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You may have noticed that there is no Shutdown option in the usual place when remote desktop’ed into our Vista boxes. You can shut them down by pressing Ctrl+Alt+End and clicking the arrow next to the red power button in the bottom right of the screen.

This should save a few quid on the electricity bill (and the environment).

For those of you that have upgraded to Virtual Server 2005 SP1, a new tool for mounting VHD files as virtual drives has been provided. This functionality can be easily integrated into the shell by creating a .reg file with the following text and executing it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell]

@="Mount"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Dismount\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /u \"%1\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Virtual.Machine.HD\shell\Mount\command]

@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount\\vhdmount.exe\" /p /f \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.vhd]

@="Virtual.Machine.HD"

This will provide a new context menu item on .VHD file providing Mount/Dismount functionality.