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Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
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20 days ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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This tool has been out for a while, but have seen multiple customers not leveraging it on their Hyper-V servers as it is not installed by default on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts. It is particularly useful for ensuring that the...
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SkyDrive Updated Quota And Clients
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1 month ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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The SkyDrive team have just released the updated SkyDrive and the associated clients for various mobile devices. I just finished downloading and installing the Windows Phone 7.5 client from the Marketplace . ...
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VMLimited - More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van
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1 month ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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The polyester packing virtualization sales guy from the past is back! You may have seen Tad in his inaugural video over at VM-Limited . Now the second instalment of his genius is live. I wish that I could get it on VHS, ...
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Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location
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1 month ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory. I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even...
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List Of Updates for Hyper-V
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1 month ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Previously the list of updates for Hyper-V was stored and maintained as part of the regular TechNet documentation . Customers asked to have an RSS feed that they could subscribe to and for the list to be maintained in a more rapid fashion. ...
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Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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After seeing several posts in the TechNet Exchange forums, where people are posting an overview of their environment as part of the problem statement, it is clear that multiple customers are not maintaining the correct service pack level on their Exchange...
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Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 R2 Host
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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If you are testing out Windows 8 as a VM which is hosted on a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V server, then you will need to install the following update. An update that enables the Windows Developer Preview or Windows Server Developer Preview to...
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Hyper-V Windows Server “8” Architecture Poster
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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I’d previously blogged about the Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V architecture poster . It certainly is a neat way to see the underlying concepts laid out, especially when printed on A2 sized paper! Following this trend the poster guy, has created...
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Windows Server “8” Beta
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Now that the Windows Server “8” beta has been released publically there is going to be a lot of excitement over the release’s new features. This shouldn’t be a surprise unless you have been in a decompression chamber or living under a rock...
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Office 365 Tech Centre
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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If you are planning to test or on-board with Office 365, have you seen the Tech Centre over on TechNet? Some great content is located there, and is well worth a read. Cheers, Rhoderick Technorati Tags: Office 365 , O365
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Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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While working with a customer to resolve networking issues with their DAG last week I enquired if they had installed the recommended update for their DAG. They were not aware of the Exchange product group’s recommendation so I thought I’d bubble...
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Windows Service Log On As Inventory
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2 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active...
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Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card
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3 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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The previous behaviour in Windows was to register all IP addresses that were entered on the network card’s property sheet into DNS if the “Register this connection’s address in DNS” option was selected (Which is the default). For servers...
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Custom Certificate Template Cannot be Issued
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4 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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At an engagement yesterday, I ran into an interesting issue where a custom certificate template that was created was unavailable from the Certificate Services Web Enrolment page. One quick peek into the KB revealed a match for the issue. You cannot...
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Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released
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4 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 to the Microsoft download centre as update 2608656. The description of the update can be located here and the update is located here . I’ll leave you you to peruse...
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“Slow” File Copy Issues
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4 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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A recent performance issue case revolved around slow disk access times, and the impact that this had on Hyper-V and Windows in general. The customer had identified that one of their SAN units was dramatically out performing another one, even though...
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Windows Phone Tips & Tricks
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4 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Windows Phone has lots of features that assist with a multitude of daily tasks. The phone site has a great selection of them, so go check them out. My favourite are the pop-up shortcuts on the keyboard, e.g. press and hold the full...
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Exchange 2010 Component Posters
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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These are oldies but goodies. Posting links as requested. Exchange 2010 Component Poster Downloadable from here . HUB Transport Components Downloadable from here . HUB Transport Extensibility Downloadable from here . ...
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Hyper-V 2008 R2 Architecture Poster (with SP1)
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Link to the updated Hyper-V poster for 2008 R2 SP1 is here . Overview This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live...
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Hyper-V Connectivity Issue
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Ran into an interesting issue last week with a HP DL 585 Hyper-V host which had intermittent network connectivity over one of its defined virtual networks. In the system event log the following warning was logged: To resolve the issue, HP...
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Exchange 2010 Cross Forest Mailbox Moves
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Was discussing cross forest mailbox move operations with a customer last week to review the details around network requirements for remote move requests . This is as opposed to a local move request which is used within the same Exchange Organisation....
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Exchange EMC May Not Close – Update
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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After installing Internet Explorer 9 onto an Exchange server, you may have experienced that the Exchange Management Console (EMC) will not close. The following error is observed: You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management...
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Exchange 2010 SP2 – What You Need To Know
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Last week the Exchange team released SP2 for Exchange 2010 over on the Exchange team blog as described in the previous post which announced the upcoming release. I wanted to use this blog entry to provide links to all the relevant content for SP2 and...
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SCOM Slow PowerShell Expansion
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6 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Ran into an issue with SCOM, where the SCOM PowerShell console would freeze for extended periods of time. Solution was found here: Slow tab expansion in Ops Mgr PowerShell V2 console The fix is to tweak the TabExpansion function in V2 so that it...
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Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Released
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6 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1 RU5. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release: 2627769 Some time zones in OWA are...
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