We recently cerated some sysprep’d VHDs using Hyper-V to boot physical machines. We tried using the utility we authored back on the day, the B2VHD Assistant, but after rebooting the machine it would go into what seemed to be a repair mode.
To log on to this remote computer, you must be granted the Allow log on through Terminal Services right. By default, members of the Remote Destop Users group have this right. If you are not a member of the Remote Desktop Users group or another group that has this right, or if the Remote Desktop […]
Giovanni recently implemented an amazing system at the Platform Adoption Center at Microsoft to allow remote access to attendees to carry out labs. This is a mix or Terminal Services, System Center Virtual Machine Manager using the Self-Service portal, and lots of patience. The end result works extremely well, and we managed to integrate his […]
Motivation With Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Server 2008 R2 comes a new feature called “Boot to VHD” (I have referred to this feature as Boot2VHD in the past). As the name implies, this feature allows your computer to use a VHD as if it was a another boot partition. If you want to know […]
I was doing some benchmarking for a client to see if Interop calls from a WCF service would hinder performance and defy the whole purpose. I was using variable byte arrays to send data to build a performance graph of data vs. time. My efforts were quickly shut down by the fact that by default […]
Ever since the introduction of WDS services in Windows Server 2003 R2 SP1, creating images for deployment on the Windows platform is extremely easy and straightforward. In the past, I have managed to create clusters of machines (about 52) in one afternoon by automating the whole process with a single WDS server (without multicast, mind […]
I was trying to deploy an image to a server I had never used using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) and faced a big problem: the machine would not acquire an IP address and could not contact the WDS server. I got a message about “WDS server could not be contacted”, which was kind of weird […]
One of the great things about Windows Server 2008 is that you can install the OS without the need of a product key. When you do, the product is installed in “trial version” (fully functional 60-day trial). After the 60 days you need to register or Windows Server 2008 will stop working…or so you would […]
