Hyper-V RC1 Hypervisor Failed to Start

There is a known problem in Hyper-V RC1 in which after you upgrade a perfectly working RC0 server the Hypervisor will not start. You will see the following error in the event log: Source: Hyper-V Hypervisor Event ID: 48 “Hyper-V launch failed; Processor 0×4 does not provide the features necessary to run Hyper-V (leaf 0×80000008, [...]

Digital Cable Tuner Resources

CableCARD™ and Digital Cable FAQ Digital Cable Tuner Setup for Windows Media Center in Windows Vista – A Set-by-Step Guide for Professional Technicians (pdf) Dell XPS Desktop Forum

XPS 420 & Radeon ATI HD2600 XT – Choppy DVD Playback

I got my XPS 420, took an image of HDD (32 bit OEM OS) and installed Vista Ultimate x64, downloaded and installed all the drivers from support.dell.com and then also updated newer drivers for the video and network cards and updated the firmware on the ATI Digital Cable Tuner.   Everything that I’ve tested so far [...]

Windows Server 2008 DCPROMO

During DCPROMO in Windows Server 2008, If you select the option to install DNS, you might receive a message that indicates that a DNS delegation for the DNS server could not be created and that you should manually create a DNS delegation to the DNS server to ensure reliable name resolution. If you are installing [...]

Error message when you run the “Adprep /rodcprep” command in Windows Server 2008

“Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Subdomain,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=Domain,DC=suffix” Read: Error message when you run the “Adprep /rodcprep” command in Windows Server 2008: “Adprep could not contact a replica for partition DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=Contoso,DC=com” Note: I could not get [...]

Dell XPS 420

I finally decided to buy a Dell XPS 420 desktop computer this weekend.  Dell is running a great deal for Mother’s Day; $350 off XPS 420 systems.  I’m not a mother, but who cares right?  I can get the configuration that I want cheaper than I can get with my Employee Purchase Program discount mainly [...]

DFSRDIAG (Distributed File System Replication Diag)

I’ve recently been tweaking my data replication schemes.  We’ve got multiple servers spread out all over and seems like we replicate date all over the place.   My most recent brilliant idea was to replicate our offline virtual machine images and software installation ISO files to all of our Hyper-V servers.  In working through some staging [...]

Microsoft’s Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)

Microsoft had a couple releases this week to help support remote servers.  The first was the Hyper-V Remote Administration Tools that I blogged about earlier.  The second was the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) which only runs on Windows Vista SP1 and replaces the old AdminPAK.MSI that was used with Windows XP and Server 2003. [...]

Hyper-V-VMMS Event ID 14050

I recently upgraded to Hyper-V RC0 and noticed a 14050 error “Failed to register service principal name” in the event log after I added my Hyper-V server to my active directory domain.  Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS Date: 3/27/2008 9:42:59 AM Event ID: 14050 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: LABVS2.pmo.pfcs.farm Description: Failed [...]

Hyper-V Remote Administration Tools

Microsoft released the Hyper-V Remote Management tools for Windows Vista earlier this week.  This is an important release to effectively managing a remote Hyper-V server now that in Hyper-V RC0 mouse movement is no longer being captured in a virtual machine connection when connected to a Hyper-V RC0 server via terminal services (Remote Desktop).  Microsoft reportedly blocked capturing [...]

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