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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:36 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Baselines for Win7, BL and IE8

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows operating systems and 2007 Microsoft Office applications. Recent updates include
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:02 PM

Hyper-V How To: Test Hosts for Proc Compatibility for VM Migration

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V R2, when a running or a saved state virtual machine is migrated to another virtualization server (also called “host”), the destination server may have a processor with a different set of features. An operating system
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:51 AM

Download Windows XP Mode

Windows XP Mode is ready for download. Read about Windows XP Mode modes of operation over on the VPC blog: http://blogs.technet.com/windows_vpc/archive/2009/08/27/three-modes-of-windows-xp-mode.aspx
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Monday, October 12, 2009 8:16 AM

“Plus sa change”… TS is dead, long live RDS

The perf team blog this morning has an excellent summation of What’s New in Remote Desktop Services
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:07 PM

Hyper-V How To: Understand Security Auditing

Read the Windows Server 2008 R2 security auditing resources below – and you’ll be up to speed: Advanced Security Audit Policy Step-by-Step Guide This step-by-step guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 demonstrates the process of setting up an
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Friday, October 02, 2009 10:33 AM

Answeredness as a Competitive Advantage

Microsoft’s community forums have a nifty feature that is a little hard to find because you need to begin to ask a question before you see it. Let’s say you go to the Hyper-V Forum, and you have a question about Processor affinity. You can search “How
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:38 PM

Bing My Blog

TN and MSDN blogs now have Bing search in the search box. How cool is that? my blog is bingified. BEFORE AFTER Of course, I’m nothing special, its not just my blog. You can now Bing search all TN/MSND blogs, give these a try: http://blogs.msdn.com/search/
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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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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:55 AM

Free-as-in-beer Security Protection from Microsoft

I’ve been dogfooding Microsoft Security Essentials for quite awhile now and recommend it to everyone one I know. Download it free today here . Did I mention that it is free-as-in-beer? Event though I use remote assistance and PSR to help friends and family
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Monday, September 28, 2009 12:52 PM

Hyper-V How To: Turn Off IPV6

By default, IPv6 is enabled in Windows Server 2008. If you want to disable IPv6 for any reason – perhaps you have some VMs you want to exclude for testing, you have to use Registry Editor to completely disable IPv6. For those who prefer not to muck about
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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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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:00 AM

Hyper-V TV: How to Fix BIOS error “Hypervisor is not running…”

In this 5 minute video Windows Server Technical Writer Felipe Ayora demonstrates how to change the BIOS settings on your computer to make the hypervisor run. NOTE: remember to completely power off your computer after making the changes to the BIOS. Some
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Friday, August 21, 2009 12:38 PM

Hyper-V How To: Check if ICs are Current using Script

Some friends here on the Hyper-V team shared a PowerShell 2.0 script for checking the integration services/integration components to see if they are current in your VMs: # Test if the IC version is up to date param( [string]$vmName = $(throw "Must specify
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