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Does restoring a snapshot break domain connectivity? Here’s why.
This is a pretty common question on our internal mailing lists, and I’d imagine that it’s common outside of Microsoft as well, so I thought it would make a nice blog post (since I’m way behind on blogging…). So, you have a VM that’s joined to a domain Read More...

by mikekol | 1 Comments

Announcing the Windows® Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter (WIM2VHD)
It was my New Years Resolution that I’d do an average of 2 blog posts per week this year. So far, I haven’t been doing a very good job of that, but I think I have a good excuse. I’ve been very busy with preparing to release a new tool, and now, I can Read More...

by mikekol | 8 Comments

How to use VMConnect to create an .RDP-like shortcut directly to your VMs
The Remote Desktop application in Windows has a nifty little feature where you can save all of your custom settings for a specific remote computer to a single .RDP file, and then just use that .RDP file as a shortcut to connect to that remote computer Read More...

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Problems with QueryPerformanceCounter on Windows Server 2003 Multi-Processor Hyper-V guests? Here’s why.
A friend of mine from another group came to me with a problem he’s been having on some Windows Server 2003 guests. They’re doing some nifty stuff with the .NET Stopwatch() class, and some WPF animations, which uses the QueryPerformanceCounter Win32 API Read More...

by mikekol | 0 Comments

Hyper-V Installation Tricks: Updates
I haven’t updated my three part series about different ways to install Hyper-V for our RTM release.  I’ve been working on getting some step-by-step videos created, but it’s always been on the back burner, and I was waiting to update the posts until Read More...

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Hyper-V Installation Tricks - Part 3: Integrated Installation and The Beauty of the Win6 Servicing Stack
Updated for Hyper-V RTM Thus far we covered the steps necessary to capture a system image with Hyper-V installed, and how to install Windows and Hyper-V at the same time without dealing with system images at all. Let's take a step back and talk about Read More...

by mikekol | 6 Comments

Hyper-V Installation Tricks - Part 2: Unattended Installation of Windows and Hyper-V
Updated for Hyper-V RTM Picture it: Sicily, 1914. You've got a bunch of Servers that you need to install and configure Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V on. You don't feel like messing around with Sysprep. What do you do? Well, since none of these things Read More...

by mikekol | 7 Comments


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Hyper-V Installation Tricks - Part 1: Sysprep and Hyper-V
Updated for Hyper-V RTM Before we jump right into this, I thought it would be best if we got a few things straight.  For the remainder of this post, everytime I say "sysprep," I'm referring to running Sysprep with the /generalize switch.  Read More...

by mikekol | 6 Comments

Hyper-V Installation Tricks - Prologue
Updated for Hyper-V RTM As you may have heard, we've shipped Hyper-V.  Sorry for the lack of posts - it seems like I'm always on vacation when we ship a major release like this, so my posts lag a few days behind. Installing Hyper-V isn't exactly Read More...

by mikekol | 6 Comments

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