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Because I am running Windows Server Enterprise 2008 on my Laptop with Hyper-V enabled, I continuously Remote Desktop to my Virtual Machine. Even for a domain admin in the guest, you have to have group policy configured to allow the Remote Desktop
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One trick is that you have to follow the steps outlined here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954282 Even if you install the Integration Components for Hyper-V, the VM will not update because the VMBus device will not start (This device cannot start.
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Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is available! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28c97d22-6eb8-4a09-a7f7-f6c7a1f000b5&displaylang=en via Virtual PC Guy's Blog: Virtual PC 2007 SP1 now available
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So most folks know that Hyper-V contains the capacity to allow backups of Virtual Machines while they are running. System Center Data Protection Manager will eventually have the capability to conduct this process. However, a straight file
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Recently a domain I had a domain running inside Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008. The challenge was that the domain's clocks were running behind the time being reported at time.windows.com. When I ran the w32tm command ( w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com
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I recently ran into a problem where I needed to increase the size of a virtual machine's primary partition. The problem was that the VM's primary partition was based on a Differencing disk. As such tools like the VHDExpander don't work on them (only dynamic
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I recently created a Vista Virtual Machine but ran out of space when I tried to install the service pack. Dynamically expanding does not mean that the VHD will expand forever, but it will expand until the limit set for it at creation. This means that
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When building a Virtual Server 2005 R2 installation on a remote machine through Terminal Services, you might run into difficulty visiting the actual administration website. If you turn off friendly error messages in IE, you get a HTTP 500 status which
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I was struggling with this for some time. Here is a great link on how to do it easily! Many customers are moving to Virtual Server because of its portability (not to mention its price!) and interoperability with Virtual PC. Here is a great tutorial on
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For those of you fortunate enough to get your hands on Virtual PC 2007 Beta 1, it now supports ISO images of all sizes and is not restricted to ISO images of 2 GB or less.
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