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Jun 24 Wed

Steps for Running Windows Embedded Standard on Hyper-V
Olivier Bloch writes "I am working on some labs and I needed to have a Windows Embedded Standard image running in a Virtual machine on top of Hyper-V. I felt like I would have a hard time doing this but at the end of the day it was really easy! So here are the 3 special steps..."
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Mar 9 Mon

How to Enable SSH on VMware ESXi
Simon Seagrave writes "For background information on this mode and why the Service Console (SC) that you are probably familiar with from ESX (ie: non ESXi) is by default missing see my other article here. Enabling SSH is straight forward - just follow these 8 basic steps:"
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Feb 25 Wed

Virtual Switch Types and Logic Flow Under Hyper-V
Ben Armstrong writes "...find out whether the virtual switch has an internal network connection, external network connection, neither or both. Here are some scripts that will do just that:"
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Feb 24 Tue

Fix for Paused-Critical Virtual Machine State
Jeff Guillet writes "...This happens when the volume hosting your dynamically expanding VHDs runs low on disk space. Either free up space on the host volume, move one or more VHDs to another volume with sufficient space, or..."
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Feb 20 Fri

Script That Creates an External Virtual Network with Hyper-V
Ben Armstrong writes "...Most of the above methods return a result object that contains a reference to the WMI object that has been created. You will see in the code that after each method call we then need to go and grab this object out of the results. The results also contain a return code..."
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Feb 4 Wed

Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration Guide
Ben Armstrong writes "...explains the process for moving a virtual machine from Virtual server to Hyper-V and outlines all the catches and steps involved. The second is the VMC to Hyper-V Import tool..."
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Feb 3 Tue

Tips on Understanding the Hyper-V Event Log
Ben Armstrong writes "The first thing to know is that all Hyper-V event logs are stored in the Event Viewer under "Applications and Services Logs", "Microsoft", "Windows"...There are then 10 categories for you to look at:"
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Feb 2 Mon

Free Tool Converts Virtual PC Iimages to Hyper-V
System Center Forum writes "The tool essentially allows you to open your VMC file, update paths to drives, add/remove mounted media, resource settings, etc. It then imports the VM into Hyper-V Manager. It made the job pretty easy..."
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Jan 26 Mon

Cloud Interoperability Must Dig Deeper than the Virtualization Layer
Lori MacVittie writes "...The fear is that any emerging standards will focus only the portability of the application or virtual container environment. They are likely to ignore the fact that no application is an island, and that the application delivery infrastructure (load balancing, acceleration, optimization, security) should be included in interoperability standards because..."
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Jan 22 Thu

How to Create a VPN on Vista to Connect to a Windows Server
David Overton writes "If you are on a client machine and you need create a VPN connection, or you are a user and want to create a VPN on Windows Vista, follow this guide..."
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Jan 16 Fri

Be Careful Shutting down a Hyper-V Virtual Server Cluster Node
Ben Armstrong writes "...If you are running Hyper-V or Virtual Server in a clustered configuration - you need to be careful about just shutting down a cluster node. If you need to shutdown one of the cluster nodes you need to first open the cluster manager and select to either failover or offline each of the virtual machine..."
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Jan 15 Thu

Tips on Debugging HTTP Requests Using Proxies
Nicholas Allen writes "...When using HTTP with the text encoding both the SOAP messages and HTTP protocol information are directly readable. Even when using HTTP with the binary encoding, the protocol information is readable though the SOAP messages..."
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Jan 14 Wed

Setting up End-to-End Virtualization for OpsMgr 2007
System Center Forum writes "...when and how to virtualize server roles in Operations Manager 2007 is something that comes up more-and-more all the time...going to provide end-to-end insight into when and how to make the most of virtualization with OpsMgr in the lab and in production in areas such as:"
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Setting up a Development VM
Alan Stevens writes "...I thought I would share the configuration settings I use. I start by installing Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition...I immediately install SP1 before I even launch Visual Studio. Once I launch VS, I choose C#..."
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Windows 7 With Virtual Aero
Helmers Blog writes "...Check out the two screenshots. The first one is the machine within VMWare Workstation...The second one is the same machine, but then through an RDP session, as you can see Aero is enabled....You have to choose the right connection speed to..."
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