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25 January 2010
Announcing NVSPBind
A quick post to announce the availability of a new utility written by a colleague of mine in the Hyper-V team, Keith Mange. NVSPBind (Network Virtual Service Provider Bind) overcomes a shortfall that many people hit in server core installations of Windows Read More...
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09 October 2009
Explaining the Hyper-V authorization model, part five
Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this many months ago – only finally Read More...
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18 September 2009
Explaining the Hyper-V authorization model, part four
Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only Read More...
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09 September 2009
Explaining the Hyper-V authorization model, part three
Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only Read More...
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02 September 2009
Explaining the Hyper-V authorization model, part two
Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only Read More...
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31 August 2009
Explaining the Hyper-V authorization model, part one
Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only Read More...
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01 July 2009
Hyper-V: How to remove disabled virtual network adapters from the parent partition
In May , I mentioned that we introduced a checkbox in the Hyper-V UI for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 which determines whether a virtual NIC is created in the parent partition for External Virtual Networks. (To get a better understanding of Hyper-V Read More...
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28 December 2008
Hyper-V Resolving Event ID 4096
Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my Virtual Server “production” VMs across to Hyper-V. But when nearing completion, I noticed that Server Manager was reporting a role error: Looking at the detail Read More...
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19 November 2008
How to detect UAC elevation from VBScript
While working on the next version of HVRemote yesterday evening, one of the things I wanted to address based on feedback from various people was to have the tool (written in VBScript) detect whether it is being run from an elevated command prompt. While Read More...
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14 November 2008
Configure Hyper-V Remote Management in seconds
Update 19th Nov - v0.3 now released! It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at least in this case, I hope I've come up with something worth waiting for. Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote Read More...
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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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