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Create a NIC Team Inside of a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Aidan Finn explains when you might need to create a NIC team inside of a virtual machine.

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AutoQoS Configuration

Sean Wilkins covers AutoQoS VoIP and AutoQoS for the Enterprise, which allow for automatic quality of service (QoS) configuration on your network. While AutoQoS VoIP requires very little configuration in order to implement, AutoQoS for the Enterprise is split into two separate configuration phases: a discovery phase, and a generation & installation phase.

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Designing a Non-Clustered Hyper-V Host

New to Hyper-V? Discover the basics behind designing a standalone Hyper-V host, including disk and RAM requirements.

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Implement and Enforce QoS with Data Center Bridging Hardware (DCB)

Discover what Data Center Bridging (DCB) can do to help you implement Quality of Service (Qos) rules.

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Reviewing My Hyper-V Predictions For 2014

In this retrospective, Aidan Finn reviews and grades his Hyper-V predictions for 2014. Find out which predictions turned out to be true this year.

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OSPF Redistribution Troubleshooting

In today’s post, Sean Wilkins discusses OSPF redistribution and briefly covers some issues that one must keep in mind when configuring redistribution within OSPF. With these things in mind, you can go a long way towards ensuring that your network will continue to run smoothly and correctly when utilizing OSPF redistribution.

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Windows Server Containers Networking

Understand how Windows Server Containers will be connected to the network via a virtual switch, using NAT and DHCP.

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How Would Microsoft Design a Scale-Out File Server: Disks, Networking, and More

Discover how disks, networks, servers, and Storage Bricks play a part in designing a SOFS in part 2 of this series.

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Deploying Printers Using Group Policy – Networking Printers & Windows 2008 Server Part 2

In this second part of Tom Finnis’ article on deploying printers on your network he explains how to assign your printers to specific users and computers using Group Policy and the Active Directory. He also covers in depth how to avoid the most common problem encountered, the lack of built-in support for GPO printer deployment in Windows XP

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V!

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

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