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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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Quote of the Month

posted Friday, December 18, 2009 2:30 AM by Fawzi
“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.” – Bruce Schneier Read More
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Live Migration – “The devil may be in the networking details.”

posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:47 PM by Fawzi
Source: Ask the Core TeamWindows Server 2008 R2 has been publicly available now for only a short period of time, but we are already seeing a good adoption rate for the new Live Migration functionality as well as the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) 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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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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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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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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Hyper-V Domain Controller Negative Ping Results

posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:18 PM by Fawzi
This one was a little bit new for me, About 6 months ago one of my customers told me that some times his new virtual Domain Controller is giving a negative ping results. This DC was working fine and it was new installation Windows server 2003 Domain Read More
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Hyper-V Virtual Machines could not intialize

posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:50 PM by Fawzi
This is one of the problems that you may face, When you start the VMs after you rename the host or join the domain you can’t start the VMs on taht host and face a problem that (Could not find a usable certificate) For hyper-V with windows 2008 R2 Read More
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