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  • Difference between Windows Client Hyper-V and Server Hyper-V

    Windows 8 supports virtualization on the client OS to allow IT professionals and developers to use Hyper-V as a desktop operating system. If you are an IT Professional or developer that uses Windows Server as development operating environments, you should be excited about new client Hyper-V feature in Windows 8 and wonder what are some of the key differences and similarities between Windows 8 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V?

    Here are the some of the key differences in Windows 8 Client Hyper-V from Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V:

    • No Hyper-V Replica
    • No Hyper-V Network Virtualization
    • No Virtual Machine Live Migration (Requires Failover Clustering only in Windows Server)
    • No Shared Nothing Live Migration
    • No SR-IOV (You need server class hardware; appropriate firmware, etc; you won’t find this on desktops)
    • No Failover Clustering (Client doesn’t include Failover Clustering)
    • No Virtual Fiber Channel
    • No RemoteFX GPU Hardware Acceleration ( which requires RDV only in Windows Server)
    • Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) HW required

    And the commonalities between Windows 8 Hyper-V & Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

    • Virtual Machines created with Client Hyper-V are 100% compatible with Server Hyper-V
    • Client Hyper-V offers the same VM scale as Server
      • Up to 64 virtual processes per VM
      • Up to 64TB per virtual disk ( vhdx format )
      • Up to 1 TB of memory per VM.
    • Live Storage Migration is included
    • Support VHD Storage on SMB3 file shares
    • 100% PowerShell/WMI compatibility in management from Client to Server.
    • Client Hyper-V offers the full rich, open and extensible Hyper-V virtual switch.
    • QoS, bandwidth management and other advanced virtual switch capabilities are in there

  • Install Hyper-V Manager on Windows 10

    To remotely manage your Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V server from a windows 7 desktop, you need install RSAT (Remote Server Administrator Tool). This has been simplified in Windows 10. In Windows 10, Hyper-V management tool is built in, Hyper-V manager can be turned on via “Turn Windows features on or off” dialog directly without downloading RSAT.

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    However, Hyper-V manager in Windows 10 can’t manage can’t manage Hyper-V running on downlevel operation systems. If you connect using Hyper-V manager it would fail with following error:

    This version of Hyper-V Manager cannot be used to manage server running Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2

    The only workaround so far is remote into a Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and run Hyper-V manager there.

  • Solution for Unresponsive Win8 Guest VMs

    If you’re going to run Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, please install this hotfix patch http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2744129 on the Hyper-V host server,

    Without applying this hotfix, you may experience one or more of the following issues:

    • The Windows 8/Server 2012 virtual machine becomes unresponsive.
    • The Windows Server 2008 R2 host server displays a stop error message and restarts automatically.

    Update: the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2744129.has been added to Windows Auto Update.

  • 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 in the start menu, you can right click to app, click (or touch) Turn live tile off.

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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, unread emails.
    • Windows 8 supports picture password.

    Start Menu

    • Win 7 classical start menu is removed
    • New start menu for Metro UI Applications

    Desktop mode

    • Clock desktop tile from start menu to enter classical desktop mode.
    • The desktop user experience is same as Win 7.

    Charm Button

    • Allow you access Search, Share, Start, Devices, Settings shortcuts quickly .
    • Shortcut: Win Key + C image

    Reboot or Shutdown

    How to Reboot or Shutdown in Windows 8

    Work with application

    • Win Key + tab to switch between applications
    • To close metro UI app, click and hold at the top of screen and pull down to the bottom of screen.

    Search

    • Type from start menu to launch search

  • 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 corner ( or WinKey + C),  in the right menu, Settings –> Power –> Sleep/Shutdown/Restart.
    • In desktop mode, press Alt + F4.
    • In user switch screen, highlight username, sign out and then shutdown.
    • Running shutdown in cmd.
      • Shutdown: shutdown /s
      • Restart: shutdown /r

    Feel free to comment if you found other options

  • 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 systems in VMs. To run Client Hyper-V, your computer must:

    • Be running a 64-bit version of Windows 8.
    • Have a CPU that supports Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), To determine if your CPU supports SLAT, go to How to tell if your CPU Supports SLAT

    Enabling Client Hyper-V

    1. In the Windows 8 Control Panel, tap or click Programs, and then tap or click Programs and Features.
    2. Tap or click Turn Windows features on or off.
    3. In the Windows Features dialog box, select the check boxes for the Hyper-V items that you want to install, and then tap or click OK. image
    4. Tap or click Close.

    Note: You must restart your computer to complete the Hyper-V installation. After restarting the computer, you can use Hyper-V Manager or Windows PowerShell to create and manage VMs. You can also use VM Console to connect to VMs remotely.

