James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Powershell to fix phone number formats (part 1)
Peter sent me a mail last week suggesting a blog post. "You mentioned in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/15/2007
Skydrive. No, not a tie up with Avis...
A technology which you might have heard of by the name of Windows Live Folders has a new name...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/09/2007
On Writing. And formats for storing writing. Via sockpuppets
I mentioned the post that I lost last night and that it referred to Clive James, a writer whose...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/08/2007
Upcoming event on Software Deployment
On the 28th of August we have a technet event here in Reading entitled Application Management – the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/08/2007
This must be hardware ... mustn't it ?
Windows Live writer is proving popular. I've been using it in beta for a year and there are only two...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/08/2007
Photosynth. Rocket Science ?
I've mentioned Photosynth a few times before. I came back from lunch today to see some new...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/07/2007
Office Communications Server trial bits available.
I had a mail from the Unified communications team over the weekend. They were happy to announce that...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/05/2007
"Vanity" searching
After being taken to task by some recent commenters I'm a bit hesitant about suggesting that I (or...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/03/2007
A VB class for EXIF picture properties - and using it from Powershell.
I have been carrying on with my project to make EXIF data available in PowerShell. When I searched...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/03/2007
Some useful Virtual Server 2005 links
Robert Larson has a post on his blog to say that his co-author on the VS 2005 resource kit, Janique...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/02/2007
Pigs and blogs and Naked dwarves (Part 2)
I'm back from Seattle, and after my outbound trip, the return was uneventful. I'd hoped to come back...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/01/2007
Pigs and drugs and naked dwarves ...
Yes folks they're all part of life's weird tapestry as a British Microsoft employee at a Microsoft...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/27/2007
OCS RTM (Office Communications Server Releases To Manufacturing).
The news is on the Microsoft Press Pass web site.
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/26/2007
I-phone... I don't like to say I told you so.
Aargh. I just broke one of the cardinal rules. Never say anything you don't beleive to be true. I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/26/2007
Why I am the one doing this ?
A draft post which ended up going on the spike referred to Lyn Truss's book "Talk to the Hand: the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/24/2007
Trains, planes and automobiles.
The last person I punched was a schoolboy. Before you report me for child cruelty, I should point...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/21/2007
How not to be read...
Eileen asks "So how do I get my team to read my emails ?" Actually, she overlooks something very...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/20/2007
When Specs go bad ...
Something has puzzled me for years now. If I look at the properties for a JPEG image from my camera,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/16/2007
Exploring Photographic EXIF data (using PowerShell, of course)
My PowerShell project for the last few days has been to get into the EXIF data which is embedded in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/13/2007
What's your job title ?
I hate it when a web site demands you register and asks you for everything from your date of birth...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/13/2007
Why Visual studio helps PowerShell
The next proper PowerShell piece I write should be on using it to get at EXIF Data in images. I want...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/11/2007
Why I really bought an Xbox-360
I know my wife reads my blog. (Hello dear). So I hope I'm not going to surprise her. There are a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/11/2007
Vista's desktop index and PowerShell.
Vista's desktop index has changed the way I work. I've stopped worrying about folders, any more than...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/10/2007
New Virtualization blogger
After the response I got from people who wanted to be on the Windows server 2008 Virtualization TAP...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/10/2007
Digital Image Suite. RIP.
I've mentioned Digital image suite before. I always felt I needed to apologise for not using Adobe...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/10/2007
Moving from VB to PowerShell
I'm continuing to fiddle with PowerShell. I have 28 years of BASIC under my belt Starting with a DEC...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/10/2007
Tech-ed in Barcelona. Book early to avoid disappointment.
When I see "Book early to avoid disappointment" I always wonder "Yours or Ours ?" but last year...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/08/2007
Imagine having 580 Terabytes of data you can't access.
I've given some clue of the problems I have managing all the photos and Videos, but I realised my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/04/2007
Good news.
For nearly half my life I've been woken in the mornings by the Today Programme on BBC radio 4. So...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/04/2007
We're not afraid.
Considering it was less than 2 years ago, I have relatively few memories of the London bombings of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/02/2007
I wonder if my Laptop's faulty ? Troubleshooting Vista's sleep and hibernate.
I've been pretty pleased with this Dell of mine. But a few days ago it began refusing to go into...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/30/2007
Announcing the Virtual server Res-Kit and a great tool.
The tool is VMRCplus - an alternate UI as opposed to the Virtual Server web interface. VMRCplus uses...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/29/2007
Open source lobby: "We'll get the EU to stop your telly"
For some reason media seems to be on my mind at the moment.... The BBC i-player is to go live at the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/29/2007
Two stories of consumers who wouldn't put up with it.
For years - and I hadn't realised quite how many years I've been trying to get a specific DVD. It's...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/28/2007
I'm beginning to dream of analog days...
... could it be that life was oh so simple then ? I remember when Channel 4 arrived - a time before...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2007
Campaign for real numbers update
I've had an outlook rule in place for a while to tell people about broken phone numbers, I thought...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/19/2007
PowerShell , VB , Media Center and SQL
I hesitate to describe myself as a dilettante (1) programmer. Not because it isn't true but because...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/17/2007
Virtualization news.
I've mentioned Jeff Woolsey from the virtualization team a few times. And I've praised his clarity...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/15/2007
Are you a Time lord ? (Or a shift shaper)
Well.... Eileen's said some things that I never expected , but "I need you to stop evangelizing...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/14/2007
Vista's network throughput improvements
There is a rule for presenters: every time you put an equation on the board/screen you lose about...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/12/2007
Should we be working on our privacy ranking ?
Steve characterizes some conversations as being "You suck." "No - You Suck" types, and Privacy...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/12/2007
Mobile phone round-up
Steve has been had a play with the HTC "Touch" (lucky man). He asks "who on Earth would want an...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/08/2007
Server core, IIS7, things I can't tell you, and why Powershell means you'll still have a job.
[note to self. Work on snappier titles] Eileen called me from Tech-ed in Florida on Monday and said...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/08/2007
Powershell vs VB script.
OK, OK I know there is nothing as annoying as a convert. But here's a real world problem, and how my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/07/2007
Manuscript Teaspoons and why Jason's getting a better voice experience than I am
I was going to write about my Experience of using Outlook Voice Access. And Voice command on my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/06/2007
My first steps with PowerShell
I've been taking my first stumbling steps in PowerShell. I'm the contact here for the PowerShell...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/06/2007
Interested in Pictures ? Got 8 minutes ? Watch this.
It seems I got my Blue Monster business cards a few days before Hugh did. Hehe. Steve's got some so...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/06/2007
A little bit more about installing Vista - or Server 2008
Matt McSpirit IM'd me a couple of days ago to ask if I'd built a custom Windows Vista installation...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/01/2007
ExpressCard (not express delivery), travel and Benchmarks.
Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/31/2007
Privacy again
I've managed to get a lot of my concerns about privacy down to a simple statement. "Databases of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 05/30/2007