago
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Hi, Mark here today. As you might know, with the release of Server 2008 R2, Server Manger offered Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) for few roles/features such as Web Server (IIS). The following screen shot shows the Best Practices Analyzer for IIS on...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Highly Available (Clustered) Remote Desktop Connection Broker
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over 3 years ago
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Hi Mark here again. I was working on W2K8 R2 RD Connection Broker today (this is an exotic topic as people don’t get lots of queries on it) and thought I could share few notes with you just in case you get to the same situation and wonder how things should...
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Hyper-V Guest Clustering Step-by-Step Guide
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over 4 years ago
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You might have wondered about how to setup Failover Cluster inside Hyper-V Virtual Machines. As you know, the major element of a cluster is the shared storage piece. Inside Hyper-V VMs, iSCSI is the only supported method of providing shared disks over...
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What is CPU Type in SCVMM 2008 R2 VM Processor Hardware Profile?
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over 4 years ago
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If you ever used SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) 2008 R2, you might have notices different CPU Types under the Processor properties of each Virtual Machine or inside Hardware Profiles. You might wonder what these CPU Types are and...
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What is this CPU Usage column in Hyper-V Management Console?
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over 4 years ago
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Hi! If you’ve used Hyper-V, you might have seen a CPU Usage column inside Hyper-V Management console for each Virtual Machine (VM). A friend of mine thought this was the CPU usage of that VM, however, when looking at the CPU utilization inside the VM...
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Hyper- V Dynamic Expanding or Fixed Size VHD?
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over 4 years ago
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Hi, today I’d like to write about Hyper-V and Virtual Disks. As you know Windows Server 2008 R2 ’s been released with bunch of enhancements in Hyper-V . One of the improvements is performance increase with Dynamic Expanding virtual hard disks ...
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Error Code 0x8009030e in SCVMM 2008 and Hyper-V Management Consoles when trying to connect to a Virtual Machine
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over 4 years ago
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Hello! This morning, I logged into my Hyper-V/SCVMM 2008 server to deploy a new Windows Server 2008 to my Hyper-V server and as soon as I launched SCVMM 2008 console and I kept getting the following error message; ...
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Extend System/Boot Volume on Windows Server 2008/ Windows Vista/Win7 Beta
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over 4 years ago
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I’m sure the subject of extending volumes and drives due to lack of space or other reasons is still a good subject for IT Professionals who work with Windows Servers or Clients. There are public documents such as KB325590 or the following TechNet...
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How to determine the appropriate page file size on my server
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over 5 years ago
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I’ve seen the question of how big the page file has to be on a serer several times. As you may know the rule of thumb is to make it 1.5 times the physical RAM. But sometime system would have a different recommended value for your page file size. What...
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Mark Ghazai's Bio
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I’m a Microsoft Data Center Specialist with Microsoft US State and Local Government (SLG) team. My goal is to address challenging issues within SLG customer datacenters and their journey toward Private and Public Cloud adoption. Assisting customers...
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