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16 September 2008
How to use uniquely identify a virtual machine in Hyper-V
When managing a large number of virtual machines, there is often a need to tag it in some way with one or more properties uniquely identifying it for administrative purposes. One example would be to identify a virtual machine as belonging to a person, Read More...
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07 August 2008
Hyper-V: Why does Hyper-V Manager not always work over VPN connection? Access Denied or RPC server unavailable errors.
This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection  - specifically hitting an error “Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER’ and Read More...
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22 July 2008
Hyper-V: Why is networking reset in my VM when I copy a VHD?
This is a question I’ve seen come up a few times so figured it was time to examine why in a little more detail. In Virtual Server, you were able to copy VHDs and the associated VMC (Virtual Machine Configuration) file from one host to another, add Read More...
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15 July 2008
Hyper-V: MAC Address allocation and apparent network issues MAC collisions can cause
In a physical only world, you don’t usually have to worry about MAC addresses that much as each NIC vendor carves off a MAC address from their ranges which have been allocated to them. However, in a virtual environment, you have to be a little more careful, Read More...
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03 July 2008
Deploying Windows Vista SP1 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 3.
The first two parts of this mini-series dealt with deploying Windows Server 2008 – either as the root partition with the RTM Hyper-V role enabled, or as a child partition (virtual machine) with the Hyper-V RTM Integration Services installed. This third Read More...
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30 June 2008
Hyper-V: Locate Hyper-V enabled servers in your domain
It seems an eternity ago (May 2007) that I put up a post describing how to determine which domain-joined servers are running Virtual Server in your domain(s). Well that same functionality is present in Hyper-V, only the SCP or "Service Connection Point" Read More...
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30 June 2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 2.
This continues on from last week's post to show the changes needed to enable the "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM role at the time of operating system deployment. To start with, follow the steps from part 1 to add KB950050 to each of the images in the WIM file Read More...
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26 June 2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 1.
This article walks through updating an WDS infrastructure such that Hyper-V RTM bits are “slipstreamed” into the operating system installation. Given that Hyper-V has reached RTM (release to manufacturing), it was time to refresh my test deployment environment Read More...
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04 April 2008
Part 5. Domain client to Workgroup Server: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
So far, I’ve covered the following Hyper-V Remote Management scenarios: Workgroup: Vista client to remote server, server configuration, full install ( Part one ) Workgroup: Vista client to remote server, client configuration ( Part two ) Workgroup: Vista Read More...
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01 April 2008
Part 4. Domain joined environment: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required 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 So after even more feedback and questions, part 4 of this series provides the walkthrough steps necessary to perform Hyper-V remote administration in a domain joined environment. For reference: Read More...
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30 March 2008
Part 3 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required 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...
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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...
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28 March 2008
Part 2 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required 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...
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28 March 2008
Part 1 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required 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...
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