Microsoft Products
Disk2VHD your laptop in hyper-v :)
Mark Russinovich did it again. He created a real cool tool called Disk2vhd. 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 Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is... »
Hyper-V now has 24% of Virtualization Market ?
On Allen Burchill’s blog I found an article where he mentions that Microsoft already should have a 24% market share in the virtualization market. I would like to know where Allen gets his numbers from? 24% for a version 1 Hyper-V product seems to high for me and would be a real tread... »
Why does WDS 2003 not support multiple unattend.xml ?
Today I had an issue with WDS on a 2003 server. We use WDS for deploying Citrix servers. The customer also wanted to use it for deploying workstations and why shouldn’t he. Since you can make image goups I supposed that it was possible to put a different unattend.xml to every image group. Not... »
Upgrading to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Frequently Asked Questions
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/appvirtualization/cc664494.aspx On this Microsoft website you can find the most FAQ’s asked about migrating to App-V 4.5. So take a look and find out. Tweet This Post »
Exchange 2007 how to migrate correctly!
In the field we experienced some problems with delegates after removing the last 2003 exchange server from the domain. If the client software is older (2000 or 2003) then Outlook 2007 and you delete the last 2003 Exchange server from the domain you are not able to use delegates anymore. This only involves migrations from exchange 2003... »
Configuring Windows Server 2008 Server Core Basic Settings
Configuring server 2008 by command shell commands for the real men under us! Configuring an IP address At a command prompt, type the following: netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Look at the number shown in the Idx column of the output for your network adapter. If your computer has more than one... »
Windows 2008 Server Core here is the GUI!
On the site http://blogs.microsoft.co.il I found a configurator for the Windows 2008 Core server. If you don’t like to do everything with commandline you can use this tool. But don’t forget Real Men don’t Click:) Features: Product Activation Configuration of display resolution Clock and time zone configuration Remote Desktop configuration Management of local user accounts... »
Microsoft buys virtualisation company Kidaro
Last week Microsoft bought Kidaro a virualisation management company for almost $100m the rumors goes. Kidaro is a company that makes virtualization software and management tools that “package” Windows desktop images into VMs. On the website of Brian Madden you can read an in depth analysis for what this means for Citrix, Microsoft and VMWare. Check out... »
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 Enterprise with Hyper-V Beta
Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 Enterprise with Hyper-V Beta you can download it here. Tweet This Post »
PowerShell links
For everybody who’s intrested in PowerShell visit the following usefull links. It will help you find out how PowerShell is done. I will post a lot of PowerShell scripts in my Scritps section so check it out. Windows Powershell Site Tweet This Post »
