I?ve summarized several notes about Hyper-V and VMM. It may be useful for you to take it into account when planning or handling Hyper-V platforms. 1. Enabling NLB on a VM Follow this procedure in case you need to enable NLB on a VM running under Hyper-V 2008. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953828 Note that when your VM
Mailbox may appear as “Legacy Mailbox” under Exchange 2007
The process of mailbox-enabling a user for Exchange 2003-based mailbox was preformed using the Active Directory Users and Computers SnapIn. Using this SnapIn, you could choose to place the mailbox on a DB located on an Exchange 2007 server. That, of course, would be the wrong way to go. The appropriate way of creating a
Grid lines appear when connected to a Server 2008 through RDP
You may have experienced an issue with a Remote Desktop connection to a Server 2008 in which you see black/white grid lines on all or on part of the screen. This may look something like this: It appears that this issue is linked to this update : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958470/en-us Changing the setting of the
Different CPUs on Hyper-V Cluster Nodes
When trying to Live Migrate a virtual machine, the process might fail and inform you that your virtual machine is not compatible with the target node. If you try to Move (instead of Live Migrate) the virtual machine to another node, the process will again fail and you the following event will be logged:
Disk2vhd
Check out this new and very handy tool from Sysinternals: Disk2vhd v1.0 By Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell Published: October 7, 2009 Download Disk2vhd (704 KB) Introduction Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft?s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or
My presentation on Windows 2008 R2 High Availability
I know its a bit late, but here is the presentation I gave on November 3rd at the Microsoft convention ? Let?s Talk Business-Tech that was held at Tel Aviv. During the presentation, my co-presenter Ronen Gabay and myself talked about the new features of Failover Clustering in Windows 2008 R2. We talked about Geo-Clusters,
Microsoft-Red Hat Virtualization
Hi all, Microsoft recently announced that customers can now deploy Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a range of select applications, virtualized on Red Hat and Microsoft virtualization products, knowing that the combined solutions will be supported by both companies. Here are the details: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 have
SCCM 2007 R2 SP2 & Intel vPro Integration
Hi guys, I?ll be delivering a session at Intel?s ?Life after death using? Intel? vPro? Technology!? conference held on September 14th 2009 at Air Port City, Israel. This session will focus on integrating SCCM In-Band management capabilities with vPro Out of Band capabilities. Out of band management allows an administrator to connect to a computer’s
New System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors
Microsoft announced the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors! This is an important milestone as it provides a foundation for interoperability with other products, both external and internal. The Connectors are available for download at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=592e4143-c5c8-4270-9a7a-cd0a31ab3189 The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors provide Operations Manager 2007 R2 alert
SCCM SUP in an offline environment
If you had to maintain a SCCM server in an offline environment you know it’s not a simple task. One of the steps you have to carry out is to download all the updates from the Internet or to copy them from another WSUS/SCCM SUP server that is connected to Internet and had already downloaded
