James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Screencast and Q&A: Hyper-V integration components Disk and Network behaviour
I had a really nice mail over new year from an influential IT Pros with more than a passing interest...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/07/2008
Too many Gates ...
This is currently in my BBC news feed The highlighted one is Bill talking about his vision of the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/07/2008
ScreenCast: Unboxing Server 2008 and Hyper-V
Jason Langridge often links to "Unboxing" videos: the idea is to take a new gadget show it and what...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/07/2008
Inspector Morse is dead, alas.
My respect for Inspector Gadget wavered just a fraction when he appeared to question whether the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/01/2008
On blogging, leaking, disclosure and the like.
It's a new year, and that always means a new start, and a certain amount of spring cleaning. I'll be...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/01/2008
One thing I didn't want for Christmas...
...was any kind of branded clothing. Since our cleaner decided to get out of the business, my shirts...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/01/2008
Powershell interview with Jeffrey Snover
Powershell with Jeffrey Snover (IT Forum 2007) At IT forum in Barcelona, I went to the powershell...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/01/2008
Another year comes to another ending*.
Eileen has made here own pick of Gimundo's "What I've learned" page (oddly termed the URL is...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/31/2007
Happy... whatever
Part of me wants to call out people I don't want to wish happiness, what I'd wish them is far too...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/22/2007
Virtualization futures revisited
I'm not a winter person. Things which one would normally take in one's stride become the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/20/2007
The Tafiti code
I blogged about Tafiti before, it's had a "Halo 3" skin applied since, but you can still see the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/19/2007
USB Battery
Warning Neither I nor Microsoft will take any responsibility for what happens if you follow...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/14/2007
MY reason for having Office 2007 SP1
I've blogged about this twice already, but now it's on my system I have one bug-fix to report. I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/14/2007
Hyper-V BETA (not CTP) is now available.
In the UK we take the Mickey Bliss out of the Americans for saying they are super-excited. For once...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/13/2007
Slides, Slides and more Slides.
I'm presenting (again) in a few minutes, and still have a link which my friend David sent me on my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/13/2007
More on office SP1 (pass the tin hat)
It was an interesting journey to work. Between the fog, ice and roadworks and traffic police who...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/13/2007
Not dead ....
When I put new words to the Blue monster, I used the way Terry Pratchett got one of his characters...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/12/2007
Window borders...
My carbon footprint has got worse: after the travel of the Road-show, I popped up to Leeds last...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/12/2007
Office 2007 Service pack now out
The title says is all really. Details of what is in the service pack are in KB article 936982 and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/12/2007
News in the pipeline ...
Every now and then I get forewarned of some news, and with due warning not to be the one who breaks...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/12/2007
VMware and patching
When Steve and I were on tour talking about Microsoft Virtualization, we were asked similar...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/09/2007
Vista SP1 to drop "Reduced functionality mode"
I guess I'm not the only person in Microsoft who thought that stopping software working when it...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/09/2007
The voice of Co-pilot 7
When I had my previous smartphone, I decided I'd try running Satellite Navigation software on it....
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/07/2007
Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 Release candidates
I had a mail overnight from the Microsoft Connect service saying that as registered user Vista SP1...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/06/2007
Word of the day: Schadenfreude
Some years ago now we were visiting the a German cousin of my wife's; and the conversation somehow...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/06/2007
Product life cycles (and Virtual Server 2005)
It's always nice when someone says James O'Neill, IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, reveals that...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/05/2007
Thames Valley Park* ...
In my quest trying to find something for an earlier post, I found this image which was too good not...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/04/2007
Do you trust your search engine ?
No, not a question about the information Google keeps on you... Catching up on my news stories from...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/04/2007
Interfaces from hell ...
I mentioned Electronics weekly and their made for Monkeys column. Two more of these caught my eye....
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/02/2007
It must be the truth #2. Astroturf and a rather less green Apple.
Silly me believing stuff I read on the Internet. First there was the The register's story about only...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/01/2007
Office 2007 support for Windows mobile
One of our Redmond product managers was visiting today, and since he's old friend of mine from my...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/30/2007
Virtualization futures
A number of questions have come up in recent conversations about Virtualization. So here's a run...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/30/2007
A blog post about using PowerShell to get blog posts (about PowerShell)
I guess the thing I like best about PowerShell its ability to make the business of getting stuff on...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/30/2007
Exchange 2007 SP1 released
The news went live on the Exchange Web Page yesterday. Technet Magazine has "16 new features in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/30/2007
It must be the truth ‘cos it’s there in the news
I have learnt better than to read everything I read on The register. But, deary, deary me. It seems...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/28/2007
You don't want to start from here.
Holiday and Tech-Ed IT-Forum have caused me a backlog. I've more reading than I know what to do with...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/25/2007
Video clips - MS Developers on YouTube.
Eileen linked to Jeffrey Snover's video in the MS Developers area on YouTube. She and I separately...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/24/2007
7M families personal data mislaid by government.
At Tech-ed IT Forum I went to watch a couple of Steve Riley's session, he's quite the showman, but...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/20/2007
Confessions of an environmental hypocrite.
I started tapping this out on my Smartphone at 30,000 feet as I headed for my fourth airport in 20...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/15/2007
What else did I miss ?
So I said that we'd done a lot while I was away , other gems now sifted from my inbox include. As...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/15/2007
Shooting fish.
A while ago I wrote about getting a new camera to take diving. Rather spookily one of the mails in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/13/2007
A week is a long time ...
I've been away scuba diving for a week and that's meant no news, no e-mail and no RSS feeds. Turn...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/13/2007
The one hope against the database state.
I blogged yesterday about the database stated and referred to No2ID including their example of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/02/2007
From the "I want one of those" file.
I was sure Scoble mentioned Eye fi ages ago .... He did. How's this for Cool. A 2GB SD card with...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/01/2007
And I get paid for doing this ?
Actually, no. I got bribed with free sandwiches to use my lunch time testing stuff for First lego...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/01/2007
A police state ?
I've talked about serendipity a few times before. And a couple of strands in the News today show it...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/01/2007
Linux Virtual Machine additions 2.0 .
I had to check the URL for Port 25 in the last post (is it technet ... or MSDN ? its...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/01/2007
Security and blogging.
This would normally be one for Steve, but he's got a few days away... Kim Cameron's blog got hacked;...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/01/2007
Phase one: Capture one V4 has a new beta.
Hot on the heels of the announcement that Phase one and Microsoft had entered an alliance I got a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/31/2007
Sometimes I feel like a woman.
No. Not like that. But every time I read about things about "What Women want in the work place", I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/31/2007