Ben Armstrong’s Virtualization Blog
Hyper-V Program Manager
Understanding WMI Job Expiration in Hyper-V
// A long time ago – I blogged about how to handle WMI job objects in Hyper-V. The short story...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/16/2012
Looking at Hyper-V Event Logs with PowerShell
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/13/2012
Friday afternoon hardware
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/10/2012
PowerShell Script for Exporting a virtual machine
// I need to automate the process of exporting a virtual machine recently – and when I checked...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 02/08/2012
Windows Virtual PC Hotfix for AMD Bulldozer Processors
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/19/2012
Hotfix: Guest may crash during live migration
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 01/10/2012
Converting to a fixed virtual hard disk–for a Server core installation
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/30/2011
Converting to a fixed virtual hard disk–the hard way
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/29/2011
Converting to a fixed virtual hard disk–the easy way
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/28/2011
Time for some server maintenance
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/27/2011
Using “built in” applications with Windows XP mode
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/22/2011
Why you should be using BitLocker on your servers
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/21/2011
Creating virtual hard disks–the slow way
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/20/2011
Testing data protection with virtual machines
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/19/2011
Linux Integration Services Version v3.2 for Hyper-V now available
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 12/02/2011
Hyper-V Extensible Switch in Windows Server 8
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/10/2011
Friday Afternoon–hardware time
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/04/2011
Using CPU Reserve to enforce virtual processor ratio
// On Monday I posted a script for configuring virtual machine CPU scheduler settings. This script...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/03/2011
Diagnosing a cause of PXE boot failure
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 11/02/2011
Setting VM CPU scheduler settings with PowerShell [Hyper-V]
// A while ago I did a number of posts talking about the different controls that are available to...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/31/2011
How many virtual processors does a virtual machine have?
// A recent forum poster asked: How do I write a script that figures out how many virtual processors...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/25/2011
Running DOS fullscreen applications in Windows XP Mode
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/24/2011
Deleting a snapshot sub-tree–via PowerShell [Hyper-V]
// Here is a dangerous script! Given a virtual machine name and a snapshot name, it will delete the...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/21/2011
Deleting a snapshot–via PowerShell [Hyper-V]
// Here is a script that will allow you to delete a single snapshot from a Hyper-V virtual machine:...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/20/2011
Applying a snapshot–via PowerShell [Hyper-V]
// Now that we know how to take a snapshot, and how to list snapshots – let’s start...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/19/2011
Listing snapshots–via PowerShell [Hyper-V]
// After the relatively trick “taking a snapshot” script – today’s snapshot...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/18/2011
Taking a snapshot–via PowerShell [Hyper-V]
// This week I am going to be sharing a bunch of scripts that show you how to interact with virtual...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/17/2011
Installing Internet Explorer 8 in Windows XP mode
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/13/2011
Looking at 5nine Manager for Hyper-V
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/12/2011
An unusual reason to enable MAC spoofing
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/11/2011
Enabling 24-bit color in Windows XP Mode
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/10/2011
Enabling ClearType on Windows XP Mode
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/05/2011
Catching up on Hyper-V at BUILD
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 10/03/2011
Sometimes it is better to not be polite
// When we are working on Hyper-V there are a lot of things that we work on that you may not be...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/29/2011
Running the Windows 8 Developer Preview on Microsoft Virtualization
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/26/2011
Lots of information about “Windows Server 8”
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/19/2011
Using VHD Boot to run the Windows Developer Preview
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/15/2011
Windows Developer Preview now available for download
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/13/2011
Watch the //build/ keynote live today
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/13/2011
How do I avoid needing to activate Windows when I move a VM? [Hyper-V]
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/12/2011
SCVMM 2012 RC Released
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/09/2011
Hyper-V coming to Windows 8 desktop
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/07/2011
Updated Coreinfo useful for Hyper-V systems
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/06/2011
Speaking on “Talk TechNet” tomorrow
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 09/01/2011
Building Windows 8: Accessing data in ISO and VHD files
// Over on the “Building Windows 8” blog we have just published a post that talks about...
Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/30/2011
Getting “alt-tab” to go to the virtual machine
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/25/2011
Recent MVP posts about different operating systems under Hyper-V
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/24/2011
Great Wiki Article–“Hyper-V: Gotchas”
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Author: Benjamin Armstrong Date: 08/23/2011