John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
Can you sysprep to clone a Windows Vista Beta 2 VHD?
This question came up a few days ago - now that Windows Vista Beta 2 is released, can you still...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/02/2006
Windows Vista in Action
There's a new website going live today where you can see more about Windows Vista and the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/31/2006
The NUL device is useful for supressing "Press any key to continue"
Long time scripters will, I'm sure, know this. Useful to mention as I was writing a script over the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/30/2006
Windows Server Virtualization: Is it a product? No - it's part of an OS!
A very frequently asked question internally. Hence I'm sure this must be as confusing, if not more...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/29/2006
Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows SBS 2003 with SP1
Hot off the press (released yesterday) is a document providing information about installing Virtual...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/26/2006
Role Management in Windows Server Longhorn and Windows Server virtualization
Another webcast worth watching. This is relevant for Windows Server virtualization as, if you...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/25/2006
Deploying Windows Vista using SMS 2003
Particularly apt given Windows Vista Beta 2 was release on Tuesday this week is a webcast coming up...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/25/2006
Windows Vista Beta 2, Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta
I've just been watching Bill doing the keynote at WinHEC - you can view it here. Some announcements...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/23/2006
Windows Server virtualization
...is here (nearly). I'll provide more details over the coming days, but with WinHEC now upon us,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/23/2006
How to remove a failed server from DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2
This week has been a little strained, hence quiet on the blogging front. Apart from a hectic week at...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2006
Enable Remote Desktop Connection through Windows Firewall Remotely
Yesterday evening, I was at home and attempting to remotely connect to my XP desktop machine in the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/10/2006
Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell & Scripting
Another Webcast (level 300) coming up shortly which should be worth watching - I'm keeping half an...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/08/2006
Does Hardware Assistance make a difference?
The simple answer is a definite yes. However, it's sometimes useful to have a "finger in the air"...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/04/2006
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 FAQ#1: Hardware requirements
I've had numerous direct emails asking what are the requirements for hardware when running Virtual...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/03/2006
How to Enable Hardware Assisted Virtualization in VS2005R2 SP1 Beta
Once you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1, you'll notice a check box on the properties page...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/28/2006
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 1 download link and availability details
Although on the Windows virtualization team here, it's heads down working on the next generation of...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/28/2006
DHCP Client service required for Dynamic DNS Registration
One of those oddities I discovered a couple of days ago after trying to tune down my IIS box which...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/27/2006
Installing or Accessing VSMT help on a Windows XP machine.
I thought this was worth mentioning after I received an email today with a question about VSMT. I...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/26/2006
ISA 2004 Web Publishing HTTP Filter stops default website page URL redirection
Quick questions: In a firewall, if you're presented with a checkbox asking if you want to block...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/25/2006
Website Photo Album Generating Software
Hopefully this will help someone who's not necessarily adept at creating photo web-sites using...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/24/2006
Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting
I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/21/2006
Register & Unregister a DLL from Windows Explorer
Back in my developer days when I was building DLLs and OCXs, I was constantly registering and...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/20/2006
Virtual Server Cluster - Move workload on CPU spike
Here's a good question emailed to me yesterday. If you seen the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Host...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/19/2006
Updated MOM Management Pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 Released
A revised version of the MOM management pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 was released late last week....
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/18/2006
NVRAM settings in Virtual Server 2005 R2
....so I have to thank my bosses boss for pointing this one out (and I guess this means I've also...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/12/2006
PXE boot in Virtual Server 2005 R2 after an OS is installed in a VM
I had an email from Kari this afternoon asking what key should be used to trigger PXE-booting of a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/11/2006
Windows Vista Webcasts Next Week
Just seen the list of webcasts for next week - there's a couple on the list worth mentioning. All...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/07/2006
The switch is on but no-one's home
You'd think this was an easy question to answer - how do you turn the lights on? During the day,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/07/2006
WinHEC 2006 and Windows Virtualization
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006 being held in at the Washington State Convention...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/06/2006
And time time sponsored by ......urist is 01:02:03 04/05/06
(Sponsor removed to keep legal happy - brits will understand exactly what the subject means!) So...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/05/2006
Linux Support in VS2005 R2 KB Article
Here's the link to the KB article I referred to yesterday for third party operating system (read...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/04/2006
MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) San Diego - April 24th-28th
Previously having been UK based, I haven't been directing people to US based conference information....
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/04/2006
VHD Licensing
Quick blog to respond to several queries which have been directed at me today which needs a little...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/03/2006
Linux Support in Virtual Server 2005 R2
Co-inciding with the announcment of Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition being free, it was...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/03/2006
Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition goes Free
I guess that now I'm part of the VM team rather than being an "inside-outsider", I can blog this...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/03/2006
Keyboard remapping
So now I'm a little more settled into the office complete with the dual monitors, speakers and a few...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2006
I'm back.... More on Virtual Server 2005
Well I'm over in the USA now having left the UK 5 days ago. After a spot of "New Employee" training...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2006
Exchange 12 CTP has arrived
So I've been a little light on blogging over the past couple of weeks while I've been over in...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/13/2006
WinTarget software incorporated into Windows Storage Server
Definitely worth looking at as I've been using the WinTarget iSCSI target software on trial for a...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/07/2006
ISA 2006 Beta Available
https://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/2006/default.mspx is worth checking out - you can download the...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/03/2006
Exchange 12 and 64-bit
Worth a listen is a podcast recording by the Exchange Team who explain more about their decision to...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/02/2006
TechNet and Languages in Internet Explorer
I'm sure this isn't going to teach a lot of people anything new, but given I just noticed it myself,...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/27/2006
Find out more about Exchange 12
I have to share this one with you - in around three weeks time, there's a series of webcasts on...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/23/2006
I'm leaving Microsoft UK, but joining...
In many ways, yesterday was a sad day as I resigned from Microsoft UK after 18 months or so, having...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/22/2006
SMS 2003 R2 Public Beta
Just thought it was worth mentioning this - another "R2" joins the fold, hot on the heals of Virtual...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/22/2006
Shadow Copy Client Download
I was on the train a few days ago and ended up chatting to some guy (apologies, I'm terrible with...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/20/2006
Windows Vista Technical Library
For those among you with access to CTP builds or are looking at early adoption of Windows Vista when...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/17/2006
Cool emerging web technologies
I saw this on Eileens blog a week or so back and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Obviously I have...
Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/16/2006