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 my [...]
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, 2009Windows 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, [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 boot from VHD
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009One of the great new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ability to boot the operating system from VHD file. Why? Look at this example. My colleague, Ales Rosina, Microsoft Student Partner from Slovenia recently wanted to have Windows7 as a virtual operating system inside VirtualPC, for quick access, testing… But, [...]
How to add new virtual machine in Virtual PC?
Monday, May 18th, 2009After installing Windows 7 RC, and new Virtual PC that comes as an upgrade, I was a little bit confused, and surprised. As I wrote in my previous post about my first impressions about new Virtual PC, Microsoft has decided to fully integrate Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7, which proves Microsoft’s strategy to have [...]
Virtual PC is completely integrated in Windows 7
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Yesterday I installed fresh new copy Windows 7 Release Candidate. One of the things that I wanted to install is, of course, Windows Virtual PC. Windows Virtual PC Beta, a feature of Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7 Enterprise, provides you the capability to run multiple Windows environments (and operating systems like Linux, too) such [...]
How to enable Automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core?
Thursday, March 19th, 2009In my previous post about Windows Server Core, I wrote how to change the IP address of server running Windows Server Core. In this post I’m going to describe the process of enabling automatic updates in Windows Server 2008 Core. The whole process is quite simple, you have few commands to enable/disable automatic, install an [...]
Changing the IP address in Windows Server 2008 Core
Monday, March 16th, 2009In my previous two posts Windows Server 2008 Core option and Why should anyone use Server Core option? I wrote something about Windows Server 2008 Core. As one of disadvantages I mentioned that there is no GUI, and administration tasks must be done in command prompt. It requires some extra learning, but it is not [...]
Using NewSID to change SID
Sunday, March 15th, 2009As part of MCITP Self-paced Training Kit: Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator, which was given to me by Microsoft Croatia for learning for MCITP exams, I got 2 Windows Server 2008 installation disks (one is x86, other is x64). I need them for practice tests, and I will use them as virtual machines in Microsoft [...]
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