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Cloud-Based VDI!!! No.
I was having a conversation this week with a colleague about his plans to create a hybrid-cloud environment by moving many of his datacenter workloads onto Windows Azure. After all, it makes plenty of...
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Virtual Hard Disks: Best Practices for dynamic / thin provisioned disks and...
Virtual environments offer us many new options with regard to storage. Whether you are using Hyper-V or VMware, a few of the options (and recommendations) are the same, even when the terms are...
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Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V 3.4
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at...
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Nothing says passion like Japanese poetry!
Earlier this week I set out to write a haiku about Windows Server 2012. I came up with several, and promised to publish one every day for a couple of weeks. Today’s theme is Hyper-V Replica! —...
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Getting Started With Hyper-V in Server 2012 and Windows 8
You all know by now that I am a huge Hyper-V fan… I have been using it since 2008, but with the latest release I am unabashedly loving Microsoft’s Layer 1 hypervisor. The fact that it has been...
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A Quick Tip for Hyper-V Users: Product Keys
I keep telling people that the best way to activate your servers and desktops is to have a Key Management Server (KMS) in your environment. However not everyone has volume license keys, and when an IT...
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Shared Nothing Live Migration: Goodbye Shared Storage?
This article was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection. Many smaller companies and individuals with home labs see shared storage – usually a SAN (Storage Area Network) device as the...
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It’s Official: My SIXTH MVP Award Category
Two weeks ago 1,400 Microsoft MVPs gathered in Redmond, Washington (the MotherShip, as some call it!) to ‘geek out’ for three days (or as many as six for some, depending on pre-day and post-day...
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If He Can Do It YOU Can Too!
I have been saying for the past couple of years that Microsoft’s Hyper-V is much simpler than vSphere, but I never imagined that I would see this: Caleb, a 5th grader, shows us how to create a virtual...
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Building an IT Camp with PowerShell
I have been telling people for a couple of years that if they want to ensure a good future in the IT field there are two things to learn: System Center and PowerShell. I unfortunately am quite good...
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Building the IT Camp with PowerShell Revisited
I always said I am not hard to please… I only need perfection. So when I wrote my PowerShell script to build my environment the other day I was pleased with myself… until I realized a huge flaw in it....
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