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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:33 AM

Patch Tuesday Aftermath: Do You Know Where Your VMs Are?

It is a security best practice recommendation to ensure that all your VMs are fully patched before they are turned on in production. One way you can do this is to create a designated " maintenance host " that is off the production network, but has access
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:57 AM

Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Available

The beta of the next version of VMM (SCVMM 2008), which includes support for Hyper-V, and requires the RC version of Hyper-V, is available today on http://www.connect.microsoft.com/ (requires Windows LiveID sign in and beta program participation). New
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:17 AM

VMM: Ops and Planning and Deployment Content Released

New in the SCVMM library today: Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment Installing and Configuring Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Tutorial: Getting Started Creating Virtual Machines and Operations You already knew about Virtual Machine Manager
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:32 PM

VMM: Scripted Backup

Chris Wolf published an article on scripting backup of VMs here ( vsbackup.vbs ), based on Jeff Trumbull's VB backup script . His vsbackup.vbs script is shown in the code here: Set objShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell") 'Load current date (formatted
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:10 PM

VMM: Scripting Guide Goes Live

The VMM Scripting Guide is now available in the download center. The Virtual Machine Manager Scripting Guide explains how to create Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripts that execute Virtual Machine Manger 2007 commands, and provides more thatn 100 pages
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:51 AM

VMM: Install VM Additions

VMM does not install VM Additions for you. For example, assume you have just converted a physical server (P2V). You need to install the VM Additions. There are two ways: Administrator Console CLI If you have to do this once, you will probably have to
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:30 AM

VMM: Script VM Additions in PS

The following information on scripting the installation of VM Additions using VMM/PowerShell is copied from the VMM Scripting Guide, coming to the SCVMM Library on TechNet soon. InstallVMAdditions.ps1 You can use the InstallVMAdditions.ps1 script to install
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:45 AM

VMM: Things to do with VM Custom Properties

One of our Beta users recently asked about programmatically setting some of the 10 custom properties for VMs so that it displays some useful information about the VM in the Host view of the VMM Administrator Console. For example: Location of VHD on Channel
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:57 AM

VMM: How to Upgrade from Beta 2

You can find the full instructions in the upgrade guide, and the upgrade.exe on the Microsoft Connect site (Windows Live ID required) at: https://connect.microsoft.com/vmm/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=8384 Before you upgrade, you must: 1.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:47 AM

VMM: Upgrading from Beta 2

Now that VMM has RTMd, if you are a Beta 2 user, you may have some questions about the upgrade to RTM, assuming you want to retain your data? If you do not want to retain your data, uninstall the Beta 2 version and perform a clean installation of the
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:25 AM

Virtualization Nation: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About P2V But Were Afraid to Ask

Q: Does SCVMM replace VSMT? A: Pretty much yes. VSMT still works, but is not going to get an update. Now is a good time to switch to SCVMM :-) Q: Is P2V in SCVMM "fire and forget"? A: Most Beta customers found that the convert-physical-server wizard yielded
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:15 AM

Virtualization Nation: How to V2V

Q: Does SCVMM convert VMware virtual machines (V2V)? A: Yes. You must put the following files from the source VMware virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Manager library: A .vmx file, which is a VMware virtual machine configuration file. A .vmx file
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:29 AM

Virtualization Nation: How to P2V

You can find the troubleshooting topics for P2V here. The wizard for P2V is called the "Convert physical server" wizard. In the Administrator Console click the "Convert physical server" action. Here's the "How to Convert a Physical Server to a Virtual
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Friday, June 22, 2007 7:17 PM

Virtualization Nation: Host Refreshing Script

A beta customer recently asked about the default refresh interval for VMM - after what amount of time should he see changes he's made on the host reflected in the VMM administrator console? By default the beta 2 interval for this is 30 minutes, but you
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:17 AM

VMM: How to Convert a VMWare Image to VHD

The following is an excerpt from the cmdlet reference for VMM Beta 2 (requires registration and Windows Live ID log on): New-V2V SYNOPSIS Converts a virtual machine created in VMware(R) to a Virtual Server-based v irtual machine managed by Virtual Machine
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