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Welcome To The New Windows… Windows Server “8” Beta

It’s been a busy couple months (years) but Windows Server “8” Beta has shipped and is publically available for download,  I’m personally very proud of all the work that went into Windows Server “8”...

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Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management - Configuring Constrained Delegation For...

 Windows Server 8 brings support for storing and running Hyper-V virtual machines on SMB2.2 file shares, which is pretty handy, especially with the new Scale-Out/Continuously Available file server...

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Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management - Configuring Constrained Delegation For...

In Windows Server 8 we added the ability to live migrate virtual machines without the requirement of a cluster i.e. standalone live migration.  For this feature to work the storage the virtual machine...

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Hyper-V Remote Management With PowerShell

You may have already read my previous two posts on Hyper-V remote management using the UI and configuring Constrained Delegation, for some people that will not be an option or is just undesirable......

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Scripting Constrained Delegation Settings

In reference to Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management - Configuring Constrained Delegation For SMB and Highly Available SMB and Enabling Hyper-V Remote Management - Configuring Constrained Delegation For...

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Remote Administration With PowerShell 3.0 Sessions - Part 1

In response to my recent set of posts someone pointed me to a new PowerShell 3.0 feature of PowerShell sessions – RunAs… I had seen people use PowerShell session configurations in the past but I had...

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Remote Administration With PowerShell 3.0 Sessions–Part 2: Limited User,...

In my last post we talked about PowerShell Session Configurations  and specifically about the new RunAs functionality in PowerShell 3.0.  But there’s some other incredibly cool and powerful...

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Scripting Hyper-V Migration From Windows 2008 R2 To Windows Server “8” Beta

I originally wrote this script for my own clusters to upgrade them from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server “8” Beta and since then I have shared it with a few others who also found it very...

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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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