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Publishing a network-isolated virtual machine with RemoteApp

By On April 21, 2010 · 2 Comments

To understand the development environment design choices that this article pertains to, it may be worth glancing at the design section of my SharePoint development series before diving in, if you haven’t already followed those posts. Cloning isolated VMs vs. scripted installation

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Building a SharePoint 2007/2010 development environment – Part V: Guest Build

By On November 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In the first four parts of this series I covered the project objectives and the system design, then turned my attention to the

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Building a SharePoint 2007/2010 development environment – Part IV: Automated deployment

By On November 16, 2009 · 2 Comments

In the first three parts of this series I covered the project objectives and the system design, then turned my attention to the

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Building a SharePoint 2007/2010 development environment – Part II: Design

By On November 5, 2009 · 5 Comments

In the first part of this series, I introduced the pros and cons of various SharePoint development approaches and the objectives of this system redesign. In this part I will focus on design choices and conclusions, starting with the core technology.

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More on routine loss of external network connectivity on Hyper-V hosts (not guests)

By On October 23, 2009 · 12 Comments

Further to my post from a few months ago on the this topic (dating back to the RC build), I’ve seen this same problem a few more times on the RTM build of Windows Server 2008 R2. My suggested approach still fixes the [...]

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Windows Deployment Services trumps Internet Connection Sharing

By On August 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Routine loss of connectivity on a Hyper-V host’s external connection

By On August 25, 2009 · 2 Comments

We’ve recently been piloting a laptop developer build on Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (Build 7100) with the Hyper-V role. One of the first receipients of this build complained of connectivity problems in Office Communicator once every minute or two. For as-yet undiagnosed reasons we have lengthy sign-in times for Communicator, so this loss of connectivity rendered it completely unusable. This same [...]

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