Author: devonenote
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SCVMM 2012 RTM Available for download
SCVMM 2012 RTM is available for download for MSDN subscribers. You can start download it here. The SCVMM 2012 RTM version is 3.0.6005.0. Microsoft has published the SCVMM 2012 RTM help document and cmdlets help. If you upgrade to RTM from RC, you can enter the product key in Admin Console UI About dialog Enter…
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Windows 8 How to stop app tile from changing
Tiles are introduced by Microsoft to Windows Phone. Tiles allow user receive latest update on start menu, without the need to open the application. For example, a weather app could show you the latest forecast. Tile is widely used in Windows 8 metro UI applications. For some metro application you don’t want notification show up…
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Windows 8 Getting Start Experience
After the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I was very excited to give it a try on my hyper-v VM. There is a lot of difference between Windows 7 and 8, especially Windows 8 has optimized a lot for tablet users. Lock screen Windows 8 lock screen provides quick view of latest data, time,…
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How to Reboot or Shutdown in Windows 8
It’s pretty hard to figure out how to reboot or shutdown Windows 8 only use mouse/keyboard. After a few hours search in Google, here comes all options I found. All of them work but involved too many steps. It sucks there is no one click shutdown shortcut. Hover the mouse over the lower right…
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How to tell if your CPU Supports SLAT
SLAT-enabled processor is the requirement of Hyper-V RemoteFX feature which is introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2. It’s the requirement of Windows 8 client Hpyer-V feature as well. For INTEL CPU models, following CPU models are SLAT-Capable Server: E5500 or higher. Desktop/Laptops: I3/I5/I7/I7-qm There is a handy tool named CoreInfo from systeminternals that can check…
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Hyper-v Tip: Use windows key without fullscreen
When connect to a remote VM with hyper-v manager, I have to full screen to make Windows key. Personally I think Hyper-V should have a Windows key button in toolbar like "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" button. Actually Hyper-v manager allows you to select where the Windows keys goes when you press it. Open up the Hyper-V Settings dialog…
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Using Hyper-V in Windows 8
In Steven Sinofsky’s this blog – Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”. He talks about that Windows 8 will support virtualization on the “client” OS. This is very helpful for developers as they typically have the need to setup additional test environment on their PC/Laptop. Hardware Requirements Hyper-V supports creation of both 32-bit and 64-bit operating…
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TFS How to change the computer name or owner for a workspace
The owner and computer name of the workspace are not editable in Visual Studio 2010. However, you might need it when you renamed your machine or your account is renamed. To do this, open a Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010) from program files, and cd to your workspace, then run following Change the computer name…
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Using SCVMM 2012 Cmdlets in PowerShell
SCVMM Cmdlets allow SCVMM admin/users to do everything they can do in SCVMM AdminConsole in windows PowerShell command line. In SCVMM 2008 R2, you can run following command in PowerShell to run SCVMM cmdlets. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager But this does not work in SCVMM 2012 as SCVMM 2012 uses PowerShell module. For SCVMM 2012 now you…
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Highlight the file you work with in Visual Studio Solution Explorer
Visual Studio 2010 Tip – Highlight the file you work with in Solution Explorer Go to Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->General Check the "Track Active Item In Solution Explorer" checkbox.