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John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Scripting Clinic - what would you like to know?
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I'm considering putting together a full day UK based event, either in Reading or London probably in early July. The provisional title is the "Scripting Clinic" . This would be a full day of scripting for IT Pro's (rather than developers - no offence intended...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Stretching Directory Boundaries, Cross Platform Identity Management, Authentication and Security
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over 6 years ago
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These are all critical pain topics among enterprises the world over. Fear not though (at least if you're UK based). You are guaranteed a fantastic learning opportunity by attending one of two all-day events presented by John Craddock and Sally Storey...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Killing winlogon.exe remotely
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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No, not usually a good idea, I know. However, I was asked last night a "what would happen if...." question. Using taskkill, the process is identified as a critical system process. However, if you use pskill from sysinternals to kill winlogon on a remote...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
WMIC Samples
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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As promised, here are the sample WMIC commands I demonstrated in the Automating Windows Server 2003 session yesterday evening in Reading. Hope they are useful to you. Update static IP address wmic nicconfig where index=9 call enablestatic("192.168...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Access Based Directory Enumeration - markshareforABDE.exe utility download
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Following the myriad of emails I received, here's a link to markshareforABDE.exe as used in my blogcast about Access Based Directory Enumeration a few days ago. Many thanks to DuWayne Harrison at Microsoft in the US, the author of this tool for giving...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Expanding disk partitions when deploying using ADS and VSMT
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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At last nights Virtual Server 2005 Technet evening in Edinburgh, I was asked whether it was possible when migrating a system using VSMT if the hard disk could be expanded when deploying the image. Since arriving back home, I've now had a chance to try...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Shared Networking (NAT) workaround in Virtual Server 2005
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Following the Virtual Server technical overview event I presented in Manchester yesterday evening, I was asked about Shared Networking (NAT) which is present in Virtual PC 2004, but not in Virtual Server 2005 and whether there was a way to provide this...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Blogcast on Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) in Windows Server 2003 SP1
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
The Aussies beat me to this one. If you want to find out more about the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) new to Windows Server 2003 SP1, take a look at this excellent blogcast by Michael Kleef, a colleague and IT Evangelist from MS Austrialia. Nice...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
MSN Messenger 5.1 Tab Functions
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I just stumbled across Marts blog entry and thought this was such a cool way to use of the tabbed capability of Windows Messenger 5.1 to embed a view of your Exchange email. Had to share it! Nice one Mart & Stef- great tip.
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Blogcast: Access Based Directory Enumeration (A Windows Server 2003 SP1 New Feature)
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over 6 years ago
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Find out about one of those really cool new features of Windows Server 2003 SP1, Access Based Directory Enumeration in this latest blogcast recording. In a nutshell, ABDE causes the server to examine access rights to sub-directories on a share, only showing...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 as a client, MSN Toolbar Suite and Orca
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I'm going to have eat a few of my own words now... I blogged in December about the "IT Pro" way of getting an unsupported program to install on a Windows Server box without a hint of an SDK in site. I relent, the Orca tool is the best tool for the job...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC2 (Build 3790, v1433) released
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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The second release candidate (aka RC2) for Windows Server 2003 SP1 has now been released to the web. x32 download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=02734CEA-7A4B-4D95-B220-8E1708C3ED46&displaylang=en IA64/Itanium...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Technical Overview
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I'll be presenting a Technet evening session on 15th Febuary at the Regus, Manchester and also on 17th Febuary in the Spey Room, Microsoft Edinburgh for a technical overview of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. If you have already registered for either of...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Scriptomatic (revisited)
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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The Scripting Guys released version 2 of their "Scriptomatic" tool a couple of weeks ago. Don't be put off by the somewhat frivolous name - it has some very true value. One such example I frequently use is for the WQL queries in WMI filters when building...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
How-To install a certificate for SSL Encryption under IIS
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Following on from my post a couple of days ago about using MakeCert to generate a self-signed certificate, this is one way in which you can test that the generated certificate is working correctly for SSL authentication within IIS. It was almost worthy...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
How-to boost Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Guest Performance
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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One very easy win to gain fairly significant extra performance from your Virtual Server 2005 guest Virtual Machines is to use virtual SCSI disks instead of virtual IDE disks. Of course, a physical fast I/O subsystem on the host is going to make a far...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
PKI and Certificate Management Information in Windows Server 2003
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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While on the subject of Certificates/Encryption/IPSec/PKI in general yesterday, I was looking around for some good information on how PKI works to post up. One white paper which stuck-out from the pile was published in December last year (so it's reasonably...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
IIS 7.0 - a first look
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over 6 years ago
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I saw several demonstrations of an early cut of IIS 7 when I was over in Redmond a couple of weeks ago. Again it's Longhorn timeframe material, so much can change and there's little concrete information publicly available. Remember we're way before pre...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
How-to use MakeCert for trusted root certification authority and SSL certificate issuance
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over 6 years ago
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I wasn't originally going to blog this, but my colleague, Mat , and I were discussing encryption late last night. Mat was specifically interested in its use for security traffic in the context of SQL Reporting Service, but we got massively sidetracked...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
MSN Search Launched
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over 6 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
Kind of hard to miss the launch party. Well, as it happens I did :-) Even though I'd consciously seen Bill Gates plastered over the home page of both www.msn.com and www.msn.co.uk on-and-off all morning, it never dawned on me to read what the story might...
John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
The future of the Windows-centric IT Pro?
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over 6 years ago
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I looked at Monad briefly a couple of months ago - after all it's still a reasonably long way off yet, probably in the Longhorn timeframe. However, there's been a couple of articles just posted on the Internet looking at the future of "shell scripting...
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