This came up in a discussion with one of the virtualization MVPs the other day.  How do you snapshot a complex demo environment that contains multiple virtual machines that are networking with each other?

The problem here is that the Hyper-V manager serializes operations like saving state and taking snapshots – which is to say that if you select a bunch

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You can start playing with the next version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager today!  To download it – go here and follow the directions:

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/virtual-machine-manager/vm-vnext-beta.aspx

Some of the key changes that are in this release include:

I know I am late getting this up – but I have been quite busy lately

Earlier this month we released MED-V 2.0 and it is now available for everyone who has access to MDOP.

There are a large number of changes in the MED-V 2.0 release.  The first obvious one is that it is

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So, you’ve run a load test against your web site (you are performance testing your site, aren’t you?…), on your system test rig and you’ve found that the performance isn’t what you were hoping for. What do you do next to improve the sites performance? You could try guessing where the problems are and randomly start hacking bits of your

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Zero Day is Now Available! Mark’s first novel, a cyberthriller called Zero Day, is now available for order. If you like Sysinternals tools, Mark’s Case of the Unexplained blog posts, Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, you’re sure to like Zero Day.

Process Explorer v14.1: This update to Process

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Today’s late blog posting was to wait for the actual release. The Rapunzelian pun in the title wll only be completely effective if you pronounce CHAR as “care” (ref How is that pronounced, exactly?)

Perhaps, like me, you have some interest in the languages of India.

Perhaps you have visited.

Perhaps you were born there,

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I’m excited to announce that my first novel, a cyber thriller entitled Zero Day , is now available at all major book retailers! Zero Day is a book in the style of Crichton and Clancy, weaving technical fact into the story. If you like the Sysinternals…(read more)

This post continues in the malware hunting theme of the last couple of posts as Zero Day availability draws near (it’s available tomorrow!). It began when a friend of mine at Microsoft told me that a neighbor of hers had a laptop that malware had rendered…(read more)

Continuing the theme of focusing on malware-related cases (last week I posted The Case of the Malicious Autostart ) as a lead up to the publication on March 15 of my novel Zero Day , this post describes one submitted to me by a user that took a unique…(read more)

Given that my novel, Zero Day , will be published in a few weeks and is based on malware’s use as a weapon by terrorists, I thought it appropriate to post a case that deals with malware cleanup with the Sysinternals tools. This one starts when Microsoft…(read more)