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Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
XP mode for Windows 7
Sometimes I feel I’m an old man longing for some golden age which only ever existed in my memory…...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/27/2009
Warming to Action Center
One of the paint point of running any Beta OS (including windows 7) is that one or two drivers can...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/23/2009
Things that work with Win 7 which didn’t work under Vista
Though the beta of Windows 7 we have been telling people that if something could be made to work on...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/22/2009
Resource monitor again – how fast is a broadband connection
I like the resource monitor in windows Vista, but in 7 it has a number of tweaks (not least, with...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/22/2009
I need a human chkdsk to beat Murphy’s law.
As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been having laptop problems, and like my (once) trusty Dell D820...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/22/2009
Windows7 and batteries, revisited.
I blogged a few weeks back that you could check on the state of your battery from the command line...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/20/2009
Google Street View : photography and the breakdown of common sense.
Working for Microsoft, and holding views on privacy which border on paranoia, you might expect me to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/07/2009
Imminent Death Of Twitter Predicted: A case study, the Malaysian F1 GP.
First to explain the title “Imminent death of X predicted” is a snowclone , and its entry* in the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 04/07/2009
A day out with Divers
I spent yesterday at the DIVERSE – the South Eastern area conference for BSAC (the British Sub Aqua...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/16/2009
PowerShell event in Newcastle – oh and another thing
The VB user group are running an event for IT Pros in Newcastle on 24th March: PowerShell 0-60 in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/12/2009
My enduring love for OCS .. and a Nice windows 7 feature
My job as an evangelist focuses on Windows platform (client and Server OS), including management...
Author: James ONeill Date: 03/12/2009
How to use Advanced Queries in Windows search.
If there was one single feature about Windows Vista which made me say “I’m never ever going back to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/23/2009
A collection of links for the weekend.
Since I was talking recently about having a lot of tabs open in IE, it’s fair to say that a lot of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/23/2009
IE 8 – something else I’m growing to really like
A few days back I wrote about acceleators in IE 8 and talked about how search box had been...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/21/2009
Windows 7 release candidate…
First up, let me give my usual warning about ship dates. Those who talk don’t know, and those who...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/21/2009
Testing Windows 7 on a Laptop ? Try this
One of the things which comes up from time to time is people saying “I don’t get as much battery...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/18/2009
How to manage the Windows firewall settings with PowerShell
I mentioned recently that I’m writing a PowerShell configuration tool for the R2 edition of Hyper-V...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/17/2009
Windows 7 : Photos, Gallery and AutoCollage.
When I first started using Windows Vista it was the better experience for photographers which really...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/17/2009
Two useful Hyper-V links
A short post by my standards On the server core blog, Chuck has posted Top Issues for Microsoft...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/17/2009
Support for Red Hat OSes on Microsoft Virtualization (and Vice Versa)
One of the questions which comes up on our internal distribution lists for Hyper-V is “when will...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/16/2009
How to drive Twitter (or other web tools) with PowerShell
First of all since I’ve mentioned twitter a few times recently I should say I have this cartoon of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/16/2009
A Job or two saved for my “PowerShell configurator”
Somewhere in the queue of things to post is the remainder of my PowerShell configurator for Windows...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/12/2009
Accelerators in IE8
Internet Explorer 8 seems to be guided by the same “many little improvements” philosophy that has...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/12/2009
Windows 7 federated search.
I was a little surprised to find it was nearly 3 years ago that I first wrote about Open Search… So...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/12/2009
Windows 7 SKUs
We’ve announced what the “SKUs” will be for Windows 7 – I hate this term “Stock Keeping Unit” means...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/07/2009
Virtualization road show
Earlier in the week we took the virtualization tour over the Irish Sea. Tuesday was Belfast – and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/06/2009
Can I get published if I say that rain is wet or snow is cold ?
I saw this article earlier today. “The vast majority of all critical Microsoft vulnerabilities, some...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/06/2009
Windows 7 and UAC
From the start I thought User Account Control was a big step forward for Vista I tended to brush off...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/06/2009
Shutting down a lot of machines with Powershell.
A lot of my free time last year went into a book and one of the chapters in the book is about...
Author: James ONeill Date: 02/02/2009
Live Migration in Hyper-V R2
There are videos on-line already showing Live-Migration in action and I’m working on one to show how...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/31/2009
Checking and enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell
A couple of posts back I mentioned that I was working on a configuration library for Server 2008 R2...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/31/2009
On Geekdom, Windows Live, Twitter and Stephen Fry. Just another weekend post.
First , a geeky joke which my wife told me after hearing it on BBC Radio 2. “I bought a book called...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/31/2009
A couple more neat things in Windows 7 – printing and the task bar.
A while back I wrote about exhibiting Aspergers type behaviours and as well as hating background...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/28/2009
Managing Windows Update with PowerShell
I mentioned some of the server management and config tools I’ve been creating with Server 2008 R2...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/27/2009
PowerShell and the smarter command line.
I mentioned I was doing some PowerShell work to manage configuration on the R2 versions of Windows...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/26/2009
Camera-phones One Note and OCR.
Everyone uses different bits of office. There’s a core piece that everyone uses and then we all have...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/26/2009
New build of my PowerShell library for Hyper-V on codeplex
Some naked statistics 1942 – the number of lines of code in HyperV.PS1 499 – the number of lines of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/25/2009
PowerShell 2, Server Core R2 and Hyper-V server R2
With all the betas out at the moment I’ve been trying to get up to speed on both Windows 7 (by using...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/25/2009
End of availability for the Windows 7 Beta
Over on Windows 7 Team Blog, Brandon has a post explaining that we are coming to the end of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/25/2009
A Windows 7 Evening with Mark Russinovich
I’ve mentioned Tom Lehrer before and one of his albums is entitled “An evening wasted with Tom...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/21/2009
A new bit of Windows 7 (for me)
Someone sent me a couple of good links about new bits Tim Sneath's bumper list of Windows 7 Secrets,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/19/2009
Songsmith again.
Amazing how a Picture goes around , I found it on Eileen’s blog she found it on Jon’s blog. ...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/19/2009
Progress or Luddism … why Windows 7 isn’t an F1 car
Jason Perlow at ZD Net thinks I called him a luddite. Actually I said one of his colleagues barely...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/14/2009
Fun and games with VHD files in the new OSes
One of the new features for both Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Windows 7 client is support for...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/13/2009
Hyper-V Server R2 Beta.
Nice as Windows 7 client is, I’ve found myself feeling a more excited about Windows Server 2008 R2....
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/13/2009
Downloading Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2
It seems it wasn’t just our internal network servers which went into melt down – on Friday the rush...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/13/2009
My first couple of hours with Windows 7
I don’t talk much here about occasions when Microsoft’s internal workings get silly, but the last...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/10/2009
Technet and betas
Later today we will make Windows 7 beta available to anyone who wants it . “Anyone” is stretching...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/09/2009
Songsmith – there goes a chunk more time !
Embarrassing personal revelation time. I sing in the car, in silly voices. Anyone who hasn’t heard...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/08/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 client Betas on Technet
I’m not exactly delighted to be be blogging at 3:13 in the morning, but I’m watching the keynote...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/07/2009