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VMM Tricks: Manage VMM in restrictive Active Directory environment

posted Friday, February 12, 2010 6:55 PM by Fawzi
So you want to manage your VMM infrastructure while keeping an eye on your Hyper-V hosts security. looks like everyone wants to do that. So have you through before about using restricted Group group policy to limit membership for your local admins Read More
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VMM Tricks: V2V failed with Error (protocol error : too many authentication failures for root)

posted Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:19 AM by Fawzi
When you perform a V2V from a VMware ESX 3.5  host and I get the following error: Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error:  Server sent disconnect message: type 2 (protocol error : too many authentication Read More
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VMM tricks:Manage Certificate to connect to VMs in the Perimeter

posted Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:08 PM by Fawzi
Most of the times you may need to host some VMs on the Perimeter host, After adding this host to VMM console you still can't connect to the VMs on that host. Your remote desktop connection failed because the remote computer cannot be authenticated..Certificate Read More
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New Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (OVMST) 2.1 now available!

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:57 PM by Fawzi
with keeping your offline virtualized environment safe from attack and in compliance? Download the Microsoft Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1. You'll get free, tested guidance and tools that automatically service your offline virtualized machines 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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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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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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VMM Tricks: Remove failed jobs from VMM console

posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:54 PM by Fawzi
VMM maintains job history for the past 90 days. If you want to remove them manually, we need take the following steps to update directly in SQL DB. These steps are valid when you are using SQL Express for VMM DB. 1. Download SQL Management Studio Read More
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