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In previous posts, I have shown how to create Azman scopes and roles to delegate administration of Hyper-V virtual machines to domain users. Now that we have an AzMan scope, let’s see how you can apply it to a virtual machine or set of virtual machines. Note: In Hyper-V, there is no GUI interface...
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DiskShadow.exe is a new tool that shipped with Windows Server 2008 and it allows you to create and restore shadow copies (snapshots). The tool is similar to vshadow (a free tool that ships with the Volume Shadow Copy/VSS SDK), but it has a diskpart-like interface. You can invoke DiskShadow from a cmdline...
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Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused virtual machine. You can create any sized thumbnail you want (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc…). Creating the image is pretty easy, you just call GetVirtualSystemThumbnailImage passing a reference to...
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I have been working with Volume GUIDs more and more in our Hyper-V implementation and there has been a little bit of a learning curve in viewing, modifying, deleting etc... the files that now live on this volume without a drive letter. I haven't seen much out there on how to manage Volume GUIDs so...
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Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]: In V1, we had a problem which caused our assemblies to not get ngen'ed during installation. If you don't know what "ngen" is, don't worry - you don't need to. All you need to know is that we didn't do the step that makes things go fast on your machine...
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James O'Neill: I've decided to go ahead and post the PowerShell library I have been working on to Codeplex . I wanted to explain various bits of it here before pulling it all together, but that is taking more time than I wanted. I've provided early copies to a few people - John Kelbley used...
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Hyper-V implements a feature known as snapshots, this should not be confused with a SAN snapshot or a VSS snapshot these snapshots are quite different. A Hyper-V snapshot allows you to save off the current state of a virtual machine even while the virtual machine is running or paused. You can then you...
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Mike's Blog: Now that we've reached the RTM milestone with Hyper-V, here's the updated script for how to add the Hyper-V synthetic drivers to WinPE (original post here ) %echo off set MSUSOURCE=D:\synth\rtm\amd64 set PESOURCE=D:\winpe_x64_synthetic mkdir %temp%\IC c:\windows\system32\expand...