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I’m publishing some of the scripts I have written for VMM. These are each based on specific customer asks or conversations that lead me to go sleepless in trying to solve the problems myself. I am very interested in your feedback, especially
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Just a reminder, TechNet Webcast scheduled for today on Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange. Delivered by PMs, level 300, so this is not just a broad overview. Worth checking out. If you are on central time, this runs over your
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As this has been a frequently requested link, I’m posting here. Step by Step Guide to Building a Hyper-V Cluster http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732181(WS.10).aspx Information on upgrading a Hyper-V RTM cluster to R2. http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/10/08/9905089.asp
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I’m publishing some of the scripts I have written for VMM. These are each based on specific customer asks or conversations that lead me to go sleepless in trying to solve the problems myself. I am very interested in your feedback, especially if you would
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I’m publishing some of the scripts I have written for VMM. These are each based on specific customer asks or conversations that lead me to go sleepless in trying to solve the problems myself. I am very interested in your feedback, especially if you would
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We have recently gone through the process of wiping out our lab and rebuilding from scratch on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. During this process, I recorded the steps I used to configure MPIO with the iSCSI initiator in R2. Just to make life more
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A peer sent this link to me today. I felt it important to share as a few people have asked me if it would be possible. There is an update available. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968074
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Working on another project and I needed a way to wake up an offline server from within my PS script. I found this genius blog post and converted it to a script. Genius blog post - The PowerShell Guy : PowerShell Wake-on-lan script I saved the below
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That’s the subtitle of a case study that recently went online (so I’m not plagiarizing). A colleague sent this over to me and I had the privilege of talking with these folks a couple of weeks ago. Interesting details of this deployment (scroll
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Just wanted to share this script I wrote. The idea is I want to do something (anything) to a host and feel it might cause a service interruption so I would prefer to move all VMs off the node. Rather than doing it manually in the cluster or
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This resolves the Hyper-V status warning message in VMM. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd44b4e3-2dcc-4299-b345-bc09a9a37b60&displaylang=en This resolves an issue when using BITS to transfer to/from volumes mounted by GUID.
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Access directly to the console of a virtual machine in three easy steps. 1. Create shortcut to VM Connect Open %programfiles%\Hyper-V and do a right-click drag and drop to your desktop from vmconnect.exe to “Create Shortcut Here”. 2. (optional) rename
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I try to hit on this point in every Hyper-V presentation. Snapshots are GREAT for maintenance and roll-back, but they are very, VERY different than what you might be currently using as “snap-mirrors” on your SAN environment. The similarities
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Each year we host around 100 IT Pros from universities all around the country (and the world) in Redmond for a three day conference. This is organized by a committee from the Windows HIED listsrv hosted by Stanford University and has a focus on NOT being
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This is a great blog Janssen. Keep them coming!!! http://janssenjones.typepad.com/janssenjonescom/ The top three posts (as of today) are all related to managing Hyper-V with PowerShell. Especially interesting is the code he has written to
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