John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
Turning off differencing disks, and a Virtualisation Live and Uncut rerun anyone?
Thanks to everyone who attended the "Virtualisation Live & Uncut" TechNet evening at the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/14/2005
Part 15: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Completing email receiving through SMTP transfer
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.In this blogcast, we complete email...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/13/2005
New virtualisation and Self Managing Dynamic Systems content on microsoft.com
There's a few new and updated pages on microsoft.com following the announcments made earlier this...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/13/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 End-To-End Overview
If you missed yesterdays webcast exploring the three key areas of the upcoming Microsoft Windows...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/12/2005
Part 14: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Preparing to receive mail through SMTP transfer
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.This next blogcast raises the bar in...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/12/2005
Resolving SMTP error 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for user@domain.com Error 0x800CCC79
I was struggling with this error message today - everything I had found on the Internet suggested it...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/11/2005
Part 13: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Receive external email through POP3 polling
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.Unlucky 13 for some - it certainly was...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/11/2005
Self Managing Dynamic Systems update
Following my last post, here's a few links on microsoft.com which provide more information.A brief...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/10/2005
License changes for Windows Server - Virtualisation goes mainstream
BIG NEWS DAY FOR VIRTUALISATION TECHNOLOGY! As was just announced at SoftSummit in Santa Clara, CA...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/10/2005
Get TechNet Plus for half price
Thought you'd like this one if you live in the UK at least. Check out this page on microsoft.com,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/10/2005
Part 12: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Configuring outbound SMTP
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.Hot off the headphones, so to speak -...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/07/2005
64-bit Rocks!
...for a few days anyway. I went out and bought an AMD 3400 64 bit machine yesterday for my son who...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/05/2005
Silently Removing XP Games
I'm often sent questions by email about how to do x, how to do y, what does z do etc. This one was a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/04/2005
ADS 1.1 + VSMT Followup
As I blogged at the end of last week, Automated Deployment Services, or ADS Version 1.1 was recently...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/03/2005
Microsoft Virtualisation Roadmap
Just spotted this publicly available webcast on 4th October 1PM-2PM PST (9PM-10PM UK) which should...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/30/2005
Automated Deployment Services 1.1 (Including VSMT)
This truly is something I'd long since forgotten about a long while back - ADS 1.1 has been in Beta...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/29/2005
Microsoft Codename Max
I've just about finished sorting and cataloging some 400 digital photos I took on holiday last week...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/28/2005
DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication in Windows Server 2003 R2
Here's a link to a great overview whitepaper describing the Distributed File System Solution in...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
Virtual Server and TechNet Plus
OK, so I'm still going through 5,000,000 emails after 2 weeks away. So after me just posting about...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
Virtual Server and MSDN
Not quite as applicable for IT Pro's, but I know many of you do have an MSDN subscription as well as...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
Dilemmas, Upgrades and Decisions.
<Holiday Thoughts>Returning back to work mode. Holiday season for me now finally over this...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/26/2005
Cheaper Windows Server solution for mid-sized businesses
Just noticed a promotional combination offer running in the UK for a Windows Server System Solution...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/23/2005
Proxy server configuration
Always a co-incidence. I was writing a script a few days ago which essentially is a Technorati...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/22/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 - Printer Management Console
The PMC (Printer Management Console) is another huge improvement in Windows Server 2003 R2. Tali...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/21/2005
Deploying WSUS on Small Business Server 2003
WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) is a great way to manage patching machines in environments,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/20/2005
Scripting with Monad
Monad is definitely a hot topic to watch in the future. I've just discovered that Jeffrey Snovers...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/19/2005
Making Robocopy faster
I use Robocopy a great deal to copy stuff from corpnet in a reliable way onto my laptop. One huge...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/16/2005
Part 11: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - OWA is SSL :-)
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.In this blogcast, we do a simple...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
ADFS in Windows Server 2003 R2
ADFS is "Active Directory Federation Services". ADFS is just one part of the R2 release coming at...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/14/2005
Free Technet Magazine Subscription
...but only if you're US based. I know I get readers from all over the world, and know many of you...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/13/2005
Part 10: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - OWA goes SSL (nearly)
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.To re-configure our Outlook Web Access...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/12/2005
ISA 2004 and Exchange 2003
Kind of timely to see that a new guide has been published on microsoft.com titled "Application Layer...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/09/2005
TechNet improvements
Just came across this yesterday. If you are a TechNet subscriber, changes to the online site have...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/09/2005
Seperating web admin from the virtual server host
Clive picked up on this one last week - a new whitepaper was published which walks through how to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/09/2005
Virtual Server processor clarification
This continually comes up as a query, what the limitation is for installing Virtual Server 2005...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/08/2005
Part 9: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - OWA /exchange path redirection
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.Yesterday, we got Outlook Web Access...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/06/2005
Part 8: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Publishing Outlook Web Access
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.One step closer to making webmail...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/05/2005
Part 7: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - Our first certificate authority
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.We're now moving towards making Outlook...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/02/2005
Windows Vista Fast User Switching on domain joined machines
Woohoo!!! I'm suddenly one very happy person. The killer feature I've been hoping to see in Windows...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/01/2005
Edit VHD, VUD and VFD files directly
Gilles Vollant of WinImage fame contacted me a few weeks ago to have a look at the latest beta of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/31/2005
What days do spammers take off?
Kind of interesting this one. I was looking through some of the logs for my home-brewed spam system...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/30/2005
Can the Virtual Server DHCP server be flagged as a rogue DHCP server?
This interesting question came up in a discussion recently. The answer is no, but you have to think...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/26/2005
Can I run Virtual Machines when I'm not logged on?
I wanted to clarify this common problem - I was asked it a couple of times over at TechEd this year,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/25/2005
Part 6: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - 0x8004010F on Outlook send/receive
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.At the end of the last infrastructure...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/24/2005
Announcements for Virtual Server 2005 R2 (SP1) and more...
At the IDF (Intel Developers Forum) yesterday, Microsoft made the announcement I've been waiting to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/24/2005
Vista Beta 1 Internet Explorer 7 problems with some sites
This is fairly well publicised if you look around the Internet, but not in a single place that I...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/19/2005