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November 2009 - Posts

Friday, November 20, 2009 11:42 PM

Hyper-V and Domain Controllers – Demo Tips and Tricks

In the past I have talked about the different configuration options when running Domain Controllers and Hyper-V . One of the more interesting configurations I discussed then was having a Hyper-V server joined to a domain where the domain controller was
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:53 AM

Booting Hyper-V R2 off a USB stick

A while ago we announced that Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 would support booting off of a USB flash device.  We have now provided detailed documentation on how to set this up.  Even cooler than booting Hyper-V off of a USB device – is the fact
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Monday, November 16, 2009 11:39 PM

Understanding High-End Video Performance Issues with Hyper-V

A while ago I wrote a relatively short blog post high-lighting the fact that there are performance issues with Hyper-V when used with a high-end graphics adapter.  Since then I have been inundated with people asking questions and trying to get their
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:53 AM

Double click to mount a virtual hard disk (Windows 7 Style)

I have been wanting to come up with a workable solution for mounting virtual hard disks by double clicking on them in Windows 7 for a while now. The problem is that: There is no easily scriptable API for VHD mounting You need to be elevated (running “As
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Monday, November 09, 2009 3:27 PM

Welcome to blog week!

While this will not surprise my regular readers – some of you will be interested to know that blogging is usually only a very small fraction of my job.  My official title is “Program Manager Lead” which means that my responsibilities roughly break
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:53 PM

Restricting Shared Drives under Windows Virtual PC

When it comes to minimizing the potential for malicious software running in a virtual machine to affect your physical computer, there are two golden rules to follow: Secure the virtual machine just like you would a physical computer.  This means
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:12 PM

Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard

I little while ago some member of the Hyper-V test team released a new tool on code.msdn.microsoft.com.  It is the Virtual Machine Migration Test Wizard: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VMMTestWizard In Windows Server 2008 R2 we introduced a new “Processor
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