With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...

Today, September 1, is the day that Microsoft is announcing that Windows Server 2022 is generally available. And yes, Windows Server 2022 actually began rolling out a couple of weeks ago in spite of ...

It turns out that Hyper-V has had a versioning for virtual machine (VM) configuration files, with the original release in Windows Server 2008 being version 1, all the way up to Windows Server 2012 R2 ...

Microsoft says Windows Server updates released during December's Patch Tuesday will trigger errors when creating new virtual machines on some Hyper-V hosts. The known issue affects only Windows Server ...

I was doing some quick recovery work and spun up a VM on a Windows 10 box, connected it to the domain, transferred FMSO roles, etc. Got the Hyper-V 2016 (stand alone) spun up. I can't for the life of ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

The recent release of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 TP5 offers a closer look at the likely capabilities and features coming to the final release of the server OS, which, among many new features, ...