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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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Monday, October 26, 2009 2:31 PM

Hyper-V How To: Do a VM Config-only Export in Hyper-V R2

Ben’s blog post lays out all the background and details on import/export of VMs in Windows Server 2008 R2 . Soumya’s blog post gives a couple of scripts showing how to do a config-only export,a nd a script for importing it.
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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 12:23 PM

Hyper-V How To: Set Processor Affinity in Hyper-V

You don’t. Chances are you found this blog post by searching for some combination of the words in the bag “set processor affinity Hyper-V”. As Ben explains in his blog post: Processor Affinity and why you don’t need it on Hyper-V , there is no way to
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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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