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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:00 PM

Virtual Machine Additions for Windows Server 2003 SP1

The virtual machine team is "pedal to the metal" developing and testing an update for Virtual Machine Additions. This update will make Windows Server 2003 SP1 run better in virtual machines running under the release version of Virtual Server 2005. As
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:32 PM

Displaying a virtual machine in a PowerPoint presentation

Did you know that you can display your virtual machine from within a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation? Here's how: On a computer with Virtual Server installed, open Microsoft Powerpoint. On a PowerPoint slide, click "Insert," and then click "Object."
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:51 AM

Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server whitepaper now available for download

This whitepaper is now available on Microsoft.com at http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/4/d/14d17804-1659-435d-bc11-657a6da308c0/VSvsVPC.doc . Thanks to those of you who gave me comments on the draft. Abstract: Microsoft® Virtual PC 2004 is a virtual
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:29 PM

SSL and Virtual Server

Q: Rod has this question: "I recently made the switch over to Virtual Server 2005 from VMware. I love the web based interface but am having troubles with enabling SSL. Can I use SelfSSL from the IIS6 Reskit? Could I set up a CA in a virtual machine to
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:51 PM

Migrating Windows Server 2003 SP1 to a virtual machine

If you want to use Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit (VSMT) to migrate a computer running Windows Server 2003 SP1 to a virtual machine, you'll need to copy some system files from your installation of Windows Server 2003 SP1 to the computer running
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Friday, May 13, 2005 1:29 PM

Dealing with a VHD that grew too large

Q: Lach writes with this question: "I have 2 virtual machines installed, and had them set up as dynamic hard drives [dynamically expanding VHDs]. One has gotten to 16 gb, and has all but filled up my hard drive. I would like to make it smaller, as the
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:41 PM

Increasing the size of a VHD

Q: Haileyesus asks, "How do you increase the size of a virtual hard disk?" A: Unfortunately, Haileyesus, there's no way to increase the size of a virtual hard disk (VHD) once it's been created. VHDs are just like physical disks in this respect (and in
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:14 PM

Tip: Accessing remote resources via UNC

If you have a virtual machine configured on one computer and want to access a resource (such as an ISO or a VHD) on a different physical computer via a UNC path, you have three choices, listed below. The first two are covered in the documentation. The
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:02 PM

STC presentation slides (off topic)

This is not related to Virtual Server, so skip this unless you're looking for my STC slides. Below is a link to the presentation slides for my STC talk on using newsgroups to improve the customer experience. At the bottom of each slide are my detailed
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