    Enabling Client Hyper-V with Command Line Tool

    • Use Windows PowerShell. At the Windows PowerShell prompt (using administrator credentials), type the following:

    Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V

    • Use the Windows Command Prompt. At the Windows command prompt (using administrator credentials), type the following:

    Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Hyper-V –All

    What Isn’t Included in Client Hyper-V?

    Difference between Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Server Hyper-V

  • Windows 8 Developer Preview Key

    To install Windows 8 Developer Preview you do not need a product key for activation. However, you would be asked to enter a product key while re-installing Windows 8 Developer Preview Key.

    If you need to reinstall Windows Developer Preview or use the Reset functionality, you might be asked to enter this product key:

    6RH4V-HNTWC-JQKG8-RFR3R-36498

    If you’re running a server version of Windows Developer Preview, you can use this product key:

    4Y8N3-H7MMW-C76VJ-YD3XV-MBDKV

    The key is provided by Microsoft employee BillFill in msdn forum. You can find the BillFill’s post here

    Update 3/1: For Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you can use this product key:

    DNJXJ-7XBW8-2378T-X22TX-BKG7J

    Update 6/1: For Windows 8 Release Preview, you’ll need to enter this product key:

    TK8TP-9JN6P-7X7WW-RFFTV-B7QPF

  • Windows 8 Shortcut Key Combination

    Here is a list of new shortcuts specific to Windows 8. You might it useful when you are in Windows 8 new Metro style UI. For me I found WinKey + C and WInKey + I really helps a LOT

    Hotkeys unchanged from Windows 7

    Windows Display or hide the Start menu.

    Windows-Left Arrow Dock the active window to the left half of the screen (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Right Arrow Dock the active window to the right half of screen (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Up Arrow Maximize the active window (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Down Arrow Restore/minimize the active window (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Shift-Up Arrow Maximize the active window vertically, maintaining width (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Shift-Down Arrow Restore/minimize the active window vertically, maintaining width (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Shift-Left Arrow Move the active window to the monitor on the left (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-Shift-Right Arrow Move the active window to the monitor on the right (does nothing to Metro-style applications).

    Windows-P Display projection options.

    Windows-Home Minimize all nonactive windows; restore on the second keystroke (does not restore Metro-style applications).

    Windows-number Launch or switch to the program located at the given position on the taskbar. (Example: Use Windows-1 to launch the first program.)

    Windows-Shift-number Launch a new instance of the program located at the given position on the taskbar.

    Windows-B Set focus in the notification area.

    Windows-Break Display the System Properties dialog box.

    Windows-D Show the desktop; restore on the second keystroke (does not restore Metro-style applications).

    Windows-E Open Windows Explorer, navigated to Computer. Windows-Ctrl-F Search for computers (if you are on a network).

    Windows-Ctrl-F Search for computers (if you are on a network).

    Windows-G Cycle through Windows Desktop Gadgets.

    Windows-L Lock your computer (if you’re connected to a network domain), or switch users (if you’re not connected to a network domain).

    Windows-M Minimize all windows.

    Windows-Shift-M Restore minimized windows to the desktop (does not restore Metro-style applications).

    Windows-N Create a new note (OneNote).

    Windows-R Open the Run dialog box.

    Windows-S Open screen clipper (OneNote).

    Windows-T Set focus on the taskbar and cycle through programs.

    Windows-Alt-Enter Open Windows Media Center. Note that Windows Media Center must be installed for this key combo to function; in many Windows 8 builds, it is not present.

    Windows-U Open Ease of Access Center.

    Windows-X Open Windows Mobility Center.

    Windows-F1 Launch Windows Help and Support.

    Windows-N Create a new note (OneNote).

    Windows-S Open screen clipper (OneNote).

    Windows-Q Open Lync. Note that in Windows 8 the Search function overrides this key combo.

    Windows-A Accept an incoming call (Lync).

    Windows-X Reject an incoming call (Lync). Note that this key combo does not function if Windows Mobility Center is present on the machine.

    Windows-Minus Zoom out (Magnifier).

    Windows-Plus Zoom in (Magnifer).

    Windows-Esc Close Magnifier.

    New hotkeys for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview

    Key combination Windows 8 functionality

    Ctrl-Shift-Esc Starts Task Manager

    Windows-Space Switch input language and keyboard layout.

    Windows-O Lock device orientation.

    Windows-, Temporarily peek at the desktop.

    Windows-V Cycle through toasts.

    Windows-Shift-V Cycle through toasts in reverse order.

    Windows-Enter Launch Narrator.

    Windows-PgUp Move the Start Screen or a Metro-style application to the monitor on the left.

    Windows-PgDown Move the Start Screen or a Metro-style application to the monitor on the right. Windows-Shift-. Move the gutter to the left (snap an application).

    Windows-. Move the gutter to the right (snap an application).

    Windows-C Open the Charms bar.

    Windows-I Open the Settings charm.

