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Monday, September 14, 2009 4:09 PM

How to view RAW image files on Windows 7 (and Windows Vista).

My photography posts appear to be a bit like busses. I don’t make one for a while then two together … Some while back I wrote a tale of two Codecs bemoaning the patchy support for RAW files. Basically we (Microsoft) don’t provide codecs for anything other
Posted by jamesone | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:03 PM

Release the Windows 7 !

It’s official. Windows 7 has released to manufacturing. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx   It’s official. Windows Server 2008 R2 has released to Manufacturing http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:52 PM

How to activate Windows from a script (even remotely).

I have been working on some PowerShell recently to handle the initial setup of a new machine, and I wanted to add the activation. If you do this from a command line it usually using the Software Licence manager script ( slMgr.vbs ) but this is just a
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:17 AM

How to: have nicer Active Directory management from PowerShell – without upgrading AD

One of the first books I read on PowerShell  had a comment about using AD from the PowerShell V1 which amounted to “It’s too hard, don’t bother use VB Script instead”. I’d taken against the book in question (no names no pack drill) – in fact it reminded
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:24 AM

How to manage the Windows firewall settings with PowerShell

I mentioned recently that I’m writing a PowerShell configuration tool for the R2 edition of Hyper-V server and Windows server core. One of the key parts of that is managing the firewall settings…. Now… I don’t want to plug my book too much (especially
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:12 AM

Two useful Hyper-V links

A short post by my standards On the server core blog, Chuck has posted Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V , which makes an interesting read. If you do a lot of hyper-v you’ll probably stumble over one of these at some point.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:36 AM

Support for Red Hat OSes on Microsoft Virtualization (and Vice Versa)

One of the questions which comes up on our internal distribution lists for Hyper-V is “when will such and such and OS be supported on Hyper-V” and the somewhat frustrating response is usually in the form “We’re talking to OS vendors, but we can’t talk
Posted by jamesone | 0 Comments
Friday, February 13, 2009 12:29 AM

A Job or two saved for my “PowerShell configurator”

Somewhere in the queue of things to post is the remainder of my PowerShell configurator for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core and Hyper-VS Server R2. If you’re building a cluster the PowerShell CMDlets for clustering make that a breeze. Of course a cluster
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Friday, February 06, 2009 4:58 PM

Virtualization road show

Earlier in the week we took the virtualization tour over the Irish Sea. Tuesday was Belfast – and with the snow, getting there was quite a challenge. I felt ill all day and didn’t think I’d delivered the content as well as I should have, but the feedback
Posted by jamesone | 1 Comments
Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:08 PM

Checking and enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell

A couple of posts back I mentioned that I was working on a configuration library for Server 2008 R2 Core and Hyper-V Server R2 and this includes checking and setting the configuration for remote desktop. It turns out that this is controlled from just
Posted by jamesone | 6 Comments
Monday, January 26, 2009 2:49 PM

PowerShell and the smarter command line.

I mentioned I was doing some PowerShell work to manage configuration on the R2 versions of Windows Server 2008 Core and Hyper-V server (which now support PowerShell), and somebody in Redmond asked me if I knew  there were tools out there to do this
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:47 PM

New build of my PowerShell library for Hyper-V on codeplex

Some naked statistics 1942 – the number of lines of code in HyperV.PS1 499 – the number of lines of formatting XML 14,381 – the number of words in the documentation file 2443 - the number of downloads of the last version 929 – the number of downloads
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:01 PM

PowerShell 2, Server Core R2 and Hyper-V server R2

With all the betas out at the moment I’ve been trying to get up to speed on both Windows 7 (by using it) and Windows Server 2008 R2 , and Hyper-V server R2 as well. If you’re a regular reader you won’t be surprised to know that I’m excited by what’s coming
Posted by jamesone | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:53 PM

Fun and games with VHD files in the new OSes

One of the new features for both Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Windows 7 client is support for Virtual Hard Disk files built into the OS. You can create fixed or dynamic disks and “attach” the tools for Hyper-V call this “mounting” a VHD and early stuff
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Monday, January 05, 2009 5:15 PM

Lies,Damn lies and licence interpretations.

From time to time people ask me who I write for, and I always say I write for myself in the hope that there are enough people out there like me to make a reasonable size audience. It always surprises me how many people inside Microsoft read this blog,
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