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  • SBS 2008 backup under Hyper-V R2 gets dynamically swappable drives and what else is coming in Hyper-V 2008 R2

    I saw this and thought I would share it. Hyper-V R2, which is in beta already supports hot add/remove of drives, so native SBS 2008 Backup will work as youcan now dynamically add and remove those USB drives and they can be configured as pass-through disks so you will not have to create VHDs on them....
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Wed, Jan 21 2009
    Filed under: Virtualisation, beta, SBSC, Microsoft, Windows Server 2008, SBS 2008, Hyper-V
  • How to upgrade (migrate) from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 on the same system without using a swing migration

    Someone posted this question on a discussion group at work and it got me thinking. If you bought a nice new system over the last 2 or so years in preparation for SBS 2008 (Cougar as was or even SBS v.Next) and had it installed with SBS 2003 you've probably heard that SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 is a 2 box...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Sat, Jan 10 2009
    Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Virtualisation, Community, Personal, SBSC, Microsoft, SBS 2003 R2, Tips, Small business, If you only read one post today, Windows Essential Server Solution Family, SBS 2008, Hyper-V
  • How to size the hardware required for SBS 2008

    This question has been asked many times and was once again asked today on an internal forum.  It is hard to come up with an explicit answer, but I feel I can give you some (personal, non-binding, your mileage may vary, please take with a pinch of salt and don’t sue me) opinions.  For SBS 2003...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Fri, Dec 12 2008
    Filed under: SBSC, Microsoft, Tips, Windows Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solution Family, SBS 2008, Hyper-V
  • Virtualisation Adoption Survey - if you are using virtualisation (from anyone), tell Virtualisation.info

    A Quick note - there has been lots of comments recently on who's virtualisation has what share of the market. I've just installed Microsoft Hyper-V server up and running with 3 VMs inside it (HomeServer, SBS 2008 and Windows Server 2003) and I expect a couple of small desktops too before long...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Sat, Nov 15 2008
    Filed under: Virtualisation, Community, Windows Home Server, Microsoft, Marketing, x64, Windows Server 2008, SBS 2008, Hyper-V
  • SBS 2008 & EBS 2008 – Virtualisation Webcast

    You can access the webcast at https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?publisher=12&delivery=249912# As a quick recap, Microsoft see’s virtualisation as more than than just machine virtualisation.  In the Microsoft, virtualisation is split into: Presentation Virtualisation – What...
    Posted to David Overton's Blog by David Overton on Thu, Sep 11 2008
    Filed under: Virtualisation, Event, SBSC, Microsoft, Small business, Partner, Windows Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solution Family, SBS 2008, Hyper-V
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