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Capability Profiles in SCVMM 2012

Encounter the follow issues after importing a Hyper-V image created to be used in my SCVMM / APP Center environment: Two Errors: Message: The virtual machine configuration cannot target a host due to placement errors. (StatusCode: 22039–PlacementErrorsPresentInVmConfig) Message: The virtual machine workload test01 specifies settings that are not allowed by any capability profile supported by […]

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KMS Client Setup Keys for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

Microsoft has posted the online documentation for the KMS keys for their latest OSes. In my case the only KMS Setup Key’s I care about are below: Windows Server 2012 Datacenter: 48HP8-DN98B-MYWDG-T2DCC-8W83P Windows 8 Enterprise: 32JNW-9KQ84-P47T8-D8GGY-CWCK7 Windows 8 Professional: NG4HW-VH26C-733KW-K6F98-J8CK4

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Hyper-V VM Creation Fails – Product Key

Yes! Another error, and another thing to learn. I ran in to an issue while importing a new template from an existing image. Error message was: Virtual Machine Manager was unable to find a value for the required Sysprep parameter Product Key. It seems that the new machine is looking for a product key. The […]

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Store virtual machine to library – Error

I attempted to store a Hyper-V image I was working with to the library for others to later use when I encountered the following error message. Message: Cannot store virtual machine <instance name> in cloud <cloud name> because this cloud does not have a stored VM path configured. (StatusCode: 22805–CannotStoreVmInCloudLibraryServerNotAvailable) I then discovered that I […]

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Server 2012: “We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one”

In my attempt to install Windows Server 2012 on a test system using a USB Stick as my installation method I kept encountering the error in the above subject of this post. Searching ‘Google’ gave me a lot of details about this issue, but nothing that actually fixed my problem. I have done this type […]

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CrashPlan on headless debian server

I had been interested in using a backup solution for my photos when I came across CrashPlan. The price for one was a quick sale and the idea of being able to backup “unlimited” data from a single computer just seemed to fit what I had been looking for. I recently changed my home file […]