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 …
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 …
Aug
13
You may be aware of a constant debate that goes on between myself, Dave and a few others in education about running virtual environments and whether they should/could be 100% virtual of if you would need some physical domain controllers put into the mix. If you’re not familiar with the debate have a quick read …
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
18
Adding an application to your MDT installation The next thing we will do is add Office 2010 to the base image this is not a necessary step at the moment so if you deploy applications using a 3rd party tool you can skip this step. Open the Deployment workbench and the MDT Deployment Share section …
