Nov 01
Microsoft have made available the service pack 1 release candidate for Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda Well this is one of those service packs (a bit like Vista) which I have been very much looking forward to applying. So on the 27th October I applied the service pack …
Oct 26
I wrote a post a while ago about service pack 1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 well today Microsoft have made available the release candidate which can be downloaded from here this is something I have been looking forward to not necessarily for Windows 7 but mainly for me Server 2008 especially for …
Oct 18
As you can tell from my posts I am a big fan of Microsoft HyperV, well I got passed the video on “How Do I: Use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit to identify servers suitable for virtualisation with Hyper-V?” HyperV has helped with our SharePoint 2010 and also our Exchange 2010 deployment and …
Sep 13
Ok you must have noticed my love for Microsoft HyperV through the posts on the blog. Well I will be honest and say that I have not always been so in love with this product it was only when server 2008 R2 was released with clustered shared volume support that this love affair began. Since …
Aug 21
This post is a follow on to my Free HyperV Monitoring Tool post where I showed you a free but limited HyperV tool for monitoring your HyperV environment, in this post I will look at Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and show some of the benefits for managing your HyperV install with this management …
Aug 19
Guest Post By Darren White Today myself and Dave where working on a customer site when the question of HyperV statistics came up, it would be good to be able to see what free memory was available on the host machine and also what memory was being used by the guest OS’s, now as has been …
Jul 19
Rule Settings in MDT 2010 MDT 2010 as you have seen is very customizable and you can stop some screens showing with the rules available in MDT this will cut down on the amount of input required during the operating system install. Theses inbuilt rules are quite limited so below you will find many more …
Jul 19
Windows Deployment services PXE boot image One of the steps at the beginning of this article was to setup Windows Deployment Services we will now use this to deploy a PXE boot image. From the Start Menu | Administration Tools select Windows Deployment Services once open right click on boot images and select ‘Add Boot …
Jul 16
Adding a Base Image to MDT 2010 The next step is now to add a base image to your MDT deployment. Expand the deployment shares and right click Operating Systems and select ‘Import Operating System’ I will choose the Full set of source files option and for this I will need the windows 7 DVD …
