John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
Branch Office Infrastructure Solution - lots of new information now available
The Branch Office Infrastructure Solution, or BOIS (which is far too easy to mis-type if you've...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/24/2005
Understanding Active Directory in the Real World
For those of you who are available on Monday (27th June), this is a reminder that there is an...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/23/2005
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Blocking Toolkit
As for the capability (now expired) to stop Windows XP SP2 being delivered through Microsoft Update,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/22/2005
Differencing Disk walkthrough under Virtual PC
Although I don't myself use Differencing Disks a great deal for my test environments (mainly as I...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/22/2005
Don't be flamed - use the Image Resizer Powertoy
Continuing the theme of digital imagery and photography, I happened to notice an email go through on...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/21/2005
File Server Migration Toolkit
Virtualisation for migration and consolidation isn't always the best answer. I'm not saying it isn't...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/21/2005
Updated Server Performance Advisor Performance Diagnostic tool for AD and Windows
The latest version of the Server Performance Advisor was released at the end of last week for...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/21/2005
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
As I blogged about a little while ago, the Microsoft RAW Image Thumbmailer and Viewer application...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/20/2005
VSMT cscript error 0xc0000008 at DeployVM.cmd stage
While setting up for the roadshows and my VSMT migration, during testing I was getting occasional...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/20/2005
Virtual Server Roadmap and Windows Virtualisation (Virtualization) aka Hypervisor
If you're interested more in the future of Virtualisation (Virtualization if you're from the other...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/17/2005
Identity and Access Management Series
This is a collection of technical papers designed to help organisations understand identity and...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/16/2005
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise Edition is free
...if you attend TechEd Europe this year. See here for more information. Need I say more?
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/15/2005
How to create a Custom Group Policy Administrative Template to change Hide File Extensions for Known File Types
I was asked by a customer, or rather a colleague of mine took the query who passed it on to me, how...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/15/2005
Rebel or Safe? (aka NT4 vs Windows 2000). Your opinion counts
So right now, I'm somewhat in a quandry. "Why John", I hear you ask. "Well readers", I respond: At...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/14/2005
Forms Based Authentication and RPC/HTTP over single IP using ISA 2004
You would think that this would be something fairly simple to do.... Well, think again, unless you...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/14/2005
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Download Link
While on the subject of patching here is the home page for the newly released Windows Server Update...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/13/2005
ISA 2004 Patch Caching - new feature to cache BITS traffic over HTTP
You may have missed TechEd last week in the US. I did due presenting at the Technical Roadshow, but...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/13/2005
Microsoft Update is live - patching on steroids
OK, so Kevin beat me to this one. I've been busy in meetings is my excuse. Microsoft Update is now...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/13/2005
Deleting Web Listeners from ISA 2004 SP1
Enhancing the configuration of my ISA server at 3AM this morning (couldn't sleep), I was trying to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/13/2005
Better day at the office - disk problems solved
After my bad monday a few weeks ago with a corrupt hard disk, the good news is that I picked up my...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/10/2005
Virtual NT4 Guest Server auto power off after shutdown under Virtual Server
I know from the presentations, customer meetings and emails I get, many of you are running NT4...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/09/2005
Peformance improvements with Virtual Server 2005
Yesterday, I blogged about turning off the thumbnail on the Virtual Server admin interface for a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/08/2005
Stopping beeping from Virtual Machines under Virtual Server
This one crops up frequently on the discussion groups internally at Microsoft but I'd never seen it...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/06/2005
KB 900076 - Windows Server 2003 SP1 as guest under Virtual Server
I blogged a week or so ago about issues when running Windows Server 2003 SP1 under Virtual Server...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/03/2005
New Windows Support for RAW file format - RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer
If you're a fan of Digital Photography, read on. There was an interesting press release yesterday...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/02/2005
Windows Management through Remote Desktops Snap-in. Save space on your TaskBar
I was speaking to a customer this morning about Windows management generally and this happened to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/01/2005
Turn Off Low Disk Space Notification
Next part of a series of blogs about changes to my home network, but equally as valuable to anyone...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/31/2005
ISA Server cannot load the property page 0xc0040357 on export or backup
How to fix the following error on ISA 2004 backup or export:ISA Server cannot load the property...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/30/2005
May I move an OEM license for Windows to a virtual machine?
This question was asked of me at the roadshow this week and I expect this is going to become a far...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/27/2005
Smartphone is smarter than I gave it credit for
Bit of a Friday blog this, but this may be something you didn't know or maybe I just should have...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/27/2005
Account Lockout Policy cannot be changed and is greyed out
I received an email overnight asking about greyed out settings in the local security policy on a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/26/2005
Virtual Server 2005 comparison with Virtual PC 2004 - definitive statement
Now this is worth a read having just found about it internally. Megans whitepaper which I blogged...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/25/2005
Running Windows Server 2003 SP1 under Virtual Server 2005
I was speaking to Pertti from Finland earlier today about a common problem people are finding with...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/25/2005
Group Policy resetting of local user passwords
Quick blog today - I'm presenting at the Technet Roadshow event in Birmingham today (Harrogate is...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/24/2005
Executive Chat - Windows Server Vision
Now this really is something you will want to attend online on 15th June at 5PM (UK time). How about...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/23/2005
Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2003) SP1 - Ask your questions
Following my blog entry a couple of days ago, I've just found out about an online chat taking place...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2005
Virtual Server 2005 Cluster Resources, Chats and more
There's an interesting article recently published by Mike Otey which leads you through building a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2005
Roll your own service account
Something which came up a couple of days ago was a question about creating a service account for a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2005
Colossus Rebuild at Bletchley Park - Tony Sales presentation
I felt very privileged to be able to attend a BCS (British Computer Society) event held last night,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/19/2005
Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS2003) SP1 Now Available
Just gone live is Service Pack 1 for Small Business Server SP1. This builds on the Service Pack 1...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/19/2005
Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM)
Here's (IMHO) an interesting webcast I've just found out about coming up next week covering a topic...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/19/2005
Technet Sessions - Post Event Archive
A few people emailed me asking where they could locate the download for the webcasts I recently...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/19/2005
DHCP Authorization problem - Event ID 1046
I was speaking to a customer yesterday who was telling me about a problem he was having with DHCP in...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/18/2005
TechEd Europe 2005 - Amsterdam 5th to 8th July. Early bird reminder
Just a quick reminder that there are only three days left now to qualify for the "early bird...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/17/2005
Megan Davis - Virtual Server Superstar
I blog about Virtual Server a lot (as you may have noticed), but I'm not alone. Megan Davis is a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/16/2005
Bad day at the office - disk help needed please
I know how you all love horror stories, so for what it's worth, here's my sob story for the day. The...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/16/2005
Change System/Boot drive letter
Due to some really strange disk partitioning I have on my laptop, I ended up in a situation where...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/16/2005
It's Showtime on Technet
Just gone live are a series of video recordings of live sessions on Technet UK. Come and choose from...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/13/2005
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1
I've had a couple of people ask me about this over the past week, so rather than answer...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/12/2005
Security Configuration Wizard
Topical after yesterdays webcast on Windows Server 2003 SP1, here's a link to documentation on SCW...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/11/2005