March 2008 - Posts

31 March 2008
Hyper-V installation freezes at 54% or uninstallation freezes at 75%
KB article 950792 describing the scenario and the workaround has now gone live . Cheers, John. Read More...
30 March 2008
Part 3 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 Although I thought I’d finished at part two, after even more emails and comments on part one and two , it quickly became obvious to me that I need to round off the series by answering “But Read More...
30 March 2008
How to add the Hyper-V role to a Windows Server 2008 Server Core machine
Soon, I promise, I will be publishing part 3 which is the workgroup server-core version of “ Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer Read More...
29 March 2008
"Idiots guide to Server Core" (aka Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server 2008 Step-By-Step Guide)
More for my own reference, as I keep having to search the Internet for this document and never bookmark it. If you want to know all those useful little commands to manage Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008, this is the place to go - the Read More...
28 March 2008
Part 2 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 The second part of the extra-long blog post contains the steps necessary on the client machine. Part one concentrated on the server side configuration. Step 5 (On the client) Step 5 mirrors Read More...
28 March 2008
Part 1 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the requested permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Quick links to the all parts in the series: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 After the many emails I’ve had about this, it seemed only appropriate to write up a detailed post (or two actually) about how to resolve this. You will hit this problem when using the Hyper-V Read More...
25 March 2008
Vista SP1 Management Tools for Hyper-V RC0 download links
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software. The Vista SP1 Management Tools for Hyper-V RC0 are now available for download. These include Hyper-V Manager, the MMC management console, and Virtual Machine Connection, Read More...
23 March 2008
Controlling Hyper-V VMs in Virtual Machine Connection over TS/Remote Desktop without a mouse
With Hyper-V RC0 now available, [ Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software] the ideal solution for controlling VMs remotely is to use the Hyper-V management tools from another Windows Server 2008 machine, or from Read More...
19 March 2008
Hyper-V RC0 Release is available for download
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software.     Hot off the press - we have just made Release Candidate 0 (RC0) for Hyper-V available on the Microsoft Download Centre (Center).  (Be patient as if takes Read More...
02 March 2008
Windows Server Performance team explain Hyper-V
The Hyper-V team and the Windows Server Performance team have been working closely for a long time now. It's good to see that John and Bill have started a Windows Server Performance team blog and have just posted up an entry about  Hyper-V and Multi-Processor Read More...
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