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John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Backing up Windows Sharepoint Services
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Fri, Dec 23 2005
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Although I have a fair few ideas as to mini-projects to complete over the Christmas & New Year holiday, it will probably come as no surprise to many of you that there is always the possibility that family will get in the way ;) On the assumption that...
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Windows Vista December CTP (Build 5270)
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Thu, Dec 22 2005
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So todays plan was to talk all about Windows Vista Build 5270. I managed to upgrade the BIOS of my new Toshiba M3 laptop yesterday and get the build up and running, complete with Aero Glass. Unfortunately, I was running on battery this morning and the...
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now on MSDN
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Wed, Dec 21 2005
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Just noticed this this morning - Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now available on MSDN subscriber downloads (subject to the usual MSDN licensing restrictions). Remember you can download a 180 day trial of Virtual Server 2005 R2 from here . For those of you...
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Clarification of Moving Virtual Machines in saved states between hosts
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Mon, Dec 19 2005
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Here's some useful info if you need to move Virtual Machines between one host and another when they are in a saved state (as opposed to cleanly shutdown). Generally, to do this, you must have identical hardware and versions of Virtual Server meaning:...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Part 25: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Integrated Auth
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Fri, Dec 16 2005
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Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The final part to the RPC/HTTPS series shows you how to alter the configuration we have such that Outlook 2003 can move seamlessly between external and internal connectivity through the use...
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Windows Server 2003 R2 Print Management Console - what can it manage?
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Thu, Dec 15 2005
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A few other queries have been filtering through since Windows Server 2003 R2 went "RTM" last week. One such query relates to whether the Print Management Console in Windows Server 2003 R2 can only manage printers which are on print servers running Windows...
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Which FSMO role is the most important?
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Wed, Dec 14 2005
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I've been doing a few technical interviews in the UK of late, and anyone who mentions Active Directory on their CV usually gets this question - which is the most important FSMO role? In fact, there's a second part to the question - why? There wasn't any...
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Exchange 2003 SP2 under Virtual Server 2005 R2
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Tue, Dec 13 2005
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More blogging this for my own reference rather than it being really new information. KB Article 320220 documents the support policy for Exchange Server 2003 running under Virtual Server 2005 R2 - what you can do, and more importantly what you can't do...
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Weekend Jobs. I give in, I'll never make a DBA but at least Virtual Server loves me.
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Mon, Dec 12 2005
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So regular readers will know that I tend to do home sysadmin tasks at the weekend. This one was no exception, apart from it being my birthday on Sat, so I took the day off ;). Sunday, a different matter, apart from the slight hangover. So what started...
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Windows Server 2003 R2 and Virtual Server
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Mon, Dec 12 2005
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Common question I've seen raised a few times recently. Can you use Windows Server 2003 R2 either as a guest or a host for Virtual Server 2005 R2? Yes, absolutely. Remember Windows Server 2003 R2 is simply Windows Server 2003 SP1 with additional functionality...
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DFS Namespace Active Directory blob size in Server 2003 R2
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Fri, Dec 9 2005
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Another question asked on Wednesday evening's Intro to R2 event was about the blob size limitation in Domain Based (ie Active Directory integrated) DFS-Namespaces. Has it changed since Windows Server 2003 SP1? The answer is no, the same limits apply....
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Where can I get hold of Windows Server 2003 R2
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Thu, Dec 8 2005
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I've had several emails today following last nights TechNet event - an Introduction to Windows Server 2003 R2. The most popular question by far is how can people get hold of it? The answer is on microsoft.com, where you can either register to receive...
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Windows Server 2003 R2 Event - Tomorrow in Reading
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Tue, Dec 6 2005
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Just realised I hadn't posted up info about this one before. With Windows Server 2003 R2 "RTM'ing" (Releasing To Manufacture) today, I'll be co-presenting a TechNet event, "An Introduction to Windows Server 2003 R2" with Samm DiStasio, Director of Windows...
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And Virtual Server 2005 R2 just became cheaper again....
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Tue, Dec 6 2005
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The UK Press launch of Windows Server 2003 R2 was today in London - one little snippet (there's lots to say about it really - will add more tomorrow) is that bundled in with Windows Server 2003 R2 will be an option to purchase Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise...
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Download Virtual Machine additions for Virtual Server 2005 R2
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Tue, Dec 6 2005
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As so many of you emailed me directly after previous entries who found it difficult to get hold of the Virtual Machine additions hotfix from KB 900076 (which is still unfortunately out of date), I'm relieved to say the version of the virtual machine additions...
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Winter Fun Pack 2005? - download links
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Mon, Dec 5 2005
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So with Christmas now fast approaching - to be honest, it doesn't seem to so much as "fast approach" these days as accelerate at terminal velociy - advent calendars have been around for a few days with the kids looking forward to opening them first thing...
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Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 5 of 5
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Fri, Dec 2 2005
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If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. The last part of this mini series is where we setup...
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Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 4 of 5
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Thu, Dec 1 2005
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If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend, yesterday, I ripped the environment apart to build it again from scratch so you can see how I built it. In part 3, the new cluster group for the virtual machine...
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