Hyper-V customers are running both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as guests. We have provided Linux integration components for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, but customers did not have the same level of performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a guest since the IC’s were not supported for RHEL. We are excited to announce the availability of Linux integration components for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4) which provides synthetic network and storage drivers enabling RHEL to work with the optimized devices provided by Hyper-V. We’ve already submitted these drivers to the upstream Linux kernel in July 2009 (read here for more information) and are looking forward to these being integrated
I recently switch to VirtualBox (from VirtualPC), but i was not ready to dump all my VHD files. So i decided to keep working with VHD. The other thing I use a lot is “differencing disk”, VirtualBox also support these, but, as with VHD the documentation is not always very clear on how to use them. First you have to understand a difference between Virtual PC and Virtual Box about “differencing disk” : In VirtualPC In VirtualBox You create a normal VHD that will become the parent, then
Nice article By Netanel Ben-Shushan about DHCP. Abstract This article will help you to learn everything that you need to know as a systems administrator (or SysAdmin) about this protocol and what can you do with him. Source : Bink.nu
Google's belated second shot at social networking with the Gmail-based Buzz service was supposed to catapult the company into competition with Twitter and Facebook. But instead, it has created an amazing uproar among Gmail users who feel the service is invasive at best and privacy-adverse at worst. How this piece of junk escaped internal testing is unclear, given how poorly implemented it was at launch last week, as well as its complete lack of configuration. But with Google now facing a class-action lawsuit over the service, maybe it's time for the online giant to step back and ask itself what the heck just happened. For all the bad stuff Google has done over the years—working with the Chinese
« Where is the Powershell 2.0 download ? » Don’t ask me why, but the official release of PowerShell 2.0 is not available in a standalone download. It is now part of the «Window Management Framework». The framework includes : Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0 Windows PowerShell 2.0 Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) 4.0 It is available for Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista and Windows 2008 (already included with Windows 7 and 2008 R2). You will find all the download links and infos at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929/en-us Note : Don’t forget, PowerShell shortcuts are in Programs/Accessories/Windows PowerShell
This is common knowledge; you should use a combination of alphabets, numerical digits, and special characters (!, @) to create strong passwords. Yet, the most commonly used password on the Internet is 123456 followed by 12345 – see full list. … … Microsoft too offers an online tool that will instantly tell if your password is strong or weak. … Enter Password Meter – this is an online tool that will not only rate your password’s strength but will offer clues on what you kind of characters can you add or remove to improve the password’s strength. Source : Digital Inspiration Technology Blog
In the past days I had to troubleshoot a problem with an SSL certificate and Outlook. I didn’t found any useful infos on the net to help me so I thought I could share one little tips that help me solve my problem. First my problem : We have a Sharepoint site configure with HTTPS. Everything works fine in Internet Explorer, but when we try to connect a calendar or a document library in Outlook it wouldn’t synch. If a replace my normal SSL certificate (on the web
First, a caveat. This is not supported. Most of what I am about to talk about is not supported. Feel free to use this information, but do not call Microsoft if it does not work for you. With that out of the way – this morning I was asked how to get a Windows Server 2008 core installation working on Windows Virtual PC, with integration components. This is possible, and very handy, but is a little tricky to do. Windows Server 2008 will install onto Windows Virtual PC in a core configuration with no issues. But when you try to install the Integration Components, the installer will fail. The problem is that the installer is trying, and failing,
For the past two years, Adobe has neglected a simple issue with Adobe Reader that broke the default and extremely useful file thumbnail and file preview features in Vista and 7 under 64-bit. The problem also extends onto other applications that use the preview APIs such as Office Outlook, throwing out the window what would have been an elegant and streamlined PDF viewing experience, especially since you can scroll within the PDF without awakening the beast that is Adobe Reader. After some detective work by Leo, not only did he pinpoint the root cause of both the preview and thumbnail issues, but today released a dead-simple fix in a neat executable package that fixes both problems faster than
I’d like to start this post with a statement: Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a useful role in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s free (to licensed Windows users), supports multitasking, and is a perfectly good method of pushing Windows images to clients… Unfortunately that statement has a caveat: … but it needs to be installed on an Active Directory-member computer. For some, that’s a non-starter. And sometimes, you just want a quick and dirty solution Source : markwilson.it
The Windows Server Performance team have done a really interesting post on how to optimize network performance inside of virtual machines by increasing the size of the VMBus buffers used by our network adapters. They also do a very good job of explaining the causes and implications of performance issues around virtual networking – so go check it out: http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2010/02/02/increase-vmbus-buffer-sizes-to-increase-network-throughput-to-guest-vms.aspx Cheers,
Ben Source : Virtual PC Guy's WebLog
