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Windows OS Licensing calculator is available online

I thought this link was worth posting. A few days back a new calculator was posted on microsoft.com which makes it easier to assess operating system licensing costs for virtualization use. Note that the calculator only takes account of the host operating Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:39 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Running the Windows Server 2003 Admin Tools on Windows Vista

Here's a handy KB article just published if you want to run the Windows Server 2003 (SP1) Administrative Tools from a Windows Vista client machine. There's also a list of known problems with some of the management tools and workarounds where they are Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:09 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments

You can now download pre-prepared VHDs

Good news. I've just noticed the launch of the "VHD Test Drive Program". In a nutshell, this is a capability to be able to download evaluation enterprise software pre-configured in a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) to run under Virtual Server 2005 R2. Take a Read More...
Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 11:43 AM by jhoward | 6 Comments

FTP servers appear read-only in ISA Server 2004

A problem I've been doing some headscratching with recently I managed to solve this evening - hopefully this will prove useful for others. And yes, before you ask about the subject line, I did have ISA 2006 installed at one point, but went back to ISA Read More...
Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 7:20 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 2

Continuing the configuration of a secure wireless network, this part deals with configuring the IAS server to recognise authentication requests from your wireless device. The first part of configuring IAS is configuring a RADIUS client. In this case, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:59 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 1

So I've got a few blog posts which piece together something I've been trying to do (and finally got working) since moving to Seattle. Namely - set up a secure wireless network. Now, I did have a wireless network at home when I was in England, but it wasn't Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 10:16 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments

Secure Wireless LAN Solution Webcast: Microsoft's Authentication Infrastructure with Aruba Networks' Mobile Edge

This webcast coming up next week took my eye as I've recently put in a (hopefully) secure wireless network at home over the past few weeks since moving over to the US. There's a few blog posts about that and some of the pain which has been involved - Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:19 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2

I've just noticed that Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 will be available next month. Some of the more significant changes are the expanded Exchange mailbox limit to 75GB, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). In addition, SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:45 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments

Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Licensing Changes for Virtualization

Announced to day at the World Wide Partner Conference , Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (DCE) has undergone some revisions effective from 1st October 2006: It will be available through Volume Licensing License rights allow an unlimited number Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:40 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3

Just seen that this is now available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx Cheers, John. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:32 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Shadow Copy failures: Scheduled task fails with General page initialization failed, error 0x8007000d.

I've rippled through quite a few nagging problems since my server failure at home a few weeks ago. One of the more intriguing problem I only noticed a couple of days ago. One server had not been running scheduled Shadow Copies. When you schedule shadow Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:00 AM by jhoward | 5 Comments

Webcast series on Virtualization

You know how sometimes you become so focussed on one thing, you can lose touch with everything else going on around you? So my apologies on this one, only just found out about a series of six webcasts this month around virtualization. The first two are Read More...
Posted Friday, June 16, 2006 1:17 PM by jhoward | 3 Comments

Microsoft Codename Whistler Advanced Server is alive and well

Well nearly anyway. Long story about how I found this one, but if you run the Windows XP SP2 32-bit winver.exe on a Windows Server 2003 x64 SP1 machine, you get the screen shot below :) Maybe I should file a bug? Cheers, John. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:21 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments

WSUS SP1 (Windows Server Update Services) download link

Just spotted that WSUS SP1 is available for download. SP1 now supports updating machines running Windows Vista, comes with a newer version of MSDE and supports SQL Server 2005. Gives me my weekend upgrade task at home :) Follow this link for the WSUS Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:08 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments

Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows SBS 2003 with SP1

Hot off the press (released yesterday) is a document providing information about installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 specifically on Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 with SP1 installed. Download link is here . Read More...
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 5:07 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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