    Windows-K Open the Connect charm.

    Windows-H Open the Share charm.

    Windows-Q Open the Search pane.

    Windows-W Open the Settings Search app.

    Windows-F Open the File Search app.

    Windows-Tab Cycle through apps.

    Windows-Shift-Tab Cycle through apps in reverse order.

    Windows-Ctrl-Tab Cycle through apps and snap them as they cycle.

    Windows-Z Open the App Bar.

    Windows-/ Initiate input method editor (IME) reconversion.

    Windows-J Swap foreground between the snapped and filled apps.

    Start screen/Metro

    The following Windows key shortcuts work in the new Windows shell/Start screen.

    WINKEY (tap) Toggles between the Start screen and the foremost running app (Metro-style) or the Windows Desktop.

    WINKEY + 1, WINKEY + 2, etc. – Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and launch the nth shortcut in the Windows taskbar. So WINKEY + 1 would launch whichever application is first in the list, from left to right.

    WINKEY + B Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and select the tray notification area.

    WINKEY + C Display Charms and time/date/notification overlay.

    WINKEY + D Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and toggle Show Desktop (hides/shows any applications and other windows).

    WINKEY + E Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and launch Windows Explorer with Computer view displayed.

    WINKEY + F Display File Search pane

    WINKEY + H Display Share charm.

    WINKEY + I Display Settings charm.

    WINKEY + J Swaps foreground between the snapped and filled apps.

    WINKEY + K Display Connect charm.

    WINKEY + L Lock PC and return to Lock screen.

    WINKEY + M Minimize the selected Explorer window.

    WINKEY + O Toggle orientation switching on slate and tablet PCs.

    WINKEY + P Display the new Project (for “projection”) pane for choosing between available displays.

    WINKEY + Q Search (within) Apps using the new Search pane.

    WINKEY + R Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and display the Run box.

    WINKEY + U Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and launch the Ease of Access Center.

    WINKEY + V Cycles through Notification toasts.

    WINKEY + W Display Settings Search pane

    WINKEY + SHIFT + V Cycles through Notification toasts in reverse order.

    WINKEY + X Access the advanced context menu on the Start preview tip.

    WINKEY + Z Access the App Bar.

    WINKEY + ENTER Launches Narrator.

    WINKEY + SPACEBAR Switch input language and keyboard layout

    WINKEY + TAB Cycle through apps in Switcher.

    WINKEY + SHIFT + TAB Cycle through apps in Switcher in reverse order.

    WINKEY + CTRL + TAB Cycle through apps, snapping them as you go.

    WINKEY + , Peeks at the Windows desktop.

    WINKEY + . Snaps application to the left.

    WINKEY + SHIFT + . Snaps application to the right.

    WINKEY + PGUP Moves the Start screen to the display on the left.

    WINKEY + PGDN Moves the Start screen to the display on the right.

    Windows desktop/Explorer

    The following Windows key shortcuts work in the classic Windows desktop. Note that while many of these shortcuts also work in Windows 7, some are new to Windows 8.

    WINKEY (tap) Toggles between the Windows desktop environment and the new Start screen.

    WINKEY + 1, WINKEY + 2, etc. Launch the nth shortcut in the Windows taskbar. So WINKEY + 1 would launch whichever application is first in the list, from left to right.

    WINKEY + B Select the tray notification area.

    WINKEY + C Display Charms and time/date/notification overlay.

    WINKEY + D Toggle Show Desktop (hides/shows any applications and other windows).

    WINKEY + E Launch Windows Explorer with Computer view displayed.

    WINKEY + F Search Files using the new Windows Search pane.

    WINKEY + I Display Settings pane for Windows Desktop (also provides access to Networks, Volume, Screen Brightness, Notifications, Power, and Language).

    WINKEY + L Lock PC and return to Lock screen.

    WINKEY + M Minimize the selected Explorer window.

    WINKEY + O Toggle orientation switching on slate and tablet PCs.

    WINKEY + P Display the new Project (for “projection”) pane for choosing between available displays.

    WINKEY + Q Search (within) Apps using the new Windows Search pane.

    WINKEY + R Display Run box.

    WINKEY + U Launch Ease of Access Center.

    WINKEY + W Search Settings using the new Windows Search pane.

    WINKEY + X Display Windows Mobility Center application.

    WINKEY + ARROW KEYS Aero Snap.

  • How to install DotNet 2.0 or 3.5 on Windows 10

    Updated on 2015/10/4: Update the screenshots to Windows 10, however, applies to Windows 8/8.1/10

    Windows 10 includes the 2.0, 3.5 and 4.5 versions of the .NET Framework. However, only 4.5 is available for immediate use after a clean install. The versions 2.0 and 3.5 of the framework are not installed by default. If you open the Add/Remove Windows Features dialog you’ll see the “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)” listed, but disabled.

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