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John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Remote Desktop Assistant 1.0
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Wed, Apr 27 2005
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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 I...
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VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future
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Wed, Apr 27 2005
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Just to show that I'm not completely biased towards Microsoft Technology (although I do passionately believe most of it is really great), here's a blog entry which may possible raise some eyebrows. With the huge talk around the future of virtualisation...
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Virtual Server 2005 comparison with Virtual PC 2004
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Wed, Apr 27 2005
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I am currently updating my slidedeck for the webcast I'm doing this Friday on Virtual Server bringing it up to date in terms of the recent MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) announcements. I got to the slides comparing the differences between the Virtual...
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MSDTC Event ID 4143 and 53258 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 Domain Controller
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Tue, Apr 26 2005
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I got hit by a problem on a freshly installed virtual machine using a slipstreamed SP1 installation and promoted to a domain controller. Two events were appearing in the event log which were unexpected. Source: MSDTC Event ID: 4143 Information MS DTC...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Watch those group policy settings carefully
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Tue, Apr 26 2005
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Many people get caught out with group policy - I stand up and tell people all about some of the gotchas on a regular basis. You know, things like making sure you understand the double negatives such as Disabling "Do not keep history of recently opened...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Virtual Server - cautionary tale about configuration files.
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Mon, Apr 25 2005
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Do you ever have one of those evening where you dig yourself a deeper and deeper hole, and end up going to bed hoping the problem will sort itself out on a reboot in the morning and thinking about avoiding a re-install? Well, the morning is now here for...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Would you change your PC for $125,000? I would.
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Mon, Apr 25 2005
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If you want to make a difference, now is your chance. Just launched at the WinHEC (Windows Hardware & Engineering) conference is a competition running until October this year open to design teams, students and individual designers alike, to envision...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Minimising VHD size for WS2003 Enterprise SP1 in Virtual Server
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Sun, Apr 24 2005
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I was playing this weekend trying to get the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) size down to the barest minimum. I thought I did OK - WS2003 SP1 with Support Tools, Admin Pack, Group Policy Management Console, Small Office 2003 installation running Word+Excel patched...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Add notepad to your send-to options
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Fri, Apr 22 2005
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I was setting up a new virtual machine (for playing with Windows Server 2003 R2 as it happens, but that's for another day) this morning and getting frustrated when you double-click files which have no application associated with them. On most machines...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Listen to what Steve Ballmer had to say about Virtualisation first hand
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Thu, Apr 21 2005
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Following the HUGE Virtual Server announcements made by Steve Ballmer a couple of days ago at the MMS conference, if you want to here what Steve had to say first hand, click here to hear his keynote speech streamed directly over the Internet. On that...
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Small Business Server (SBS2003) Webcasts and User Group
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Thu, Apr 21 2005
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Small Business Server (SBS2003) is a really great product for (unsurprisingly) small and medium businesses to operate a one-stop server shop comprising most of the major server components from Microsoft. For example, email, firewall, remote access, collaboration...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit - UK Promotion Offer....
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Thu, Apr 21 2005
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The Windows Server 2003 resource kit will be hitting the streets next month. This is a fabulous resource to have to hand, and is now a full seven volumes covering the entire Windows Server family. The good news for UK people is that by pre-ordering now...
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How to sign up for the Virtual Server 2005 SP1 Beta
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Wed, Apr 20 2005
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To participate in the beta program, you need to: Go to http://beta.microsoft.com . (Note: You need a Passport account to sign in. If you don’t have one, BetaPlace will help you create one.) Once logged into Beta Place with a Passport account, provide...
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Virtual Server MMS Announcement (2 of 2) - Vision and Strategy of Virtual Computing Environments
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Wed, Apr 20 2005
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The second of my blog entries about the MMS announcements made only minutes ago by Steve Ballmer relate to the longer term strategy for Virtualisation within Microsoft. You can see my commentary highlighting the shorter term vision for Virtual Server...
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Virtual Server MMS Announcement (1 of 2) - VS2005 SP1. Linux is OK :-)
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Wed, Apr 20 2005
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I've just been listening to Steve Ballmer give his keynote session at the MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) and in particular wanted to tell you about some really significant changes to Virtual Server and Virtualisation in general which are happening...
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Resolving Event ID 40961 LSASRV - DNS/prisoner.iana.org
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Wed, Apr 20 2005
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This was an interesting problem I was discussing with a customer today. The customer had a concerning looking error appearing periodically in the event log: Event ID: 40961 Source: LSASRV Version: 5.2 Symbolic Name: NEGOTIATE_INVALID_SERVER Message: The...
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Virtual Server 2005 eLearning Course is now available
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Wed, Apr 20 2005
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A new self-paced on-line course (also available offline) is now available entitled "Using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005". The course takes around 5 hours to complete and prepares students to migrate legacy applications and consolidate server functions...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Access Based Directory Enumeration - Download now on microsoft.com
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Tue, Apr 19 2005
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Following my blogcast in February and subsequently posting the markShareforABDE tool for download a few days later, the official download is now available. There's a GUI thrown in as well for good measure for those who try to steer clear of the command...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
How-to install windows to an external USB drive
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Tue, Apr 19 2005
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Part of the ongoing saga with my backup solution (see earlier posts today) was a seemingly fantasic way of ensuring that out on the road, should my laptop hard-disk fail, I'd still be able to continue working. The theory was simple. Install a base copy...
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Do you use blogging software?
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Tue, Apr 19 2005
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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...
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WS-RM (WS-ReliableMessaging) specification has been submitted to OASIS
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Tue, Apr 19 2005
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A significant press release was made this morning regarding WS-ReliableMessaging or WS-RM moving one step closer to being an industry standard. WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) is the first specification to pass through the full WS-* Workshop Process and...
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Virtual Server 2005 Solution Accelerator - a 'must read'
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Tue, Apr 19 2005
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So what else good has come out of my "downtime" (yes, the restore is still running - 13% and counting slowly so far). Well, one thing which I really recommend you take a look at is the Solution Accelerator for Consolidating and Migrating LOB Applications...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
My reason for not backing up
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Tue, Apr 19 2005
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Somewhat of a cynical post, but there's always a bright side to even the darkest of corners. So here's a "glass half full" reason why not to do a backup, or at least not to do a backup in the way I tried yesterday. I run Windows Server 2003 on my main...
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Changing default number of machines users can add to a domain
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Mon, Apr 18 2005
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Most of you know the limit of 10 times authenticated users can join machines to a domain. Upping the limit, or removing it is a very simple thing to do, however everytime someone asks me, I have to go back to look it up again. At least if I have it on...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Microsoft Knowledgebase is now available as an RSS feed
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Fri, Apr 15 2005
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It had to happen - RSS everywhere, and this is another great example. The Help and Support site ( http://support.microsoft.com ) can now provide an RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader program with daily feeds of new articles relating to the products...
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