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.  There are now samples in C# and VBScript...

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 GetVirtualSystemThumbnailImage passing a reference...

I hope everyone is enjoying Hyper-V RC1 (yep I just linked to my own post -shamless maybe) but, as promissed here's some more WMI goodness. Title got your attention? Well this is a two part post… First I will show how to use the Shutdown IC to initiate a shutdown of a guest using PowerShell (that...