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Automating VM Compacting and Archiving
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I apologise in advance - this is probably the *WORST* bit of scripting I have ever written. However, this is stage one and no doubt it will undergo many months of optimisation before I'm finished - it does the job, that's about it. As I alluded to a few...
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Licensing Change
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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Up to yesterday, the VHD format was available for licensing from Microsoft. Where as that still exists for those that have previously licensed the format, the VHD format is also now available to everyone under the Open Specification Promise. There's lots...
Try the Virtual PC 2007 Beta
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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I meant to publish this earlier today, but I've been on a course with flakey Internet. Ben was on the ball though - for more info on how to sign up for the Virtual PC 2007 Beta, more details are on his blog . Cheers, John.
FTP servers appear read-only in ISA Server 2004
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over 7 years ago
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John Howard -MSFT
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A problem I've been doing some headscratching with recently I managed to solve this evening - hopefully this will prove useful for others. And yes, before you ask about the subject line, I did have ISA 2006 installed at one point, but went back to ISA...