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John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Technet event codes - a seasonal alternative
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Eileen recently explained in her blog what 200, 300 and 400 meant as levels of experience needed to be able to make the most out of Microsoft sessions. However, after reading this comment , and as it's nearly christmas, here's an alternative version which...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 System Administration Webcasts
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
There are two forthcoming webcasts on Windows Server 2003 System Administration taking place early in the new year. Part 1: 5th January 2005 17:30-19:00 GMT (09:30-11:00 Pacific Time (GMT-8)) This session covers Windows Server 2003 administration from...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Scripting Guys Webcast Week 2 - 24th January 2005
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
The scripting guys did a great job with a series of webcasts under the banner of "Scripting Week 1" earlier this year. They included topics such as "WMI is not a Four-Letter Word" and "Scripting Files and Folders Makes Me Happy". The week 1 webcasts are...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Group Policy Webcast series
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
Matt Hester recently finished a great series of 14 webcasts about the ins and outs of Group Policy. If you missed these the first time round, or just want to know more about group policy, they're available for re-run on the Microsoft Technet site .
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Blogcasts - surely a typo I hear you say.
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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No, it's not a typo! A "blogcast" is probably a new term to you as it's been made up by the IT Pro Evangelism team in the UK (not quite true, but it's nice to think we got there first). A blogcast in this context is a webcast delivered through blogs....
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows 2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
Although published a few years ago, one of the most useful books I keep coming back to is "Windows 2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration" by Thomas Eck. As an IT Professional with a development background, this book has proved invaluable time...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
XP Virtual Desktop Powertoy under Windows Server 2003 (The ITPro way....)
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I really like the Virtual Desktop manager powertoy for XP . Unfortunately, it's just not available under Windows Server 2003. Or is it? Read on.... Part of my on-going mission is to run Windows Server 2003 as my main desktop. Not because I'm sadistic...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Free Technet IT Forum Highlights all-day event in Birmingham on Jan 13th.
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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The registration site for the IT Forum Highlights event in Birmingham Thursday January 13th, 2005 is now open. This event is free of charge and being held at the National Motorcycle Museum . There are 15 70-minute sessions running throughout the day,...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Updated document - changes to functionality in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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There is a revised version of a document just posted on microsoft.com describing the changes in functionality in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. It reflects Microsoft's early thinking about Service Pack 1 and its implications for developers. Note...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Virtual Server under Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC1 Early Experiences
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I went the whole hog this morning and installed Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC1 on my main laptop, not under Virtual Server or Virtual PC as I blogged about yesterday. Now I don't recommend this to anyone as a rule, but there's a fair chance when working...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
New windows not opening in IE? Use the Knowledge Base - it knows a lot of stuff!
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
Internet Explorer on my test Windows Server 2003 box has been playing up for a couple of days - every time I clicked a link which opened a new window, I got a blank window with nothing in the address bar. Annoying, but sometimes you don't have time to...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Display build number and OS version on desktop
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Something which you often see Microsoft people do in their demonstrations is have the Operating System description and build number displayed on their desktop. While sysinternals do a fabulous job with their Background Info (bginfo) tool (in fact I use...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Slipstreamed Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC1 Screen Shots
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over 7 years ago
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I've posted a few screen shots of Windows Server 2003 SP1 Release Candidate 1 to give you a flavour.... To do this, I first built a slip-stream ISO of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and installed it under Virtual PC. There's lots of information out...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) is now available for download.
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Apart from a plethora of security enhancements, there are some pretty compelling reasons to take an early look at SP1. Apart from the built in firewall which is akin to the XP SP2 firewall, but better, the two features I particularly like are the Post...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
VSMT (Virtual Server 2005 Migration Toolkit) demo - see it live in Edinburgh
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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VSMT is a piece of cake! VSMT stands for " V irtual S erver (2005) M igration T ookit" and is the P2V (Physical to Virtual) toolset for Virtual Server 2005. VSMT allows you to migrate a physical server running NT4 SP6A, Windows 2000 SP4 or later, or Windows...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows Messenger 5.1 available for download
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Windows Messenger 5.1 (English) is now available for download. I've been running the 5.1 beta for a while now internally at Microsoft. For me, it's great in that I can sign in to both a corporate service and a .NET service at the same time from the Internet...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows XP and Office XP in Welsh
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over 7 years ago
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Did you know you can now use Windows XP and Office XP in Welsh with the free interface pack downloads. Anything I read in Welsh may as well be double-dutch, but for the welsh speaking among us, this will be invaluable.
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP - free download
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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The Winter Fun Pack 2004 for Windows XP was recently published on microsoft.com. The download includes: Stunning Holiday visualizations, skins and PowerToys for Windows Media Player 10. Winter Fun Wallpaper Changer and Holiday Elf Dancer. Holiday music...
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