I found this really cool open source software that I’m currently implementing for a customer remotely. It’s called HVBackup and is of the time of writing in Beta v1. http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/ Description from their website: The main goal of this project is to provide a very easy and powerful free tool to backup and restore Hyper-V…
Category: Server
Windows Server 2012 as a Workstation
This week I received my new HP EliteBook Workstation 8560w packed with Intel® Core™ i7-2860QM, 24 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro 2000M, 750GB HDD and other goodies. Big thanks to my friend over on Xeptor for giving me a good deal! The first thing I did was to install the newly released RTM of Windows Server…
Exchange 2003 to 2010 Migration
Well I had started to write a guide for this already, but just when I was to create this entry I came across a guide that’s already really good. So I’m just going to link to Pete Long’s blog where I found it: http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000234.htm Share on Facebook
Exchange 2010. Unable to access console or shell.
You may get this message when you open up Exchange Management Console (EMC) for Exchange 2010. “Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP server error status (500), but the remote service did not Include any other information about the cause of the failure. It was…
Backup VMs in a Hyper-V Cluster (Core-version)
As far as I know, after some googling I couldn’t find any program that could take backups of Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Core when the .VHD files were located on a Cluster Shared Storage. If you read my previous post you can probably understand you aren’t able to install any advanced programs in the…
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 with Failover Cluster
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is a free version much like Windows Server 2008 R2 Core, except it comes with the Hyper-V role preconfigured. The only thing you will have to take in consideration before installing such a server is that Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 only comes with a PowerShell/CMD-prompt. So to configure such…