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SCVMM Part 11 (Template and Profiles)

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:44 PM by Clive_Watson
In a prior post I promised more details on the template feature in SCVMM so here we go. The Template which in my mind is linked with two other options in SCVMM which are known as profiles, the two profile types are: Hardware Guest OS Going forward when Read More...
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta2 is now available

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:01 AM by Clive_Watson
More details from Dugie and John . Also you can take a look at the main Virtual Server site where it has this overview This release includes: • AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) compatibility • Intel Virtualization Technology (IVT) compatibility • Host Clustering Read More...
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SCVMM Summary and Diagram

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:09 PM by Clive_Watson
Summary To date we have covered the following: Part 1: Initial Setup Part 2: Creation of a host group Part 3: Possible host and VM status Part 4: Adding a host into SCVMM Part 5: More state information and filtering lists Part 6: Host Properties Part Read More...
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SCVMM Part 10 (Remote Control)

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:30 AM by Clive_Watson
As promised in the last post here is how you remotely manage the Virtual Machine you've just created. For those familiar with Virtual Server this is very similar. VMRC.exe (Virtual Machine Remote Control) utility has always been in Virtual Server, and Read More...
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SCVMM - Can you help the help?

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:47 AM by Clive_Watson
I got an email from the technical writer for SCVMM help files over the weekend, she has been reading my posts about SCVMM specifically liking some of the warnings comments I have mentioned. This was good to know, and I'll make sure I'm clearer when posting Read More...
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Vista Pre-RC1 Build Released

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 9:04 AM by Clive_Watson
The Windows Vista Team Blog announced that a pre RC1 build 5536.16385 (to be precise) has had a limited release - it doesn't say who can get a copy, but RC1 is due very shortly anyway. I run two laptops - my production one and a demo/test one, until this Read More...
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SCVMM Part 9 (How to create a Virtual Machine)

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:19 PM by Clive_Watson
Getting back to how to use SCVMM, I'll now walk you through one of the ways to create a Virtual Machine (VM) on a host - I'll use one the simplest ways, there are lots of other options. BTW, Are those of you not on the SCVMM beta finding this series useful? Read More...
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Microsoft and Citrix expand partnership

Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:20 PM by Clive_Watson
Microsoft and Citrix are to collaborate on developing and marketing a new Citrix WANScaler™ branch office appliance based on Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft ISA Server. Full article here . Read More...
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SCVMM Part8 (PowerShell)

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 3:26 PM by Clive_Watson
If you know a bit about PowerShell this post wont enlighten you further, so you might stop reading here. However if you're new to PowerShell or specifically PowerShell with System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) then the command GET-COMMAND will Read More...
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Quad-core

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 12:09 PM by Clive_Watson
At least once a week, often once a day someone will walk past and in a conversation cores (dual or quad) will come up. Recently I've found that details on both the AMD and Intel sites to be lacking in some areas - have you tried to make sure your buying Read More...
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SCVMM- Part7 (PowerShell)

Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:18 AM by Clive_Watson
As you should be aware SCVMM like Exchange 2007 is based on PowerShell (previously known as "Monad"). This enables you to perform every action that the GUI does from the command line and in some cases more. PowerShell is a pre-requisite for SCVMM and Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 6

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:30 AM by Clive_Watson
Host Properties For each host, that you can select in the GUI, right-click to look at the properties (it's actually called "Manage Properties" in the drop down). The first screen you come to lists the host name, Domain and a description, as well as platform Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 5

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:13 AM by Clive_Watson
The following blog will show the state information and context filtering that is achievable in SCVMM. In parts 2-4 I have shown how SCVMM displays the hosts and Virtual Machines that have been added to the console for management. This posts concentrates Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 4

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 10:44 AM by Clive_Watson
In this post I'll detail how you add an existing host into SCVMM, basically the easiest way is to select the container that you wish the host to reside in. In my case I wish to add the new host in to the "Infrastructure Hosts" group, so you simply highlight Read More...
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Windows Live Writer Beta1 now availble

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 7:52 AM by Clive_Watson
If you need a WYSIWYG blog tool (for free) then this may be the one for you, I've been using it for some posts in the last month ro so (I didn't have it on all my machines) just to compare the experience. I can assure you this tool is much easier to use Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 3

Posted Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:13 AM by Clive_Watson
The following screen grab shows a single running Virtual Server host machine in the “Infrastructure Hosts” group. I've circled the state information which shows "responding", meaning that the server that's running Virtual Server 2005 R2 is available, Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 2

Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 1:25 PM by Clive_Watson
One of the great SCVMM features is the ability to simply, create a "Host Group" under the "Managed Computers" object. In this example I have created two sub groups, the one I'll detail here is UK, I could also create child groups under these parents. Read More...
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Two new features for MSCS – I just noticed

Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:29 PM by Clive_Watson
This feature came up in conversation earlier this week, it was on the periphery of things for me to track, so I missed that we actually released a KB on it late in July. The first feature allows a two node Majority Node Set (MNS) quorum model to utilise Read More...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager - Part 1

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:23 PM by Clive_Watson
UPDATE: Changed post title from "Day1" to "Part1"... System Center Virtual Machine Manager (Beta1) was made avialble on http://connect.microsoft.com site. For more information (assuming you haven't downloaded it yourself) can be found here and here , Read More...
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New Windows Server information from today

Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:48 PM by Clive_Watson
Two blogs I noticed today from the Windows Server team were, some more details on Windows Server 2003 SP2 (also applies to XP x64 edition) and that CCS (Compute Cluster Server) is now on our Volume Price list, i.e. Generally available. Read More...
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TechReady stuff...

Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:24 PM by Clive_Watson
Last week was TechReady3 in Seattle for a few Microsoft colleagues and I (5000+ I think), it’s the Microsoft technical communities internal TechEd conference. Over the next few weeks or months you should start to see some of the announcements and details Read More...
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