About Managing Snapshots with Hyper-V

Hyper-V introduces the concept of virtual machine snapshots – which is to say point in time images of a virtual machine that you can return to at any stage.  These snapshots are implemented in the virtualization layer – and can be taken at any time with any guest operating system (even during an operating system installation).  Snapshots can be taken whether the virtual machine is running or stopped.  If the virtual machine is running when the snapshot is taken there is no downtime involved to create the snapshot. Logo_windows-server-2008-hyper-v-logo-v_2

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Deleting a Windows Service – did you know it’s so easy?

Whenever i had to delete an orphaned Windows Service, i started RegEdit.exe and navigated to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services. Then i searched for the Service and removed the whole registry key including all subkeys. Then i rebooted the system. Yes, i know, don’t tell me that this a horrible way, that’s why i want to share this post with you.. Logo_cmd

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Microsoft Key Management Services KMS aka MAK

Okay, thank you Microsoft, thank you for the good idea of a central KMS what-ever-kill-me-service to activate Windows 7 and Office 2010 in an Enterprise.
Well, things could be easy, but obviously not a KMS Server done by Microsoft .. However, this is my collected information (Installation, configuration, error handling, testing, etc) about Microsoft Key Management Service (KMS).. and the tale isn’t over, believe me!
Getting started with Microsoft Windows KMS server..
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Microsoft – Sysinternals RAMMap v1.0

Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers? RAMMap makes answering those questions easy. RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows Vista and higher.

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HOT! – Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager

Ok, goodbye to paid software like VisionApp Remote Desktop. Microsoft just published Microsoft Remote Desktop Manager – and believe me, this piece of Software rocks!

Last week I noticed a unusual download at Microsoft.com called RDCman, it turned out to be a RDP manager.

I downloaded it and it does all what I want in a great RDP tool!

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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and external access FQDN

Yesterday I’ve installed Microsoft (TFS) Team Foundation Server 2010 and today I’m struggling with the configuration. My team wants to access the TFS / Source Control Safe using internal but also external host names. So, how to accomplish the right configuration? Good question. To save your time i thought I’ll blog about my journey .. Logo_Microsoft.Team.foundation.server.2010

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VS.NET TFS: IISReset and The system cannot find the file specified. (2147942402, 80070002)

Okay, today i installed Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. At the end of the Setup, i had a warning regarding the configuration of the IIS Web Server Part. In the result i tried to reset the IIS using iisreset.exe. What i got is an error message stating:
The system cannot find the file specified. (2147942402, 80070002)
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Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility

HVRemote reduces the manual configuration steps needed for Hyper-V Remote Management down to a few simple commands. Logo_windows-server-2008-hyper-v-logo-v_2

 

  • HVRemote can diagnose common configuration errors.
  • HVRemote is locale neutral, although output is in English only.
  • HVRemote can configure all combinations of workgroup and domain joined clients and servers.
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    http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/HVRemote

    Windows Help File: Navigation to the Webpage was canceled

    It seems it’s not clear for everyone. When you download a compiled HTML Help file from the internet, the file get’s tagged as insecure. Now when you open the file, the content get’s block unless you remove the lock..

    Screenshot (this is not an error of this page ;)

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    To unlock the the file, just right-click it in explorer and chose properties. Under Genereal you’ll find an unlock button

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    that’s it. Now you can open the and read the file as usual..