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I was chatting with Brian Bourne from CMS Consulting in Toronto about some Hyper-V R2 work that they have done recently. In the conversation Brian shared a ton of learning's from the field on some of the Hyper-V R2 upgrades, deployments and V2V/P2V Read More...
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I was chatting with Brian Bourne from CMS Consulting in Toronto about some Hyper-V R2 work that they have done recently. In the conversation Brian shared a ton of learning's from the field on some of the Hyper-V R2 upgrades, deployments and V2V/P2V Read More...
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A few weeks ago Rodney wrote a great post about the new XP mode in Windows XP. This is based on a new version of Virtual PC. I wanted to take a moment to talk about the new version which was released in beta along with the Windows 7 RC. First this version Read More...
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In a previous entry, guest blogger Sean Kearney shared a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 directory services called the Active Directory Recycle Bin . Sean is back to show us how to recover those deleted objects. ------------------------- So Read More...
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I’ve done it, I know people who have done it, and I bet you have done it before as well. Right-click an object in Active Directory Users and Computers and instead of clicking the properties link you accidentally hit delete. Boom, gone and Read More...
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PowerShell 2.0, included in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, includes a new Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) which provides you with a GUI based tool to write your scripts and learn PowerShell. To launch PowerShell 2.0 ISE simply drill down to Read More...
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For as long as we have had Active Directory domains, we have been required to to join client to the domain while they were online and connected to AD. Without that the join would fail. Now you always had the ability to join with a script using the NETDOM Read More...
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The one thing I missed with Server Core was PowerShell. While you can run PowerShell cmdlets and scripts remotely, at times it would have been nice to run it locally. The reason PowerShell was not included was due to the lack of .NET in Server Core. That Read More...
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Green IT, Green IT, everywhere you turn there is something about Green IT. With increased power and cooling costs a lot of people are using virtualization to reduce these costs but Windows Server 2008 R2 brings a new feature called Core Parking Read More...
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I can’t think of any feature we’ve been asked more in regards to Hyper-V has been around Live Migration, known as VMotion in the VMWare world. Hyper-V R2 now supports Live Migration, partly due to Cluster Shared Volumes . Live Migration allows a virtual Read More...
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One of the challenges faced with clustered Hyper-V servers today is that for each VHD on a highly available virtual machine, you need to carve out a LUN on your SAN to place that VHD. While it might not be a monumental task to do so, it is a management Read More...
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Now that you have had a few weeks to test out the public Windows 7 beta, it’s time to think about how you’re going to deploy the goodness out to all your users. Fortunately the fine people at the Microsoft’s Solutions Accelerator group are on the ball. Read More...
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Do more with less? Ever hear that term? Probably around the same time your budget was cut! Bandwidth between the home office and the branches can be a rather large cost from the actual money spent on the connection to the user downtime when the connection Read More...
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There is a lot of VHD integration in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. We already showed how to boot from VHD but you can also mount a VHD from within a Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 environment. Open up Disk Management, you can Right-Click on Computer Read More...
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There are a number of new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 that allow you to do more without removing your hands from the keyboard. Here are my favorite 7! WIN + T – With the new taskbar and the way apps dock there, this shortcut will open the preview Read More...
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OK I found this while poking around and must say this is a helpdesk and developer savior. How many times have you been on the phone with someone while trying to troubleshoot a problem and you just can’t tell what they are doing wrong? While there are Read More...
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So Windows 7 beta is out the door and you are ready to begin your beta experience. Over the next few months there will be additional builds for Windows 7 (x86 and x64) as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 and that leads to a lot of installs and a lot of Read More...
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One of the new and long awaited features in IIS 7 is support for FTPS or FTP over SSL. By default all FTP data is transfered in clear text, including the user name and password. From a security point of view you can see this is a bad thing. FTPS to the Read More...
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Typically hotfixes are released on the second Tuesday of each month as you are all well aware. Occasionally, I can personally only remember three including this one, there are out of band hotfixes released. While we don’t normally post hotfix release Read More...
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We’ve covered a creating a cluster and clustering a service and one other thing to configure in your cluster is failback policies. These control if, how and when a failed resource is brought back online on the preferred owner. As an example, say Node Read More...
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