Taylor Brown's Blog

Over the last few months I have gotten a lot of questions about backing up Hyper-V virtual machines… Do you run the backup software in the virtual machine or on the parent or do you just “snapshot” the virtual machine?  Some of the confusion has...

I  got a great question based on yesterday’s post (by the way my e-mail was blocking a lot of external messages that’s fixed now so I apologize to anyone I missed a mail from).  The person was asking how they could figure out what physical disk...

Many of you know I have been a fan of PowerShellPlus for quite a while, but I was turned on to a new editor the other day that’s pretty slick – PowerGUI . Winner of this years Windows IT Pro Magazine’s Best of Tech Ed IT Pro Breakthrough Product Award...

Hyper-V will be well represented at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this year. Additional sessions where posted today ( http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx ) and they include two Hyper-V sessions. The first is Developing...

Hyper-V WMI Documentation First off I am happy to say the Hyper-V WMI documentation is finally post beta quality!  I want to personally thank a few members of the test team for writing much of the sample code and working very hard to get it posted...

I had a Microsoft partner ask me about SQL and Exchange support on Hyper-V earlier today – being that when I say something it’s “Microsoft said…” I had to find the official KB/TechNet articles to refer to.  Well after spending about 20 minutes searching...

The Microsoft marketing team has setup a Virtualization blog RSS aggregator at http://www.virtualizationfeed.com … They are syndicating the first part of every post related to Virtualization, Hyper-V, SCVMM etc… from ‘the most knowledgeable bloggers on...