Archive for ‘IT Management’

August 26th, 2009

Windows Deployment Services trumps Internet Connection Sharing

by Tristan Watkins

I imagine the responses to this post’s title will fall in to one of three categories:

  • What’s Windows Deployment Services?
  • What’s Internet Connection Sharing?
  • Why on earth would you use both in one machine?

To answer the last question I need to unveil a bit about the network approach that we’ve adopted for the Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 laptop build that I mentioned in my last post. read more »

August 24th, 2009

Hyper-V Manager over VPN may fail if the server is VMM-managed

by Tristan Watkins

About a year ago John Howard published guidance on how to get Hyper-V Manager to connect to Hyper-V servers over VPN. His network monitoring and suggestion to change the VPN connection IP settings so that the VPN adapter registers the machine’s new address in DHCP/DNS went a long way towards fixing the issue  for me – however, we recently uncovered a couple of caveats as detailed in the comments on his original post. read more »