Monthly Archives: June 2010

Creating a bootable VHD image

Posted on June 28, 2010 by niall

I have been looking for an easy way to create bootable VHD images, to help speed up the deployment of virtual machines. After some searching, I found the Windows Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter (aka WIM2VHD) — a free … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Memory coming to Hyper-V

Posted on June 27, 2010 by niall

Dynamic Memory — a long awaited enhancement to Hyper-V — is finally on it’s way in Hyper-V R2 SP1. Ben Armstrong (aka Virtual PC Guy) recently gave a presentation at TechEd about Dynamic Memory — he has kindly posted a copy … Continue reading →

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RDS Session Host — Initial Installation & Configuration

Posted on June 27, 2010 by niall

In this video, Matt McSpirit walks through the initial installation and configuration of the RDS Session Host (traditional Terminal Server) in a Windows Server 2008 R2 environment. He enables the roles, sets up the initial bits, and then goes on … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Server Virtualisation Overview (R2)

Posted on June 27, 2010 by niall

This video discusses the Microsoft Server Virtualisation R2 Technologies, which includes aspects such as Hyper-V as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and also Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

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