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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’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote So far, I’ve covered the following Hyper-V Remote Management scenarios: Workgroup: Vista client to remote server, server configuration, 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’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote 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 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’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote 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 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’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote 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 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’
Update 14th Nov 2008 . I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two command lines: HVRemote 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 Read More...
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