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Licensing Changes for CALS and HYper-V
22 January 09 05:22 AM | nking | 2 Comments   
Last week there was an important change in licensing for Windows Server 2008 related to CALs and Virtualization.   The announcement is below; <snip> A number of trends, including consolidation and high availability, are driving more deployments Read More...
How to set up SBS backup in a Hyper-V environment
26 December 08 08:54 AM | nking | 0 Comments   
Last week I posted about how to do a bare metal restore and David from down-under asked if I could explain how I had SBS backup setup in my virtual environment.  It’s worth pointing out that in my current backup configuration I’m *not* protecting Read More...
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Bare Metal restore with SBS 2008 running virtualized
17 December 08 07:52 PM | nking | 2 Comments   
Over the last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with my SBS deployment at home.  Unfortunately I’ve done some irreparable damage and need to revert back to a known good quantity.  To do that I’ve decided to do a bare metal restore.  Now Read More...
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Hyper-V Server – Interview with Bryon Surace
19 September 08 02:52 PM | nking | 0 Comments   
Earlier this week I was talking to some of the SBS MVPs about Hyper-V server.  I just noticed Bryon talking to the guys on Technet EDGE about this.  For those of you want a sneak peak at Hyper-V server, check out the interview on the Technet Read More...
SBS 2008 Rocks!!
15 September 08 02:00 PM | nking | 0 Comments   
There are many reasons why I love this product, but I want to share a real world example with you of how SBS really is a powerful solution. Last week I was moving house.  I use a Comcast cable connection and use the Internet Address Management wizard Read More...
SBS & EBS blog posts on Supported Virtualization Scenarios
15 September 08 01:45 PM | nking | 0 Comments   
Today and Yesterday we posted respective blogs on the support scenarios for SBS and EBS.  As you can imagine we’ve done a lot of thinking in this space.  We talked to many customers and partners about why they’d virtualize and what scenarios Read More...
Creating a FIXED SIZE Virtual hard disk and prepping the SBS 2008 virtual machine for deployment
11 September 08 09:51 AM | nking | 0 Comments   
As you know we recommend setting the VHD for your SBS deployment to be a fixed disk.  By default Hyper-V will create a Dynamically expanding disk.  Which does have its advantages like being faster to create, and not taking up white space on Read More...
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