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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Step by Step Guide- Part Two

Self-Service Portal Components The self-service portal consists of three components: VMMSSP website: A Web-based component that provides a user interface to the self-service portal. Through the VMMSSP website, users can perform various tasks Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self Service Portal: Private Cloud Customer Case Study!

Hi folks, Last week at the WPC, we sannounced the release candidate for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal (SC VMM Self Service Portal). The SC VMM Self Service Portal allows our enterprise customers set up their own Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 1 Comments
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SCVMM and Dynamic Memory support

This is a very important question… When SCVMM will support Dynamic Memory feature introduced in Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V server? There is less public information about the new features that integrated with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 so far, So I had Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM tricks: “Virtual Machine Manager lost the connection to the virtual machine because another connection was established to the machine”

After finishing my new test lab to test my new VDI solution I faced this problem. My Lab: 2 Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts Clustered with failover clusterVMM 2008 R2 ServerA new VM with Windows 2008 Finished my Cluster setup and Installed VMM on Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2010 7:01 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 is Now Available

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. MAP performs Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Step by Step Guide- Part One

What is Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0? Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server/Hyper-V and the System Center family of products with Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:49 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Release Candidate

The Journey to the Private Cloud Today customers can begin their journey to the private cloud by deploying the Microsoft products and technologies they know and trust. The flexible and familiar platform and tools you use today will become Read More
posted Friday, July 16, 2010 2:47 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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NVIDIA and AMD offer GPUs for RemoteFX

posted by Derek Thorslund Microsoft’s beta release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 with Hyper-V and Windows 7 SP1 is now available for download, and that means that RemoteFX is ready for early review. This is exciting news Read More
posted Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:24 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Break Nwes: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Beta is there

Evaluate the latest virtualization technologies for your organization. Download the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta package today to get the SP1 Beta releases for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. SP1 Beta Read More
posted Monday, July 12, 2010 7:59 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Cluster shared volume is no longer available on this node Event ID: 5120

I faced a problem after building a new cluster that I have these error on 2nd node (Passive one) and when I tried to access it explorer hangs Event ID: 5120 Source: Microsoft-Windows-FailoverCluster Level: Error Description: Cluster shared volume Read More
posted Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:45 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Citrix Branch Repeater VPX Going Hyper-V

06 Jun 2010 10:28 PM EDT Today we are excited to unveil a tech preview of our upcoming Branch Repeater VPX for Hyper-V at Microsoft TechEd in New Orleans. This tech preview makes Citrix the first and only WAN Optimization vendor[1] as well Read More
posted Friday, July 09, 2010 7:33 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM tricks: Adding VMware Host error “Unable to connect to the remote server.”

Sometimes when you try to add VMware host ( VCenter) you see this error “VMM cannot complete the VMware operation on VMware Host IP server because of the error: Unable to connect to the remote server.Resolve the issue in VMware and then try Read More
posted Friday, July 09, 2010 7:30 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Windows 2008 R2 SP1- First Look… Well That’s Cool

Yesterday I got the chance to start testing Windows 2008 R2 SP1 beta on my test servers, I want to share this experience with you. The installation was simple and took about 20 min ( 2 Quad Core Processors and 20 GB RAM ) After the first Read More
posted Wednesday, July 07, 2010 12:42 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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BlackBerry server on Hyper-V

As many customer are working with BB server I always hear this question.. Can I run my BB Server on Hyper-V ?!!! Okay..The answer from our experience is YES  BUT….. With limited support from RIM BES 5.0 and Hyper-V has currently “limited” support Read More
posted Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:58 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Trouble Shooting Hyper-V R2 Server Core

Christian Decker from MS had published a very interesting article about Trouble Shooting Hyper-V R2 Server Core. hereunder translated version from it So fast you go from PowerPoint to command shell … This morning I notice that my SBS is no longer Read More
posted Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:58 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Know the Most Useful Active Directory Support Tools

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes numerous support tools for configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Active Directory. Here is a brief overview of some of the most useful support tools and their executable. ADSI Edit (Adsiedit.msc) Opens and Read More
posted Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:56 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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VMM tricks: How to forcefully remove a Virtual Machine from the SCVMM admin console

Source My buddy Jonathan Jordan recently came across an interesting issue and wrote up a great solution, and since he’s out today I thought I’d take the liberty of posting it.  If you ever find yourself in a position where you tried to Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:13 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Quote of the Month

Don’t Think Pink , Think Virtual ! Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:13 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

VMM tricks: How to manually remove a host from the VMM database

Source The following steps outline the procedure to manually remove a host cluster from the VMM database. In this specific example, we are removing a two node cluster. Note The GUIDs listed below are specific to this example. If following these Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:12 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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What is Next ?!! Virtual Machine Manager vNext

Source hvredevoort wrote a very interesting post about VMM VNext and I through it is important to be shared. During the MMS2010 keynote of Bob Muglia, Edwin Yuen  showed a glimpse of SCVMM vNext. The short demo presented a very interesting Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:06 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Egypt – Link Development awarded as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year

This is great news for my company Link Development has been awarded as the 2010 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Egypt. The Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award recognizes partners at the country level that have demonstrated Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:06 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

Update Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Cluster Limitations

Microsoft did an important change for Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Clustering limitations. To effectively plan for and deploy Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, you should understand the requirements and maximum configurations for the physical and Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:05 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Validation validation fail with the error, “Found duplicate physical address …”

This one was new for me, MS does not support teaming and this is well known. but most of the customers are looking to have redundant solution for their clusters. This would be easy if you have multiple NICs and you are building your teaming with Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:05 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 Update for DPM 2010

Hyper-V R2 Update for DPM 2010 Install those two Updates on Hyper-V R2 server: KB975354 A Hyper-V rollup package dealing with parallel backups on same cluster shared volumes and VM’s hosted by different servers; Avoiding data truncation as Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:05 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments
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Configuring Hyper-V network with HP Teaming software and VirtualConnect

Source This is a very useful article so I translated it to English Hello These are the two basic documents * HP Teaming or Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft ® Windows ® Server 2008 with Hyper-V or Microsoft ® Windows Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:05 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

Microsoft Looks to Third-Parties to Extend DPM 2010

Source It’s a big week for Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 … even though it’s a month or more away from general availability.  At the Microsoft Management Summit this week, DPM 2010 was released to manufacturing, and i365 and Iron Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:05 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments

Ch9 Arabic – Our First Arabic Video

Mahmoud Magdy (Ingazat Information Technology) and Mohamed Fawzi (LINK Development) talking about Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Exchange 2010 SP1 new features in 5 min TechTalk, the first Ch9 Arabic post We are planning to release more video in the next Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:05 PM by Fawzi | 0 Comments