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Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

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Hyper V wont read .iso to install an OS on a VM.

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Cloud Class® Course: Microsoft Azure 2017

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A client of mine wants the Direct Access role to be installed within a Server 2016 Hyper-V virtual machine.

I have already found instructions for setting up Direct Access but these guides don't include any instructions on how to set up the Hyper-V networking to support installing Direct Access within a Server 2016 Hyper-V virtual machine.

Please provide me with the instructions for installing Direct Access including setting up the Hyper-V virtual machine networking that is necessary for installing Direct Access within a Hyper-V virtual machine.

Direct Access will be installed on a server that has 4 physical RJ network ports.

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We currently have SBS2011 and We want to move to Server 2016 as our DC with Exchange 2016.
We don't need any advice for setting-up Server 2016 as a DC or Exchange 2016 - however

Should we-

Setup and configure Server 2016 as a DC on physical hardware - install the Hyper-V element and setup a VM to run Exchange 2016 (within the DC environment)?
OR
Do we setup the host OS (Server 2016) on Physical hardware and install the Hyper-V element - THEN setup 2 VM's - one as the DC and the other as Exchange.

Which is the best configuration please.
Thank you
Paul

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I have a Hyper-V base server that has a total of 24 processors.

Is it possible to assign more than 24 total virtual processors among the Hyper-V virtual machines?

In other words, can the virtual machines share virtual processors?

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Hyper-V Storage Recommendation for small enterprise required.

I have a customer that is a 25 seat accounting practice. Currently they have a server that is 4 years old, dual Xeon CPUs, 72GB of RAM. Storage is a RAID 6 array of 8 15K 300GB SAS hard disks. There are 2 years remaining on the warranty. The server is a Windows 2012 Hyper-V host. There are 3VMs, a DC, a file server and a RemoteApp server. The server provides more than adequate compute resources but is running out of storage space. One of the file server volumes has already been moved to a Synology NAS connected via iSCSI. Even with that, storage on the server is becoming severely constrained. Storage requirements are only going to grow as the client is moving towards "paperless" operation.

I don't know much about storing VMs outside of the box that they are hosted on, but it seems attractive to move the virtual disks to some sort of network based storage. Easily scalable storage, and when the time comes the ability to replace the Hyper-V host hardware and simply migrate the VMs without disturbing the VHDs. For a smaller organization like this it seems (from my limited research) that a true SAN is not going to be financially viable. Is it feasible to use NAS boxes to store VMs or am I going to be better off just recommending replacing the entire server?

DR is handled by a 4TB Datto Siris, so building a multi node cluster really isn't necessary either IMHO. I know there are some small scale …

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SSRS Report Builder - Export to CSV issue; Double Quotes exist for each record.

We have a report that is scheduled to produce a CSV file.
This file is consumed by another application and requires specific formatting in order to successfully process the file.
The following entry has been configured within the 'rsreportserver.config' file:

<Extension Name="CSV (No Header)" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.DataRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataRendering">
                        <OverrideNames>
                              <Name Language="en-AU"> CSV No Header</Name>
                        </OverrideNames>
                        <Configuration>
                              <DeviceInfo>
                                    <NoHeader>true</NoHeader>
                                    <Extension>CSV</Extension>
                                    <Encoding>UTF-8</Encoding>
                                    <Qualifier></Qualifier>
                              </DeviceInfo>
                        </Configuration>
                  </Extension>

The file that is being generated from this contains double quotes at the start and end of each record (see below).
"""FORMAT BATCH IMPORT, STANDARD 1.0"""
"DREF1,DDATE1,DSOURCE,DCLRENTITY,DENTITYPE,LLDGCODE,LACCNBR,LAMOUNT1,LNARR1,LNARR2,LNARR3,LPRESCSTAT,LGSTTYPE,LGSTRATECODE,BIMPNAME,BCLRENTITY"
"180603,06/06/2018,AB,123,A,AB,123456789,-1234.56,Team Journal,21/05/2018 to 03/06/2018,12345,N,I,NA,TEAMJNL,123"

The output we need is shown below:
"""FORMAT BATCH IMPORT, STANDARD 1.0"""
DREF1,DDATE1,DSOURCE,DCLRENTITY,DENTITYPE,LLDGCODE,LACCNBR,LAMOUNT1,LNARR1,LNARR2,LNARR3,LPRESCSTAT,LGSTTYPE,LGSTRATECODE,BIMPNAME,BCLRENTITY
…

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CaptainGiblets

2018-06-06

Networking in Virtual Machine Manager

Hi, I am looking to use Virtual Machine Manager in my domain.

I am setting up logical switches etc, and currently I have it set up as follows.

3x Logical Switches - Client, Storage and Management.

The management Logical switch has 2 uplinks, one for cluster comms and the other for host management. The storage has 1 uplink for storage and the Client has no uplink, as I map clients to it.

Now, each of my servers have 6 network connections, 2x 10GB and 4x 1GB. Currently I create the storage virtual switch with the 2 x 10GB adapters. I use port 1+3 from the 1GB for Management and port 2+4 for the client.

