Importing VMs from one host to another can run into issues due differences in the configuration of the hosts. A common issue is that a virtual switch does not exist on the new Hyper-V host. While it is possible to …
When building out a lab, you might need to attach the same ISO to multiple VMs. In this case I was installing multiple Exchange 2016 severs, and wanted to easily add the same ISO file to each of the VMs.…
TailspinToys Canada have been busy upgrading their on-premises, Azure and Office 365 infrastructure. Previously Azure resources were moved from classic (Azure Service Manager) to the new Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM). The VMs, storage accounts and VHDs were migrated. One …
Last week after showing a client some of new features in Windows 10, they went off and upgraded a laptop to the preview from Windows 8.1. Initially all seemed to go well. That is until they tried to start up …
After updating my Windows 8.1 machine to the Windows 10 preview, some of my VMs were no longer visible in the Hyper-V Manager. Prior to powering on some VMs, all of them were visible. After powering on, some VMs disappeared …
A virtual machine from Windows Server 2012 R2 cannot be directly imported into Windows Server 2012. This is discussed in this previous post along with the import error 32784 .
There will be times when we want to take a …
When importing a VM into Windows Server 2012 that was exported from Windows 2012 R2 you will be unable to import the VM. If you import the VM using PowerShell’s Import-VM cmdlet the error message is not very descriptive – …
When resolving issues with on-premises Exchange sometimes the issue may be directly within Exchange, other times the root cause may lie outside Exchange. Depending upon the exact nature of the case we may have to investigate network switches, load balancers …
Whilst working on a customer’s Exchange 2010 DAG issue, I wrote a quick script to quickly grab some performance monitor counters from all of their Exchange servers. The issue that we were investigating was related to discarded packets when the …
As part of my relaxing holiday, I spent a fair bit of time upgrading the hardware in my lab and installing Windows Server 2012 R2 onto all of my Hyper-V hosts. I then went through and pruned out some old …