John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
"Going Deep" on virtualisation
I noticed this earlier today and have just finished listening to it - Mike Neil, Jim Ni and Jeff...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/15/2006
ADS 1.1 and VSMT on 64-bit hosts
I was having a few emails back-and-forth yesterday as someone was struggling with VSMT (now part of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/15/2006
Windows Server Virtualisation - Overview and Roadmap
I thought I'd mention this - some of you may have either personal or corporate subscriptions to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/14/2006
Troubleshooting WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)
One other webcast also spotted this morning - this one should be really good. WMI is an incredibly...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/14/2006
Network Isolation using Group Policy and IPSec
In my inbox this morning and worth posting up are a series of three webcasts coming up over the next...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/14/2006
Domain joined Windows Vista with Media Centre is coming to town (maybe)
OK, so it's early days yet and anything can change, so this is absolutely not the final word, but...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/14/2006
Clear Read-Only Attributes in bulk
There's often those situations where you need to clear read-only attributes from a directory tree in...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/13/2006
Branch Office in Windows Server Codename Longhorn
Hopefully you're aware of some of the great changes brought about in Windows Server 2003 R2 to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/13/2006
What's in a gigabyte? Aka Disk size limitations in Virtual PC
Well actually, what's in 0.00292969 of a gigabyte to be a little bit more precise (aka 3MB). As you...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
Applying Least Privilege to User Accounts in Windows XP
You've already probably heard by now the many efforts and changes which will be coming into place...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/07/2006
ISA Server 2004 SP2 Availability
You may have spotted I haven't posted for a few days, but I've been off ill with the 'flu. Hence, my...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/06/2006
Switching Virtual Machines Full screen and back quickly
So I can't admit to having written this, but I thought it was worth sharing. It's also a good...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/01/2006
System Centre Capacity Planner 2006
System Centre (center <g>) Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2006 is one of those tools I saw in early...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/31/2006
Change default location of Virtual Machine creation in Virtual PC 2004
One of those little known things (and hence sadly most underused IMHO) about Virtual PC 2004 is the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/31/2006
Windows Server 2003 R2 Availability
I thought this was a good time to remind you - if you've been waiting for Windows Server 2003 R2,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/30/2006
IT Forum Highlights in Reading
For those of you who were unable to attend IT Forum 2005 in November, a quick reminder that there...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/27/2006
Intellimouse Magnify capability
A colleague mentioned this just before christmas but I hadn't got round to investigating further or...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/26/2006
Virus scanning and Virtual Machines
Questions frequently come up about what to do in terms of Virus scanning virtual machines. Having...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/24/2006
Shadow Copies to the rescue - DFS-R killed my data
Yesterday, I finally got round to plugging the new disks I bought back from Seattle into one of my...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/23/2006
Windows Vista Sounds
I thought this was interesting - a Channel 9 video was posted up a few days ago giving an insight...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/20/2006
Monad Beta 3
So on my evening trawls through a ton of emails I get daily and RSS feeds (I still have a huge...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/19/2006
PlateSpin announcment - support for Virtual Server 2005 R2
Just spotted this announcement from last week - PlateSpin have announced the availability of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/17/2006
WSSRA Virtual Environments for Dev + Test Released
Just got back in the UK after being over in Seattle for 8 days for an internal Microsoft conference...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/15/2006
FSRM (File Server Resource Manager) in Windows Server 2003 R2 FAQ
Thought this was worth sharing as it came up on an internal discussion a few days ago. To find out...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/09/2006
RPC/HTTP and OWA through ISA Followup
If you've been watching the series on RPC/HTTP I recorded a little while back, you'll know that I...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/07/2006
Virtual Machine state not saved on host machine reboot
A common problem you may find under Virtual Server 2005 (including R2) is one which hit me over...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/06/2006
ISA Server 2004 Port Scan alerts
I've been running ISA Server at home for a number of years now - first with ISA 2000, and more...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/05/2006
Cleartype Tuner
One of these always useful links to have - I just changed to a new laptop a couple of weeks before...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/04/2006
Examine ISO images quickly
I got reminded of this utility just before Christmas - unfortunately for me, running Windows Server...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/03/2006
Backing up Windows Sharepoint Services
Although I have a fair few ideas as to mini-projects to complete over the Christmas & New Year...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/23/2005
Windows Vista December CTP (Build 5270)
So todays plan was to talk all about Windows Vista Build 5270. I managed to upgrade the BIOS of my...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/22/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now on MSDN
Just noticed this this morning - Virtual Server 2005 R2 is now available on MSDN subscriber...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/21/2005
Clarification of Moving Virtual Machines in saved states between hosts
Here's some useful info if you need to move Virtual Machines between one host and another when they...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/19/2005
Part 25: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Integrated Auth
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.The final part to the RPC/HTTPS series...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/16/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 Print Management Console - what can it manage?
A few other queries have been filtering through since Windows Server 2003 R2 went "RTM" last week....
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/15/2005
Which FSMO role is the most important?
I've been doing a few technical interviews in the UK of late, and anyone who mentions Active...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/14/2005
Exchange 2003 SP2 under Virtual Server 2005 R2
More blogging this for my own reference rather than it being really new information. KB Article...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/13/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 and Virtual Server
Common question I've seen raised a few times recently. Can you use Windows Server 2003 R2 either as...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/12/2005
DFS Namespace Active Directory blob size in Server 2003 R2
Another question asked on Wednesday evening's Intro to R2 event was about the blob size limitation...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/09/2005
Where can I get hold of Windows Server 2003 R2
I've had several emails today following last nights TechNet event - an Introduction to Windows...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/08/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 Event - Tomorrow in Reading
Just realised I hadn't posted up info about this one before. With Windows Server 2003 R2 "RTM'ing"...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/06/2005
And Virtual Server 2005 R2 just became cheaper again....
The UK Press launch of Windows Server 2003 R2 was today in London - one little snippet (there's lots...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/06/2005
Download Virtual Machine additions for Virtual Server 2005 R2
As so many of you emailed me directly after previous entries who found it difficult to get hold of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/06/2005
Winter Fun Pack 2005? - download links
So with Christmas now fast approaching - to be honest, it doesn't seem to so much as "fast approach"...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/05/2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 5 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/02/2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 4 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/01/2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 3 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/30/2005