Get an overview of how you can improve integration of your host OS and VMs to create a better experience working with virtualized systems. Follow our daily tips: • facebook.com/TechNetTips • twitter.com/TechNetTips • blogs.technet.com/tnmag

Moving a virtual machine from one host to a new host with a different processor can result in a VM failure. Find out when and how to use Processor Compatibility Mode to fix this issue. Follow our daily tips: • facebook.com/TechNetTips • twitter.com/TechNetTips • blogs.technet.com/tnmag

Windows PowerShell doesn’t include this library of functions. But with these commands, managing Hyper-V directly from the shell is much simpler. Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Hyper-V allows you to duplicate the contents of a physical drive into a new virtual hard disk . Learn how. Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Get an overview of using—and not using—the new " Enable Spoofing Of MAC Addresses " option that is now available on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Here’s a must-have set of free tools from Microsoft for managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 from a remote system. Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Here’s a quick step-by-step guide to using Hyper-V Manager to install a virtual machine . Follow our daily tips on: Twitter | Facebook | blog | Web | RSS

Creating virtual machines (VMs) with Hyper-V is very easy, and installing operating systems and applications in a virtual machine is as transparent as in the physical world. But what if you have existing VMs tha t were used with Virtual PC 2007 or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1? Luckily, these older VMs...

If you regularly deploy even a relatively small test environment, say for product evaluations or training, y ou know what a lot of effort that can take. Hyper-V can help. Combining Hyper-V with other Windows technologies such as WMI, Windows PowerShell, WDS, and more, you can accomplish full-scale deployments...

The February 2009 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. Discover how you can use Excel and SharePoint to provide Business Intelligence in your organization, learn about logging and recovery in SQL Server and learn how to maintain a better database, see how you can automate the deployment...

Consolidating servers onto fewer physical machines has significant benefits in resource and cost savings, but as you plan, you’ll want to keep a couple of key factors in mind—increased user expectations regarding the availability of their software, and the fact that the failure of servers can have a...

The new System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 manages not only Microsoft Virtual S erver 2005 and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V installations, but it also supports VMware Infrastructure 3 (ESX/ESXi) servers. With VMM 2008, you now have an integrated management interface that works with your entire...