I am happy to announce that the Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide went live at the end of last week.  This is the first version of this document, I am told that additional sections will be added as they are completed and reviewed.   Hyper...

Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused virtual machine.  You can create any sized thumbnail you want (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc…).  Creating the image is pretty easy, you just call...

I've been a little light on content the last few weeks (the post RTM hangover is stating to fade finally)...  But luckily my collogues have been active with some great content.  Take a look.   HyperVoria http://hypervoria.com/hyper-v Hyper...

I get a lot of questions from people asking what servers have been tested and work with Hyper-V.  The Windows Server Catalog ( www.windowsservercatalog.com ) has a hardware category specifically for Hyper-V that lists all servers that have passed...

On Sunday I showed how to add registry keys to the guest from the host ( Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Parent/Host) ) and on Monday I showed how to read registry key’s written by the guest from the host ( Hyper-V WMI...

On June 26th Hyper-V RTM (KB950050) was released to the Microsoft Download Center.  As of this morning the same content is now on Windows Update as a recommended update to all Windows Server 2008 machines – yeah!         Taylor...

Yesterday’s post ( Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Parent/Host) ) showed how to add registry key’s into the guest so that the guest could receive information from the host.  Today’s post will show how to add a registry...

I have gotten a ton of questions about the KVP Exchange or Data Exchange Integration Component…  So what is it and how do I use it?  The KVP Integration component allows the guest and host to query and provide information to each via pairs of...