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Hyper-V How To: Backup Hyper-V with Windows

tonyso — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:52:58 GMT

John Kelbley’s blog has a recent series of posts (including helpful screenies) explaining everything you need to do a Hyper-V backup is included in Windows Server. Highly recommended. Best Part of Hyper-V Backup and Recovery Is Windows! The Wonder of...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Configure Windows Server 2008 R2 Core

tonyso — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:17:29 GMT

The newly released (and free-as-in-beer) Core Configurator 2.0 , helps with config tasks including: Product Licensing Networking Features DCPromo Tool ISCSI Settings Server Roles and Features User and Group Permissions Share Creation and Deletion Dynamic...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Plan Performance

tonyso — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:25:32 GMT

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...(read more)

Love Me, Love My OS

tonyso — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:06:58 GMT

There is an interesting IT Pro content development over in KBs. When I go to a KB that does not apply to my current OS, I get this: This is frequent scenario for IT Pros because security best practice is to NOT browse the web from your server. So,...(read more)

Duck, Duck, Goose: Can Non_Humans Participate in Community?

tonyso — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:09:04 GMT

There’s an interesting experiment in community just started over at TechNet/MSDN called the Community Machine Translation Pilot . The first member of the community is the machine translation (MT) service (thanks Microsoft research!). The MT service (not...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Fix Hyper-V Top Issue - Unknown Devices

tonyso — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:01:05 GMT

Update 11_20_09: Not everyone will need to reinstall the Guest OS, if you are confident the OS in your VM is supported (probably most of you) , skip to install integration services . Also, because we have more than 1 releases version of Hyper-V...(read more)

Hyper-V TV: Import/Export in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

tonyso — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:47:24 GMT

We’ve published a new video on import/export in Hyper-V R2 on MSN Showcase (which has changed it’s URL and redirect, so, kinda hard to find if you go to the old URL video.msn.com). There’s much more detail in the blog posts series Soumya wrote: ...(read more)

What Makes a Good IT Pro Video?

tonyso — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:16:30 GMT

My team is investigating the use of video as a content type for IT Pros. We are compiling best practices and tips/tricks for creating this kind of content, but we need your feedback. Thoughts/comments? DO Have some lighting. It should be good enough to...(read more)

Using ConfigMgr to install software updates in an offline (disconnected/isolated) environment

tonyso — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:57 GMT

Aaron Czechowski’s blog: ConfigMgr Software Updates on an Isolated Network Jeff Gilbert’s blog: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2008/10/19/synchronizing-non-internet-connected-software-update-points.aspx http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2008/10/28/getting-required-updates-on-non-internet-connected-sups-part-1.aspx...(read more)

Where is the Arrow?

tonyso — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:13:46 GMT

Did you know there is an arrow in the FedEx logo? Now that it has been pointed out, will you ever NOT see it? This is an example used in Ric Merrifield’s Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation to illustrate how changing...(read more)

Free-as-in-beer VHD Test Drive Updates

tonyso — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:44:35 GMT

The Appliance Test Drive — VHD Test Drive Program page has some updates: Including a link to the free Microsoft Windows 7 90-Day Eval VHD and the Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk – Test Drive Program , where you can download Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise...(read more)

I Want My, I Want My, I Want My Hyper-V TV

tonyso — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:39:00 GMT

We’ve published a new topic in the TN Library that lists new Hyper-V videos in LIFO order. Check it out at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee731912(WS.10).aspx If you are interested in sorting these by number of views as of today: Hyper-V...(read more)

How to: Set Bing Images as Your Desktop Wallpaper

tonyso — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:23:24 GMT

CodePlex has a nifty free-as-in-beer app that sets your desktop wallpaper with the Bing daily image. Salty goodness. And Free-as-in-beer....(read more)

PowerShell PowerBoots

tonyso — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:56:59 GMT

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...(read more)

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

tonyso — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:36:36 GMT

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...(read more)