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Instead of configuring a virtual machine as a DHCP server, you can use the virtual DHCP server for your virtual network. To configure the virtual DHCP server: 1. Open the  Virtual Server Administration Website . 2. Under  Virtual Networks , select Configure  and then click the virtual network. 3. In  Virtual Network Properties , click  DHCP server . 4. Check the  Enabled  checkbox, then configure the necessary DHCP server options. 5. Click OK.

I always wonder how many throughput does a Virtual Machine consume when running in Hyper-V Host. Not always we dedicate a NIC for a Virtual Machine. For better consolidation, we always share several Virtual machine within a 1 Gbps NIC. Let say, you have 4 Virtual Machines running and share on 1 Gbps NIC. Will each Virtual Machine consume and limited to 250 Mbps? Well not really. Some VM will consume more throughput than 250 Mbps and will eventually impact the performance for the rest of the VM. This is what i found out when testing Hyper-V Vnext which seem like solving this case. On Virtual Network, you can configure to set minimum and maximum throughput per Mbps on each virtual machine. Great right…I’m excited to wait this feature available on next release of Hyper-V.

Here are the pre-requisites for a HA VMM server installation: 1. Failover clustering feature added, cluster created and configured (Windows Server 2008 R2 is the minimum OS version supported as node servers) 2. Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 installed on all nodes that will be used as VMM servers  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34&displaylang=en 3. Server and instance name of a SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster or remote SQL server (best practice to use clustered SQL Server with HA VMM servers) 4. For our DKM (Distributed Key Management) requirement, either logged on, installing VMM with an account that has “edit” permission on the Active Directory container (can be a lower level container doesn’t have to be the root) or DKM group pre-created on Active Directory and its name available to provide at setup (more on DKM requirement later) HA VMM Installation Steps When we were designin

Article  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb808814(TechNet.10).aspx  describes how to install DPM on to a 2008 Server. However I have found that this article is incomplete. The following is how to install DPM onto a 2008 Server. After the 2008 Server setup has finished perform the following: 1. Click Start, point to  Administrative Tools , and then click  Server Manager . 2. Expand Server Manager to the  Features  node, and then select  Features . 3. In the  Features  pane, click  Add Features. 4. Select  Windows PowerShell , and then click  Next . 5. On the  Confirm Installation Selections  page, click  Install . 6. Click Start, point to  Administrative Tools , and then click  Server Manager . 7. Expand Server Manager to the  Roles  node, and then select  Roles . 8. In the  Roles  pane, click  Add Roles . 9.  In the  Add Roles Wizard , on the  Before You Begin  page, click  Next . 10. On the  Select Server Roles  page, select  Web Service (IIS) . 11. In the  Add features re

Below is the figure of the infrastructure setup:- By using Hyper V R2 and SCVMM 2008 R2, I have created the following Virtual machine In this setup, I'm going to use Windows 7. You can setup client VM running on ○ Windows 7 Business, Enterprise or Ultimate, ○ Windows Vista with SP1 - Business, Enterprise or Ultimate, ○ Windows XP Professional with SP 3 I have tested on these above operating system and it work like a charm. If you would like to know more about the different between Personal and Virtual Desktop Pool,  To make it more interesting, VDI01-Win7.ms4u.info is set to Personal Virtual Desktop and assigned to VDIUser1 which only use Office2007 whereby the Virtual Desktop Pool will use Office 2010 (Beta). The Client VM name on the Hyper V host should be FQDN and identical as the computer name in the VM. Example: VDI01-Win7 is the computer name VDI01-Win7.ms4u.info is the FQDN For easy and faster deployment of the VM, I using VMM feature called &

