Taylor Brown's Blog
Hyper-V Program Manager
TechEd 2010
Last week was TechEd 2010 held in New Orleans, it was a great conference with over 10,000 attendees...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/14/2010
Writing Your Own VMConnect App/Web Interface For VM Console Access To Hyper-V VM’s
Ever since Hyper-V’s first beta I’ve had people ask about the ability to write there own...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/01/2010
Windows Server 2008 SP1 Here We Come… With Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX For Hyper-V
I’ve been waiting and waiting to post this and today I can… Today we officially announced Windows...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/18/2010
Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Performance White Paper
It must be white paper week :) – today we posted a great document discussing virtual hard disk (VHD)...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/26/2010
Hyper-V: Live Migration Network Configuration Guide
Today we released a great new document discussing requirements, recommendations and options for...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/25/2010
Attaching Passthough Disks Via WMI (SCSI or IDE)
So you want to use passthough disks with Hyper-V cool – but how do you script attaching them? ...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/16/2009
Recommend Hotfixes For System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
If your running System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) you should take a look at KB...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 04/13/2009
Hyper-V: Background Merging of AVHD’s… When’s it done?
I think it might be best to start at ground zero with this topic and explain what a snapshot really...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/10/2009
Performance Smack Down - Hyper-V vs. VMware vs. Citrix
Virtualization Review posted the results of a performance shootout between Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/09/2009
Hyper-V VMMS Certificate Expiration Problem and Resolution
In the coming days/weeks some of you may see some new errors from Hyper-V. The first is an...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 03/04/2009
How Are My VHD’s/Passthough Disk’s Connected To My Virtual Machine?
Updated 2/23 – Added VHD File Size and Fixed a Few Bugs. This is a follow up on my previous post on...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/16/2009
Red Hat Support Coming To Hyper-V
Last night Mike Neil posted to the Virtualization Team Blog regarding a new agreement between...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 02/16/2009
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta Released
The Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta has been posted on the download center along with an...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/26/2009
Hyper-V Backup/Restore QFE Released
If you are backing up your Hyper-V virtual machines using our VSS writer (backing up the physical...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/16/2009
Hyper-V V2: Guest Only External Networks + Add Roles Wizard Changes
The Hyper-V best practice in traditional production environments is that any physical network...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/12/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Download Public
Ok the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta is now available for public download… Take a look at...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/09/2009
Performance Issues With Some Graphic Cards and Hyper-V
If you are using Hyper-V on a workstation machine with a high-end or consumer graphics card you may...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/09/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta… Ohh and Windows 7 too…
Unless you’ve been under a rock all day you know that Windows 7 Beta was announced and released last...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/08/2009
VHD Servicing Tool 2.0
About a month ago I posted about the VHD Servicing tool (Offline Virtual Machine Servicing...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/06/2009
VBScript Versions of The KVP Scripts
Ben Armstrong (aka Virtual PC Guy) posted some great VBScript and PowerShell KVP scripts. ...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 01/05/2009
New Hyper-V Case Study (MLS Property Information Network)
A new Hyper-V case study was published late last week. In this study they also employed the...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/24/2008
Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment
The SQL Performance Team has published an excellent document on running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/24/2008
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
Many of you may have already seen this but if you haven't it's pretty cool... From the October Issue...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/13/2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Reviewers Guide Posted
The Windows Server 2008 R2 (Beta) Reviewers Guide has been posted, 74 pages of riveting marketing...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/07/2008
Hyper-V PDC Recordings Posted
Both the recording’s from my and Nihar’s talks from PDC have been posted from our PDC talks… Enjoy!...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 11/02/2008
PDC Update Day 2 – Windows 7
Day 2 started off with Ray’s talking about the convergence of the conventional pc platform and the...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/29/2008
PDC Update Day 1
Day 1 has come and gone by the time I got back to my hotel last night I was pretty much dead on my...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/28/2008
PDC Update: Day –1 and Day 0
I flew in on Saturday and I think the flight was about 90% Microsoft employees including Mike...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/26/2008
SCVMM Question #1 – “Why do my hosts show Needs Attention?” or “Virtualization Service Version Status Is Not Up-To-Date”
I have been onsite with a customer this week helping evaluate Hyper-V and System Center Virtual...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/23/2008
Hyper-V PowerGUI PowerPack – Now That’s Power….
I loved PowerGUI ever since I found it a month ago or so… Well Kirk and the PowerGUI guys have done...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/23/2008
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTM’ed Today!
A big pat on the back for our friends in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager team – they have...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/22/2008
Virtualization Sales Strong, Hyper-V Strong First Quarter
IDC released a report this morning entitled “Virtualization Continues to See Strong Growth in Second...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/16/2008
PDC Teaser – Attaching a VHD to A Virtual Machine
PDC is just around the corner now – I am giving the dry run of my talk tomorrow morning, so of...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/13/2008
Microsoft Hyper-V Server Available Now – For FREE!
You can now download Microsoft Hyper-V Server for free from Microsoft Download center. It’s...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 10/01/2008
Are You Signed Up For PDC Yet?
Seriously are you? Today it was announced that in addition to Ray Ozzie and Rick Rashid they...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/25/2008
Hyper-V Update For System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Managed Servers
If you are using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to manage your Hyper-V hosts you...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/24/2008
24 Core Support For Hyper-V Hosts!
There is a newly released update for Hyper-V that will increase the support limit from 16 logical...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/23/2008
Hyper-V QFE Released For VSS Enabled Backup Issue
If you use Windows Server Backup or any other VSS aware backup utility you should make sure and pick...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/09/2008
Free Hyper-V + Live Migration + SCVMM
Yesterday was the official launch for Hyper-V. I was able to attend a good chunk of the day...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/09/2008
Happy Virtualization Launch Day!
Today is the launch for Microsoft Virtualization including Hyper-V. I will be attending parts...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 09/08/2008
New Virtualization Feed
The Microsoft marketing team has setup a Virtualization blog RSS aggregator at...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/27/2008
What Applications Are Supported Running On Hyper-V Virtual Machines?
I had a Microsoft partner ask me about SQL and Exchange support on Hyper-V earlier today – being...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/27/2008
Open Source PowerShell Editor -- PowerGUI
Many of you know I have been a fan of PowerShellPlus for quite a while, but I was turned on to a new...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/22/2008
Hyper-V WMI: What VHD’s/Physical Disks Are Associated With a Virtual Machine?
I got a great question based on yesterday’s post (by the way my e-mail was blocking a lot of...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/21/2008
Backing Up Hyper-V Virtual Machines Using Windows Server Backup
Over the last few months I have gotten a lot of questions about backing up Hyper-V virtual machines…...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/20/2008
New Hyper-V WMI Doc’s… Plus It’s Official I’ll Be Speaking at PDC… Plus Cluster Fix for Hyper-V…
Hyper-V WMI Documentation First off I am happy to say the Hyper-V WMI documentation is finally post...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/08/2008
PDC 2008 Here We Come!
Hyper-V will be well represented at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 08/01/2008