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Yes, I am still alive...!

I know posts here have been sparse recently but I haven't neglected the blog, honest! Firstly, I was in the Canary Islands for a week’s holiday and since then I have been swamped with preparation work for the upcoming release of Windows 7. Consequently, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:30 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Getting inside information about Hyper-V

A new book has gone to press recently covering Hyper-V.  The “Insider’s Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor” covers pretty much everything you need to know about Hyper-V, as well as recommendations on how to install, configure, and secure virtual machines.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:07 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Faster Creation of Virtual Machines

I recently noticed a blog post on TechNet about a new tool that was released on CodePlex.  WIM2VHD is a command-line tool allows you to create sysprepped VHD images from any Windows 7 installation source (and I suspect Windows Server 2008 R2 as well) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:55 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Kicking the tyres

Want to try out Windows Server 2008? Or perhaps Exchange Server 2007? You can download complete virtual machine environments for a whole list of Microsoft products, free of charge. Check out the Test Drive program here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738372.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 6:44 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Project Highlander

Having better ‘green credentials’ than your competitor seems to be the in thing at the moment. You’ll often see a company saying that they will plant X number of trees for each purchase you make, etc. Of course, this is always a good thing and anything Read More...
Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 11:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments

Hyper-V going from strength to strength

I saw an interesting article this morning regarding how Hyper-V is doing in the virtualization arena.  It was written by IDC, an independent think-tank who has no ties to Microsoft - so hopefully that should stop most people from claiming that the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:11 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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HTAMount – Simplifying the mounting of Hyper-V VHD files to your computer

HTAMount is a HTML application that I wrote a while ago that provides a no-nonsense interface allowing you to mount/unmount offline Hyper-V virtual disk images (VHD) to your local file system, in read-only mode. It consists of a HTML Application (HTA) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:38 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): HTAMount v0.2.zip

Letting Hyper-V get some sleep

I blogged a few months ago about how activating Hyper-V on a laptop that is running Windows Server 2008 will disable all hibernation and sleep functionality. It seems that most people had not known this because I got quite a few comments on the post about Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 1:04 PM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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The final nail in VMWare's coffin?

Warning, this post may offend some of the diehard VMWare fans, especially my brother... I have refrained from blogging about the Hyper-V RTM release a few weeks ago, simply because of the fact that almost every Microsoft employee has already posted something Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 8:57 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Disconnecting Hyper-V

My work laptop runs Windows Server 2008 for one main reason, Hyper-V. I have a 64 bit CPU with 4 Gb of RAM installed, so it seemed the obvious choice to install it! Everything runs very well, especially my virtual machines which as an Infrastructure consultant Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 10:51 AM by Daniel Oxley | 14 Comments
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Hyper-V causing a negative effect on...

A colleague of mine sent me this image, and I just could not resist posting it in my blog.  I won't comment any further on it as I know from experience that some people don't like hearing bad things about VMWare.  I'll just say that this is Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 9:41 PM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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Hyper-V on the side

I noticed today that someone has written a new cool gadget for the Windows Sidebar that lets you display what multiple Hyper-V servers are doing, all from your workstation. Double clicking on a server will also allow you to connect straight to it. You Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:06 PM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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Getting my bits in a twist

This week I installed a new Windows Vista virtual machine in Hyper-V.  I installed the OS, added it to the domain, then realised that I had not added the integration services for the guest OS.  Launching the install for them gave me the following Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:04 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Insomnia-causing Hyper-V

I am in Seattle at the moment at an internal Microsoft conference.  Yesterday I attended a presentation by one of the product managers for Hyper-V where he really stressed a point that people ask me all the time, he also explained to everyone the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:03 AM by Daniel Oxley | 29 Comments
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Hyper-V - Hooray!

I am sure that this has been blogged about at least a trillion times, so I am going to make it a trillion and 1. I have been running Windows Server 2008 64bit Enterprise Edition RTM on my company laptop (a 64bit dual core with 4GB of RAM) for about a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:36 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
 
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