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John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Turn Off Low Disk Space Notification
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Tue, May 31 2005
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Next part of a series of blogs about changes to my home network, but equally as valuable to anyone who runs Virtual Machines in the sort of way I'm going to explain. For performance and due to lack of physical memory on my Virtual Server host, I've seperated...
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ISA Server cannot load the property page 0xc0040357 on export or backup
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Mon, May 30 2005
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How to fix the following error on ISA 2004 backup or export: ISA Server cannot load the property page. Error: 0xc00403557 The Server referenced by Array [ArrayName] does not exist A bit off topic for my usual blogging activities, but I had to share the...
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May I move an OEM license for Windows to a virtual machine?
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Fri, May 27 2005
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This question was asked of me at the roadshow this week and I expect this is going to become a far more common situation with the use of tools like Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT) increasing as organisations consolidate and virtualise environments...
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Smartphone is smarter than I gave it credit for
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Fri, May 27 2005
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Bit of a Friday blog this, but this may be something you didn't know or maybe I just should have read the manual :-). I've been using an SPV C500 Smartphone since joining Microsoft last September. It's a great phone, but I've had one small annoyance....
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Account Lockout Policy cannot be changed and is greyed out
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Thu, May 26 2005
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I received an email overnight asking about greyed out settings in the local security policy on a newly installed Windows Server 2003 machine. In my group policy session on Tuesday, I was talking around this whole area, and the reason for it is related...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Virtual Server 2005 comparison with Virtual PC 2004 - definitive statement
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Wed, May 25 2005
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Now this is worth a read having just found about it internally. Megans whitepaper which I blogged about recently is now available in its completed from on microsoft.com. The whitepaper discusses in detail the differences between Virtual PC 2004 and Virtual...
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Running Windows Server 2003 SP1 under Virtual Server 2005
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Wed, May 25 2005
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I was speaking to Pertti from Finland earlier today about a common problem people are finding with Windows Server 2003 SP1 running under Virtual Server 2005. Coincidentally, I also had two people ask me also exactly the same thing today following my Virtual...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Group Policy resetting of local user passwords
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Tue, May 24 2005
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Quick blog today - I'm presenting at the Technet Roadshow event in Birmingham today (Harrogate is next week, and London the week following), and am connected to the Internet by something which must be a 2K dial-up line shared between 20 users - slow doesn...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Executive Chat - Windows Server Vision
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Mon, May 23 2005
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Now this really is something you will want to attend online on 15th June at 5PM (UK time). How about a chance to ask whatever you want about where Microsoft is taking server operating systems (I can think of a few things....)! Bob Muglia is the Senior...
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Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2003) SP1 - Ask your questions
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Fri, May 20 2005
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Following my blog entry a couple of days ago, I've just found out about an online chat taking place next week on 24th May at (gulp) 11PM for those of use in the UK (3PM PST). However, it will be an invaluable opportunity to pose your questions or concerns...
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Virtual Server 2005 Cluster Resources, Chats and more
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Fri, May 20 2005
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There's an interesting article recently published by Mike Otey which leads you through building a virtualized Windows Server 2003 cluster. You will need to be a paidup member to view unfortunately. Thanks Adam for that link. You can find similar information...
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Roll your own service account
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Fri, May 20 2005
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Something which came up a couple of days ago was a question about creating a service account for a custom service, but not being able to logon interactively with it. The solution is very simple through the use of User Rights Assignment. Fire up the Local...
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Colossus Rebuild at Bletchley Park - Tony Sales presentation
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Thu, May 19 2005
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I felt very privileged to be able to attend a BCS (British Computer Society) event held last night, purely co-incidentally, at the Microsoft Campus in Reading where I happen to work. The event was presented by Tony Sale and about how he led the project...
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Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2003) SP1 Now Available
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Thu, May 19 2005
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Just gone live is Service Pack 1 for Small Business Server SP1. This builds on the Service Pack 1 release for Windows Server 2003, but is tuned more specifically to the overall capabilities of SBS and introduces some additional features in this really...
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Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM)
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Thu, May 19 2005
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Here's (IMHO) an interesting webcast I've just found out about coming up next week covering a topic many people ask me about. The webcast is on 25th May starting at 11:30 PST (which should be, if my timezone calculator is correct 19:30 BST). In the webcast...
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Technet Sessions - Post Event Archive
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Thu, May 19 2005
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A few people emailed me asking where they could locate the download for the webcasts I recently gave, such as on Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Virtual Server 2005. I had to ask internally to find them - unfortunately, it's not as intuitive as I thought...
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DHCP Authorization problem - Event ID 1046
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Wed, May 18 2005
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I was speaking to a customer yesterday who was telling me about a problem he was having with DHCP in his reasonably small office network (something like three servers). He had recently upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and implemented Active Directory....
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TechEd Europe 2005 - Amsterdam 5th to 8th July. Early bird reminder
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Tue, May 17 2005
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Just a quick reminder that there are only three days left now to qualify for the "early bird discount" for TechEd Europe 2005 being held in Amsterdam from the 5th to 8th July, with 4th July as an addition pre-conference day packed full of content. For...
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Megan Davis - Virtual Server Superstar
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Mon, May 16 2005
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I blog about Virtual Server a lot (as you may have noticed), but I'm not alone. Megan Davis is a technical writer/author at Microsoft who especially focuses on Virtual Server & Virtual PC and is extremely active both internally within Microsoft answering...
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Bad day at the office - disk help needed please
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Mon, May 16 2005
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I know how you all love horror stories, so for what it's worth, here's my sob story for the day. The good news (if there can be such a thing) is that I have a (hopefully) reliable backup of my data as of the end of last week. The bad news is that my Seagate...
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Change System/Boot drive letter
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Mon, May 16 2005
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Due to some really strange disk partitioning I have on my laptop, I ended up in a situation where one operating system had an incorrect system or boot drive letter. Of course, through the Logical Disk Administrator in computer management, you get an error...
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It's Showtime on Technet
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Fri, May 13 2005
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Just gone live are a series of video recordings of live sessions on Technet UK. Come and choose from some of the best recordings of sessions for IT Pro's over the past few months from speakers including John Craddock, Andreas Luther, Jesper Johansson...
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Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1
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Thu, May 12 2005
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I've had a couple of people ask me about this over the past week, so rather than answer individually, here's the location for the latest version of the Group Policy Settings Reference spreadsheet. This spreadsheet lists Group Policy settings described...
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Security Configuration Wizard
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Wed, May 11 2005
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Topical after yesterdays webcast on Windows Server 2003 SP1, here's a link to documentation on SCW (Security Configuration Wizard) which contains lots of information to assist you in deployment, extensibility and troubleshooting. Apart from the quick...
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microsoft.com continues to amaze me
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Tue, May 10 2005
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I'm simply staggered at the size of the microsoft.com site, so it's not surprising when you find a dead useful page or sub-site up there which you never knew of before. If anyone knows of a link to the stats for microsoft.com, I'd love to hear from you...
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