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Recently I setup a Hyper-V Server and ran into a few issues around networking and setting up a virtual firewall with ISA 2006. It turns out that Hyper-V creates a virtual network adapter for the physical computer and plugs it into the physical adapter which is turned into a de facto network switch. So, if you’re going to use a router or firewall inside a virtual machine you will end up with two network adapters plugged into the “switch” on the external side of your firewall. That might be fine, but it poses a small problem when used in conjunction with Comcast because they see it as two computers and the physical computer may win out and get the external IP while Comcast ignores the other network adapter.
The solution is to disable the virtual adapter that was auto-created for the physical host on your external physical adapter “switch”. Thus Comcast will only see one computer and all will be happy. Searching around for the commands to do this in a Core/Hyper-V console only install of server 2008 proved to be a bit of a trek. After a few days and a few Google searches later I found the answer. Here it is…
Rename a network connection:
netsh interface set interface name=”Local Area Connection 3” newname=”Internet Connection”
Disable a network connection:
netsh interface set interface name=”Internet Connection” disabled
Pretty simple, but my install of Hyper-V Server also suffered from a bug that luckily has a hot fix. It was showing no interfaces when I ran this:
netsh interface show interface
…which is a bug. After I found the patch for that though the rest was done in no time.
This is pretty obscure… EBS goes through its setup perfectly until it tries to install System Center Essentials, which we all know was invented by Satan himself because it never freakin’ installs correctly even by itself. So, if anybody reading this has any ideas about how to get around this issue, let me know… And no, installing VMware is NOT a solution, even if that might work.
Searching for information on this has been a MAJOR headache, mainly due to the fact that every moron on the Internet has posted the error code without knowing anything about the actual error or a way to fix it. Most of them just tell you to dump your outlook profile and start over. Well, I say that isn't good enough! Someone, preferably from the product team that made this thing, needs to get off their butt and post about this issue and how to fix it so that it doesn't keep popping up on me and the other thousand or more people I saw posting about it in the last half hour I've been searching for solutions.
In a so far vain attempt to get somebody to answer the question as to why Outlook stops synchronizing a mailbox after a few changes I've posted a question in the community support forums. Let the carnage ensue as they read, completely misunderstand, and post ridiculous non-solutions to my question.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general&mid=a1e35133-6ae2-4221-af97-9bae2fdb6aee&sloc=en-us
Ok, I'm done ranting now. Honestly though, how hard can it be to just fix this?
Unless I'm not reading this right, Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, have put a limit on how many copies of Vista Ultimate you can receive for your software assured copies of Windows...
Clarifying the Role of Windows Vista Ultimate in Software Assurance for Enterprise Customers
Windows Vista Enterprise is the ideal operating system for enterprise customers, whereas, Windows Vista Ultimate is ideal for consumer scenarios and is useful for enterprise customers in conference and training rooms.
With this in mind, Windows Vista Ultimate entitlements for new customers with Software Assurance coverage for Windows Client licenses have changed:
Customers with fewer than 600 Windows Vista Enterprise licenses are eligible to receive 5 Windows Vista Ultimate product keys
Customers with 600 or more Windows Vista Enterprise licenses are eligible to receive one Windows Vista Ultimate product key for every 100 Windows Vista Enterprise licenses
So before you could get Ultimate for every copy you had software assurance on. Now it reads that you can only have 5 for the first 600. So they've actually taken away your right to use more than 5 via your Software Assurance.
As I've stated before, Software Assurance is effectively just an upgrade program. They can put more stuff into it all day long, but none of my small to medium sized business customers are interested in anything but the software itself and I'm sure they're going to be hopping mad when they find out that some marketing or legal dufus has decided that they should take this away in hopes of increasing their bottom line in Ultimate upgrade sales.
The main argument I've heard against Ultimate is that you can't manage it in a group policy environment. If that's true, who controls that? Microsoft does. Who's a bunch of lazy <insert expletive here>s for not making it manageable in the first place? Again, Microsoft are. So in the end, that argument has no merit at all.
The other flaw in this logic is that Enterprise has no upgrade path to Ultimate and vice versa. The basic difference between the two is Media Center functionality. So, if you have a machine with Enterprise on it you can not upgrade or move to Ultimate without a reinstall of the OS. This is a really dumb move on Microsoft's part. Ever since they came out with Ultimate they have screwed it up one way or another by omitting pieces of the other editions from it. The whole idea of Ultimate is to be the edition that includes everything and not just some of the pieces of the other editions. That is how it was marketed anyway. If it isn't that then change the name to Media Center Edition and stop talking about it like it is that.
Just my $0.02.
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I attended the event yesterday that introduced silverlight. I have to say it was the best Microsoft event I've ever been to. Unlike almost every prior event I've gone to it actually went into the specifics. Maybe I've just been going to the wrong events. hehe This one wasn't full of the usual uneducated people that always ask so many stupid questions you begin to wonder whether they are be fit to be in our profession. I plan on attending all the future Firestarter events that I can pertaining to my work. To the presenters and organizers, good job.
