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Removing a VHD From A VM Using The Hyper-V WMI V2 Namespace

What good would Attaching a VHD To A VM Using The Hyper-V WMI V2 Namespace be if you couldn’t remove one two… Here’s how you do it.   Removing a virtual hard disk $vmName = "Test" $vhdPath =...

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Best Practices for Virtualizing & Managing Exchange 2013

The Exchange team has just released a new white paper on virtualizing Exchange 2013, it’s over 90 pages and goes into pretty good detail – if your virtualizing Exchange or plan to going forward I’d...

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Memory Configuration Utilizing The Hyper-V WMI v2 Namespace

I have gotten a few questions specifically regarding how to configure dynamic memory utilizing the root\virtualization\v2 namespace.  At face value it’s pretty simple you retrieve the...

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Importing VMs Utilizing The Hyper-V WMI v2 Namespace

I have had a few folks ask me about importing VM’s though our WMI namespace.  The Hyper-V WMI v2 interfaces introduce a new concept of planned virtual machines, this  allows you to create/import...

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Recording From TechEd 2014 Now Available

Last week was TechEd 2014 in Houston, if you haven’t been to TechEd before it’s quite an experience.  This was a great year and we have some excellent sessions that where recorded and now published...

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I’m on Twitter Now…

I’ve finally joined the world of Twitter…  Send me a Tweet @HyperV_taylorb or follow me https://twitter.com/HyperV_taylorb. -taylorb

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Hyper-V Security Guide and New QFE for 2012R2 Addressing Backup with CSV Writer

If you follow me on Twitter (@HyperV_taylorb) this is old news but for those that don’t two updates for you… Windows Server 2012 Security Guide For Hyper-V...

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TechEd Europe: Windows vNext Hyper-V Backup and Restore PowerShell Scripts

TechEd Europe -  Windows vNext Hyper-V Backup and Restore PowerShell Scripts We just had a fantastic session at TechEd Europe showcasing the next evolution in Hyper-V backup and restore coming with...

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Setting Guest IP Addresses From The Host

Last week at TechEd I had several people ask about how they can set the IP address of a guest from the host.  We've had this functionality in Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012, it was largely...

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Backup Jobs Failing Post Nov Rollup Install

I wanted to post a final update to this post – we believe we now have the update fixed and this issue should be resolved. 12/1 – Resolution and Response To Comments We have fixed KB3000853 both on...

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