Reader poll - what topics to cover in this blog

So far, I've been scanning internal and external newsgroups to figure out what the "hot" topics are to cover in this blog. But judging by the consistent number of visitors I'm getting, this blog has quite a few regular readers. So I'd like to find out what topics you'd like to see covered. Along with your wish list, it would be helpful to know (optionally) what you're using Virtual Server for, your role, and the size of your organization. Thanks!

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 21, 2005
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• Anonymous
  January 21, 2005
  I've been evangelizing virtual machines for some time now and what I'd like to see covered is performance how-tos, disaster recovery methodologies, and best-practices for Virtual Server hosting.
  
  Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
  
  JMM
• Anonymous
  January 24, 2005
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• Anonymous
  January 29, 2005
  Hello,
  I would like to learn more about programming/scripting virtual server 2k5, and about writing virutal aware software that will be able to run more efficently on virtual server guests.
  
• Anonymous
  February 03, 2005
  For what I've been missing for is some best practices about backup solutions around MS VS 2005.
  
  It's a new area for many administrators, because virtualization brings a whole new scope of crash recovery backup solutions.
  
  I support one host server and several VM's in a server-hosting environment. I've done few simple and ugly VBScripts to pause and resume VMs and copy their .vhd files to safe place. I imagine that there are much mo sophisticated ways around...
• Anonymous
  February 04, 2005
  I'd love to see more about combining Virtual Server 2005 with ISCSI.
  
  Ok - I'll start. Here is an MS case study concerning how Denver Health made use of MSVS 2005 and a ISCSI solution from LeftHand Networks:
  
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=15978
  
  Happy Virtulization,
  David
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  David Blaisdell
  Systems Administrator
  Colby-Sawyer College
  dblaisdell@colby-sawyer.edu
  
• Anonymous
  February 07, 2005
  I know this isn't exactly on the topic of this post, but it was the closest one I could find that still allowed comments...
  
  I'm running Windows XP SP2 on my host computer, running Virtual PC 2004 SP1. No matter the OS I run in my guest VMs, when I lock the host computer (Window-L or Alt-Ctrl-Del, Lock computer) then unlock it, I can no longer send keystrokes to my VMs, and my "host key" doesn't work either. To fix it, I have to right-click the Virtual PC icon in my systray on the host machine, go to the 'keyboard' section, and click OK. Once I do that, all keyboard functionality in the guest VMs works fine.
  
  Is there a solution to this? My office environment is rather strict about locking PCs when leaving them unattended, so having to do this every time I come back to my desk is a little annoying.
  
  P.S. My "host key" is the ` key (left of 1 on a standard US keyboard)
  
  Thanks for any help anyone can give me on this.
• Anonymous
  February 07, 2005
  Hi Jonathan,
  
  Ben Armstrong, our resident Virtual PC guru (http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy) would like to know if you still experience this issue if the virtual machine is minimized before you lock the host.
  
  -Megan