James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
How to get PowerShell snapins to work on 64 bit
I mentioned a problem with 64bit Powershell in my previous post: 3 snap-ins I've wanted to use have...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/15/2008
Open-XML. This is what it's all about.
I have been saying for ages that most IT professionals really don't give two hoots about Open-XML....
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/15/2008
Doubts and Powershell, Hyper-V KeyValue pairs and Hash tables.
I've said a number of times that I think technical people are rarely secure in their own abilities;...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/14/2008
Surprise of the day. In praise of Roadchef.
A few days ago I posted in praise of McDonalds for their free WiFi. So I shouldn't have been...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/03/2008
A little bit of Microsoft Honesty.
I like Vista. And I like the fact that with Ultimate I can have a 64-bit, domain joined ,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/30/2008
Off topic. The Cost of fuel, market forces and being green
Part of my salary package working at Microsoft UK is a company car, for which Microsoft buys the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/29/2008
Surprise of the day: In praise of McDonalds
I'm working from home today - not so much to be green but I had a routine appointment with my Doctor...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/29/2008
Server 2008 Drives and GUIDs
One of the questions I've been asked a few times is what happens if I want to have lots of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/28/2008
The Hyper-v API Network interfaces
If you've read my post on adding disks to a Virtual machine, the techniques here should already feel...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/28/2008
The Hyper-V API - Disks
In an earlier post in this series (several posts ago now) I showed how the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/27/2008
Top travel tip. Use the calendar. Properly
One of the things that we noticed on the roadshow was the much better system for getting us...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/24/2008
You're not a professional without ...
I'm quite hardcore about Technet, having had it since 1993 myself I guess that's not really...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/23/2008
"Lady licensing" blog.
George has been telling everyone recently about Emma Healy's blog on Licensing. I don't often plug...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/23/2008
Eggsactly the wrong way to go about things.
We've had a mail thread running about what happened to Steve Ballmer in Hungary. If you...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/21/2008
The joy of feedback [again]
I make a point of saying at the roadshows that we read all the comments and take note of them I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/20/2008
Hyper-V RC-1 available for download
There was a slight hiccup which meant news appeared, disappeared and then re-appeared. But all the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/20/2008
Saturday morning fun: I can haz snowclones ?
Long ago I bought a book called "The New Hacker's Dictionary" - much of which is on-line. It...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/17/2008
The long tail, Music and the small bookshop
I've talked about the millennial thinking before. I've heard it said that the "iPod...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/16/2008
iSCSI, clustering and Hyper-V
One of the things I've been saying I'd blog for a while is how to set up a cluster on Hyper-V. Since...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/16/2008
On knowing your sh*t
It's been an interesting few days, Monday was the Glasgow road-show event and Thursday was our day...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/16/2008
An e-mail message I was unusually pleased to receive.
KC had a post recently about "E-mail overload" - so called, and arguing we shouldn't point...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/15/2008
More on the Hyper-V API
In which we see how to set the number of CPUs I started with getting MSVM Computer System objects -...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/11/2008
Moving VMs to Hyper-v...
There are 3 things I get asked regularly about Hyper-V. The first is "When can I get it ?". I've...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/09/2008
On Ninjas.
Over the weekend one of the many Davids I count among my friends mailed me a curious job title from...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/08/2008
A couple of Virtualization links
Over on the Virtualization blog Taylor Brown has posted some PowerShell examples. The first...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/07/2008
Ways to tidy up my PowerShell - including making a hash of stuff
Please excuse the bad pun... When I first wrote the function I posted to display the state of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/07/2008
Ah, the joy of feedback
As I mentioned before we're getting updates on the feedback from the roadshow: George has a report...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/06/2008
Demo of silverlight deep zoom
I can put any text I want here And more text here
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/05/2008
Something for the photographers: Silverlight Deep-zoom formerly "Sea-Dragon"
With all the other stuff I've been doing lately I'm champing at the bit to get out and take some...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/05/2008
Hyper-v Snapshots part 2.
In my last post I explained how snapshots work and gave a little bit of PowerShell for creating a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/03/2008
Hyper-v and Snapshots (Part 1)
We often talk about "rolling back" to a snapshot, but here, some of the snapshots we can...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/02/2008
A little more on PowerShell
I've been showing PowerShell on the roadshow, and Steve warning me about it becoming the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/01/2008
SCVMM: If you go down to connect today, you're sure of a nice surprise
There were rumours that it would be announced at MMS, but I didn't want to comment on them until the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/30/2008
Microsoft and VMware and approaches
We're two dates into our roadshow and I've twice been asked to do a comparison of VMware and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/26/2008
Humphrey Lyttelton. 1921-2008.
On the Roadshow we have been in Cinemas so it seemed appropriate to have a round of IT...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/26/2008
Newton's third Law of presentations
"Every reaction to presentation has an equal and opposite reaction" Well I guess I asked...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/25/2008
Accessing the Hyper-V API: disks.
... In which we create compact, mount, unmount vhds In my last post I said "There are two WMI...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/24/2008
On the road again ...
The whole team has been out on doing Technet Roadshows this week, first in Cardiff and then in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/24/2008
More on the accessing the Hyper-V API from Powershell
... In which we find VMs, them choose one, start them, stop them , and connect to them. I spent more...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/19/2008
Core! that firewall management has some tricks.
Quite a lot of the last few days has gone into preparation for the Road-Show and making sure I had...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/16/2008
SD cards (again)
I was about to say some things about Vista and TV when I realized I had actually said them a few...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/07/2008
Who says health and safety people have no sense of humour ?
This from a colleague who says her team's blog is far to serious for this kind of Friday afternoon...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/04/2008
Blockers. What would we want from IE 8... or 9
I have used this blog to grumble about "Flash turds" - those super-annoying adverts whose...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/03/2008
It's official, Office Open XML is an ISO standard
ISO have posted the official news to their web site, and the less than inspiring title,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/02/2008
Licensing event on 15th April
There's no getting away from it, licensing software gets complicated: in fact I've been know to joke...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/01/2008
Remote Server Admin tools for Vista
Hard on the heels of the news of management tools for Hyper-V , I find that the folks in Redmond...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/26/2008
Manage Hyper-V from Vista
I nearly leaked this ahead of time; as part of the Release Candidate for Hyper-V we have released a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/26/2008
VMware and Powershell
Fair's fair. I've taken VMware to task when they, or their bloggers, post something which I think is...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/24/2008
Powershell Tab expansion
One of the things which annoys me about Powershell is that having (in effect) extended the available...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/22/2008
We could be heroes ... just for one day.
Today's launch event was one of the best I've been to and the feedback from everyone I spoke to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/19/2008