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Excellent Hyper-V Gotchas paper.

Posted by Jacques on 23rd August 2011

An excellent Hyper-V gotchas paper has been published here by Tony Soper and Stephan Schwarz on the Microsoft TechNet Wiki. It is a gold mine for understanding and troubleshooting Hyper-V.

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Lost trust relationship between Windows VMs and Domain Controllers.

Posted by Jacques on 1st June 2011

Some SysAdmins are confronted with domain member servers or domain member computers regularly loose there trust relationship with the domain controllers, forcing them to logon as local admin and re-join the machine to the domain. The explanation is easy. Every domain computer has an AD computer account with an automatically generated password. Computer account passwords [...]

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Hyper-V RC

Posted by Jacques on 4th April 2008

Here the download site… … and the instructions raising Hyper-V beta virtual machine to the new version.

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The Hyper-V management tools are available

Posted by Jacques on 26th March 2008

The Hyper-V management tools (MMC snap-in and associated UI) are now available for download: x86: Update for Windows Vista (KB949758) x64: Update for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB949758) These tools allow you to manage and interact with an installation of Hyper-V from your Vista computer in exactly the same manner that you do on a [...]

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Understanding Networking with Hyper-V

Posted by Jacques on 25th March 2008

Here a short but good tutorial…

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What if you face very slow network performance for an Hyper-V virtual machine?

Posted by Jacques on 25th March 2008

Recently, I installed the Hyper-V role (still a beta version) on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 with Windows 2008 x64 Enterprise. The server was equiped with two dual port gigabit NIC interfaces, one Broadcom Nextreme II on board and one Intel PRO 1000PT Dual PortI on the PCIe x4 bus . Virtual machine using a [...]

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