Most of you know the limit of 10 times authenticated users can join machines to a domain. Upping the limit, or removing it is a very simple thing to do, however everytime someone asks me, I have to go back to look it up again. At least if I have it on...

Following the myriad of emails I received, here's a link to markshareforABDE.exe as used in my blogcast about Access Based Directory Enumeration a few days ago. Many thanks to DuWayne Harrison at Microsoft in the US, the author of this tool for giving...

AKA Another great reason to consider using Virtual Server 2005 for test/dev scenarios.... I was asked a question a couple of days ago, and I hadn't thought of using the VMRC client in this particular circumstance. I haven't tested it, but there's no reason...

I have to admit, I'd never given a second thought to the origin of the use of "contoso". Contoso is one of a handful of domain names used in many Microsoft demonstrations. One question asked me this morning was where the name came from, with a suggestion...

I just stumbled across Marts blog entry and thought this was such a cool way to use of the tabbed capability of Windows Messenger 5.1 to embed a view of your Exchange email. Had to share it! Nice one Mart & Stef- great tip.

I looked at Monad briefly a couple of months ago - after all it's still a reasonably long way off yet, probably in the Longhorn timeframe. However, there's been a couple of articles just posted on the Internet looking at the future of "shell scripting...

Apart from a plethora of security enhancements, there are some pretty compelling reasons to take an early look at SP1. Apart from the built in firewall which is akin to the XP SP2 firewall, but better, the two features I particularly like are the Post...

I've posted a few screen shots of Windows Server 2003 SP1 Release Candidate 1 to give you a flavour.... To do this, I first built a slip-stream ISO of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and installed it under Virtual PC. There's lots of information out...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. Yesterday, we saw an overview of our network infrastructure and started diagnosing why Internet browsing from our corporate network was not working. In part 2 of this blogcast series on infrastructure...

I blogged a week or so ago about issues when running Windows Server 2003 SP1 under Virtual Server 2005 . Two days after that, there was a knowledgebase article published (now why didn't that appear in my RSS feed off the support web site ?). The KB article...

Good news. I've just noticed the launch of the "VHD Test Drive Program". In a nutshell, this is a capability to be able to download evaluation enterprise software pre-configured in a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) to run under Virtual Server 2005 R2...

KB article 950792 describing the scenario and the workaround has now gone live . Cheers, John.

With the Beta program for Virtual Server 2005 SP1 (as it was named when released to the web) having come to a close last week, and the imminent release of Virtual Server 2005 R2, here's run through of the steps to get you to the production release. ...

Co-inciding with the announcment of Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition being free , it was also announced that Virtual Machine Additions for Linux additions are available for download along with the list of varients which will be supported: ...

Thought you'd like this one if you live in the UK at least. Check out this page on microsoft.com, where there is a huge pricing discount for TechNet Plus subscriptions. If you purchase TechNet Plus directly through that site (ie not through a partner...

Thanks to everyone who attended the "Virtualisation Live & Uncut" TechNet evening at the Microsoft office in Reading last night - I had a fantastic time, and it was great to have such an interactive audience. I think I now understand a lot more about...

A problem I've been doing some headscratching with recently I managed to solve this evening - hopefully this will prove useful for others. And yes, before you ask about the subject line, I did have ISA 2006 installed at one point, but went back to ISA...

Following on a previous entry in April, within the last hour, Beta 2 of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 has been made available for public release. For more information, sign up at http://connect.microsoft.com Beta 2 introduces support for AMD Virtualization...

Here's a tip I learnt a couple of months ago and meant to post up before - totally forgot. Maybe it's force of habit, but rather than opening a new instance Internet Explorer, going to the address bar and typing in a web page, it's quicker to do start...

Announced to day at the World Wide Partner Conference , Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (DCE) has undergone some revisions effective from 1st October 2006: It will be available through Volume Licensing License rights allow an unlimited number...

This continues on from last week's post to show the changes needed to enable the "slipstreamed" Hyper-V RTM role at the time of operating system deployment. To start with, follow the steps from part 1 to add KB950050 to each of the images in the WIM file...

As you are probably aware from KB949219 (RC0 release of Hyper-V), the Hyper-V Integration Services in our RC0 release require Service Pack 3 to install on Windows XP 32-bit. The final build of SP3 was released to microsoft.com yesterday. Here's the links...

Yesterday, we announced that the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V have been released under a GPL v2 license for inclusion in future versions of the Linux kernel. More information on this can be found in the presspass article here . The second...

The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 SP1 are now available for download. These include the latest version of Hyper-V Manager which supports both Dynamic Memory (DM) and RemoteFX. Here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

There are a few "known" hacks to determine if a program is running under a Virtual Machine, unfortunately none of these supported by Microsoft. The most common one is the WMI query to find the motherboard manufacturer - if it is Microsoft, then, as...