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BitTorrent Sync

Looking for a free (and new) way to keep folder in sync using a secure and fast method across multiple computers. Well look no further than BitTorrent. It’s been used for many things and the folks over at BitTorrent have given us BitTorrent Sync. No accounts needed, no subscriptions and best of all it works on a […]

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How-To Technical

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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Personal

Keep Calm and

The British government in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities by posting signs that read “keep calm and carry on”.  The intent was to strengthen morale in the event of disaster. […]

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Software Technical

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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How-To Technical

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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How-To Technical

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 […]