All the Hyper-V services in the guest OS are running. I'm not sure how I'd check that they are working beyond that? The guest OS should be current as far as updates are concerned, as I ran the updates ...

Here's a quick breakdown on how to roll back to an earlier Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V checkpoint. Occasionally you may need to perform administrative actions that are potentially dangerous (such ...

One of the major new features that Microsoft introduced in the Windows Server 2016 version of Hyper-V was production checkpoints. For those who may not be familiar with the feature, Production ...

Although Hyper-V checkpoints are not a substitute for backups, they do have their place. For example, some people like to create virtual machine checkpoints prior to installing updates. That way, if ...

It turns out that Hyper-V has had a versioning for virtual machine (VM) configuration files, with the original release in Windows Server 2008 being version 1, all the way up to Windows Server 2012 R2 ...

Preview editions of Hyper-V 2012 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 pick up where the strong initial releases left off Hyper-V 3.0 was perhaps the shiniest of the shining-star ...

With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...