This setup works well. I have created a cluster in VMM and it all seems to work without issue.

However..... I have been thinking that I am wasting bandwidth on my 4x 1GB ports, as host management / client communications use hardly any badwidth but I have 4GB assigned to them.

I tried adding the Client uplink to my Management Switch, but then this also creates the connection on the local host which takes up an address in the address pool etc.

Is it possible for me to share the connection across all 4 1GB connections and have the setup how I want?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Hello,
We have a Hyper-V cluster consisting of 3 hosts sharing 5 VMs. The disks are part of an iSCSI storage. One of our servers "server1" has its drive D on:
C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\HyperV\server1\Virtual Hard Disks\server1\DATA_5F06292E-D0FD-4D21-AD25-DFF18040CFD7.avhdx
We traced Volume1 to Cluster Disk 2 which has 6.8TB with 1.5TB free.

Is expanding server1 drive D volume the same as if this HyperV host was a stand alone?

Should I follow these steps here or are there any special consideration for a Hyper-V cluster?

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2016/01/04/expand-vm-storage-capacity.aspx

Also, I noticed some VMs have a lot of checkpoints, which are only visible from Hyper-V manager. Can I safely remove those? I am assuming they are tight up to our backup software Altaro which is not used anymore.

Many thanks for your help.

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I have a dc and i have used VMware converter standalone to get my secondary dc and mail server online in vmware workstation. I am able to ping mail server and secondary dc.

Problem: When I create a vm for my primary DC i get the following error when it is booted in vmware workstation 0xc00002e2

What can i do to fix this.

I have tried using other tools like disk2vhd as well and ls it works fine in hyperv without any errors. If i install hyperv on the same machine i get errors when vm's load up in vmware

I have also used shadow protect to backup but it was unable to boot on vmware and gave the same error 0xc00002e2

I have also tried the following
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28916219/DC-Failed-to-Start.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28162321/Server-2012-A-D-stopped-working.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28531779/Upgrade-Server-2008-R2-Domain-Controller-to-2012R2-Failed-Locked-Out-and-Stuck.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29100721/When-I-create-a-vm-for-my-primary-DC-i-get-the-following-error-when-it-is-booted-in-vmware-workstation-0xc00002e2.html

exact error
Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and the we'll restart for you. (%% complete)
If you'd like to know more, you can search online later for this error 0xc00002e2

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We are having an issue with Offline Folders disconnecting when saving from Office 365 2016 products. I'll use Word 2016 as the example. Word is version 1708 Build 8431.2250, Windows 10 pro is the OS, Version 1709 build 16299.431 Server is 2008r2 all updates. This seems to have started with April's Office updates.
Steps to reproduce: Open an explorer window to a location set to "always available offline", then open an existing word doc or create a new word doc an save it to the same Offline Folder synced with Sync Center that you opened in explorer, you should see the status go to offline. I've been able to reproduce this at will on multiple computers. The folder will automatically go back online in a few minutes.
I am able to drag and drop to the offline folder with no issues, and I am able to save from Adobe Acrobat Pro and Bluebeam among others with no issue. I only have a problem with Microsoft Office products.
Any help is appreciated.

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Cloud Class® Course: Microsoft Exchange Server

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According to Microsoft's documentation, here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/orchestrator/get-network-adapter?view=sc-orch-2016 I should have a filter called "VM ID", however I am missing this and several others (see screenshot)...

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So the more I read about this the more frustrating I find it. It seems the more simply people try to explain it the more convoluted the explanations get.

Here is a simple example of a scenario.

Server 2016 Xeon 2 CPU's 8 Cores each
So this is 16 logical processors

I have 4 Hyper V VM's
2 x DC these need a small amount of CPU but it cannot be allowed to fall below a certain threshold say 20% as it serves DNC / DHCP etc
1 x File server
1 x RDS with 5-10 users max

64GB RAM

The server should be fine for the small amount of users and throughput, it is some basic files and there are no heavy apps in RDS.

All the servers should be able to take however much free resources they want.

How many VP should I assign per server.

My reading leads my to believe give them all 2 VP's and set max / min limits to protect other servers and HV will share out free CPU time efficiently. My experience is that this makes them sluggish and the thresholds do not allow for high overall system resource. I would expect RDS to need the majority most of the time but if I am running WSUS ora backup process overnight when RDS is not being used it should give up its resources.

Any help appreciated, also how do I know HV is using all LP's not queuing time for the same ones from different servers.

