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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

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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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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