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Did you hear the news? It’s all over town…
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StorageCraft snares Microsoft expert as technical services manager
"This is a major coup for us," StorageCraft Asia-Pacific vice-president Richard Giddey said. "Wayne brings with him a wealth of diverse knowledge and is a highly respected industry expert who will be instrumental in helping us to accelerate our expansion in the Asia-Pacific market."
Wayne will be presenting at our brain exploding all day training event in Las Vegas. He’s presenting Hyper-V Mythbusters: Don’t Try This…EVER! I have a feeling that along side the his disk and CPU performance studies that there might be a little bit about disaster recovery and back scenarios. You can register at www.thirdtier.net/store.
Third Tier is really proud of Wayne, we know just how lucky Storagecraft is to land him. He’s brings a lot more to the table than technical expertise.
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Third Tier offering Technical Training at SMBNation PreDay Event!
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been dying to announce this. I’m so excited! We’re doing a pre-day event at SMBNation in Vegas on October 21st. Make your flights accordingly. Very soon we will be posting a registration form. You must register in advance so keep an eye out for it.
Speakers are our own fabulous staff: Dave Shackelford, Cliff Galiher, Eriq Neale and Wayne Small
Our content has been selected by the guys to reflect the growing concern over compliance, business continuity, manageability and issues surrounding these that our customers are contacting us for help with. Case studies and examples will abound and they guys will show you how to configure the products they will be working with which including Exchange, Sharepoint, Terminal Services and Hyper-V. Expect the sessions to be intense with advanced material. Your brain will be exploding by the end of the day.
I’ll be posting more and more specifics about the content as the event gets closer. Let’s have a look at what Eriq is going to cover first:
Configuring and Using Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps – A Love Story
Many people have heard of Remote Desktop Services Remote Apps (formerly Terminal Server Remote Apps) but either haven’t had an opportunity to implement the solution or just are not sure how to. In this session, Eriq Neale will show how to configure RDS Remote Apps on a Remote Desktop Server and then go over several real-world deployment scenarios. We will also go over how to set up RDS Remote Apps to work with Remote Web Workplace on an SBS Server. Eriq will include case studies on when and why this technology is used.
Configuring RDS Remote Apps
Publishing an Application through RDS Remote Apps
Publishing an Application with multiple configuration options through RDS Remote Apps
Publishing an RDS Remote App through Remote Web Workplace
Please make your flights accordingly and plan to join us for a full day of intense training on October 21st.
Shout Out to Hewlett Packard, Symform and Storagecraft. Without awesome vendors that get the small business space and are willing to invest in partner education, this event would not be possible.
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Hyper-V Webinar Recording Posted
Posted by: | CommentsThe Third Thursday webinar that Wayne Small did on Hyper-V has finally been posted in the Third Tier Store for download. We apologize for the delay in getting this webinar posted as it has been one of the most asked-about sessions we have done.
Query Hyper-V Virtual machines using Windows PowerShell
Posted by: | CommentsI wrote a PowerShell command to query the current state of the VMs running on Hyper-V
Get-WMIObject -class "MSVM_ComputerSystem"-namespace "root\virtualization"-computername "."
This will actually display a bunch of information about the VMs running on Hyper-V but what we're really concerned about is the name of the VM and it's currently running state. These two properties are associated with the ElementName and EnabledState attributes of the MSVM_ComputerSystem class. All we need to do with the command above is to pipe the results to a Select-Object cmdlet, specifying only these two properties, as follows
Get-WMIObject -class "MSVM_ComputerSystem"-namespace "root\virtualization"-computername "." Select-Object ElementName, EnabledState
While the EnabledState property will give you a bunch of numbers, I'm only concerned with those values equal to 2, which means that the VM is running. But, then, you might not remember what the value 2 means. So might as well write an entire script that checks for the value of the EnabledState property. I've used the GWMI alias to call the Get-WMIObject cmdlet
$VMs = gwmi -class "MSVM_ComputerSystem"-namespace "root\virtualization"-computername "."
foreach ($VM IN $VMs)
{
switch ($VM.EnabledState)
{
2{$state="Running" }
3{$state="Stopped" }
32768{$state="Paused" }
32769{$state="Suspended" }
32770 {$state="Starting" }
32771{$state="Taking Snapshot" }
32773{$state="Saving" }
32774{$state="Stopping" }
}
write-host $VM.ElementName `,` $state
}
On a side note, make sure you are running as Administrator when working with this script as you will only see the VMs that your currently logged in profile has permission to access. Running as Administrator will show you all of the VMs configured on your Hyper-V server
Hyper-V 2008 R2 Partner Day Hosted by Microsoft – February 6th – Redmond
Posted by: | CommentsOn Saturday, February 6th, Microsoft & the Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group is holding its Hyper-V 2008 R2 Partner Day: Practical Knowledge for Successful Deployments at Microsoft’s Corporate Headquarters, register now, space is limited.
