• Hyper-V Physical to virtual: Moving a natively booted VHD to be a real virtual machine

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by Mohamed M Malek}
    Introduction I had a requirement to migrate an existing native boot Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that was booting from an attached VHD on a physical machine to be a virtual machine in Hyper-V. The problem is that this machine had multiple boots and...

  • ADFS 2.0 Client Certificate Authentication using test certificates

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by Mohamed M Malek}
    Introduction I was developing a WCF based solution that required services to be authenticated using ADFS 2.0. The requirement was that the clients will be using client based certificates to authenticate to services. If you have a complete AD CS solution...

  • Windows Server 2012 – Part3: Virtualization Enhancements “Mobility”– Hyper-V Replica

    Posted over 2 years ago
    by Maged Ezzat}
    In this post series I started here with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog (by the way it was announced yesterday (1st of August) that Windows Server 2012 is RTM today), then I start highlighting the main areas of enhancements that I will...