Hyper-V RTM Is Here
Published 26 June 8 11:22 AM | Charlie Russel
The Hyper-V RTM is here, and should be downloadable today, according to this TechNet blog . As anyone who reads this blog knows, I'm a big fan of Hyper-V and I'm really glad to see it RTM. This may be a MS v1.0, but it's a solid product that...
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"Slashes" in Vista/Windows Server 2008
Published 21 June 8 10:16 PM | Charlie Russel
OK, I knew that I could use "/" in PowerShell just about anywhere that Windows CMD wanted "\" - PowerShell is smart enough to figure out what I mean in almost every case. So: PSH> cd c:/temp works exactly the same as: PSH> cd...
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Windows Home Server - Public Beta Includes x64
Published 10 June 8 9:18 PM | Charlie Russel
The public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is now available on the Microsoft Connect site for download. This is a major update for WHS - not only does it fix the corruption issue that has plagued WHS in certain scenarios, but it also adds full...
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Guest Blog - Kevin Beares, SBS Community Lead
Published 27 May 8 4:46 PM | Charlie Russel
The Windows Small Business Server 2008 WW Community Survey is live This is the third year we have published an SBS WW Community Survey to the SBS Community. We have learned an amazing amount of information from the people who have taken the time to tell...
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MS Non-Support
Published 1 May 8 1:33 PM | Charlie Russel
One of my favourite fellow MVPs, Barb Bowman , posted a rant today about the latest Microsoft product to ship with no support for 64-bit users. In this case, a "professional" photographic tools application, Pro Photo Tools v1 . For shame, Microsoft...
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Published 30 April 8 9:42 AM | Charlie Russel
SCVMM 2007 is Microsoft's outstanding product for managing multiple Virtual Server instances across your enterprise. Frankly, I loved it. It made dealing with VS so much easier, and allowed me to build a library of solutions that I could quickly and...
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Connecting to Remote VMs with Hyper-V RC0
Published 27 April 8 11:23 AM | Charlie Russel
One of the changes in Hyper-V RC0 is that you can no longer use a mouse in a remote RDP session until you have the Integration Components installed into the VM. Well, that's a royal pain if you don't happen to be sitting at the console of your...
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A Lighter Moment
Published 21 April 8 11:42 AM | Charlie Russel
I ran across a perfect commentary on how the life of a Microsoft MVP works, in this comic on the xkcd site. Of course, it was sent to me originally by my wife. Wonder what she was trying to tell me...
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Finally - Adobe to support 64-bit in next version of PhotoShop
Published 3 April 8 10:52 AM | Charlie Russel
Adobe has finally announced that PhotoShop CS4 will have a 64-bit version. Gee, took them long enough. The C-Net article on this is here . Charlie.
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Hyper-V RC0 and Integration Components Workaround
Published 31 March 8 7:5 AM | Charlie Russel
If you've upgraded to RC0 of Hyper-V, you can run into a problem creating a new VM that is based on Server 2008 RTM, since the Integration Components (IC's) are out of sync. This means you won't have the drivers for the new synthetic NIC,...
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Unwanted Services when installing iTunes (for SHAME, Apple!)
Published 24 March 8 10:22 AM | Charlie Russel
OK, we've all complained about unnecessary services and silent installs, but to give them credit, Microsoft has done a pretty good job of cutting back on that sort of thing. Heck, they even allow installing a server without a GUI, finally. So I recently...
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Hyper-V Release Candidate Released
Published 19 March 8 7:13 AM | Charlie Russel
For those of you testing or using Hyper-V as your virtualization solution, the good news is that they appear to be on track for a final release by the end of the summer. Microsoft has just announced the release of the Hyper-V RC. This update adds Vista...
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32-bit Memory in x64 Windows
Published 18 March 8 8:55 AM | Charlie Russel
In the public 64-bit Windows newsgroup , we often get questions about memory usage, and a recent post there made me realize that there are some basic misunderstandings about the relationship between memory, virtual memory address space, and RAM. 32-bit...
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Arctic Cooling
Published 29 January 8 9:14 AM | Charlie Russel
Interesting review of Arctic Cooling's CPU heatsink/coolers on AnandTech today. I've been using and very much liking the Freezer Pro line of coolers from them for a while, finding them extremely quiet and very effective. Well, Anand agrees with...
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Hyper-V on Server Core
Published 16 January 8 5:41 PM | Charlie Russel
While I'm talking about Hyper-V and Server 2008, let me thank Ben Armstrong for a great post on how to get Hyper-V setup and configured on Server Core. Of course, as I just posted , I needed a bit of Terminal Server RemoteApps help to get it all working...
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Windows Server 2008 RemoteApps is COOL
Published 16 January 8 5:24 PM | Charlie Russel
Originally known as "TS Rail", the RemoteApps feature of Windows Server 2008 makes Terminal Servers an absolute essential on everyone's network. There is no way I won't have a TS running full time from here on out, and RemoteApps is...
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iRotate Utility
Published 8 January 8 12:5 PM | Charlie Russel
I've got a dual monitor setup, running off an ATI 1650 video card. Not exactly hot stuff, but adequate for most of my (non-gaming) needs. But the ATI software is the PITS. It keeps losing track of which monitor is which, turning off the older SGI...
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Windows Home Server - x64 Support Announced
Published 7 January 8 1:2 PM | Charlie Russel
The Windows Home Server Team Blog announced that Microsoft will soon be releasing (H1, 2008) a free, automatic, upgrade to Windows Home Server called "PowerPack 1" (PP1 for short.) PP1 has lots of new features I think are important, including...
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Finding a Driver
Published 1 January 8 1:53 PM | Charlie Russel
There was a really useful post on the 64bit newsgroup today from Carlos about how to find a driver for a generic device. I'm going to paraphrase it here, but the basic process is to get the hardware ID from the device and use that to find the real...
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Disable UAC Prompt for a Single Application
Published 31 December 7 9:33 AM | Charlie Russel
A useful KB (946932) just got posted on support.microsoft.com. It describes how to disable the User Account Control (UAC) prompt for a specific application, without disabling it for the machine as a whole. Now THAT's useful. There's no way I'm...
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