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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:29 AM

Hyper-V Management + Delegated Administration + SCVMM

A while ago I blogged about how to allow non-administrators to control Hyper-V .  You do this by editing the Hyper-V authorization store.  What I failed to mention at that time was that this method does not work if you are using SCVMM to manage
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Monday, August 24, 2009 11:06 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTMs

As announced here , System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has RTM’d and will be generally available vie volume licensing at the beginning of October. You can currently download a 180-day evaluation of this new release here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=292de23c-845c-4d08-8d65-b4b8cbc8397b
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Monday, June 08, 2009 7:29 AM

Releases of the last month

Just over a month ago, my third child was born. I have enjoyed having some time off to look after the family – but now I am back at work, and back to blogging. In my time away from work there have been a plethora of releases on the Microsoft virtualization
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Monday, March 16, 2009 11:32 AM

SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta now available

Hot on the heals of the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta – you can now download the SCVMM 2008 R2 beta. As well as adding the ability to manage installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 beta – this release of SCVMM adds the following features: Support for live
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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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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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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:52 PM

Virtualization Launch Event

So while I was off at TechEd New Zealand and TechEd Australia (having a great time!) we had our big virtualization launch event - so now that I am back I thought I had better (belatedly) post the important information: Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a stand
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Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM

TechEd Australia and New Zealand

Next week I am going to be jumping on a plane and going to New Zealand and Australia to talk virtualization. Here is my speaking schedule: New Zealand: Session: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking Deep Dive Date:  
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:30 PM

SCVMM 2008 Beta Update for Hyper-V RC1

An update for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta, which adds support for managing Hyper-V RC1, is now available.  You can grab it now from http://connect.microsoft.com (if you are not already signed up for the SCVMM 2008 beta - you
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Monday, November 26, 2007 10:56 AM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide

Now this is the sort of white paper that I like to read: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Scripting Guide 143 pages of useful script samples for SCVMM - which highlights common tasks like: Adding and configuring new Virtual Server hosts. Deploying
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:42 PM

Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment

A great little white paper on planing a virtual machine manager 2007 deployment has been made available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3e674bc0-bb85-47ae-b73d-f5bc515f1006&DisplayLang=en It is actually quite pithy (for
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:40 AM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 now RTM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 has been released to manufacturing. Key features of SCVMM include: Centralized deployment and management of virtual machines Intelligent Placement analysis to determine the best servers for virtualization Quick
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Monday, May 07, 2007 11:29 PM

SCVMM Beta 2 now available for download in a VHD

Good news for those of you too lazy to install SCVMM to try it out - it is now available as a pre-canned virtual hard disk that you can grab from the SCVMM program at http://connect.microsoft.com . Of course, the great thing about this is that you can
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:23 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 available

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 is available for download here . Some of the new features of this release include: New UI (similar to System Center Operations Manager 2007, Service Desk and System Center Essentials) Physical-to-Virtual (P2V)
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