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21 March 2009
Hyper-V floppy trivia
"When I were a lad" (you have to say that in a northern British accent for authenticity), I used to catch the “ Number 64 ” bus outside Fairfield Halls in Central Croydon as a leg of my journey to Junior school. The busses never arrived as scheduled some Read More...
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13 February 2009
Hyper-V energy drink
Just thought I'd add a quick blog entry - cool thing at the office today. Cans of Hyper-V ‘Pure Consolidated Energy for your Server’ turned up at our office this afternoon for the development team. Thank you marketing team! More info at www.serverunleashed.com 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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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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03 August 2008
Do I have the latest BIOS installed? (And a cheap laptop repair)
For Hyper-V to operate correctly, it is strongly advised, and in many cases, required, to install the latest BIOS onto your hardware for hardware virtualization features to operate correctly. While some OEMs provide fantastic information, my experience Read More...
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20 May 2006
How to remove a failed server from DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2
This week has been a little strained, hence quiet on the blogging front. Apart from a hectic week at work (more to follow on that shortly), the reason was a "disaster" which happened late last Sunday evening - everything was working at home one moment, Read More...
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04 November 2005
Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script
So after numerous emails about this, and some comments on my previous blog post back in June , I spent a couple of hours this afternoon improving the backup script (which although was written as a generic Exchange backup script, is suitable for file system, Read More...
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