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Question by

lipotech

2018-04-05Solved

VM windows cluster persistent reservation

Hello i need help to figure out whats is going on with this please help.. i am building 2 VMs from hyper-v (Azure) as windows cluster when i go validate the cluster it brings the D drive offline on both the nodes and i see the error in the report as ( failed while verifying removal of any persistent reservation ) but i can manually bring the D drive online in computer managment, i tried to run the commands i seen online which is Clear-ClusterDiskReservation -Disk but when i do that it would say failed to clear persistent reservation from disk . even i deleted both VMs and recreated new ones from Hyper-v (Azure) but it is still doing the same thing. i have also tried Diskpart to clear attributes in disk but none of this is working :/

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Question by

kastro Abbasi

2018-03-29SolvedPrivate

Xenapp for dmz

I have an application server in dmz and database in nside zone.now i want to use xenapp to publish this application to my out side users.what should be the xenapp component design best practice and is ssl certificate is mandatory.please explain the design and

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Hello,

I have a testlab environment that has

A local DC (Server 2016) with ADSync to AzureAD
E3 trial subscription
Some Windows 10 Client machines on same LAN as local AD

When a user logs on the client machine, you need to enter username+password for desktop installed apps, such as onedrive and skype.
I dream about SSO and wonder if it can be used to make these desktop apps signin automatically
I'm looking for a way the user would only need to type the username+password for logon to the computer/domain, not to keep having to re-type it for each desktop installed application.

How can I get SSO working with Microsoft Desktop installed apps ?

--Paul

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Question by

Noor Khan

2018-03-23

Merge avhdx file with VHDx

REMOVE VHD Drive than attached back VHD drive now VHD drive data is missing how can we recover

Microsoft Virtual Server

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Question by

alanlam123

2018-03-23Solved

Unable to do RDP

Hi

Unable to do RDP on windows 2012 R2

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Question by

discoveranother

2018-03-22

Slow HyperV Performance

Hi all,

Connecting to 2 VMs on a Windows non-GUI hyperv host. Connections seem really slow and logging onto the DC VM and the applications VM is slow also.

Server Details
OS Name Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
VM Count 0
CPU Cores 4 Core(s)
CPU Utilization 20 %
Guest NaN %
Hyperv NaN %
Total Storage 126.66 GB
Free Storage 97.3 GB
Reads 0 B/s
Writes 0 B/s
Total Memory 2.47 GB
Free Memory 177.61 MB
Memory Utilization 92.98 %
Network 1 interface(s)
Tramission(Tx) 0 b/s
Reception(Rx) 0 b/s

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Free memory usage looks very low. Within hyperv manager, the DC VM has 2048MB assigned to it, the applications VM has 4096MB assigned to it. Accessing both is very slow and remote logins are slow, i'm trying to access whether this is a hyperv issue or a network issue.

Any guidance much appreciated,

Thanks.

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Question by

jaya31

2018-03-15Solved

Attaching vhd file to Server 2016 Hyper-V VM

Hi All,

Used disk2vhd to convert an 2003 server. The conversion went well, i choose vhd as an option. Now I'm trying to attache the hard drive to a Hyper-v Server 2016 and getting the error below. I moved the vhd file to suggested location, checked permission but nothing. Have a feeling it has to do with a compatability issue with server 2016 and vhd files. Any help appreciated.

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HyperV VM Refuses to Power up Following a Power Loss in HyperV Cluter.

I am getting event IDs 21502, 1069.1205, and 1254. Looks like some config file got corrupted, can I just remove the config file? Tried rebooting one of the hosts in the cluster but that didnt do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I have a new server that has been modified to be a VM server using Hyper-V. I have six 600GB HDD to use and the system/OS drive is 300GB. I've installed Hpyer-V and created 4 virtual machines and installed the OS Win2012 server on all four. I want to begin to create hard drives for each virtual machine and my question is do I first RAID all six HDD's or do I not RIAD them first? Currently four of the six HDD are set at RAID 5 and I was think all six should be set with RAID 10.
My first time with Hyper-V and virtualization.

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Question by

chalie001

2018-01-23Solved

error when starting hyper VM

Hi am in window 7 having this error when starting vm in hyper

but i do have the file

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Question by

Rick Cowperthwaite

2018-01-12Solved

Hyper-V Domain Setup

I am using two host computers running Server 16 to setup 4 VM servers for a new domain. Host1 will have VM1 as the domain controller and VM2 as the Exchange Server. Host 2 will have VM3 as the secondary domain controller and VM4 as the file and application server.
Do the host machines need to join the network after the domain controller is up and running? what is the best practice?
Thanks,
Rick Cowperthwaite
Rick's Energy Solutions

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Question by

ADJ World

2017-12-17SolvedPrivate

Access to Azure 'isolated' VHD

I have one Azure VM which exist in a different region to our other Azure VM's and is not connected to our vnet.

I have to get data off the data disk.

Can I mount the data disk VHD blob directly in a Windows 10 PC? Can I mount the blob across regions to an existing VM?

How s can I get the data across to our main vnet?

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Question by

Declaro

2017-12-14Solved

RDP Print Job Reprinting in Next RDP Session

Hello,

I have an issue with RDP Remote printing…

One user was away from the office and with his laptop, used a remote desktop connection to his office computer. While logged in he printed a document from the RDP session to the remote office printer. Everything printed OK.

He has to go to a client’s office. While there he logs onto one of their local machines using remote desktop. As soon as he logged on the document he previously printed through RDP at his own office comes off the client’s printer.

Does anyone know why this is happening and more importantly, how to stop it! Any clues where to look will be appreciated.

Thanks for looking at this.

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