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Hyper-V Program Manager
Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide (Version 1)
I am happy to announce that the Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide went live at the end of last...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/29/2008
Hyper-V WMI: Creating a Thumbnail Image
Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/29/2008
Lazy Monday… Link’s to other great blog posts.
I've been a little light on content the last few weeks (the post RTM hangover is stating to fade...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/28/2008
Hyper-V Tested Servers…
I get a lot of questions from people asking what servers have been tested and work with...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/20/2008
Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Retrieving and Modifying Parent/Host KVP’s)
On Sunday I showed how to add registry keys to the guest from the host (Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/09/2008
Hyper-V RTM On Windows Update!
On June 26th Hyper-V RTM (KB950050) was released to the Microsoft Download Center. As of this...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/08/2008
Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Guest)
Update 12/5/12 A lot has changed since 2008 and many things have stayed the same… I wanted to...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/07/2008
Hyper-V WMI: KVP Exchange aka Data Exchange (Adding New Items From Parent/Host)
Update 12/5/12 A lot has changed since 2008 and many things have stayed the same… I wanted to...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 07/06/2008
Windows Sidebar Gadget For Hyper-V
Ben Armstrong (Virtual PC Guy) told me about this today… Tore Lervik just released version 2.2 of it...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/23/2008
Hyper-V: Will My Computer Run Hyper-V? Detecting Intel VT and AMD-V
Update 12/5/12: I was reviewing blog posts with the highest hit count and to my surprise this post...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/19/2008
Hyper-V WMI: Rich Error Messages for Non-Zero ReturnValue (no more 32773, 32768, 32700…)
Since I did my last post on snapshots I have gotten several comments and few e-mails asking how to...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/19/2008
Hyper-V WMI: Creating/Applying/Deleting Virtual Machine Snapshots
After I finished writting this I relized it got a bit long... - I guess I had a lot to talk about!...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/16/2008
Hyper-V WMI – Configuring Automatic Startup/Shutdown/Recovery Action’s For Virtual Machines
Hyper-V virtual machines have configuration options that control what happens when the parent/host...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/14/2008
SCVMM - System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta: Update For Hyper-V RC1
The SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) team has released an update to Virtual Machine...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/10/2008
Hyper-V WMI – Cloning Virtual Machines Using Import/Export
I have officially given up on the “Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts” serious, not because of...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 06/07/2008
Hyper-V Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Available on Windows Update!
The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Hyper-V is now available as a optional update on Windows Update....
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/27/2008
Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 5 (Creating Virtual Switchs/Networks)
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend – we had a four day weekend on the Hyper-V team...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/26/2008
Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell - Part 4 and Negative 1 (Shutdown IC Powershell/C#)
I hope everyone is enjoying Hyper-V RC1 (yep I just linked to my own post -shamless maybe) but, as...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/21/2008
Hyper-V RC1 Release Available on Microsoft Download Center!
Apologies for a lack of a new post on the WMI scripts, look for a new double part post Wednesday...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/20/2008
Unattended Installation of Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V RC0
I am taking a quick break from the WMI PowerShell scripts while I take a short Mothers Day vacation,...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/07/2008
Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 3 (KVP's - Guest OS Version)
Update 12/5/12 A lot has changed since 2008 and many things have stayed the same… I wanted to...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/06/2008
Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts – Part 1 (Worker Process ID to Virtual Machine Mapping)
Hello out there in blog land… This is Taylor Brown some of you may know me from the Virtualization...
Author: Taylor Brown, Microsoft Date: 05/02/2008