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Where can I get makecert.exe from?

March 6, 2015 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

I’ve been working on some cool stuff with Hyper-V Replica across untrusted domains this week.  As part of that I needed to get hold of the makecert.exe utility so that you can create your own SSL certificates.  I had some challenges finding it and finally located it.  Here’s what I did. Download the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 from here … [Read more...]

What size pagefile should I have on Hyper-V?

December 15, 2014 by Wayne Small 1 Comment

I’ve been trying to find specific guidance for some time on the size of a pagefile as recommended by Microsoft for a system running as a Hyper-V host.  The theory is that on a Hyper-V host, Windows itself should never really use a page file at all.  As a result, I’ve been setting page file to be 4GB – enough in case it’s needed, but not huge as we don’t need to waste … [Read more...]

If you virtualised Windows Server 2012–then you MUST get this patch..

July 26, 2013 by Wayne Small 7 Comments

NOTE: This issue applies to ANY Domain Controller running on top of a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Platform We’ve been fighting something very bad in the last week for a machine that was running on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Platform.  The problem is that we had a Hyper-V server reboot unexpectedly and as a result the guest machine was totally dead in the water.  … [Read more...]

How to convert a ShadowProtect Backup to a VHD

May 2, 2012 by Wayne Small 5 Comments

I use a number of different backup products in my SBSfaq.com office environment, one of those is ShadowProtect.  My Terminal Server is Windows Server 2008 R2 and it’s been running on top of a Windows 8 Hyper-V server as I test it out.  I’ve had ShadowProtect running inside the Guest Virtual Machine so as to ensure I got a solid backup of my data should something go … [Read more...]

Windows 8 Virtual Machine on Hyper-V 2008 R2 Host

April 12, 2012 by Wayne Small 1 Comment

If you are running a Windows 8 VM on your Hyper-V 2008 R2 host, then you really need to check out this blog post.  It turns out that there can be some issues with the Windows 8 VM if you don’t have the patch and it’s likely that most people will be testing Windows 8 on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts as I have been. Note that Microsoft state that this is a REQUIRED hotfix, … [Read more...]

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