Fixing A Broken Hyper-V VHD Chain
A few weeks ago I mounted a Hyper-V VHD on my Windows 8 laptop so I could browse it in Windows Explorer (see below). After I was done browsing the files in the…
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Automating Windows 7 Boot Entry Creation With PowerShell
Recently I needed to create an automated process to make boot entries for developer lab machines to allow them to boot to a virtual hard disk (VHD). The main…
Read More →Cleaning Up Orphaned Network Adapters After Migrating MS VPC 2007 / MS VS 2005 VPCs to Hyper-V
Sometimes you are unable to remove the Virtual Machine Additions and network adapters from a VPC made with the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 / Microsoft Virtual…
Read More →Hyper-V SharePoint Development Image: USB 2.0 vs. eSATA vs. C: shootout
During my preparations for the the MSDN Webcast I'm presenting tomorrow I realized the eSATA drive I purchased was not performing as fast as I thought it…
Read More →MOSS 2007 B2TR Virtual Development Environments. To MS or VM: That is the question
To MS, or VM: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to shell out the cash for extra memory and an external hard disk, Or to take your desktop…
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