This is day of Live Builds; Instruction; Demonstration; and, Tips & Tricks on Hyper-V for fellow Microsoft partners who want to use Hyper-V within their practice. You will see deployment, optimization and management of Hyper-V, all with a focus for how to use Hyper-V within a Microsoft focused IT practice from a fellow practicing Microsoft partner. Watch & Learn as the Hyper-V Role is deployed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 and while Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is installed.
This is not a Hyper-V versus VMware day.
This is not a hands-on day.
This is not a test preparation day.
This is an “I can do ‘that’” day.
This is a Partners sharing with Partners day.
Schedule:
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9:00 AM |
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9:30 AM |
Registration |
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9:30 AM |
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11:30 AM |
Morning Session |
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11:30 AM |
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12:20 PM |
Lunch Break |
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12:20 PM |
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1:50 PM |
1st Afternoon Session |
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1:50 PM |
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2:10 PM |
Break |
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2:10 PM |
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3:30 PM |
2nd Afternoon Session |
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3:30 PM |
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4:00 PM |
Wrap Up |
Here is a list of the topics we will be covering:
Deploying Hyper-V Role via:
· Windows Server 2008 R2 (Full Installation) with Hyper-V ß Live Build
· Windows Server 2008 R2 (Core Installation) with Hyper-V
· Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 ß Live Build
Managing Virtual Machines:
· Hyper-V Manager ß Live Demonstration
o Virtual Network Manager
o New Virtual Machine Wizard
o New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard
· System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Practical Tips & Tricks:
· Virtualizing Windows Small Business Server 2008 ß Live Demonstration
· Virtualizing Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
· Performance Optimization ß Live Demonstration
· Backups
Overview of Advanced Topics:
· Power Shell Hyper-V
· Managing Virtual Machine Storage
· Quick Migration
· Live Migration, Failover Cluster & Cluster Shared Volumes
· System Center Essentials and how it integrates into the System Center Virtual Machine Manager
· Hyper-V and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
The primary person in front for this event is Tim Carney. Tim a MCP and Small Business Specialist is President of EBT Solutions / SFBay-Link Network Services, Inc. Since 2002, Tim has been providing technology consulting services to emerging San Francisco Bay Area businesses and assisting other IT Professionals in designing Secure Infrastructure. During the 15 years prior to establishing his consulting business, he was the CFO and CTO for a 45 person Copier Sales and Services Business in Silicon Valley. Tim was the technical force in changing its sales focus from Telex to Facsimile, Fax to Copiers, Analog to Digital, and Stand-Alone to Connected. Tim’s areas of expertise include Small Business Server, Secure Infrastructure, Virtualization and Mobility Enablement. Tim is an Eagle Scout and has a B.S. degree in Business Management. As a leader in the local community, Tim has co-founded BASBiTS.org a San Francisco Bay Area users’ group for Small Business Information Technology Specialists. Follow Tim on his blog at SBS-Mobility.blogspot.com and on Twitter as TechmoTim.
When: Saturday, February 6th
Registration starts at 9:00 am
Main Event is from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Wrap-Up Event by 4:00 pm
Where: Microsoft Corporate Headquarters
3350 157th Ave N.E., Building 9, Room 1001 – Tahoma
Redmond, WA 98052
You Give: $20 per person
You Get: Relevant & Useful Information
Food & Drinks provided
RSVP: Register for the event by clicking:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032439175&Culture=en-US
See you all there!
Steve
But my dilemma didn't stop there. I obviously don't want to access the internet via the Windows Server 2008 platform. That's what my Windows XP virtual machine is for. So what I did was to add an Internal virtual network using Hyper-V's Virtual Network Manager. This will create another network adapter on the host operating system - in this case, Windows Server 2008. I've renamed this WiFi-Guest-Bridge. Next, I've added a network adapter on the Hyper-V guest and mapped it to this virtual network. Once, I've done both of these, I've bridged the wireless network adapter and the WiFi-Guest-Bridge network adapter, thereby, providing wireless connectivity to my Hyper-V guest.
Keith Combs provided a step-by-step procedure (with screenshots) on how to configure wireless networking with Hyper-V guests in his blog
It is very important to name your network adapters accordingly as Windows does a real good job of using a generic naming convention (i.e. Local Area Network x) which adds confusion especially if you are dealing with a ton of virtual networks from within a single Hyper-V (or other virtualization) platform
