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Monday, January 15, 2007 3:36 PM

Virtual Server 2005 – IDE to SCSI Virtual Machine Migration

The following white paper contains important information on how to migrate your Virtual Server hard disks from IDE to SCSI. That will increase the overall performance of your virtual machines. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Enjoy. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8D71F23D-0380-4C2F-81DF-6F96ABE05493&displaylang=e
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:06 PM

MSDN Wiki pages

Microsoft released a Wiki for MSDN. You can check them here: http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/ My contributions to the Wiki can be found here: http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/wikiedit/myprofile.aspx?name=Nelson%20Araujo&skinlocale=en-us
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Monday, April 03, 2006 9:26 PM

Updating a template

Due to the way the file system is organized into the disk, it is not possible to patch the disk on the parent without invalidating (thus destroying all modifications made since then). The recommended procedure to update a template would be: Create a new
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Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:04 PM

Installing VSDM on a 64-bits Windows Server System 2003

VSDM works on a 64-bits system. To enable it the system needs to be correctly configured. Please follow the steps below to enable VSDM to run on those systems. System Requirements Install Virtual Server 2005 AMD64 Install .NET Framework 1.1 Install .NET
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:39 PM

Automating VSDM via scripts

Sample scripts are bundled with VSDM in its installation folder (by default C:\Program Files\VSDM\samples). It is recommended that you have some understanding of the VSDM solution before continuing to read this article. Option Explicit Dim server Dim
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:51 PM

Security: What to configure when using VSDM?

Q: What do I need to configure on Virtual Server or File System to secure my installation? A: Nothing! If you are using VSDM to manage your Virtual Server, whenever you apply the Security Policy VSDM automatically hardens Virtual Server and File System
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:42 PM

Error "FATAL: Cannot load config file"

If you just installed VSDM and when you create a virtual machine you continuously get this error message, you might be missing some configuration information. To resolve this issue, follow the steps below: Make sure you log in as administrator Select
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:07 PM

Why my VM does not start?

In my previous post I talked about the need to keep the template ID and VM names small. If you make them too big, your machine might not start. You can check the Virtual Server Web Administration page to make sure this is the reason (Administration >
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:04 PM

Hint: Keep you Template ID small

A very useful hint for the VSDM administrators: keep the template IDs as small as possible. The Template ID will be used to build the Virtual Machine name, virtual machine folder and other important system information. The operating system has a maximum
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Monday, August 15, 2005 10:30 PM

Determining missing updates from command-line output

Here is a quick tip on how to quickly script MBSA 2.0 to filter and show only the missing updates. But before start using it, note that using a script to parse the <UpdateData> nodes is a far better idea because of the richness of the information
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Friday, August 05, 2005 12:07 PM

(Cool) Tablet PC game published

I'm very happy to write here that it is now available on Windows Tablet PC Power Toys a game I've written: Word Search game. If you have a Tablet PC you can (and should) download it for free from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/e/7/5e7ff50e-2745-407f-baf1-24a83f1425a4/WordSearchGameforTabletPCsetup.ex
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Friday, July 29, 2005 1:36 PM

Converting a MBSA 2.0 report into text format (updates check)

Before you start relying on this sample, I'd like to say that: If you still uses MBSA 1.2.1 and this script would help you keep your automation, I strongly encourage you to upgrade your scripts to support MBSA 2.0. MBSA 2.0 provides more data, in a more
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:44 PM

Determining if a patch/update is installed with MBSA 2.0

Sample script and CMD file to verify if a specific patch is missing, using a MBSA scan report.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 9:10 PM

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0 (MBSA 2.0) shipped

I'd like to let you all know that Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0 (aka MBSA 2.0) has shipped. To get the new application, also available in other languages, please visit the product download page at http://www.microsoft.com/mbsa . The download
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:46 AM

VSDM :: Customizing the help page

VSDM offers the administrator the option to customize the appearance of the help page. This is very useful to put important information about troubleshooting, contacts and other relevant information for the daily job, without poluting the main page. It
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