Best Practice Analysers 2011

   

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Best Practice Analysers are free tools available for most Microsoft Enterprise products and they are used to determine the overall health of your platform.

Best Practice Analysers are free tools available for most Microsoft Enterprise products and they are used to determine the overall health of your platform. The tools perform read only scans against your environment’s servers and identify items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices.  They should be run on a regular basis as part of your standard operations maintenance plan.  Browse the following groups below to find the platform and analyser you need and follow the links provided to get started.  After running the analyser, you will be able to tell if there are areas which need resolution in order to have fully optimised use of that platform.  If you'd like some Premier Support help to achieve resolution, contact your Technical Account Manager so they can help you decide on the best Premier Support solution available (i.e. Logging a Case, scheduling a Workshop or onsite assessment, etc). 

P2V with Disk2VHD–Part 1 & Part 2

P2V with Disk2VHD–Part 1 

Migrating a physical machine to a virtual machine can be done a number of ways.  You can use System Center Virtual Machine Manager, PlateSpin PowerConvert or a host of other tools.  One of those tools is the free Disk2VHD tool from Sysinternals.  Disk2VHD will take a snapshot of a running machine and write it to a VHD that you can boot up in Hyper-V (or Virtual PC).  The process is pretty straight forward and in Part 1 we will capture the source machine.