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Windows Home Server PP1 Releases to Web!

Charlie Russel — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:53:57 GMT

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is finally here ! Available for download if you're in a hurry, or wait and it will get pushed down via WU/MU, this is an essential upgrade for anyone using WHS. Or considering it. Not only does it add support for 64...(read more)

USB in Hyper-V Child?

Charlie Russel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:24:00 GMT

It's still early days yet, but I think I've found a simple and very satisfactory solution to the problem of no USB support in Hyper-V. FabulaTech's USB Over Network product is simple to install - you install the Server side of it on whatever...(read more)

Hyper-V RTM Is Here

Charlie Russel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:22:19 GMT

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...(read more)

"Slashes" in Vista/Windows Server 2008

Charlie Russel — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:16:29 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Home Server - Public Beta Includes x64

Charlie Russel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:18:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Guest Blog - Kevin Beares, SBS Community Lead

Charlie Russel — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:46:29 GMT

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...(read more)

MS Non-Support

Charlie Russel — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:33:44 GMT

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...(read more)

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

Charlie Russel — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:42:22 GMT

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...(read more)

Connecting to Remote VMs with Hyper-V RC0

Charlie Russel — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:23:28 GMT

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...(read more)

A Lighter Moment

Charlie Russel — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:42:06 GMT

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......(read more)

Finally - Adobe to support 64-bit in next version of PhotoShop

Charlie Russel — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:52:55 GMT

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....(read more)

Hyper-V RC0 and Integration Components Workaround

Charlie Russel — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:05:56 GMT

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,...(read more)

Unwanted Services when installing iTunes (for SHAME, Apple!)

Charlie Russel — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Hyper-V Release Candidate Released

Charlie Russel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:13:06 GMT

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...(read more)

32-bit Memory in x64 Windows

Charlie Russel — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:55:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Arctic Cooling

Charlie Russel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:14:50 GMT

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...(read more)

Hyper-V on Server Core

Charlie Russel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:41:16 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 RemoteApps is COOL

Charlie Russel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

iRotate Utility

Charlie Russel — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:05:05 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Home Server - x64 Support Announced

Charlie Russel — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)