Sometimes little things bug me.  Often – while these little things are annoying, it is too much effort to actually fix them.  Thankfully – Hyper-V PowerShell gives me an easy way to “fix small annoyances” quickly.  One example for a “little thing that bugs me” occurs when you upgrade the integration services for a virtual machine: we

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Here is another small feature that I have fallen in love with in Hyper-V in Windows “8”.  When you open the Hyper-V manager you will see that we have added some extra tabs to the bottom of the virtual machine status.  One of the tabs is labeled Networking:

On this tab you

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Here is a neat trick that we figured out a little while ago.  With a single command you can organize all of your virtual machines:

The command is:

Get-VM | %{ Move-VMStorage $_.Name "D:\Hyper-V\$($_.Name)" }

This command gets each virtual machine on the server, and then performs a storage migration to move it to

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This has been a busy week for Microsoft talking about Windows Server “8” – so I wanted to take a moment to call some interesting information to your attention.

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Now that I have showed you how to perform a storage migration of a running virtual machine in Windows Server “8” (both through Hyper-V manager and through PowerShell) an obvious question you might have is: but how does this actually all work?

The process followed by Hyper-V internally to perform a storage migration is actually quite simple to explain (though obviously

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Yesterday I showed you how to do a simple storage migration using the Hyper-V Manager user interface.  Today I want to show you how to do the same thing in PowerShell – and in my opinion it is even easier to do in PowerShell than with our user interface.

As a quick reminder – I am not showing

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One of the most common phone calls that the support team gets for Windows PowerShell is “How do I use Task Scheduler to schedule Windows PowerShell scripts?”. As an administrator, you need to have full control over when scripts run in your environment. Perhaps you need run a script only during a one-off maintenance window or maybe you want to

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Meet the new kid on the block! Windows PowerShell Workflow (PSWF) is the latest addition to the Windows PowerShell family.

First, let’s establish the context for the decision to integrate workflows into Windows PowerShell. It starts with cloud computing and Windows-based datacenters. Cloud computing provides a set of highly available, scalable

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We can check our emails, go on Facebook, and get news feeds on our favorite topics from anywhere and everywhere. Then why not manage our machines from everywhere as well! Windows Server 8 Beta brings you the new feature, Windows PowerShell Web Access, which provides a Windows PowerShell console in your web browser. What! If that’s your reaction, check out

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Yesterday we published a Beta version of the Windows Management Framework 3.0.

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Beta makes some updated management functionality available to earlier versions of Windows. Windows Management Framework 3.0 Beta can be installed on the following Operating Systems: