By Steven McNutt, on May 6th, 2009%
I applied an update to a virtual server sitting on Microsoft’s Hyper-V and rebooted it, but it didn’t come back up. When I tried to start the virtual machine I received the error “Microsoft Emulated IDE Controller (Instance ID {GUID}): Failed to power on with Error ‘General access denied error’”. The fix was to . . . → Read More: Why?
By Steven McNutt, on May 1st, 2009%
Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a dream when it works, but I spend way too much time wrestling with it to make it work and the reports it issues to track jobs are worthless. The whole experience reminds of Arcserve circa 1997: poorly made technology trying to do too much.
It seems as . . . → Read More: Backing Up Hyper-V