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November 2009 - Posts

Quote of the Month

posted Friday, November 27, 2009 10:25 PM by Fawzi
"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." Rose Kennedy Read More
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VMM Tricks: How to get the audit trail records from a VMM Job

posted Friday, November 27, 2009 10:42 AM by Fawzi
SourceToday, in VMM, you can open the Administrator Console and click on the Jobs view to see all the Jobs in VMM. When you select an individual job, you can click on the "Change Tracking" tab and view any changes that were recorded in VMM as part Read More
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Cluster Disk With Identifier (identifier) has a Persistent Reservation on it

posted Friday, November 27, 2009 10:37 AM by Fawzi
One of my customer's team member had destroy the Hyper-V Cluster by mistake. He formatted the cluster nodes without evict them before doing that . The nodes of the clsuter used to be  part of old cluster that was destroyed by mistake. I tried Read More
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Get up to 25% off Certification Exams until the end of the year!

posted Thursday, November 26, 2009 6:22 PM by Fawzi
With the number of new products that have come out recently it’s a good time to re-visit your Microsoft certification status and get up to date. To help with this the folks over at Microsoft Learning are running a program until December 31st 2009 Read More
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 hot issues (Nov. 2009)

posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:47 AM by Fawzi
Hi Everyone,   A series Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 issues have been reported to Microsoft customer support. From these issues, we figured out several hot issues and authored Knowledge base articles to explain the solutions.   Read More
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Hyper-V pass-through disk performance vs. fixed size VHD files and dynamic VHD files in Windows Server 2008 R2

posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:24 AM by Fawzi
Daveberm on Clustering For Mere Mortals had did some good effort to test new Dynamic VHD files in windows 2008 R2, With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, one of the enhancements was improving the performance of dynamic VHD files. Prior to R2, writes Read More
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VMM tricks: How to troubleshoot the “Not Responding” host status in VMM 2008

posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:25 PM by Fawzi
This content is published in Microsoft KB 976640 Step 1: Use Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer // The Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that you can use to evaluate important configuration settings Read More
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Getting Started with Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 PM by Fawzi
Citrix learning is providing new training for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. Go and catch your seat. Description This course is available at no cost for a limited time only!  Register now to add this course to your learning transcript and lock Read More
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VMM tricks:VMM implementation in cross-domains topology

posted Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:34 PM by Fawzi
My team were trying to implement VMM R2 in multiple domains topology. They installed VMM R2 on windows 2008 R2. We start by implementing VMM 2008 R2 and SSP (Self Service Portal)on Domain A. We have users from domain A and B. Ans one way trust relationship Read More
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VMM tricks: Installing SCVMM on a host with a name containing “-SCVMM-” fails with Error 257

posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:40 PM by Fawzi
This one is funny..Source Well, the title says it all. If the host you’re trying to install SCVMM on has a name that contains “-SCVMM-” in upper case letters, setup fails with Error 257. Example: MUC-SCVMM-1 Resolution: Use a slightly different Read More
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Re-blog: Microsoft Site Recovery Solution Launch

posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:45 PM by Fawzi
Source I’m re-blogging here. Over at Virt Planet blog, Jim wrote the following: This week Microsoft is launching a comprehensive solution to help customers implement cost effective, end-to-end site recovery programs. Built on proven capabilities in Read More
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VMM tricks: Force remove of Failed VM (WAIK dll error)

posted Monday, November 02, 2009 12:55 AM by Fawzi
Sometimes you may face a problem like failed job of VM creation, like this One Hello everyone, I created 2 Ms in windows 2008 R2 (Core and full installs). After that I used SCVMM 2008 R2 to sysprep and save the VMs in the library. The process ended Read More
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VMM tricks: SCVMM Service may take up lots of memory

posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:03 AM by Fawzi
Source: Hyper-V notes from the field In a large SCVMM environment we noticed that the SCVMM Service (vmmservice.exe) allocates lots of memory (>4GB).  You may notice that you are unable to create new console sessions or existing sessions Read More
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Micorosft Lab Validation Report for Hyper-V

posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:02 AM by Fawzi
Microsoft Hyper-V : Scalable, Native Server Virtualization for the Enterprise Microsoft just published a Lab Validation Report for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, which was written by Enterprise Strategy Group.  This report goes over the installation Read More
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Quick Tip: Query Active Directory Functional Levels

posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:01 AM by Fawzi
To determine the domain functional level, Windows Server 2003 uses a combination of two attributes stored in Active Directory. To determine the forest functional level, Windows Server 2003 uses a single attribute. To verify the forest and domain functional Read More
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