Hyper-V R2: Changes to External Networks

Posted by Bink on on January 20 2009, 10:54 AM with no comments
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Ben Armstrong: With Hyper-V we have always recommended that the parent partition not be connected to external networks - as a security best practice.  However, this was relatively difficult to setup (especially for core installations).  With Windows Server 2008 R2 we have updated the Hyper-V management UI to make this much easier to do, and the default behavior.  Now when you create an external virtual network switch you will see the following UI:

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