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Hyper-V R2 Hotfix Rollup

KB2264080 is a Hyper-V rollup that includes the fixes documented in the following KBs:
975530  Stop error message on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that has the Hyper-V role installed and that uses one or more Intel CPUs that are code-named Nehalem: "0×00000101 – CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;975530
974909  The network connection of a running Hyper-V virtual machine is [...]

Hotfix required for Hyper-V R2 related to backup

If you see prolonged startup time with Windows Server 2008 R2 servers with the Hyper-V role enabled, this can be caused by a large registry hive that increases after every backup.
“The issue occurs because of a large number of orphaned registry keys. The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshots create many registry keys. However, they [...]

SCVMM2008 R2 hotfix rollup

A rollup is available for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 which solves a couple of issues:
Issue 1: A high availability virtual machine with a GPT pass-thru disk is reported is reported as “Unsupported Cluster Configuration.” 
Issue 2: When you manage VMware Virtual Center that has distributed switches, the Virtual Machine Manager service [...]

Update hotfix list Hyper-V R2

I came across a new Hyper-V R2 hotfix on the list related to Intel Westmere processors (Nehalem EP/W5580).
“This issue occurs because Intel Westmere processors have a new Virtual Machine Control Block (VMCB) caching feature. This feature is added to provide a virtualization assistance to increase the hypervisor performance. Because this feature was introduced after Windows [...]

Hyper-V updates & hotfix list

Some time ago I asked MS to split the list for Hyper-V updates in R1 and R2. Well … they did and thanks a lot!
Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008 R2: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394763(WS.10).aspx
Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd430893(WS.10).aspx

Update April 2010:
A recent hotfix was made available by [...]

Hotfix rollup for Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

A hotfix rollup is now available for System Center VMM2008 R2 which is part of the February 9 update.
List of issues that are fixed
Issue 1 Consider the following scenario:

A user is a member of the Self-Service User role.
A new virtual machine is created, and the user is assigned the owner of the [...]

Hyper-V R2 hotfixes for DPM 2010

Install at least these two hotfixes on Hyper-V R2 servers:

KB975354 A Hyper-V rollup package dealing with parallel backups on same cluster shared volumes and VM’s hosted by different servers; Avoiding data truncation as a result of simultaneous backup of VM from host and from within virtual machine; properly restoring a VM with snapshots to another [...]

Hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 Print Cluster (KB 976571)

Please note Microsoft has published an important hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 print clusters. A detailed blog written by Symon Perriman can be found at:  http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2010/01/22/9951795.aspx
In short it solves the following issues:

Shared printer disappears

Spooler stops responding

Restoring printers using Print Back-up Restore Migrate Utility (PrintBRM.exe)

Fix for accidentally deleting a VHD with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Thanks to a tweet from @MSManageability, I finally know how to prevent losing a VHD with VMM2008 R2. If you choose to delete a VHD from an existing VM it actually deletes it.
J. C Hornbeck pointed me to a hotfix (KB976246) which addresses this problem.
See his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/11/16/kb976246-removing-a-vhd-from-a-virtual-machine-in-vmm-2008-r2-deletes-the-file-on-the-hyper-v-server-without-warning.aspx
When I looked for [...]