Task 1: Install Remote Desktop Virtualization Host role On the RDSVH, install Hyper V roles and Remote Desktop Virtualization Host. You need to install RD Virtualization Host role for each Hyper V server that's hosting Personal or Virtual Desktop Pool 1. Log on to RDSVH with administrative right. 2. Open Administrative Tools. Click Start > Administrative tools > Server Manager 3. Right click Roles and select Add Roles 4. On the Before You Begin page, Click Next 5. On the Select Server Roles page, select Hyper V roles and Remote Desktop Service and then click Next 6. On the Remote Desktop Service page, click Next 7. On the Select Role Services page, select Remote Desktop Virtualization Host and click Next 8. On the Confirm Installation selection page, Click Install 9. Restart the system when asked. Task 2: Install Remote Desktop Session Host (Redirector) role 1. Right click RDSRedirect VM and select Connect 2. Log on with administrative right 3. Open Adminis

After the virtual machines are installed and configured for the ms4u.info domain, you must configure them to work with Remote Desktop Services. The following steps must be configured on each virtual machine: • Enable Remote Desktop. • Add the user accounts that will be using this virtual machine to the local Remote Desktop Users security group. • Allow Remote RPC. • Create a firewall exception to allow Remote Services Management. • Add permissions to the RDP protocol. Task 1: Enable Remote Desktop and Add VDIGroup to the local Remote Desktop Users group 1. Log on to VDI01-Win7 with administrative rights. 2. Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties. 3. Click Remote settings. 4. Under Remote Desktop, click Allow connections only from computers using Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure), and then click Apply 5. Click on select Users button 6. On the Remote Desktop Users, click Add 7. Enter VDIGroup and click Check name 8. Clic

Task 1: Enable Remote Desktop and Add VDIGroup to the local Remote Desktop Users group 1. Log on to RDSRedirect VM with administrative rights. 2. Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties. 3. Click Remote settings. 4. Under Remote Desktop, click Allow connections only from computers using Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure), and then click Apply 5. Click on select Users button 6. On the Remote Desktop Users, click Add 7. Enter VDIGroup and click Check name 8. Click OK button to close the Remote Desktop Users 9. Click OK button to close the System Properties Task 2: Add RDSBroker to the TS Web Access Computer group 1. Log on to RDSRedirect VM with administrative rights. 2. Open Computer Management. Click on Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. 3. Expand Local Users and Group and Groups 4. Double click TS Web Access Computer and Click Add button 5. Click on Object Types and Tick Computers and click OK

Task 1: Add RDSAccess to the TS Web Access computer group 1. Log on to RDSBroker VM with administrative rights. 2. Open Computer Management. Click on Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. 3. Expand Local Users and Group and Groups 4. Double click TS Web Access Computer and click Add button 5. Click on Object Types and Tick computers and click OK 6. Enter RDSAccess and Click Check name 7. Click OK 8. Click OK to close the TS Web Access computer properties. Task 2:- Add RD virtualization Host , RD Session Host for redirection and RD Gateway 1. Log on to RDSBroker VM with administrative rights. 2. Open Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration snap in. Click Start > Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services > Remote desktop Connection Manager. 3. In the middle pane under Virtual desktops Resource and configuration, locate RD Virtualization Host servers and click Add 4.Enter RDSVH.ms4u.info and click Add. 5. In the middle pane

To deploy personal virtual desktop or most of the time we called as "static virtual desktop deployment", you need to has a) Active Directory Schema upgraded to Windows Server 2008. b) Client virtual machine running Windows XP or Windows 7 need to use FQDN in Hyper V Manager snap-in. Static Virtual Desktop is a 1 to 1 mapping. If you have 100 users, then you need to create 100 Virtual machine. User will access to their own unique virtual machine and have greater control. Besides that, changes on the Virtual machine will maintain in the Virtual Machine. This concept is similar as their own desktop environment. Task 1: Personal Virtual Desktop Configuration. 1. Click on Configure virtual desktops on the top right of the Action pane. 2. Review before you begin page and click Next 3. Verify RDSVH is listed on Specify an RD Virtualization Host Server and click next. For my case, my RDSVH computer name is "LAINB.ms4u.info) 4.Verify RDSRedirect is listed on