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November 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 1:58 AM

Quick links

Just wanted to post some interesting Hyper-V related links. The SQL team have published their guidance for running SQL 2008 on Hyper-V . The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0 has been released .  This release adds support for Hyper-V and
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Monday, November 24, 2008 5:19 PM

The Domain Controller Dilemma

Often I have people ask me about the Domain Controller dilemma.  The basic problem is this: if you decide to virtualize all of your servers, how do you handle the domain controllers which control the domain used by your Hyper-V servers?  There
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:17 AM

Warning on Hyper-V hosts under SCVMM

I have seen this documented in a couple of places now - but I also see a number of people still wondering why this is happening and how to stop it, so I thought I would post it here too. When you first add a Hyper-V host to SCVMM 2008 you may see a warning
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:27 PM

New HVRemote tool

Just the other day my colleague - John Howard - made a new tool available to the world.  HVRemote is a script file that easily automates the configuration steps needed for enabling remote management of Hyper-V on both the server and client ends.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:29 AM

Hyper-V Script: Looking at KVP GuestIntrinsicExchangeItems

You may wonder what that title is about, so let me pause to explain things a little.  One of the Integration Components that gets installed inside the virtual machine with Hyper-V is the "KVP" component - which stands for "Key Value
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:41 AM

Go check out SCVMM 2008

Okay, I know I am a bit behind the times here - but when SCVMM 2008 was released I was overseas talking about SCVMM 2008.  So if you have not already done so, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:08 AM

Back from TechEd China

Hopefully you have noticed that I have not posted in a while. The reason for this is that I have been traveling a lot over the last month. Most recently I was in China presenting at TechEd China ( http://www.microsoft.com/china/technet/teched/default.aspx
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