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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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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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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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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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Indiana University University Improves Service Availability, Reduces IT Workload with Virtualization Indiana University is one of the largest state university systems in the United States, with nine campuses, 100,000 students, 7,000 faculty members, and
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This is really great news, particularly for the vast number of administrators in Higher Education who have adopted Hyper-V for all or part of their virtualization workloads! This entry from the Hyper-V team explains a new support agreement between
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Got this question twice this week so I’d say it is blog worthy. How to configure a Hyper-V server to be remotely managed (manage stand alone server or across domains). You might also consider reviewing the ACLs he describes if you are troubleshooting
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