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How to Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization in VS2005R2 SP1 Beta

Once you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1, you'll notice a check box on the properties page for a virtual machine as shown below - it's as simple as checking the box (on by default). Have fun - and remember, this is Beta code - only install Read More
posted Friday, April 28, 2006 10:35 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1 download link and availability details

Although on the Windows virtualization team here, it's heads down working on the next generation of virtual machine support to be built into Windows Longhorn server with a "hypervisor" architecture, we're absolutely not sitting still on the Virtual Server Read More
posted Friday, April 28, 2006 9:59 AM by jhoward | 18 Comments
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DHCP Client service required for Dynamic DNS Registration

One of those oddities I discovered a couple of days ago after trying to tune down my IIS box which is configured with a static IP address. I stopped the DHCP Client service as I figured (incorrectly) that it wouldn't be needed due to not using DHCP for Read More
posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:43 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Installing or Accessing VSMT help on a Windows XP machine.

I thought this was worth mentioning after I received an email today with a question about VSMT. I answered the email (hopefully with the correct answer!), but would have been able to give a more complete answer if I had had the VSMT help file to hand. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:53 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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ISA 2004 Web Publishing HTTP Filter stops default website page URL redirection

Quick questions: In a firewall, if you're presented with a checkbox asking if you want to block requests with ambigious extensions, what would you do? I'm guessing the answer from 99% of you would be "of course, I want to be as secure as Read More
posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:35 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Website Photo Album Generating Software

Hopefully this will help someone who's not necessarily adept at creating photo web-sites using FrontPage for example. Since moving to Seattle nearly a month ago now, I've been meaning to find a decent way of building a flexible web-site for sharing photos Read More
posted Monday, April 24, 2006 2:04 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting

I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing coincidence, I happened to have a copy of it open and reading it just as the email came in. David & his colleage, Mark Russinovich regularly give courses Read More
posted Friday, April 21, 2006 8:26 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Register & Unregister a DLL from Windows Explorer

Back in my developer days when I was building DLLs and OCXs, I was constantly registering and unregistering DLLs using the command line (find me a dev who isn't a command line junkie - I still have two prompts open as I type this). As time's gone on, Read More
posted Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:20 AM by jhoward | 5 Comments
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Virtual Server Cluster - Move workload on CPU spike

Here's a good question emailed to me yesterday. If you seen the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering demos during events such as IT Forum last year, in addition to the planned & unplanned failover as per my blogcasts a few months ago, we include Read More
posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:37 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Updated MOM Management Pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 Released

A revised version of the MOM management pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 was released late last week. It can be used against hosts running Virtual Server 2005 RTM and R2. OverviewThis Management Pack provides monitoring and reporting for the following Read More
posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:28 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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NVRAM settings in Virtual Server 2005 R2

....so I have to thank my bosses boss for pointing this one out (and I guess this means I've also found out who the third reader of this blog is :) ), but there's also a little known method, SetConfigurationValue, in the Virtual Server 2005 R2 COM Read More
posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:59 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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PXE boot in Virtual Server 2005 R2 after an OS is installed in a VM

I had an email from Kari this afternoon asking what key should be used to trigger PXE-booting of a VM under Virtual Server 2005 R2 after an OS is already present on the hard disk. Kari pointed out it worked if there was no OS previously installed (as Read More
posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:57 PM by jhoward | 3 Comments
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Windows Vista Webcasts Next Week

Just seen the list of webcasts for next week - there's a couple on the list worth mentioning. All times are PST (add 8 hours for UK time) Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Windows Vista for the Enterprise (Level 200)Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:30 Read More
posted Friday, April 07, 2006 6:29 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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The switch is on but no-one's home

You'd think this was an easy question to answer - how do you turn the lights on? During the day, it's easy in my new office - turn on the (upside-down) switch on the wall. I've worked in offices before where lights are controlled by dialling numbers Read More
posted Friday, April 07, 2006 6:19 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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WinHEC 2006 and Windows Virtualization

The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006 being held in at the Washington State Convention and Trade Centre in Seattle on 23rd to 25th May this year will provide a lot of further information on Windows Virtualization. There is a whole (sub-)track Read More
posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:23 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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And time time sponsored by ......urist is 01:02:03 04/05/06

(Sponsor removed to keep legal happy - brits will understand exactly what the subject means!) So it's 29 days early for me (being a Brit who do dates the "correct" way - ie dd/mm/yy, and boy is that still confusing me being over here), but tonight at three Read More
posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:02 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Linux Support in VS2005 R2 KB Article

Here's the link to the KB article I referred to yesterday for third party operating system (read Linux today) under Virtual Server 2005 R2. CheersJohn. Read More
posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:39 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) San Diego - April 24th-28th

Previously having been UK based, I haven't been directing people to US based conference information. However, given some of the announcments yesterday about Virtual Server, the fact that Steve B was the person who kicked off the Linux support under Virtual Read More
posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:30 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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VHD Licensing

Quick blog to respond to several queries which have been directed at me today which needs a little clarification - this is with respect to the number of companies who have licensed the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) file format now increased Read More
posted Monday, April 03, 2006 4:15 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Linux Support in Virtual Server 2005 R2

Co-inciding with the announcment of Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition being free, it was also announced that Virtual Machine Additions for Linux additions are available for download along with the list of varients which will be supported: -Red Read More
posted Monday, April 03, 2006 5:28 PM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition goes Free

I guess that now I'm part of the VM team rather than being an "inside-outsider", I can blog this authoritatively. Not that it's the best kept secret in the world - it appears that someone from Microsoft leaked this information to several sources last Read More
posted Monday, April 03, 2006 9:24 AM by jhoward | 12 Comments
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