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

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

OK, so I'm a couple of months behind the times.... but in case you aren't already aware, there's a...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/24/2009

As Ben mentioned last year, creating a large fixed size VHD in Hyper-V can be a lengthy operation as...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/23/2009

"When I were a lad" (you have to say that in a northern British accent for authenticity), I used to...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/22/2009

Just thought I'd add a quick blog entry - cool thing at the office today. Cans of Hyper-V ‘Pure...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/13/2009

Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 12/28/2008

START HVREMOTE VERSION TAG Version=1.08 TAG Date=9th September 2013 TAG...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/19/2008

While working on the next version of HVRemote yesterday evening, one of the things I wanted to...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/19/2008

START HVREMOTE VERSION TAG Version=0.3 TAG Date=19th November 2008 TAG...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/18/2008

Update 19th Nov - v0.3 now released! It has been a little quiet on the blog front, but sometimes, at...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/14/2008

When managing a large number of virtual machines, there is often a need to tag it in some way with...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/16/2008

Today is (was) Virtualization Launch day. Although the keynote presentations were streamed live (in...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 09/08/2008

Curiosity got the better of me. When I was analyzing why Hyper-V Remote Management didn't always...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/09/2008

I've had a few links I've been meaning to post up for some time now, so here's a small collection of...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/08/2008

This post examines a problem several people have reported when running Hyper-V Remote Management...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 08/08/2008

This is a question I’ve seen come up a few times so figured it was time to examine why in a...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/22/2008

In a physical only world, you don’t usually have to worry about MAC addresses that much as each NIC...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/15/2008

Just a quick note to mention that Hyper-V RTM (KB950050) was made available on Windows Update...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/09/2008

The first two parts of this mini-series dealt with deploying Windows Server 2008 – either as the...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 07/03/2008

It seems an eternity ago (May 2007) that I put up a post describing how to determine which...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/30/2008

This continues on from last week's post to show the changes needed to enable the "slipstreamed"...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/30/2008

This article walks through updating an WDS infrastructure such that Hyper-V RTM bits are...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/26/2008

If you followed yesterdays post explaining the basics of networking in Hyper-V, you may be wondering...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/17/2008

There's been many emails and posts about this since I replied to a Technet Forum post a few weeks...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/16/2008

While it is possible to create some complex networking environments in Hyper-V, the basic concepts...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 06/16/2008

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC1 is pre-release software.  The RC1...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/28/2008

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC1 is pre-release software.   ...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/20/2008

As you are probably aware from KB949219 (RC0 release of Hyper-V), the Hyper-V Integration Services...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 05/07/2008

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software.  Some of you...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/09/2008

Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/04/2008

Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 04/01/2008

Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2008

Soon, I promise, I will be publishing part 3 which is the workgroup server-core version of “Hyper-V...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/30/2008

More for my own reference, as I keep having to search the Internet for this document and never...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/29/2008

Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/28/2008

Update 14th Nov 2008. I've just released a script which does all this configuration in one or two...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/28/2008

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software. The Vista SP1...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/24/2008

Update: 26th June 2008. Hyper-V RTM is now available. RC0 is pre-release software.    Hot...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/17/2008

The Hyper-V team and the Windows Server Performance team have been working closely for a long time...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 03/02/2008

There is one particular scenario where you could be faced with this when booting a VM using Hyper-V....

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/29/2008

This question frequently comes up, but most often is not the question people mean to ask. As...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/28/2008

Sometimes you find things out the hard way. This one started bugging me a few weeks ago, so I...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/17/2008

Part four of my weekend project is to add the Hyper-V management applications to Terminal Server web...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008

Part three of my weekend project involves a little more reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008

Part two of my weekend project involves a little reconfiguration of my ISA 2006 Server to allow RPC...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008

So over the weekend, I found myself with a few spare hours, and got back to “playing with...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 02/09/2008

Happy New Year!I've had quite a few direct emails about this in the last few weeks, so it's probably...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 01/09/2008

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