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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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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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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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This morning Microsoft announcied the Release to Manufacturing of the hypervisor for Windows Server 2008, also known as Hyper-V . You’ll also find that some of our existing case studies are in Education!!! I was ecstatic to learn during TechEd that
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This is one of the best webcasts I’ve watched in recent memory. Really great information on how machines find domain controllers in 2008. http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid68_gci1317644,00.html?track=NL-119&ad=647382&asrc=EM_USC_3893103&uid=807183
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… and/or domain functional level? There is a table on the following TechNet page that outlines this info. It has been a re-occuring question in my recent trips! Note that the domain functional level is the important factor for 2008,
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In other words to get to this page. I’ll be honest, having to navigate through the Network and Sharing Center can sometimes be an extra step for me rather than a value-add. At times it can be very helpful, at other times I just want to get to the
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In my test environment I just discovered an issue and need to remove the Domain Controller role from one of my Hyper-V hosts which happens to be running Server Core. This brought a question to mind, if I want to demote a DC running Core, what is
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Due to feature changes between Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, there is no support for a rolling in-place upgrade. There is support for an in-place migration. During a discussion last week on Server 2008, a question came up regarding
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Great post from Nicola Delfino: http://blogs.msdn.com/nicold/archive/2008/04/16/how-to-access-hyper-v-rc0-machine-workgroup-from-vista-sp1-joined-to-a-domain.aspx
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Good information from the Virtualization team blog: "Each VM has a separate instance of VMBus. VMBus is a bus only in the sense that multiple VSCs inside a VM share the same instance of VMBus. This means that a local, kernel mode compromise
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