Toggling Hyper-V

Disabling Hyper-V will allow you to get back power management features (sleep, hibernate), this is useful when you have installed Windows Server 2008 on a laptop.

To do so, type in an elevated command prompt:

sc config hvboot start= disabled

…and then restart the server.

Another option that will allow you to disable hyper-v and re-enable it at will is to execute the following command:

sc config hvboot start= demand

…and then restart the server.

This way, hyper-V will be deactivated by default, but you will be able to start it when needed, by executing the following command:

net start hvboot

However once started, it is not possible to shut it down – and have the power management features – without server restart.

SharePoint 2010 Development Environment

Here is my SharePoint development environment configuration set up in a virtual machine:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bits SP1
  • Domain name: dev.internal
  • Machine name: sp2010
• Visual Studio 2010 Premium SP1
  • Visual C#
  • Visual Basic .NET
• Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 64 bits SP1
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 64 bits
• Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2008 R2 64 bits
  • Analysis Services
  • Reporting Services
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
• Windows PowerShell ISE

For productivity purpose I have tuned the following settings:

• Shut down tracker disabled
• “14” environment variable pointing to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14”
• “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN” added to PATH
• Central admin address: http://sp2010:40000