Hey folks! Life happened this week. The kind of “patch Tuesday on a Thursday” chaos that every SysAdmin knows all too well. Which means instead of the usual Tuesday morning drop, you’re getting this out-of-band Thursday Special Edition.
Rather than leave your inbox empty, I wanted to pull together something useful: a curated roundup of every Hyper-V episode we’ve done on the SysAdmin Weekly Podcast. If you’re considering a move to Hyper-V (or just trialing it because Broadcom keeps lighting VMware on fire), this is your crash course.
Regularly scheduled programming returns next Tuesday, bright and early.
🎙 SysAdmin Weekly Hyper-V Episode Extravaganza
🔧 Ep. 017 – Hyper-V Management Drama and What Tool to Use When
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Hyper-V Manager? Windows Admin Center? Failover Cluster Manager? SCVMM? PowerShell? Azure Arc? Eric and I untangle the mess of management tools and explain when to use what (and when to just pour a drink instead).
🏰 Ep. 013 – Hyper-V in the Domain? Yea or Nea?
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Should Hyper-V hosts be domain joined, or live in a workgroup? This debate has been raging for years. Spoiler: Eric and I don’t exactly sit on the fence.
💸 Ep. 003 – Hyper-V vs. VMware: Licensing
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Licensing fun! (Yes, that was sarcasm.) But seriously, we break down the differences in software licensing between VMware and Hyper-V. If you’re running the math right now, this one’s for you.
✨ Ep. 002 – What’s New with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2025?
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From shiny new features to under-the-hood changes, Eric and I cover what’s actually useful in the Windows Server 2025 release.
☠️ Ep. 000 – No! Hyper-V is NOT Dead!
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Our very first episode of SysAdmin Weekly (hence the 000 episode number!), where we kicked things off by dispelling the “Hyper-V is abandonware” myth. Spoiler: it’s still a critical part of Microsoft’s strategy.
🌐 Ep. 001 – What is Azure Local?
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Not strictly Hyper-V, but deeply related. We peel back the layers on Azure Local, and and why Hyper-V is at the heart of it.
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Wrap-Up
That’s it for this special drop. Thanks for rolling with the schedule hiccup folks! We’ll be back with our regularly scheduled programming on the normal Tuesday morning cadence next week. Until then, may your patches apply cleanly and your VMs never bluescreen.
--Andy
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