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02 December 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 5 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. The last part of this mini series is where we setup Read More...
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01 December 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 4 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. In part 3, the new cluster group for the virtual machine Read More...
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29 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 2 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. Part 2 of 5 performs a similar configuration to what Read More...
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27 November 2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Walkthrough
With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to know more about Host Clustering - a new capability supported with this release - what better way to find out than with a live on-demand demonstration, Read More...
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03 November 2005
Online Labs
Just got news in my inbox that all the US Virtual Labs for both Technet and MSDN are running on Virtual Server 2005 R2 which I thought was kind of cool. If you haven't had a chance to play with the online labs - you should. There's lots of labs which Read More...
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17 October 2005
Netware to Windows Server migration
So, apart from being a great showcase for using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to run online labs, this provides a great opportunity to learn about how to migrate from Novell to Windows in this brand new online lab. To sign up and for more information, Read More...
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05 July 2005
Generic scripted weekly backup solution - your feedback results
Following last weeks post regarding the script I used to back up my home Exchange 2003 SP1 Server running under Virtual Server 2005 on a weekly full backup with daily differential backup, I've received upwards of 30 emails, all positive, thankfully!!! Read More...
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29 June 2005
Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)
Update: 4th Nov - See updated and improved script here As part of my backup for Exchange I was playing with at the weekend, I ended up writing a pretty simple script to run as a scheduled task. Although my Exchange environment is simple as well, the requirements Read More...
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28 June 2005
Event ID 8017 Backing up Exchange 2003 Virtual Machines (Part 1)
I was thinking about this also at the weekend (I really should get out more) about how to reliably backup my Exchange 2003 SP1 Virtual Machine running at home. Now it only supports five users and a few resource mailboxes, but now that my wife's email Read More...
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27 June 2005
Windows Sharepoint Services SP1 on Exchange 2003
This weekend, I was playing around yet more with my home infrastructure, "dogfooding", so to speak. One of the things I wanted to get running was Windows Sharepoint Services SP1 (the baby brother of Sharepoint Portal Server). However, I've pretty much Read More...
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31 May 2005
Turn Off Low Disk Space Notification
Next part of a series of blogs about changes to my home network, but equally as valuable to anyone who runs Virtual Machines in the sort of way I'm going to explain. For performance and due to lack of physical memory on my Virtual Server host, I've seperated Read More...
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24 April 2005
Minimising VHD size for WS2003 Enterprise SP1 in Virtual Server
I was playing this weekend trying to get the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) size down to the barest minimum. I thought I did OK - WS2003 SP1 with Support Tools, Admin Pack, Group Policy Management Console, Small Office 2003 installation running Word+Excel patched Read More...
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03 February 2005
How-to boost Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Guest Performance
One very easy win to gain fairly significant extra performance from your Virtual Server 2005 guest Virtual Machines is to use virtual SCSI disks instead of virtual IDE disks. Of course, a physical fast I/O subsystem on the host is going to make a far Read More...
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19 January 2005
VMRC Client (Virtual Machine Remote Control Client) under Virtual Server 2005 - Great scenario
AKA Another great reason to consider using Virtual Server 2005 for test/dev scenarios.... I was asked a question a couple of days ago, and I hadn't thought of using the VMRC client in this particular circumstance. I haven't tested it, but there's no reason Read More...
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05 January 2005
KB 891609 - Could not connect to Virtual Server. Access was denied.
Summary from KB Article : When you open the Virtual Server Administration Website in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, you receive the following error message: Could not connect to Virtual Server. Access was denied. You can specify an alternate virtual server Read More...
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