John Howard - Senior Program Manager in the Hyper-V team at Microsoft

Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.

Quick note as I've been inundated with emails saying that NVSPBind is not available for download as...

Date: 05/28/2014

This is a bug which has been reported to me by a few people now, and a KB has recently been...

Date: 02/05/2014

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 11/14/2013

This is worth a read - the revised for Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Performance Tuning Guidelines...

Date: 11/12/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 11/11/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 11/06/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 11/01/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 10/31/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 10/29/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 10/28/2013

Part 1: Introduction to generation 2 virtual machines Part 2: Networking and boot order Part 3:...

Date: 10/25/2013

This is another one of my blog-post series, this time taking a dive into generation 2 VMs, a new...

Date: 10/24/2013

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Date: 10/18/2013

So I haven't totally given up on blogging - just that I have other work to do as well. But this was...

Date: 04/24/2013

For those of you interested in learning more about the new inbox capability for NIC Teaming (aka...

Date: 04/05/2012

This part of the series is all about determining why SR-IOV may not be operational. As you will...

Date: 03/21/2012

Only a few more topics in this series remain uncovered. This part of the series looks at resiliency...

Date: 03/20/2012

Summarising the series so far, we’ve answered “Why SR-IOV?”, looked at hardware...

Date: 03/19/2012

In parts 1 through 4, I covered the external dependencies and the “why” of SR-IOV. So...

Date: 03/16/2012

So far in this series, we have discussed the “why” question, and identified three...

Date: 03/15/2012

So far in this series, we’ve looked at the “why” question, and the hardware aspects of SR-IOV, and...

Date: 03/14/2012

In part 1, I discussed why Microsoft has been investing in SR-IOV for device I/O from virtual...

Date: 03/13/2012

Now that the veil of silence has been lifted with the release of Windows Server “8” beta...

Date: 03/12/2012

The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 SP1 are now available for download....

Date: 04/07/2011

Today we released an update to the Hyper-V BPA (Best Practice Analyser). This fixes some issues in...

Date: 02/24/2011

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a...

Date: 02/14/2011

A new version (2.1) of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V have just been made available....

Date: 07/30/2010

An interesting question was posed to me a couple of days back about why when starting Hyper-V...

Date: 07/07/2010

This one was actually pretty simple to work out, but it did have me flummoxed to start with. Here’s...

Date: 06/16/2010

A quick post to announce the availability of a new utility written by a colleague of mine in the...

Date: 01/25/2010

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a...

Date: 10/09/2009

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a...

Date: 09/18/2009

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a...

Date: 09/09/2009

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a...

Date: 09/02/2009

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a...

Date: 08/31/2009

After the Windows 7 RTM release was published last week, it was joined by Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM...

Date: 08/14/2009

The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7 RTM have been released to microsoft.com....

Date: 08/12/2009

So after some 22,000 downloads (thank you) in the 8 months since first released, HVRemote has...

Date: 08/07/2009

A quick note to say that Windows Virtual PC has reached RC (release candidate) and is available for...

Date: 08/06/2009

Yesterday, we announced that the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V have been released under a...

Date: 07/21/2009

In May, I mentioned that we introduced a checkbox in the Hyper-V UI for Windows 7 and Windows Server...

Date: 07/01/2009

Our Virtual Switch got smarter in Windows Server 2008 R2. In Windows Server 2008, VMs are...

Date: 05/21/2009

I had a couple of emails overnight asking whether it is possible to use Hyper-V Manager "v1" (as in...

Date: 05/06/2009

Today, the last of the download links for the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008...

Date: 05/05/2009

A cautionary note for those of you performing an in-place upgrade of a machine running Windows...

Date: 05/05/2009

I thought I’d start a series of posts highlighting some of the smaller changes in Hyper-V in Windows...

Date: 05/04/2009

The Hyper-V Security Guide is now available online or for download as a Word document. It covers...

Date: 03/31/2009

Just a quick heads up – as posted on our team blog earlier this month, KB967902 resolves an issue in...

Date: 03/25/2009

News just in – the VSC (Virtualization Service Client) component providing mouse integration for...

Date: 03/25/2009

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