April, 2010

Yesterday we released an update for Windows Server 2008 R2 which provides a “best practice analyzer” for Hyper-V. You can read about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 and download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

Last week I did a post about specifying alternate credentials to use with WMI and PowerShell for controlling Hyper-V. Well – thanks to some tips and tricks given to me by my readers – here is a new an improved version: # Setup variable for optional...

The other day I was reading a post on Tore Lervik’s site and noticed that he had written some PowerShell scripts that would allow you to connect to a remote server using different user credentials than the ones you are logged in with. This is something...

Today we announced the RTM release of Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 and System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010.  If you are unfamiliar with these products – DPM is our enterprise backup solution, while SCE is a “all in one” management solution...

Someone asked me if it was possible to make a script that would tell you what guest operating systems you had running on a Hyper-V server.  To answer them I whipped up two sample PowerShell scripts. The first one will generate a table of detected...

Whether you are running Virtual Server on Windows 7, or just trying to manage Virtual Server from a Windows 7 computer – you will need to use the Virtual Server Administrative Web Site under Internet Explorer 8. This is possible – but there are a number...

From time to time people have asked me how to install Virtual Server on Windows 7, and have even pointed me towards attempts made by other people with varying levels of success. But I have not looked into this until today – because it is unsupported....

Last week MED-V 1.0 SP1 was released as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2010 refresh. This update adds some key new functionality: Support for Windows 7 hosts – both 32-bit and 64-bit Support for running the MED-V server...