Awarded MVP 2014 for the first time

As everyone else with some ITPro community engagement there is a date of the first day every quarter that makes the heart go a bit faster and the hopes for becoming one of the few privileged that get the Most Valuable Professional Award from Microsoft.

Today I got the award for my contributions in the Virtual Machine community 🙂

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I have been during quite some time trying to give the community my sharings in virtualization and automation and helping out so that others can benefit and not having to reinvent the wheel again.

Thank you all that have been following me on this blog, twitter and at other social networks and I hope that you benefit somewhat from my scavenges in the wonderful world of IT!

I am looking forward to this year when I will together with my fellow MVP´s explore and work together to help out in the deployment of Cloud OS.

 

New version of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 that support Gen2

So I noticed that the awesome Convert-WindowsImage.ps1 PowerShell script has been updated to version 6.3 and published during the Christmas holidays. The script is maintained by Microsoft Consulting Services and was originally created by Mike Kolitz.

I really like this script and have used it alot when creating new VM´s and I have been awaiting an update to support the Generation 2 VM´s with UEFI boot.

Here you can see that I have added the parameter -VHDPartitionStyle GPT to use for the generation 2 VM

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You can find the script here.

 

New Disk2VHD(x) from SysInternals that can make VHDx

So I saw today that Mark Russinovich have released a new version of the Disk2VHD binary from SysInternals

One really nice new feature is that you can with this updated tool now create VHDX directly without needing to convert a VHD and that does not require a Windows 2012 or Windows 8 or later to be able to work. This tool can be used when doing P2V also.

As you can see on my screendump I have tested it on a Windows 7 and the checkbox with VHDX.

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You can find it here on SysInternals page http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415