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Monday, November 30, 2009 1:25 PM

Hyper-V How To: Plan Performance

Customers often ask “Given a hardware load-out X, how many Ys can I get/run/host?” The frustrating answer always starts with “…it depends…”. We caveat this way not because we want to frustrate, but because it is true. Many teams will go on to say “We
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:56 AM

PowerShell PowerBoots

The good folks at Codeplex, the folks who bring you the free-as-in-beer Hyper-V PowerShell SnapIn also bring you the PowerShell PowerBoots . “ PowerBoots makes it easier for scripters to create graphical user interfaces in PowerShell, exposing much of
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:04 PM

DIY Zune Speakers – the IT Pro Way

John shares how to hack your 12V drill to power you Zune speakers . He also tells How to Detect The Virtualization Layer From Within A Guest .
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:06 AM

Jim DuBois on Virtualization

Microsoft IT General Manager Jim Dubois shares info about virtualization inside Microsoft in this short (4 minute) video.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:22 PM

Hyper-V How To: PowerShell Cmdlet Reference

Check out the newly released PowerShell cmdlet reference material at: Getting Started Guide for IT Pros Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) Failover Clustering Group Policy Active Directory Active Directory Rights Management Services AppLocker Power Shell Administration
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:57 PM

Hyper-V How To: P2V A Running Computer

Need to convert a running computer to a .VHD? Use Disk2Vhd , released yesterday. Disk2vhd is a free-as-in-beer Sysinternals utility you can use to create VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks. You
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:52 AM

Hyper-V How To: Find Hyper-V Patches

Recently a customer asked how to find and subscribe to a list of patches and hotfixes for Hyper-V. You can find them here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893.aspx To subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this page (new patches are
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:26 AM

Windows Server Virtualization Guide Re-Released

The Windows Server Virtualization guide 2.0, a.k.a. the IPD guide for Windows Server Virtualization (updated for Windows Server 2008 R2) has been re-released with updates to include Windows Server 2008 R2. “The reader is guided through the nine-step process
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:55 AM

Hyper-V How To: Download the MP for Windows Server 2008 R2

The download for the Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 (and 2003) is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3 NOTE: System Requirements
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:54 AM

Hyper-V How To: Manage MAC Address Conflicts

A colleague recently shared some good advice for managing  MAC address conflicts on your VMs: Best Practice = Prevent. There is a standard for MAC addressing whereby OEMs get prefixes (i.e. the first couple pairs of the MAC address range) registered
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Friday, September 11, 2009 12:08 PM

How To: Deploy Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2020 (MDT) is live. Enjoy. MDT helps you automate desktop and server deploymens, including: Unified tools, processes and guidance for desktop and server deployment Fully automated Zero Touch Installation deployments by
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Friday, September 11, 2009 11:59 AM

Hyper-V How To: Design Hyper-V HA Clusters

Resources from our friends in customer support that will help you as you begin your design of failover clusters for Hyper-V: Quorum: Guide: Configuring the Quorum in a Failover Cluster Multi-site Clusters TechNet Webcast: Geographically Dispersed Failover
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:53 AM

VMworld 2009 Bumpage

Jon Brodkin on Network World reports some bumps in the road at VMworld 2009 in his article VMworld 2009: Virtualization, controversy and eating your own dog food. “ …the data center didn't work as well as intended, with attendees reporting continuous
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:39 AM

Hyper-V TV

Some good virtualization videos on the web for your Labor-day viewing. TN Edge Videos : 5 pages, lots of good stuff MSN.COM Hyper-V Videos: · Hyper-V Architecture Demonstration · Getting to Know Hyper-V · Introduction to server virtualization · Hyper-V
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:34 AM

Hyper-V Podcast: TR9 – Bob Muglia

Shortly after TR9 I had the opportunity to talk with STB President Bob Muglia about Virtualization. Click the picture to open this 5 minute audio podcast from my public Skydrive ( TR9 – Bob Muglia ).  Includes Bob’s thoughts about customer advantages
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