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This Easter weekend, having a bit of downtime, I decided to convert my virtual infrastructure at home from VMWare Server to Hyper-V. The major blocking issue was a lack of RAID controller drivers from 3Ware for their 9650SE-series cards, but thanks to Justin Ho it seemed like I was good to go. The timely release of Hyper-V RC0 meant that I could ...

Here's a useful little module I didn't know even existed, but it appears to have been added to the Microsoft download site in the past couple of days. It allows for bit rate throttling of common, supported, media files when served by IIS 7.0. IIS first sends the first twenty or so seconds of data at the fastest possible rate, and then ...

Today Microsoft released to the Microsoft download site WebDAV modules for Windows Server 2008 / IIS 7.0 in both x86 and x64 versions. These are also available from the www.iis.net website. Robert McMurray has written a page explaining how to configure the new WebDAV module.

Well, the book is finally a reality. I received my copies today - yay! You can buy a copy from Amazon.com or your favourite bookstore now.

Windows Server 2003 SP1 introduces kernel mode SSL. Windows Server 2008 takes this one step further and introduces kernel mode authentication. This can be utilised by IIS 7.0 applications to improve performance. It also has implications for Kerberos authentication and management of SPNs.Consider the following scenario: Ensuring Kerberos AuthN for ...

In previous versions of IIS, it has sometimes been difficult to isolate web application pools from each other. If multiple web application pools are configured to run as the same identity (e.g. Network Service) then code running inside one web application pool would be able to use File System objects to access configuration files, web pages and ...

Well, I'm writing a blog post on IIS application sandboxing, and this item crosses my inbox. It appears that all the time spent mucking about with Windows Home Server, and Windows Media Centre might now actually result in MCTS certification. So, I can justify the endless hours spent mucking with drivers and backups as a work-related endeavour! ...

I see that Ben Armstrong has posted instructions on how to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to give your Hyper-V virtual machines access to networks via a wireless adapter. However ICS does not appear to work if the network that your wireless adapter is connected to uses the 192.168.0/24 subnet (as this is used on the internal ...

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V stores a list of virtual machines in %systemroot%\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\virtualisation\Virtual Machines. In that folder are a set of symbolic links, that are linked to the actual config files for each virtual machine. To move a virtual machine:Shut down or suspend the virtual machineDelete the symbolic link in ...

Meta: IIS and Kerberos Part 6 is coming (for anyone interested in IIS still reading this blog) The Windows Server 2008 backup feature no longer supports direct backup to disk (you'll need third party backup software to do that). You can backup to disk though - either to a SAN (or network share). Or to disk based backup media like the Dell ...