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Surface Pro – How to install Hyper-V

· One min read
  1. Bring up the Metro Windows 8 interface
  2. Type in: Programs & Features
  3. Select Turn Windows Features on or off on the left hand side menu
  4. Check Hyper-V (make sure – Hyper-V Management Tools & Hyper-V platforms are also selected inside the Hyper-V section).
  5. Click Ok
  6. The Hyper-V services will get installed. Once completed restart your Surface.
  7. Launch the Hyper-V Manager and you are good to go to start playing with your Virtual machines.

Note: The same method allows Hyper-V to be installed on Windows 8.1 if you are running a 64bit OS & your Motherboard & CPU supports virtualization.

Note: Surface RT does not support Hyper-V – this is only suitable for the Surface Pros.

Outlook 2010 – How to find your Exchange address

· One min read
  1. Open Outlook
  2. Click on File
  3. Click on Account Settings
  4. Click Account Settings
  5. Select the mailbox you would like to retrieve the Exchange address of and select Change
  6. Your Exchange address is titled under the Server field

VMWare Workstation – How to share a folder with a virtual machine

· 2 min read
  1. First up – you need to create a folder on the host machine. For this example we are using a folder on the Desktop.
  2. Right click a blank space on the Desktop and select – New, Folder.
  3. Name it: vmshared and press Enter
  4. This will be our base folder – anything we put in here will be shared with the virtual machines.
  5. Open VMWare Workstation
  6. Right click the Virtual Machine you are using and select Settings
  7. Click on the Options tab and navigate to – Shared Folders
  8. Here you can choose to have it Always Enabled or Enabled until next power off or suspend – I will select Always Enabled.
  9. Check Map as a network drive in Windows Guests
  10. Down the bottom select Add
  11. This Wizard will guide you through to navigating to the hosts path – the location of the folder you created earlier – ie Deskop/vmshared
  12. You can specify an alternative name if you want or just select Next
  13. You can specify to have the share Read Only here if you want, make sure Enable this Share is selected and select Finish
  14. Done – as soon you as press Ok your virtual machine would have mapped a network share to your workstation. You can find this under My Computer or Computer!

Note: You can map the same network share between multiple Virtual Machines. Note: The Virtual machine must be on to allow Shared Folder configuration – if it is off the option will simply not be enabled.

Flex+ – Using Self-Support to restore user’s preferences

· One min read
  1. Click Start
  2. Select All Programs
  3. Select Immidio Flex+
  4. Select Flex+ Self-Support
  5. Now for example –you are having outlook issues – select Microsoft Outlook 2010
  6. Click Reset (to reset Outlook 2010 back to Factory Defaults – or Restore to restore from backup. You can restore a Flex+ backup for the last 2 weeks.