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Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:58 AM

Hyper-V RTM!

Okay - this is going to be a short post as I am off to party for the rest of the day. Hyper-V has RTM'd! Press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jun08/06-26hyperv.mspx John Howard has install directions here: http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/06/26/hyper-v-rtm-announcement-available-today-from-the-microsoft-download-centre.aspx
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:33 AM

Whitepaper: Hyper-V and BitLocker

There is a new whitepaper on how to use BitLocker with Hyper-V for securing Hyper-V server installations.  This is great for branch office / other situations where there is a potential physical security issue.  Read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2c3c0615-baf4-4a9c-b613-3fda14e84545&DisplayLang=en
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:57 PM

Hyper-V: Storing VHDs on network shares

Jose has done a great post on how to store VHDs on network shares when using Hyper-V.  Go check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/06/24/storing-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-files-on-an-cifs-smb-file-share.aspx Cheers, Ben
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Monday, June 23, 2008 3:09 PM

Hyper-V Sidebar Gadget

Tore Lervik has made a great little Hyper-V Sidebar Gadget available on his website: http://mindre.net/post/Hyper-V-Monitor-Gadget-for-Windows-Sidebar.aspx This gadget allows you to see the status of virtual machines on multiple servers "at a glance"
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:21 PM

Updated VHDs Available

There are a couple of interesting VHD updates that have recently come out: The Internet Explorer team have provided updated "IE Compatibility" test virtual machines, which now include an IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 1 virtual machine. Download available here:
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:33 AM

Hyper-V Script: Compact VHD

Continuing on with my walk through the storage WMI API - here are some scripts for compacting VHDs with Hyper-V.  Note that Hyper-V allows you to compact both differencing and dynamically expanding virtual hard disks. PowerShell: # Prompt for the
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:30 PM

SCVMM 2008 Beta Update for Hyper-V RC1

An update for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta, which adds support for managing Hyper-V RC1, is now available.  You can grab it now from http://connect.microsoft.com (if you are not already signed up for the SCVMM 2008 beta - you
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Monday, June 09, 2008 11:55 PM

Hyper-V Script: Validate VHD

Hyper-V provides a handy scripting interface that allows you to validate a virtual hard disk.  You can use this for two main purposes: To confirm that a standard VHD file is correctly structured and not corrupted. To confirm that a differencing disk
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:15 AM

Windows Server 2008 VHDs Available for Virtual Server / Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition evaluation VHDs are now available for Virtual Server and Hyper-V.  They are available full and core installation options.  You can get the Hyper-V VHDs from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&DisplayLang=en
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:59 PM

Installing Fedora 9 in Virtual PC 2007

Sean has a great post on how to get this to work over here: http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/05/19/installing-fedora-9-sulphur-in-virtual-pc-2007.aspx Cheers, Ben
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Monday, June 02, 2008 11:42 PM

Updated Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V RC1 Now Available

Okay - so I am two weeks late on this one - but if you did not see: updated Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V RC1 are now available at http://connect.microsoft.com This release includes Linux compatible versions of: Network VSC - for high performance
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