October 23, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Ok, so far we have created, modified, and added resources (memory, processor, disks, and network) to virtual machines. Now, we want to take that information and build a complete virtual machine. # Set up variables $VHD = "f:\VHDs\win2k8.vhd" $GuestVM =...
October 19, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Last time I looked at building onto our WMI automation script with processor creation. Today, I want to cover how to add memory resources into the script. Once again, I will take advantage of the existing patterns for creating this script. # Set up...
October 15, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
I have built my fair share of VMs using both Hyper-V Manager and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM), but as an engineer, I wanted a way to build multiple VMs without the repetitive clicking involved in doing so within the graphical tools. Fortunately,...
October 7, 2009 | In: Windows
Now that we are a couple of weeks away from the official retail launch date of Windows 7, I thought I would list out some of my favorite and most used keyboard shortcuts in this new operating system from Microsoft. For me, the most used are grouped into...
August 12, 2009 | In: Exchange
As I was running a mailstorm against my Exchange 2007 virtual environment, I noticed that for some reason I had a few mailboxes that were missed in the random seeding that was happening. I didn’t really care that these were missed, since I already had...
June 23, 2009 | In: Hyper-V
Well, I decided after reading through Andrew Connell’s post about his Hyper-V system build along with Bob Fox’s post about his build for Hyper-V, that I needed to just get on it and build up mine. For my build, I am taking something of a hybrid...
June 18, 2009 | In: Microsoft
Check this post Microsoft's Browser Comparison Chart from Google Blogoscoped: Microsoft has a “Get the facts” page for Internet Explorer 8. As you can see, Internet Explorer has security, privacy, and ease of use, whereas Firefox and Chrome don’t...