John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions
OK, so I'm a couple of months behind the times.... but in case you aren't already aware, there's a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/24/2009
Hyper-V Fixed VHD creation
As Ben mentioned last year, creating a large fixed size VHD in Hyper-V can be a lengthy operation as...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/23/2009
Hyper-V floppy trivia
"When I were a lad" (you have to say that in a northern British accent for authenticity), I used to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/22/2009
Hyper-V energy drink
Just thought I'd add a quick blog entry - cool thing at the office today. Cans of Hyper-V ‘Pure...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/13/2009
Hyper-V Resolving Event ID 4096
Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/28/2008
HVRemoteLatestVersion
START HVREMOTE VERSION TAG Version=1.08 TAG Date=9th September 2013 TAG...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/19/2008
How to detect UAC elevation from VBScript
While working on the next version of HVRemote yesterday evening, one of the things I wanted to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/19/2008
Test
START HVREMOTE VERSION TAG Version=0.3 TAG Date=19th November 2008 TAG...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/18/2008
Configure Hyper-V Remote Management in seconds
Update 19th Nov - v0.3 now released! It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/14/2008
How to use uniquely identify a virtual machine in Hyper-V
When managing a large number of virtual machines, there is often a need to tag it in some way with...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/16/2008
Virtualization launch day
Today is (was) Virtualization Launch day. Although the keynote presentations were streamed live (in...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/08/2008
Connection Manager Administration Kit for Vista
Curiosity got the better of me. When I was analyzing why Hyper-V Remote Management didn't always...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/09/2008
Hyper-V: Eight useful links and tidbits for 08-08-08
I've had a few links I've been meaning to post up for some time now, so here's a small collection of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/08/2008
Hyper-V: Why does Hyper-V Manager not always work over VPN connection? Access Denied or RPC server unavailable errors.
This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/08/2008
Hyper-V: Why is networking reset in my VM when I copy a VHD?
This is a question I’ve seen come up a few times so figured it was time to examine why in a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/22/2008
Hyper-V: MAC Address allocation and apparent network issues MAC collisions can cause
In a physical only world, you don’t usually have to worry about MAC addresses that much as each NIC...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/15/2008
Hyper-V: RTM available on Windows Update
Just a quick note to mention that Hyper-V RTM (KB950050) was made available on Windows Update...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/09/2008
Deploying Windows Vista SP1 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 3.
The first two parts of this mini-series dealt with deploying Windows Server 2008 – either as the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/03/2008
Hyper-V: Locate Hyper-V enabled servers in your domain
It seems an eternity ago (May 2007) that I put up a post describing how to determine which...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/30/2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 2.
This continues on from last week's post to show the changes needed to enable the "slipstreamed"...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/30/2008
Deploying Windows Server 2008 with "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM. Part 1.
This article walks through updating an WDS infrastructure such that Hyper-V RTM bits are...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/26/2008
Hyper-V: What are the uses for different types of virtual networks?
If you followed yesterdays post explaining the basics of networking in Hyper-V, you may be wondering...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/17/2008
Hyper-V RC1: Hyper-V launch failed; Processor 0x4 does not provide the features necessary to run Hyper-V (leaf 0x80000008, register 0x0: features needed 0x26, features supported 0x24).
There's been many emails and posts about this since I replied to a Technet Forum post a few weeks...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/16/2008
How does basic networking work in Hyper-V?
While it is possible to create some complex networking environments in Hyper-V, the basic concepts...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/16/2008
Hyper-V RC1 (KB950049) is available on Windows Update
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC1 is pre-release software. The RC1...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/28/2008
Hyper-V RC1 is available for download
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC1 is pre-release software. ...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2008
Windows XP SP3 on Hyper-V
As you are probably aware from KB949219 (RC0 release of Hyper-V), the Hyper-V Integration Services...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/07/2008
Hyper-V RC0 (KB949219) is now available on Windows Update
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software. Some of you...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/09/2008
Part 5. Domain client to Workgroup Server: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/04/2008
Part 4. Domain joined environment: Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/01/2008
Part 3 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2008
How to add the Hyper-V role to a Windows Server 2008 Server Core machine
Soon, I promise, I will be publishing part 3 which is the workgroup server-core version of “Hyper-V...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2008
"Idiots guide to Server Core" (aka Server Core Installation Option of Windows Server 2008 Step-By-Step Guide)
More for my own reference, as I keep having to search the Internet for this document and never...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/29/2008
Part 2 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
Part 1 - Hyper-V Remote Management: You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer ‘COMPUTERNAME’
Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
Vista SP1 Management Tools for Hyper-V RC0 download links
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software. The Vista SP1...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/24/2008
Hyper-V RC0 Release is available for download
Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software. Hot...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/17/2008
Windows Server Performance team explain Hyper-V
The Hyper-V team and the Windows Server Performance team have been working closely for a long time...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/02/2008
VMBus fails to load (device cannot find enough free resources Code 12) on a Windows Server 2008 x86 virtual machine under Hyper-V
There is one particular scenario where you could be faced with this when booting a VM using Hyper-V....
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/29/2008
Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC?
This question frequently comes up, but most often is not the question people mean to ask. As...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/28/2008
HTTP Error 500 from Virtual Server Admin Site - mstsc /admin, not mstsc /console
Sometimes you find things out the hard way. This one started bugging me a few weeks ago, so I...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/17/2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 4)
Part four of my weekend project is to add the Hyper-V management applications to Terminal Server web...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 3)
Part three of my weekend project involves a little more reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 2)
Part two of my weekend project involves a little reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to allow RPC...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008
Terminal Services Gateway and Terminal Services Web Access using Hyper-V (Part 1)
So over the weekend, I found myself with a few spare hours, and got back to “playing with...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008
How to turn on Hardware Assisted Virtualization
Happy New Year!I've had quite a few direct emails about this in the last few weeks, so it's probably...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/09/2008