James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics - a lesson in Benchmarking.
Many years ago - before on-line meant "the internet" - I annoyed a journalist in an...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/06/2008
It's not about computation, it's connection and visualization
Yesterday Microsoft UK had its company conference in Brighton, and I always have mixed feelings...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/04/2008
IE 8 testing - part 2
One of the things about a new browser is that various web sites expect particular ID strings to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/04/2008
IE 8 is coming: are you ready ?
IE8 has features to please users, which makes me expect a pretty rapid uptake (Read Eileen for a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/30/2008
Mornington Crescent and Geoffrey Perkins.
A couple of years ago I had occasion to pass through Mornington Crescent station in London and was...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/30/2008
A Nice little Milestone for my PowerShell Hyper-V management library
As is the way for these things I never wrote in a diary "Started work on a PowerShell...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2008
Blogcast part 2 - and one of my favourite bits of feedback
Jonathan mailed me to say that part 2 of our interview is now posted and he's off to the same event...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2008
Mail stress.
I started typing this blog post at 07:21. Outlook has already received the first 50 items of the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2008
A novel password policy
Setting up some demo servers recently Steve and I tripped over the Windows 2008's default password...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2008
Photosynth - follow up
My post last week on Photosynth was best with gremlins - first I managed to link to PhotoSyth...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/25/2008
PowerShell in Sweden... Get-Audience -location Stockholm
Richard, who runs the UK PowerShell user group is on our "Most Valuable Professional"...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/25/2008
Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) take 2.
Various people noticed that VMware were not on the list of companies participating in the SVVP. Any...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/21/2008
Photosynth - 3 words. Create Your Synth
I've mentioned Photosynth a few times, and I had a mail this morning which said we've have gone live...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/21/2008
Virtualization: Licensing and support changes
I was briefed a few days ago about changes to licensing to make life easier for people doing...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/19/2008
Cars, jobs, and retailing. Why belief matters
A few days ago now, I ordered the replacement for my company car. If you don't live in the UK, it's...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/16/2008
Terminal Services Easy print
At the end of Wednesday's session in London, we got round to Terminal services easy print. For those...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/16/2008
Windows 7
Not surprisingly I get a lot of questions about future versions of products. Typically I get things...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/15/2008
Virtual Machine clustering in London, how we did it.
Wednesday's event in London was fun, and we managed not to talk too much about VMware's mishap: I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/15/2008
PowerShell from Excel (oh oh, VMware again)
VMware are a competitor and so when things go wrong for them I'll point it out (and to answer Nick,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/12/2008
It's rude to laugh at other people's misfortunes - even VMware's
That was one of my mother's regular sayings when I was young. OK Not the bit about VMware. So I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/12/2008
Interesting Citrix event, London, September
Chatting to my opposite number at Citrix today I found that they have a Virtualization event coming...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/08/2008
Microsoft Virtualization User Group
I think I can claim a first for the UK, we have a Microsoft Virtualization User Group. I'll...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/06/2008
Looks like September for SCVMM
The most senior Microsoft person ever to tell me off for something did so for my repeating of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/05/2008
A great demo of Google's privacy issues.
Back when I was a student, there seemed to more cases of newspapers invading people's privacy (or...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/05/2008
Podcast on PowerShell.
At the last PowerSell user group kindly host by Dmity and his colleagues at Quest - Jonathan Medd...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/31/2008
UK Windows server user group
The title says it all ready. Mark Wilson has created a group on Linked in to help get the ball...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/31/2008
Systems of belief ... and Ray Ozzie.
My colleague Orlando has a thankless task. We have our big training event this week and Orlando has...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/29/2008
What do people really think of Vista - Mojave
Unless this is the first post you've read here you'll know that I like Windows Vista, not because I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/29/2008
Where Microsoft went wrong with Vista
As I mentioned in my last post I've made my way to Microsoft HQ with a Visit to Canada on the way;...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/26/2008
Vista start-up times
I'm in Redmond at the moment, after a quick breather over the border in Canada, I've got over my jet...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/25/2008
PowerShell and checking management rights.
Something which has come up more than once with the builds I of my PowerShell Hyper-V library has...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/23/2008
How to annoy customers... e-commerce
In a few minutes I will be heading off to a Microsoft event in Seattle, and on the way I will be...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/21/2008
Scaling Hyper-v.
A couple of Stories have been doing the rounds on our internal Virtualization discussions. One was...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/20/2008
You know you have been doing too much PowerShell when you translate Macbeth ...
When you wake up with Powershell in your head for things which are not scripting tasks, as I did...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/12/2008
Viacom, Google and the long slow death of privacy
Eileen posted a link to a great YouTube video a few days back (words here - compare with...
Author: James ONeill Date: 07/09/2008
The Windows Server Virtualization Validation Programme
I've mentioned this program a couple of times, and now on the Windows Server Catalog site we have a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/30/2008
Finding Hyper-V servers in your domain
One of the advantages of having Virtualization integrated with Windows is that the Hyper-V (and in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/30/2008
Hyper-V. Of course it had to be yesterday
If you're in the UK there's still time (just) to get last week's Money programme about Bill Gates...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/27/2008
Off topic. The not so sweet FA.
For me to write a post about football (or Soccer if you prefer) - even on a Friday - is a pretty odd...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/27/2008
What operating systems are supported on Hyper-V ?
I've explained before that Supported means "We are in a position to get a fix if a fault is...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2008
Are people already ganging up on VMware ?
I think with Hyper-V we're going to please an awful lot of people, but not everybody. There are some...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2008
Hyper-V released !
Over the last few days there have been rumours of the imminent release of Hyper-V, and now the news...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/26/2008
Setting up Domain controllers on Server Core.
One of the things I have pointed people to a few times recently is the Windows Server Core...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/25/2008
Hyper-V PowerShell library - now on Codeplex
I've decided to go ahead and post the PowerShell library I have been working on to Codeplex. I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/18/2008
Scripting Sysadmin meme
In response to Steve's Scripting/Sysadmin Meme and Richard's call out ... I've answered the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/18/2008
Security, Security, Security.
The story last week that someone had left a secret folder of documents on a train - which were then...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/17/2008
Tech Registrations open...
Last week we ran our Tech-ed event for the US, and we have just opened registrations for Tech-Ed for...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/17/2008
How I get the server 2008 I want: #3: Vista look and feel
I'll be the first to admit that Servers don't need to have the nice look and feel that we get with...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/16/2008
How I get the server I want: #2 Getting sound in Hyper-V
Before I start - lets be clear THERE IS NO SOUND CARD IN A HYPER-V VM Good. Now that's out of the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/16/2008
How I get the server I want: #1 Disabling the shutdown event tracker
I think that the shutdown event tracker came in in Server 2003, and I'm sure that in some data...
Author: James ONeill Date: 06/16/2008