April 2006 - Posts

28 April 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 for a virtual machine as shown below - it's as simple as checking the box (on by default). Have fun - and remember, this is Beta code - only install it Read More...
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28 April 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 virtual machine support to be built into Windows Longhorn server with a " hypervisor " architecture, we're absolutely not sitting still on the Virtual Read More...
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27 April 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 is configured with a static IP address. I stopped the DHCP Client service as I figured (incorrectly) that it wouldn't be needed due to not using DHCP for Read More...
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26 April 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 answered the email (hopefully with the correct answer!), but would have been able to give a more complete answer if I had had the VSMT help file to hand. Read More...
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25 April 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 requests with ambigious extensions, what would you do? I'm guessing the answer from 99% of you would be "of course, I want to be as secure as I can be". Well, Read More...
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24 April 2006
Website Photo Album Generating Software
Hopefully this will help someone who's not necessarily adept at creating photo web-sites using FrontPage for example. Since moving to Seattle nearly a month ago now, I've been meaning to find a decent way of building a flexible web-site for sharing photos Read More...
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21 April 2006
Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting
I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing coincidence, I happened to have a copy of it open and reading it just as the email came in. David & his colleage, Mark Russinovich regularly give courses Read More...
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20 April 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 unregistering DLLs using the command line (find me a dev who isn't a command line junkie - I still have two prompts open as I type this). As time's gone on, Read More...
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19 April 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 Clustering demos during events such as IT Forum last year, in addition to the planned & unplanned failover as per my blogcasts a few months ago, we include Read More...
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18 April 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. It can be used against hosts running Virtual Server 2005 RTM and R2. Overview This Management Pack provides monitoring and reporting for the following Read More...
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12 April 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 found out who the third reader of this blog is :) ), but there's also a little known method, SetConfigurationValue, in the Virtual Server 2005 R2 COM API. Read More...
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11 April 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 VM under Virtual Server 2005 R2 after an OS is already present on the hard disk. Kari pointed out it worked if there was no OS previously installed (as Read More...
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07 April 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 times are PST (add 8 hours for UK time) Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Windows Vista for the Enterprise (Level 200) Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:30 Read More...
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07 April 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, it's easy in my new office - turn on the (upside-down) switch on the wall. I've worked in offices before where lights are controlled by dialling numbers on Read More...
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06 April 2006
WinHEC 2006 and Windows Virtualization
The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2006 being held in at the Washington State Convention and Trade Centre in Seattle on 23rd to 25th May this year will provide a lot of further information on Windows Virtualization. There is a whole (sub-)track Read More...
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05 April 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 it's 29 days early for me (being a Brit who do dates the "correct" way - ie dd/mm/yy, and boy is that still confusing me being over here), but tonight at Read More...
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04 April 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 Linux today) under Virtual Server 2005 R2. Cheers John. Read More...
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04 April 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. However, given some of the announcments yesterday about Virtual Server, the fact that Steve B was the person who kicked off the Linux support under Virtual Read More...
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03 April 2006
VHD Licensing
Quick blog to respond to several queries which have been directed at me today which needs a little clarification - this is with respect to the number of companies who have licensed the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) file format now increased to more than 45. Read More...
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03 April 2006
Linux Support in Virtual Server 2005 R2
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: -Red Read More...
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03 April 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 authoritatively. Not that it's the best kept secret in the world - it appears that someone from Microsoft leaked this information to several sources last Read More...
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