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ADS to deploy Windows XP?

I have to admit, I'd never thought of this one. Yes, I've looked into using ADS (Automated Deployment Services) for deploying Windows Server 2003 and use it as part of the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) solution but never thought of Read More
posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:43 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Free Technet Magazine Subscription

...but only if you're US based. I know I get readers from all over the world, and know many of you are US based. I'm hoping to follow up with the powers that be to see if we can get some free subscriptions also in the UK too! The Technet Magazine, Microsofts Read More
posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:32 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Download Link

While on the subject of patching here is the home page for the newly released Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), the next generation of SUS. To find out more about patching, management and securing your networks, have a browse through Eileens Read More
posted Monday, June 13, 2005 1:41 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 comparison with Virtual PC 2004 - definitive statement

Now this is worth a read having just found about it internally. Megans whitepaper which I blogged about recently is now available in its completed from on microsoft.com. The whitepaper discusses in detail the differences between Virtual PC 2004 and Virtual Read More
posted Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:37 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Megan Davis - Virtual Server Superstar

I blog about Virtual Server a lot (as you may have noticed), but I'm not alone. Megan Davis is a technical writer/author at Microsoft who especially focuses on Virtual Server & Virtual PC and is extremely active both  internally within Read More
posted Monday, May 16, 2005 8:57 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) Guidelines

If you're interested in using VSMT (Virtual Server Migration Toolkit)  for migrating a physical machine into a virtual machine, there was a new KB article posted up a few days ago which gives you some general guidelines. Note that there is one error Read More
posted Friday, May 06, 2005 10:11 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 SCSI Shunt Driver

It's rare you see something in a beta release which makes such a dramatic difference to performance. This is one such instance. If you want to save yourself over 5 hours when installing a Virtual Machine under Virtual Server 2005, read on.... Last Read More
posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:15 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Remote Desktop Assistant 1.0

Sometimes the most blindingly obvious and simple utility become a weapon of choice in your toolbox arsenal. Here's one such example I stumbled across a few days ago and am now wondering how I ever coped before. Over on longhornblogs.com, Robert (who Read More
posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:23 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Do you use blogging software?

Something which cropped up internally over the past couple of days has been a discussion about how many people at Microsoft must have moved on beyond using the standard HTML interface to their blog engine for posting. I kept quiet at this point once discussions Read More
posted Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:01 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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My blog has moved - please update your links

Some of you may have noticed recent changes to the blogs.msdn.com site. In case some of you are subscribing to http://blogs.msdn.com/jhoward to read my blog, or are linking to the blogs.msdn.com/jhoward site, please can you update them to point to http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward instead. Read More
posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:39 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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MSN Messenger 5.1 Tab Functions

I just stumbled across Marts blog entry and thought this was such a cool way to use of the tabbed capability of Windows Messenger 5.1 to embed a view of your Exchange email. Had to share it! Nice one Mart & Stef- great tip. Read More
posted Friday, February 11, 2005 6:49 PM by jhoward | 6 Comments
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PKI and Certificate Management Information in Windows Server 2003

While on the subject of Certificates/Encryption/IPSec/PKI in general yesterday, I was looking around for some good information on how PKI works to post up. One white paper which stuck-out from the pile was published in December last year (so it's reasonably Read More
posted Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:16 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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MSN Search Launched

Kind of hard to miss the launch party. Well, as it happens I did :-)Even though I'd consciously seen Bill Gates plastered over the home page of both www.msn.com and www.msn.co.uk on-and-off all morning, it never dawned on me to read what the story might Read More
posted Tuesday, February 01, 2005 2:29 PM by jhoward | (Comments Off)
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VMRC - simultaneous sessions

This is fantastic. I love using the Virtual Machine Remote Console for accessing VMs running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, but it never dawned on me until I saw this blog entry by Peter Provost, that you could run up two instances of the VMRC client Read More
posted Friday, January 28, 2005 10:32 AM by jhoward | (Comments Off)
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Blogcast on Channel9 - the name is here to stay!

How cool is this - Robert Scoble just posted up on channel 9 about Blogcasting. My colleague Eileen has already recorded couple of blogcasts - for example here, and I've done a series of blogcasts to explain about VSMT - there's lots more in the Read More
posted Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:35 PM by jhoward | (Comments Off)
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