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Thus far we covered the steps necessary to capture a system image with Hyper-V installed, and how to install Windows and Hyper-V at the same time without dealing with system images at all. Let's take a step back and talk about system images again.  Images are a great way to deploy a customized version of Windows to

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Picture it:  Sicily, 1914.  You've got a bunch of Servers that you need to install and configure Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V RC0 on.  You don't feel like messing around with Sysprep.  What do you do? Well, since none of these things existed in 1914, you're probably pretty safe, but that doesn't really help anyone right now,

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There have been some changes to the WMI management interfaces in the release candidate of Hyper-V from the previous beta release.  While there have been no changes to the model, a number of the strings used in different places have been "cleaned up" to provide more "human friendly" values.  For instance, in this script I check

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Corporate users of Apple Inc.'s Leopard operating system are more than five times more likely to say that they are "very satisfied" with the OS than business users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista , a research firm said last week. In a February survey of 2,200 U.S. corporate computer users, 53% of

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Microsoft's aggressive strategy to build out its Software-as-a-Service capability to online storage—even as physical, hardware-based storage remains ubiquitous and competitive—some businesses may find it tempting to allow employees and workgroups to jump into Microsoft's SkyDrive for some limited purpose. SkyDrive, Microsoft's Office Live storage arm, is a free, Web-based service that is loosely integrated

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“Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft” is right on track to get an official video home courtesy of the Redmond company. Microsoft Videos Beta features the "coming soon" label but nothing else much. And in this context, the lack of content is most frustrating, because the Redmond giant manages  not to give out too many

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Microsoft has opened up access to its Windows for supercomputers over the Internet, permitting the usage of the operating system over the web. While Windows HPC Server 2008 is available as a free download, with the platform hitting the latest Community Technology Preview stage in early March, a high-performance computer is a different matter altogether.

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