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June, 2008

  • Hyper-V: Revert & Apply

    I was just talking to one of my colleagues about the difference between Revert & Apply when using the Hyper-V management console. They are almost the same thing, just that Revert is a special case of Apply. Apply is used on any snapshot that you want...
  • SMSExec fails after SP1 Upgrade with error 00000080

    I'd just finished upgrading my Config Mgr lab to SP1, and found that as soon as I'd restarted my machine, SMS_EXECUTIVE started to fail about 30 seconds or so after starting. I didn't get a lot of information to know this was happening, apart from the...
  • Windows 2008 RODC Compatability Pack

    When you're implementing Windows Server 2008 RODC's there are a couple of compatability issues that you may get struck with on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 clients. This KB article details the various issues that you may strike, and provides downloads...
  • Sytem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Patch for Hyper-V RC1

    The patch for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 that allows it to manage Hyper-V RC1 has been released to the http://connect.microsoft.com site. To install this patch, the VMM machine and the Hyper-V hosts must all be running the RC1 release...
  • Interesting Links 2008-06-18

    Just a bunch of things that caught my eye this morning: Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/06/17/windows-server-2008-hyper-v-failover-clustering-options.aspx Microsoft App-V (SoftGrid) 4.5 RC Available:...