For this series of four Blogcast recordings, I've reproduced a demonstration I did for a Technet Evening Session entitled "The New Features of Windows Server 2003" a few days ago. The particular feature is called "Install from Media", and is useful when...

A little off the beaten track for someone who works at Microsoft evangelising Windows, but following Ben Armstrongs recent blog posting here , here and here about getting OS/2 Warp 4.0 running under Virtual PC 2004, I just had to give it a go. After all...

Several people internally at Microsoft have commented that you should turn off Hyperthreading when you're running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, especially under load. It appears that the overhead of scheduling between logical processors gives either...

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...

An answer to a question that came up on the internal Microsoft discussion group for Virtual Server 2005 amused me. The question was what could you do if you lost the BIOS password for a virtual machine. In a physical machine, you can often move a jumper...

I have to admit, I'd never given a second thought to the origin of the use of "contoso". Contoso is one of a handful of domain names used in many Microsoft demonstrations. One question asked me this morning was where the name came from, with a suggestion...

Following my Technet session on the New Features of Windows Server 2003 Active Directory, scenario based, here's the scripts which I promised to post up. Hope they are useful. Even if you didn't attend the session, they give you a good example of how...

If you're interested in clustering under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, then this forthcoming webcast on Thursday 10th February 2005 at 19:30-21:00 UK Time (11:30AM - 1:00PM PST) by an expert in Virtual Server, Robert Larson, is a must. Abstract: Looking...

There is a forthcoming Webcast on Wednesday 9th Feb 16:00-17:30 UK Time (8AM-9:30AM PST) on the New Features of Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. For those of you who attended my TechNet session last night on the same subject, this should be a good...

I was asked a question about how to write to the Windows Event Log in a script following my TechNet session yesterday evening. Using the Windows Scripting Host wscript.shell object, the LogEvent method provides one way of achieving this. There are lots...

Numerous people have asked me what exact settings I used to recently record the series of VSMT blogcasts . The software I used to record the demonstrations was Windows Media Encoder , which is freely downloadable on Microsoft.com. (Note that this also...

Everyone knows that fizzy drinks are bad for your teeth. However, after extensive research (OK, so 8 days being over in America), I have a new theory. The first couple of days I was out there drinking "Soda", I kept hitting my gum onto my teeth every...

Following my session in Birmingham on 13th January, here's a list of the references I referred to. Apologies to all for the delay in posting this. Firstly, Jeremy Moskowitz's excellent book "Group Policy, Profiles, and Intellimirror for Windows 2003,...

Missed this one a couple of days ago (probably as I was still flying and have been jet-lagged since), but it looks pretty cool. Outlook Live combines the best of both MSN Hotmail® and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. You’ll stay organised and efficient...

AKA Another great reason to consider using Virtual Server 2005 for test/dev scenarios.... I was asked a question a couple of days ago, and I hadn't thought of using the VMRC client in this particular circumstance. I haven't tested it, but there's no reason...

Follow this link to find out more about what the program manager for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Kurt Schmucker, had to say about what's likely to be in the forthcoming service pack 1. I'm looking forward to playing with the Beta!

If you are using MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager) 2000 to manage your Terminal Servers, then have a look at the Windows Terminal Server Management Pack for MOM 2000 SP1 version 2 recently released to the Microsoft download site

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 pipeline...

The scale of the Microsoft campus is truly awesome. I'm over the Seattle for my first internal Microsoft conference this week, but thought this might amuse some people. I was out for a quiet meal last night and needed to get back to my hotel for 10:30...

Having a developer background, I'm one of those people who isn't scared off by scripting, . However, many IT Pro's shy away from it as one of those things best left to developers. However, a healthy appreciation of some of the scripting capabilities of...

This is one of those small almost unheard of "things you can do in Windows" tips. The left image below is a "normal" Windows Task Manager screen shot. If you double-click anywhere in the graphical part of the tab, it changes appearance to the screen on...

Learn more about Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) from Peter Meister, the Lead Product Manager for Windows Server 2003. Peter is a man who definitely knows what he's talking about, so don't miss the chance to miss out on this opportunity. On Thursday...

ActiveSync 3.8 is now available for download Of course, the official download page doesn't say anything about being supported under Windows Server 2003 (my main laptop OS), but it does work without any of the workarounds such as those I blogged about...

As promised, here's the last blogcast installment walking through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. This blogcast walks through deploying the disk image into the blank VM and seeing the...

I'm "virtually" (no pun intended) at the end in the series of blog entries walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. If you've missed out so far: Part one can be viewed here...