Configuring Hyper-V Server for Remote Management
Published 22 October 8 9:31 AM | Charlie Russel
I've seen folks disabling the Windows Firewall on Hyper-V Server and on Windows Server Core in order to get Remote Management to work correctly. Bad idea, and not necessary. Instead, you should enable the appropriate firewall rules to allow Remote...
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Hyper-V Server Releases to Web
Published 1 October 8 8:5 AM | Charlie Russel
The standalone Hyper-V Server is RTM and should be available for download free from the Microsoft downloads site shortly, if not already. Press Release < URL:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-01HyperVRTM08PR.mspx > Web <...
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DQSD 4.1 64-bit Beta Releases to Web!
Published 6 August 8 7:59 AM | Charlie Russel
Old timers here will know that I simply love Dave's Quick Search Deskbar (DQSD). And that there was a semi-custom solution to running it in 64-bit that I used. Well, with a lot of hard work and persistence, we now have 64-bit support built into the...
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USB over Network - Update
Published 6 August 8 6:28 AM | Charlie Russel
A few days ago, I wrote about FabulaTech's USB over Network solution . I'd just installed it and started using it, and I was moderately impressed. It solves a very real problem for those of us looking to do more virtualization of our environmets...
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DQSD v4 - With Support for x64
Published 4 August 8 6:39 AM | Charlie Russel
As anyone who has known me for a while will tell you, I can be qute passionate about applications I really like. Well, one of those little gems is an opensource project called "Dave's Quick Search Deskbar" or DQSD as it's commonly known...
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Windows Home Server PP1 Releases to Web!
Published 21 July 8 10:53 AM | Charlie Russel
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is finally here ! Available for download if you're in a hurry, or wait and it will get pushed down via WU/MU, this is an essential upgrade for anyone using WHS. Or considering it. Not only does it add support for 64...
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USB in Hyper-V Child?
Published 16 July 8 5:24 PM | Charlie Russel
It's still early days yet, but I think I've found a simple and very satisfactory solution to the problem of no USB support in Hyper-V. FabulaTech's USB Over Network product is simple to install - you install the Server side of it on whatever...
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Hyper-V RTM Is Here
Published 26 June 8 11:22 AM | Charlie Russel
The Hyper-V RTM is here, and should be downloadable today, according to this TechNet blog . As anyone who reads this blog knows, I'm a big fan of Hyper-V and I'm really glad to see it RTM. This may be a MS v1.0, but it's a solid product that...
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"Slashes" in Vista/Windows Server 2008
Published 21 June 8 10:16 PM | Charlie Russel
OK, I knew that I could use "/" in PowerShell just about anywhere that Windows CMD wanted "\" - PowerShell is smart enough to figure out what I mean in almost every case. So: PSH> cd c:/temp works exactly the same as: PSH> cd...
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Windows Home Server - Public Beta Includes x64
Published 10 June 8 9:18 PM | Charlie Russel
The public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is now available on the Microsoft Connect site for download. This is a major update for WHS - not only does it fix the corruption issue that has plagued WHS in certain scenarios, but it also adds full...
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Guest Blog - Kevin Beares, SBS Community Lead
Published 27 May 8 4:46 PM | Charlie Russel
The Windows Small Business Server 2008 WW Community Survey is live This is the third year we have published an SBS WW Community Survey to the SBS Community. We have learned an amazing amount of information from the people who have taken the time to tell...
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MS Non-Support
Published 1 May 8 1:33 PM | Charlie Russel
One of my favourite fellow MVPs, Barb Bowman , posted a rant today about the latest Microsoft product to ship with no support for 64-bit users. In this case, a "professional" photographic tools application, Pro Photo Tools v1 . For shame, Microsoft...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Published 30 April 8 9:42 AM | Charlie Russel
SCVMM 2007 is Microsoft's outstanding product for managing multiple Virtual Server instances across your enterprise. Frankly, I loved it. It made dealing with VS so much easier, and allowed me to build a library of solutions that I could quickly and...
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Connecting to Remote VMs with Hyper-V RC0
Published 27 April 8 11:23 AM | Charlie Russel
One of the changes in Hyper-V RC0 is that you can no longer use a mouse in a remote RDP session until you have the Integration Components installed into the VM. Well, that's a royal pain if you don't happen to be sitting at the console of your...
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A Lighter Moment
Published 21 April 8 11:42 AM | Charlie Russel
I ran across a perfect commentary on how the life of a Microsoft MVP works, in this comic on the xkcd site. Of course, it was sent to me originally by my wife. Wonder what she was trying to tell me...
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Finally - Adobe to support 64-bit in next version of PhotoShop
Published 3 April 8 10:52 AM | Charlie Russel
Adobe has finally announced that PhotoShop CS4 will have a 64-bit version. Gee, took them long enough. The C-Net article on this is here . Charlie.
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Hyper-V RC0 and Integration Components Workaround
Published 31 March 8 7:5 AM | Charlie Russel
If you've upgraded to RC0 of Hyper-V, you can run into a problem creating a new VM that is based on Server 2008 RTM, since the Integration Components (IC's) are out of sync. This means you won't have the drivers for the new synthetic NIC,...
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Unwanted Services when installing iTunes (for SHAME, Apple!)
Published 24 March 8 10:22 AM | Charlie Russel
OK, we've all complained about unnecessary services and silent installs, but to give them credit, Microsoft has done a pretty good job of cutting back on that sort of thing. Heck, they even allow installing a server without a GUI, finally. So I recently...
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Hyper-V Release Candidate Released
Published 19 March 8 7:13 AM | Charlie Russel
For those of you testing or using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, the good news is that they appear to be on track for a final release by the end of the summer. Microsoft has just announced the release of the Hyper-V RC. This update adds Vista...
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32-bit Memory in x64 Windows
Published 18 March 8 8:55 AM | Charlie Russel
In the public 64-bit Windows newsgroup , we often get questions about memory usage, and a recent post there made me realize that there are some basic misunderstandings about the relationship between memory, virtual memory address space, and RAM. 32-bit...
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