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Q. What are some settings I should configure in my Windows 7 VDI environment to minimize overhead and improve performance?

By John Savill, 07/31/2010

Q. How can I send the Ctrl-Alt-Del secure attention sequence to a Remote Desktop session?

By John Savill, 07/30/2010

Q. I've heard that if I'm using Dynamic Memory and the Hyper-V host could have memory constraints, increasing the size of the guest OS pagefiles is a good idea. Why?

By John Savill, 07/29/2010

Q. How can I tell if a virtual machine (VM) is using large or small memory pages?

By John Savill, 07/29/2010

Q. How can I tell how much memory the dynamic memory balloon driver is using?

By John Savill, 07/28/2010

Q. Is there a way to see how the memory in my box is being used?

By John Savill, 07/27/2010

Q. Where can I get the SP1 version of the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 SP1?

By John Savill, 07/26/2010

Q. Does the memory amount I see in a guest virtual machine (VM) using Dynamic Memory reflect the true amount of physical memory currently allocated to it?

By John Savill, 07/26/2010

Q. Is there a version of Windows Server 2008 R2 without Hyper-V?

By John Savill, 07/25/2010

Q. What happens if I enable Dynamic Memory for a VM and it doesn't support Dynamic Memory or doesn't have the updated integration services installed?

By John Savill, 07/25/2010

Q. Why is there a version of Windows Server 2008 32-bit without Hyper-V?

By John Savill, 07/24/2010

Q. How do I enable Dynamic Memory for a virtual machine (VM) after installing SP1 on my Hyper-V 2008 R2 server?

By John Savill, 07/24/2010

Q. I installed the version of Windows Server 2008 that didn't include Hyper-V, but now I want to run Hyper-V. Can I just add Hyper-V to my installation?

By John Savill, 07/23/2010

Q. Which client OSs support Dynamic Memory for Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1?

By John Savill, 07/23/2010

Q. Is it OK to disable short filename generation on Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster nodes that use Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)?

By John Savill, 07/22/2010

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