Well, the temperature reads 55 degrees, so I figure I can’t possibly be in Hotlanta, but, shockingly, indeed I am! It’s awesome to be here at TechEd North America 2011 and not be sweating! (Anyone remember TechEd in New Orleans last year? What was it, 451 degrees F? I’m pretty sure my paper was spontaneously erupting into flames.)
If you are
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We are currently conducting usability studies on the Hyper-V Management tools – and are looking for people to study. If you use Hyper-V Manager and will be in the Seattle area May 2-13, the Hyper-V team wants you! Just email v-jebroo@microsoft.com by April 26 (tomorrow), mention “Hyper-V,” and we’ll follow-up to see if this opportunity is a
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While I would like to pretend that nothing ever goes wrong with Hyper-V – the fact of the matter is that sometimes things go wrong with the best systems.
Hyper-V has been designed in a modular fashion so that you can easily address any problems without affecting other virtual machines. But there can be a problem in figuring out what to
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Over the years I have made a hobby of collecting real copies of the hardware that we emulate inside of our virtual machines. And this is one of my favorites – the quad-port Intel 21140 network adapter:
One of the interesting
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Just over a week ago – we released the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target for free (details here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2011/04/04/microsoft-iscsi-software-target-3-3-for-windows-server-2008-r2-available-for-public-download.aspx).
When I found out about this, I thought: “Cool! I should try that out, setup a cluster and blog all about it!”. So I created three virtual machines and then spent the weekend playing Civilization V and working on
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If you have an existing installation of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (the stand alone version of Hyper-V) you can install service pack 1 by following the process that is outlined here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/07/16/installing-service-pack-1-on-microsoft-hyper-v-server-2008-r2.aspx
But if you are setting up a new Hyper-V Server you can grab the integrated installer from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyId=92E2C4BA-6965-4F8E-ABBE-CBB40556B680
This will
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I just got asked this question:
Is there any reason why; in the Action menu on the Virtual Machine Connection window - most of the actions are written as “Turn Off…” or “Shut Down…” whereas “Save” and “Pause” have no trailing “…”?
And then you compare it to Hyper-V Manager and there’s inconsistency between the two? For example it’s “Snapshot” in Hyper-V
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Join us for this 1-day Azure Bootcamp, an immersive experience which will help explore and learn about how to leverage the Windows Azure platform and get started with the tools and architecture available. Register now, as space is limited!
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May 31, 2011
San Francisco, CA
8:30 AM – 6:00 PM PST
June
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By default, after installing Window7 operation, there are many powerful and handy little tools in Sidebar Gadget, you can also download some customized Sidebar Gadget, such as: MSDN forum helper. Currently, we have some stock reports to show the real-time status of stock market, we also want to integrate SQL Reporting Services – stock report into window7’s
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Ever wonder what happened to the security guides from Microsoft Solution Accelerators? Your go-to security guidance from Solution Accelerators hasn’t disappeared, it’s just been repackaged. The previously stand-alone Microsoft product-specific security guides are now included within the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool.
To simplify: Stand-alone security guides à Security Compliance Management Toolkit à Security Compliance Manager tool
Got it?
So,
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Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
