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It is important to get the network card configuration right in the parent partition for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008/R2. Common problems include: A-Records and PTR’s registered for the Parent Partition under multiple IP addresses NetBIOS conflicts
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I was recently asked a question about PowerShells ability to read in an XML configuration file at a Virtual Academy I ran last week. One of the strengths of PowerShell is its ability to perform lots of time saving tasks … one of which is reading in an
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“Although bulk deletions are rare, they are disruptive events that you can guard against by removing the Delete and the Delete Subtree permissions in Active Directory. To guard against accidental deletions, you should remove the Delete and Delete Subtree
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With the economic down turn and the green agenda Virtualisation has become a hot topic with my customer. These days its all about getting the best value for money as possible with your IT budget, so when my customer had a number of servers out
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One of the most common conversations I have about virtualisation is the "how do I make my virtual machines highly available?" one. Topics like Hyper-V Quick Migration are then discussed and off the techie goes to start testing. When
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We are running an event this December for Microsoft Premier customers. I'm pretty excited about it actually. Premier Field Engineering and Microsoft Consulting Services are teaming up to present real world details on Hyper-V, System Centre
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Single Sign On for Windows XP Clients Single Sign On (SSO) to Windows Server 2008 (W2K8) Terminal Services uses the Credential Security Service Provider (CredSSP). CredSSP delegates credentials to defined target servers and is native to Windows Vista.
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Over the past week or so Microsoft have clarified the support statement for server products running in virtual environments. The most significant announcement was the Server Virtualisation Validation Program (SVVP). To quote "The Server Virtualization
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There are plenty of posts on the interweb that show you how to mount and unmount vhds via powershell. I downloaded the Hyper-V PowerShell management library from CodePlex.com here as created by James O'Neil . In it he kindly provides two scripts (mount-VHD.ps1
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Where is the cluster log in Windows 2008 ? This short answer is its no longer there. On our Windows 2008 cluster node if we navigate to %systemroot%\system32\LogFiles\Cluster your wont find the cluster.log file anymore. Why ? Its been replaced
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This is a not so common issue I can across this week . The background is as follows. You decided to evict a node from your cluster. There is a communication failure between nodes and a warning appears that the cluster was unable to remove clustering
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Need some light reading for the weekend? Have a look at the links below. All part of the growing body of knowledge around Hyper-V. Websites Microsoft Virtualization Home Page http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/default.mspx Virtualization
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The print spooler is a temperamental beast at the best of times. Print servers end up with a whole myriad of drivers, print monitors and print processors. The more queues and printers there are the greater the potential for problems.
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I was recently asked (two hours ago) how to tell if a server was running Terminal Services in Application Mode. The customer wanted to run a different script if users were logged into a Terminal Server. They had looked through the registry and came across
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