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John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft

Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.

Can you sysprep to clone a Windows Vista Beta 2 VHD?

This question came up a few days ago - now that Windows Vista Beta 2 is released, can you still...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/02/2006

Windows Vista in Action

There's a new website going live today where you can see more about Windows Vista and the...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/31/2006

The NUL device is useful for supressing "Press any key to continue"

Long time scripters will, I'm sure, know this. Useful to mention as I was writing a script over the...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/30/2006

Windows Server Virtualization: Is it a product? No - it's part of an OS!

A very frequently asked question internally. Hence I'm sure this must be as confusing, if not more...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/29/2006

Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows SBS 2003 with SP1

Hot off the press (released yesterday) is a document providing information about installing Virtual...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/26/2006

Role Management in Windows Server Longhorn and Windows Server virtualization

Another webcast worth watching. This is relevant for Windows Server virtualization as, if you...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/25/2006

Deploying Windows Vista using SMS 2003

Particularly apt given Windows Vista Beta 2 was release on Tuesday this week is a webcast coming up...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/25/2006

Windows Vista Beta 2, Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta

I've just been watching Bill doing the keynote at WinHEC - you can view it here. Some announcements...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/23/2006

Windows Server virtualization

...is here (nearly). I'll provide more details over the coming days, but with WinHEC now upon us,...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/23/2006

How to remove a failed server from DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2

This week has been a little strained, hence quiet on the blogging front. Apart from a hectic week at...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2006

Enable Remote Desktop Connection through Windows Firewall Remotely

Yesterday evening, I was at home and attempting to remotely connect to my XP desktop machine in the...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/10/2006

Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell & Scripting

Another Webcast (level 300) coming up shortly which should be worth watching - I'm keeping half an...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/08/2006

Does Hardware Assistance make a difference?

The simple answer is a definite yes. However, it's sometimes useful to have a "finger in the air"...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/04/2006

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 FAQ#1: Hardware requirements

I've had numerous direct emails asking what are the requirements for hardware when running Virtual...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/03/2006

How to Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization in VS2005R2 SP1 Beta

Once you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1, you'll notice a check box on the properties page...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/28/2006

Although on the Windows virtualization team here, it's heads down working on the next generation of...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/28/2006

DHCP Client service required for Dynamic DNS Registration

One of those oddities I discovered a couple of days ago after trying to tune down my IIS box which...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/27/2006

Installing or Accessing VSMT help on a Windows XP machine.

I thought this was worth mentioning after I received an email today with a question about VSMT. I...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/26/2006

ISA 2004 Web Publishing HTTP Filter stops default website page URL redirection

Quick questions: In a firewall, if you're presented with a checkbox asking if you want to block...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/25/2006

Website Photo Album Generating Software

Hopefully this will help someone who's not necessarily adept at creating photo web-sites using...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/24/2006

Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting

I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/21/2006

Register & Unregister a DLL from Windows Explorer

Back in my developer days when I was building DLLs and OCXs, I was constantly registering and...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/20/2006

Virtual Server Cluster - Move workload on CPU spike

Here's a good question emailed to me yesterday. If you seen the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/19/2006

Updated MOM Management Pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 Released

A revised version of the MOM management pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 was released late last week....

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/18/2006

NVRAM settings in Virtual Server 2005 R2

....so I have to thank my bosses boss for pointing this one out (and I guess this means I've also...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/12/2006

PXE boot in Virtual Server 2005 R2 after an OS is installed in a VM

I had an email from Kari this afternoon asking what key should be used to trigger PXE-booting of a...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/11/2006

Windows Vista Webcasts Next Week

Just seen the list of webcasts for next week - there's a couple on the list worth mentioning. All...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/07/2006

The switch is on but no-one's home

You'd think this was an easy question to answer - how do you turn the lights on? During the day,...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/07/2006

WinHEC 2006 and Windows Virtualization

The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006 being held in at the Washington State Convention...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/06/2006

And time time sponsored by ......urist is 01:02:03 04/05/06

(Sponsor removed to keep legal happy - brits will understand exactly what the subject means!) So...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/05/2006

Linux Support in VS2005 R2 KB Article

Here's the link to the KB article I referred to yesterday for third party operating system (read...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/04/2006

MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) San Diego - April 24th-28th

Previously having been UK based, I haven't been directing people to US based conference information....

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/04/2006

VHD Licensing

Quick blog to respond to several queries which have been directed at me today which needs a little...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/03/2006

Linux Support in Virtual Server 2005 R2

Co-inciding with the announcment of Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition being free, it was...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/03/2006

Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition goes Free

I guess that now I'm part of the VM team rather than being an "inside-outsider", I can blog this...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/03/2006

Keyboard remapping

So now I'm a little more settled into the office complete with the dual monitors, speakers and a few...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2006

I'm back.... More on Virtual Server 2005

Well I'm over in the USA now having left the UK 5 days ago. After a spot of "New Employee" training...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2006

Exchange 12 CTP has arrived

So I've been a little light on blogging over the past couple of weeks while I've been over in...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/13/2006

WinTarget software incorporated into Windows Storage Server

Definitely worth looking at as I've been using the WinTarget iSCSI target software on trial for a...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/07/2006

ISA 2006 Beta Available

https://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/2006/default.mspx is worth checking out - you can download the...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/03/2006

Exchange 12 and 64-bit

Worth a listen is a podcast recording by the Exchange Team who explain more about their decision to...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/02/2006

TechNet and Languages in Internet Explorer

I'm sure this isn't going to teach a lot of people anything new, but given I just noticed it myself,...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/27/2006

Find out more about Exchange 12

I have to share this one with you - in around three weeks time, there's a series of webcasts on...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/23/2006

I'm leaving Microsoft UK, but joining...

In many ways, yesterday was a sad day as I resigned from Microsoft UK after 18 months or so, having...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/22/2006

SMS 2003 R2 Public Beta

Just thought it was worth mentioning this - another "R2" joins the fold, hot on the heals of Virtual...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/22/2006

Shadow Copy Client Download

I was on the train a few days ago and ended up chatting to some guy (apologies, I'm terrible with...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/20/2006

Windows Vista Technical Library

For those among you with access to CTP builds or are looking at early adoption of Windows Vista when...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/17/2006

Cool emerging web technologies

I saw this on Eileens blog a week or so back and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Obviously I have...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/16/2006

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