How NOT to install a virtual Windows Server?
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Few days ago I learned one "important" lesson from the field, which is actually my lab, which is actually my laptop. I’m in a process of writing my final thesis, and I write about Exchange Server 2010. I need to do some demo, so I decided to start a few virtual machines. Actually, 6! On [...]
How to install an application in XP Mode?
Monday, November 16th, 2009I don’t have any old application which doesn’t work on Windows 7, but two weeks ago I needed to test Windows XP Mode and show it during presentation to high-school teachers (here is the info on how to deploy Windows XP Mode). I was very surprised how easy is to install application in XP Mode [...]
How to upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V?
Thursday, October 15th, 2009If you have Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V role installed and running some virtual machines, and you want to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 because you want to utilize all new features in Hyper-V 2.0, then Jeff Loucks can help you with his post Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server [...]
How to promote Windows Server 2008 machine to domain controller – step-by-step guide
Monday, September 28th, 2009Promoting Windows Server machine to domain controller is one of tasks that (almost) every system administrator had done in his life. Using dcpromo tool, promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to domain controller is quite easy, and in this post I will show you how step-by-step promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system to [...]
How to change SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using sysprep?
Thursday, September 17th, 2009In last post I described how to check SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, today I’ll describe you how to change SID on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 using sysprep. I see many of you are looking how to change SID using NewSID, but New SID is not officially [...]
How to check your SID using PsGetSid?
Monday, September 14th, 2009As more and more people using virtualization, they face the problems like having two same SIDs on the network. It’s not surprising that the most visited post on this blog is Using NewSid to change SID. NewSid is officially not supported by Microsoft anymore, so your virtual machine who’s SID was changed with NewSid [...]
How to install Windows Server 2008 R2 in virtual machine?
Monday, September 7th, 2009After reading my post How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?, you realized that playing with virtualization and virtual machines doesn’t have to be very difficult. You just have to follow few easy steps and there it is, you have your virtual operating system. But wait! We still don’t have virtual operating system. We have [...]
How to use Virtual IQ to manage Hyper-V environments?
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009It was few months ago when I wrote one post about Virtual IQ, program that helps you monitor virtual machines (Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix, Oracle). I decided to test it. I have only one laptop, I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on it, and I wanted to install Virtual IQ on it to monitor [...]
How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Let me show you how to add new Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system on top of Hyper-V 2.0, which is part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. So, I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on my machine, I have Hyper-V role installed and enabled (How to install role [...]
How to install Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 Windows Virtual PC requires hardware-assisted virtualization. But what if your processor doesn’t support it? Then you may want to install Virtual PC 2007, but in most cases, you get an error saying:
This program is blocked due to compatibility issues. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is not supported on this version of Windows. For more information, [...]