Tag Archives: Hyper-V

Automatically placing a pooled VDI Collection in a different OU

Posted by dave on February 2, 2013 No comments

For reference, to place a pooled VDI collection in different OU, you can use the following format: OU=level3OU,OU=level2OU,OU=level1OU,DC=mydomain,DC=dom

Hyper-V VM with a snapshot failed to start after resizing a the VHD

Posted by dave on January 15, 2013 No comments

Whilst not really paying attention the one day, I needed to increase the size of a VHD. I shut down the machine and tried to edit the disk but the option was greyed out, after some hacking around I managed …

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Compacting an Exchange VHD

Posted by dave on April 4, 2011 No comments

This weekend it was time to compact the VHD for my Exchange data drive, I’d removed a load of old data during the week and the VHD was upto about 130GB, with only 19GB used now. The first attempt, after …

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A connection will not be made because credentials may not be sent to the remote computer

Posted by dave on June 9, 2010 5 comments

I just went to connect to one of my Hyper-V VM’s on one of my Hyper-V Server 2008 boxes via the Hyper-V Management Console on my Vista PC and it came back with the error: “A connection will not be …

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Managing Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 in a Workgroup

Posted by dave on June 2, 2010 No comments

I setup a new Hyper-V server at home last night. The install itself was straight forward, I’m basically trying to run even less servers to keep the old energy bills down. It’s a shame there is no USB support in …

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Installing Ubuntu 10.04 with ZoneMinder 1.24 on Hyper-V

Posted by dave on May 26, 2010 2 comments

I decided I need to cut down the number of servers I run at home, yet again. ZoneMinder currently sits on its own Ubuntu box and so I thought I’d create a Hyper-V server and then create a few VM’s …

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Configuring disk partitions from the command line

Posted by dave on March 26, 2010 No comments

Yet another command line post. Basically, after configuring the Raid array on my DL380 G5, running Hyper-V I needed to create the data drive to hold all the VHD’s. From the command prompt, typing: C:\>d: Gave the error: The device …

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Updating Drivers on a HP DL380 G5 Remotely

Posted by dave on March 24, 2010 No comments

On a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 box, as I’ve mentioned before, you are very limited as to what you can do. I’ve had the Hyper-V server running for a few months now and everything has been just dandy. It was …

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Listing available drives from the Command Prompt

Posted by dave on March 22, 2010 No comments

This came in handy just now. Run this command from the command line to list the available drives on a machine: c:\>fsutil fsinfo drives Very useful when working on my Hyper-V box. Also note: Show the type of drive: c:\>fsutil …

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