Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 This post describes a change to the authorisation model in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 R2. If you recall from part one, I mentioned that there are 33 operations defined

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 In parts two and three, I walked through a specific scenario. However, you’re probably asking after having read them how I knew what operations are needed, and when,

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 In part two , I started creating the scenario of separating the view two users have when opening Hyper-V Manager so that they only see their own VMs. To do that, I

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 Part one provided information on the primitives available in the AZMan model and looked at the out-of-box Hyper-V configuration. Building on that information, part

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 As the term ‘Role Based Authorisation Model’ implies, Hyper-V has an authorisation layer which performs access checks to grant or deny an account access to operations

In May , I mentioned that we introduced a checkbox in the Hyper-V UI for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 which determines whether a virtual NIC is created in the parent partition for External Virtual Networks. (To get a better understanding of Hyper-V networking and what this means, take a look at this article .) Many customers follow our best practice of having at least two physical NICs, one for use by the parent partition (aka Management Operating System), and one or more for use by virtual

If you're either a TechNet or MSDN subscriber then there's no need to rush though the sooner you start evaluating Windows 7 the sooner you can realise the benefits in your business. The public download of Windows 7 Beta 1 finishes on 10th February so if you want to try it then you'd better get your skates on. I've installed Windows 7 Beta 1 on a wide range of machines including my 6 year old Compaq Evo, a Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), a Mac Air running Win7 natively using bootcamp as a boot

I've been suprised at the number of people who've asked me this question in the last couple of days. As I've mentioned previously I moved over to Windows 7 as my main O/S back in October with the PDC/WinHec M3 pre-Beta. A couple of days ago I moved up to the official public beta 1 which is build 7000. Viewing the available font list is pretty straight forward - there are 133 built-in fonts in the beta - simply type "font" at the Start menu - this will take you into Control Panel>fonts (unless

Be it a desktop, laptop or netbook many people I've asked this question to answer "my home one" - if that's the case for you I'd love to hear the reason why. If you're old enough to do so please cast your mind back to your work PC circa 1995 - the vast majority of personal computers back then were desktop machines - the exception being for unusually mobile people like some sales people and some IT Professionals. Back then typical "road warriors" used laptops that were of poor performance compared

The Windows Team Blog will be updated in the next few hours detailing when and where to download the public beta 1 of Windows 7 I've been running the PDC/WinHec build of Windows 7 since October daily as my main machine and it's worked brilliantly. James Senior's blog has some great links to and descriptions of what's in store with Windows 7: