TONYSO : Troubleshooting

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)

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)

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)

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

tonyso — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:55 GMT

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...(read more)

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

tonyso — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:31:41 GMT

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....(read more)

DIY Zune Speakers – the IT Pro Way

tonyso — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:04:25 GMT

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 ....(read more)

Download Windows XP Mode

tonyso — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:51:34 GMT

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...(read more)

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

tonyso — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:16:23 GMT

The perf team blog this morning has an excellent summation of What’s New in Remote Desktop Services...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Understand Security Auditing

tonyso — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Answeredness as a Competitive Advantage

tonyso — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:33:59 GMT

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...(read more)

Bing My Blog

tonyso — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:38:00 GMT

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/...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Find Hyper-V Patches

tonyso — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:52:45 GMT

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...(read more)

Free-as-in-beer Security Protection from Microsoft

tonyso — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:55:32 GMT

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...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Turn Off IPV6

tonyso — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:52:49 GMT

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...(read more)