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Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my Virtual Server “production” VMs across to Hyper-V. But when nearing completion, I noticed that Server Manager was reporting a role error: Looking at the detail...
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If you'd like to join us please edit the wiki to add your name - that way we'll have a good idea of how many people to expect. Where : The Coach and Horses pub , 29 Greek Street, Soho, London W1V 5LL When : 11th December from 6pm to 8pm (and onwards...
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While working on the next version of HVRemote yesterday evening, one of the things I wanted to address based on feedback from various people was to have the tool (written in VBScript) detect whether it is being run from an elevated command prompt. While...
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It's the fourth annual GetSafeOnline campaign week whereby the team will raise the profile of consumer internet safety through a revamped GetSafeOnline website (containing a wealth of commonsense "how to" information) and a range of media...
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It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at least in this case, I hope I've come up with something worth waiting for. Announcing "HVRemote"...., a tool to "automagically" configure Hyper-V Remote Management...
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You might be surprised just how easy it is to sort lists of text into alphabetical order simply using Microsoft Office's Excel as you can see from the screenshot below - the sort function works just as happily with text as numerals: Share this post...
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The aim of this post is to start a conversation to share ideas rather than pitch Microsoft products. At a time of economic uncertainty it's in everyone's interest to help our business' to reduce their costs and improve profits.Please share...
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I was asked this very question moments ago and while it's not anything new I thought it was probably worth sharing that there's a free standalone viewer available - just click here to access the download Share this post: Read More...
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A couple of people have asked me this very question as they live too far away from London to be there in person. The sessions are not yet streamed though the community leaders have thoughfully recorded every session and published them to Vimeo - click...
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I’ve been in Seattle for the last couple of days and when I first arrived I was somewhat frustrated that my HTC S620 phone was unable to sync email with our corporate Exchange server. It worked perfectly at home and I was able to browse the Internet quite...
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This post follows my earlier one citing what to do if your phone can browse the web but not sync email . The following instructions are for Windows Mobile 6.0 and were taken from my HTC S620 - other handsets are very likely to have exactly the same options...
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When managing a large number of virtual machines, there is often a need to tag it in some way with one or more properties uniquely identifying it for administrative purposes. One example would be to identify a virtual machine as belonging to a person...
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The VistaSquad are meeting again tomorrow night – Wednesday 17th September at Microsoft’s office in London. To sign up (for free) simply head on over to the VistaSquad event page here . Topics this month: WPF/Silverlight Application Deep Dive (Richard...
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There’s a really good (free) TechNet webcast coming up on the 17th September which will be a great resource for those of you who’d like to learn how to take advantage of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in your organisation. The full details of the event...
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This may not be a problem for you but it's worth being aware that any websites that automatically sign you in (after you've logged in the first time and asked the browser to store your password for the site) will forget who you are - therefore...
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If you’ve tried installing IE8 Beta 2 onto a machine that already had IE8 Beta 1 on it then you’ll have seen the following message: Install Windows Internet Explorer 8 A previous build of Internet Explorer 8 is already installed on your computer. You...
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I’ve been worrying about all of the stuff I need to do before I fly off to Sydney tonight for TechEd Australia . There’s my 2 session decks to finalise, the first draft of my Women in Games conference keynote to polish off, there’s my Australian...
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Kai Axford has posted a series of short video interviews with representatives of the FBI – they are well worth a look – particularly if you are based in the United States as they include advice regarding whom to report breaches to. Check out The Security...
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If you went to any of the events titled “Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies” then you should will already have a link to the slides at the registration site. In any case you can download the slides from here . Share this post: Read More...
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Here’s a list of the Microsoft UK TechNet events that are running between now and Christmas: 13 August 2008, London: Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies 21 August 2008, Liverpool: Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies 2...
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This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management tools over a VPN connection - specifically hitting an error “Access denied. Unable to establish communication between ‘SERVER’ and...
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I was nagging the team today to try and get them to complete their commitments the other day and they were querying one of the metrics I wanted them to achieve. They thought that I’d pulled the number out of the air. When I commented...
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I was recently asked this very question and I responded with "Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 and Windows Vista/XP" provide excellent built-in Virtual Private Networking features that are standards compliant and assuming they are correctly configured...
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..is a question I get from users who have installed loads of extra stuff on to their PC’s and I get so irate that they’re annoyed about Often, when people add 3rd party applications, the developers decide that these applications are so vital, that they...
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This is a question I’ve seen come up a few times so figured it was time to examine why in a little more detail. In Virtual Server, you were able to copy VHDs and the associated VMC (Virtual Machine Configuration) file from one host to another, add...
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