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Windows 8 Tip of the Day: How to map a drive in Windows to a Skydrive folder or root.

1) Open a document in SkyDrive – such as an excel xls or word doc 2) File->Save As (Note folder – it will be something like https://d.docs.live.net/{your-id}/Documents 3) In Windows Explorer, click Map Network Drive and enter path Note: I use https://d.docs.live.net/{your –id} as I have other files at one level higher than Documents.  … Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day: How to map a drive in Windows to a Skydrive folder or root.

Windows 8 Tip of the Day, Storage Spaces Explained

From Robert Mitchell! Storage Spaces is functionality built into Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 that allows you to pool together physical disks into a logical grouping and then carve out virtual disks (aka storage spaces or just spaces).  These spaces can utilize different RAID levels and even thin provisioning. Today’s tip explains what happens… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day, Storage Spaces Explained

Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Sysinternals Updates!

Today’s Tip… From Robert Mitchell! A number of SysInternals tools were recently updated.  For those of you that use these tools on a regular basis, you might want to grab these updates and add them to your respective collections. AccessChk v5.11: AccessChk, a command line utility for dumping the effective permissions and security descriptors for… Continue reading Windows 8 Tip of the Day–Sysinternals Updates!

How to redirect Serial Ports in Windows Server 2012 RDS/VDI

This tip came to me from a question someone posed internally that we had to find an answer for by hunting someone down .   This property isn’t exposed in Server Managers’ UI, so you can set it by calling this powershell command:   Set-RDVirtualDesktopCollectionConfiguration –CollectionName <farm> –CustomRdpProperty “redirectcomports:i:1” Now the Remote Desktop Client will… Continue reading How to redirect Serial Ports in Windows Server 2012 RDS/VDI

Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part III

Modifying a Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx In the previous blog post we created a virtual machine named “Great Lyrics”.  We’re going to modify that virtual machine as the default settings are fairly low power and the Dude is all about performance.  So in your virtual machine management console,… Continue reading Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part III

Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part IV

Installing your Virtual Machine Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx So in the previous post we modified our virtual machine, now we’re going to start it up and run through the installation process.  So double-click that bad boy in the hyper-v manager and lets roll! As you can… Continue reading Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part IV

Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part II

Creating a Virtual Machine This is a multi-part series that starts here:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes/archive/2013/04/15/building-up-a-learning-lab-based-on-windows-8-and-hyper-v.aspx   So right click your virtual machine host in the Hyper-V Manager console and select “New/Virtual Machine”.  You should be rewarded with a screen like this:   So lets make a domain controller!  The dude is a fan of old school rap… Continue reading Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part II

Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part I

Hello folks, the Dude here, helping you make a learning lab based on a single machine.  From this all things are (pretty much) possible…lets get our learning on now! Enable Hyper-V in Windows 8: Pretty straight forward step here.  In the Windows 8 Start Menu type “features” and select settings on the right hand side. … Continue reading Building up a learning lab based on Windows 8 and Hyper-V, Part I

How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.

So at a customer location the following question was posed to me: “In our VDI environment, how do we capture trace information?  How can we set a capture for the network and xperf the user can start (or logon script the start) and then give them a link to click when a random non-reproducible problem… Continue reading How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.

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