Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Converting VDMK to VHD

I recently installed Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate at home on a spare machine, and wanted to convert my VMWare virtual machines to Hyper-V. I used VMToolKit’s VDMK to VHD Converter to do the conversions. After my first conversion, I got the dreaded BSOD. After searching around the web, I came across this comment that offered a fix to the route that I was taking. I’ll try out the suggestion tonight and see if it works.

DirectAccess Documentation

Microsoft has published a step-by-step guide on how to implement DirectAccess. If you haven’t heard of DirectAccess, here is an overview that explains it more in detail along with its benefits.