Windows Virtual PC Beta on Windows 7

Windows 7 RC was released today on TechNet and MSDN along with Windows Virtual PC Beta for Windows 7. As soon as I started messing around with Virtual PC, I ran into a problem with an error message that said hardware assisted virtualization was not enabled.

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 [...]

BGInfo Custom WMI Fields

BGInfo, a really cool tool that allows you to create a custom bitmap images to use as your desktop wallpaper that can include things like your host name, IP address and other aspects of the PC’s configuration.   Download: BgInfo v4.12 The image can be set to auto update by creating a shortcut and placing it [...]

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 [...]

Micosoft releases Hyper-V RC0

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the first release candidate (RC0) of Hyper-V, the virtualization functionality that is built into Windows Server 2008.   This updates the Beta version of Hyper-V that shipped with Server 2008 RTM earlier this year.  The final version of Hyper-V is due out in late August 2008. Read:Microsoft Reaches Virtualization Milestone With Release Candidate [...]

Using Sysprep with BitLocker

When SYSPREPing a PC that has been partitioned for use with Windows BitLocker, you may receive the following error after the system restarts: The system registry contains invalid file paths.  Installation cannot proceed.  This system image was applied without guaranteeing that drive-letter assignments would match across computers. The issue has to do with the order [...]

Using Windows PE with Ghost

In the past I have always used a Ghost boot disk or a bootable CD-ROM to take and deploy ghost images.  But, now that I am ordering desktops and laptops without floppy drives and with the creation of Ghost boot disks becoming more difficult since they rely on DOS and DOS network drivers, there has [...]

Migrating a Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine to Hyper-V

The learning process is always fun and can be frustrating at times. I recently started migrating my lab to Microsoft’s new virtualization technology called Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a new role in Windows Server 2008. There are a couple of issues that I’ve already run across that you need to be aware of before attempting to [...]

Configuring NICs in Hyper-V

At my day job, we currently run Windows Server 2003 with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.  One on the things we do is setup a “Shared Virtual Network” in which the guest virtual machines use a dedicated NIC separate from the one the host uses.  To do this we take one of the server NICs [...]

Microsoft sets Windows Server 2008 Launch Date

Microsoft announced yesterday at their Worldwide Partner Conference that Windows Server 2008 will be launched together with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008. Recently at Microsoft TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Microsoft indicated that Windows Server 2008 RTM is on track to release before the end of [...]

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