John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
Part 24: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - RPC Publishing
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.In the last part, forms based...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/29/2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 2 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/29/2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering How To - Part 1 of 5
If you watched the demonstration blogcast of Virtual Server 2005 R2 I posted up at the weekend,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/29/2005
Blogcast: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Walkthrough
With Virtual Server 2005 R2 just a few days away from public availability, many of you will want to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/27/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Release Notes available online
The title says it all - here's the download link for the release notes to Virtual Server 2005 R2....
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/27/2005
Virtual Server and Virtual PC differences - today's triva
Ben posted up an article a few days ago about the amount of Video Memory in the emulated S3 Trio...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/25/2005
Part 23: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - OWA back to HTTPS
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. We now move Outlook Web Access back to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/24/2005
Outlook calendars - display multiple timezones
I've just got out from a meeting and after a colleague happened to display their calendar on the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/23/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Reviewers Guide
There's a lot of revised information on www.microsoft.com/virtualserver since R2 was released to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/22/2005
Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 4.1 download link
Boy, things can move fast when you're busy keeping a close eye on other technologies, hence I didn't...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/21/2005
Hows Windows stores passwords and how passwords can be attacked
I was forwarded this by a colleague last week and found it interesting reading. It's a short article...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/21/2005
Mice have nine lives as well as cats.
OK, so this is a slight rant, but I'm a little (understatement) annoyed right now! Having just spent...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/19/2005
Virtual PC Express and Windows Vista virtualisation
Virtual PC futures have been a little quiet in terms of announcements. There will be more shortly,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/17/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 changes summary
Now that Virtual Server 2005 R2 has been officially launched at IT Forum this week, here's a quick...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/15/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Price Reduction Announcement
As just announced by Bob Muglia at the keynote for IT Forum 2005, the cost of Virtual Server 2005 R2...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/15/2005
How to upgrade to Virtual Server 2005 R2
With the Beta program for Virtual Server 2005 SP1 (as it was named when released to the web) having...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/14/2005
Part 22: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Bounce OWA through Localhost
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.To make the next steps clearer, here's a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/11/2005
Intel VT Chips
Just noticed that Intel series of Xeon based server processors which suport hardware virtualisation...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/11/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI
And while on the subject of official Virtual Server 2005 R2 information starting to becoming public,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/10/2005
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host Clustering Instructions
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/10/2005
IE Freezing - Add-Ons could be the problem
Annoyance of the past few weeks for me has been Internet Explorer 6 has been temporarily freezing...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/10/2005
Moving WSUS data to another server
Through Rokus.net (which also has lots of useful snippits of info) I found this link on Technet...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/10/2005
ADS to deploy Windows XP?
I have to admit, I'd never thought of this one. Yes, I've looked into using ADS (Automated...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/09/2005
Planning and Deploying the Branch Office Technologies
Just a quick reminder for another Windows Server 2003 R2 related webcast tomorrow (10th Nov) at...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/09/2005
HMV Case Study
There's an interesting case study recently published on the Microsoft UK web-site for HMV who are...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/09/2005
Media Center (Centre) - new downloads available
Just noticed that TweakMCE 2.0 is now available for download. My main Media Centre machine was...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/09/2005
TechNet Magazine - you can now read it online for free.
As I mentioned a little while ago, TechNet Magazine subscriptions were free (to US based people...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/08/2005
Singularity Operating System - another use for virtualisation?
I've always had an interest in Operating System internals, and have just finished reading the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/08/2005
Part 21: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Outlook OK, OWA needs some work
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.With our new rule in place on the ISA...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
Gigabit network performance problems with Virtual Server & Virtual PC
Many people are in the process of upgrading from 100MBps to Gigabit (I've got a few machines Gigabit...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
Outlook is preparing the requested view
I thought I'd seen all the Outlook prompts possible, but when I saw this one and it sat there for 30...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
Rootkits. Be worried - very worried
Its been a busy week for me, so it's only now that I'm getting a chance to catch up with what's...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/05/2005
Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script
So after numerous emails about this, and some comments on my previous blog post back in June, I...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/04/2005
Part 20: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Start External Config
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.This fifth part of configuring RPC over...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/03/2005
Online Labs
Just got news in my inbox that all the US Virtual Labs for both Technet and MSDN are running on...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/03/2005
Oracle User Group Conference
OK. Strange title maybe, but have just arrived home and am back online after spending a couple of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/02/2005
Part 19: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Completing internal config
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.This fourth part of configuring RPC over...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/28/2005
Task manager additional network information
Living proof that no matter how much you use Windows on a daily basis, there's always something...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/27/2005
Part 18: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Initial Setup
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.The third part of configuring RPC over...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/25/2005
Securely Publishing Exchange 2003 using ISA Server 2004 - "Zero to Hero"
Thanks for everyone who attended todays security event in London. I hope you got a lot out of the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/24/2005
Branch Office Technologies in R2
We IT Forum preparations almost complete and the Windows Server 2003 R2 launch fairly soon, now...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/21/2005
Why business travel isn't always the best option
I got sent this through earlier today and hadn't seen it before. However, it definitely goes down as...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/20/2005
Part 17: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Initial Setup
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.The second part of configuring RPC over...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/20/2005
Exchange 2003 SP2 Released
Hot off the press, just spotted the release of Exchange Server 2003 SP2. Time to update my...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/19/2005
Part 16: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Initial Setup
Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials.By popular demand (so you can all stop...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/18/2005
Help - IE Keeps opening my spreadsheet. I want to save the darn thing...
I received an email yesterday from a user using Internet Explorer to attempt to download Excel...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/18/2005
Netware to Windows Server migration
So, apart from being a great showcase for using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to run online labs,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 10/17/2005