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Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Windows 7 – not a very well kept secret
We’ve got a projector in the office which gathers various streams of news and shows them on the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/07/2009
Lies,Damn lies and licence interpretations.
From time to time people ask me who I write for, and I always say I write for myself in the hope...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/05/2009
Thinking about 2009
Once upon a time I studied economics. Listening to commentators telling us how bad things are and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/05/2009
Gas bills and the people ready business.
It’s a constant puzzle to people from the US and Europe that Britain seems to be split brained about...
Author: James ONeill Date: 01/02/2009
Grrr. A christmas present which is just going to have to wait.
I’m not a Christmas person. Among other things I’m I’ve no imagination for Christmas presents for...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/23/2008
Borrowing from Windows Explorer in PowerShell part 3: using extended properties with zip files
So a couple of posts back I showed a little bit of PowerShell which could create a new Zip file and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/20/2008
What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.
It’s odd to think that I’ve been using Windows Vista as my main OS for more than 2 years....
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/19/2008
IE Security Patch
You may have seen in the news over the last few days that a vulnerability has come to light in IE,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/18/2008
Virtualization: user group and good stories
Details of the next Microsoft Virtualisation* User Group meeting now up on www.mvug.co.uk!...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/10/2008
Borrowing from Windows Explorer in PowerShell part 2: extended properties
When I stated looking at what could be done using explorer objects from PowerShell I “discovered”...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/09/2008
Borrowing from Windows Explorer in PowerShell part 1 – ZIP files
When I was at tech-ed in Barcelona recently I met Corey Hynes, who looks after building a lot the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/08/2008
Two more HPC events.
NetEffect presents: iWARP Enabled Ethernet and Windows HPC Server 2008 Deliver Super Computer...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/03/2008
PowerShell Verbs Vs Nouns
The first big PowerShell project I worked on was to produce the scripts in the OCS resource Kit....
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/02/2008
Green IT and adding up the numbers
I did the keynote for the virtualization unplugged tour recently, and I tried to draw several themes...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/01/2008
iPhone Adverts.
Everyone knows Apple’s advertising annoys people at Microsoft. That’s partly what it’s for. And I’ve...
Author: James ONeill Date: 12/01/2008
Safe on-line part 2 (in praise of John Lewis)
I’ve talked about brand values and somewhere along the line I sure I said that I choose to shop at...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/25/2008
Road-show materials.
I’ve had a couple of requests for the slides and related information from the”Unplugged” tour My...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/20/2008
Get Safe Online ‘08
The First time I ever worked with Steve was on GSOL the first year it ran. It’s become an annual...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/18/2008
Server 2008 R2 – Server Core changes.
As I said in my last post I have a whole stack of things to talk about in the aftermath of Tech.ed...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/14/2008
Back from tech.ed
I’ve had a busy few days: after Tech.ed we had some internal training in Barcelona over the weekend,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/13/2008
Slides and scripts from Open XML / PowerShell reporting Session in Barcelona
I'm going to spend the next two or three Posts explaining what I did in this session for those who...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/05/2008
Virtualization videos
I mentioned I was presenting on Virtualization a week or so ago, and Matt was presenting another of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/02/2008
Internet connections and People ready businesses
I’ve been “on Holiday” for a few days. My mother-in-law hasn’t been enjoying the best of health so...
Author: James ONeill Date: 11/02/2008
High Performance computing Webcasts over the next two weeks
I haven’t really said much about Windows HPC server 2008, which we launched recently as the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/31/2008
Scheduling task on Server 2008 – a Hyper-V snapshot
I had a mail from Alessandro, asking about scheduling operations on Hyper-V; specifically he wanted...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/27/2008
Mary Jo Foley and Windows pet peeves.
It was interesting listening to Mary Jo at the event Eileen got together last week. Mark has a good...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/27/2008
Tech-ed for IT professionals next week
Just a quick note to say that I will be spending next week in Barcelona. Anyone who is going who...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/27/2008
Virtualize or Virtualise ?
I was presenting at a session on Virtualization on Friday, and the Organizer had collated all the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/25/2008
PowerShell and Windows Media Player, part 2
In the previous post on this topic I showed how to get a media player object $wmp = New-object ...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/21/2008
SCVMM 2008 released.
There’s Billy Connolly sample which I’ve had on my PC for ages. To use it recently at Virtualization...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/21/2008
PowerShell and Windows Media Player, part 1
Stange bedfellows you might think but why shouldn’t media be scripted ? I was thinking this a couple...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/21/2008
PowerShell, WMI and formatting
I’ve been doing a ton of PowerShell recently, in which is part of the reason why the number of blog...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/21/2008
Hyper-v Server , what is it exactly ?
I’ve got multiple blog posts on the go in Windows Live Writer at the moment, one talking of the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/20/2008
Dude, where’s my script ?
I’ve been working on a PowerShell script over the last few days which uses an XML file. (That’s...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/17/2008
Not just rewarding failure: 25% off voucher for passing exams.
For a while now we’ve had a program called second shot for people taking MCP exams. Take an exam and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/15/2008
I, Assassin.
[Another one of those looping posts for the weekend] I’ve been feeling a bit of pressure to get some...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/11/2008
Never, ever run executables which arrive unexpectedly by mail.
I had this waiting for me on my home PC this morning. From: Microsoft...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/10/2008
Server 2008 AD Free Exams …
I just had this in my mail with a request to share. Most requests to “blog this” are on a fast...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/08/2008
Server Core -- Too Dry and Crunchy ?
I’ve got a kind of love/hate relationship with the core installation of Server-2008. I love: That it...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/28/2008
Active Directory User Group, first meeting with John Craddock and Sally Storey
We now have a UK AD user group (ADUG) And they have their first meeting set for October 23rd at...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/24/2008
Justice evades Hamilton
BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Justice evades Hamilton This came in on my phone while,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/23/2008
Supercomputers and adverts.
One of those Saturday morning serendipitous link chains. Sometime in 1988 I was talking to...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/20/2008
Brighton Pavillion Photo Synth
I wanted to create a page with a photosynth embedded in it So here is one.
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/18/2008
Need a product code name ? (Dunnington)
In past posts I've talked about a mythical Microsoft product named "Basingstoke"....
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/16/2008
Motor racing again.
I hope to get back to the Hyper-V , Windows and the rest shortly. I read something Jeremy Clarkson...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/14/2008
Hyper-v and competitors /collaborators
When Ray Noorda ran Novell he coined the term Coopertition to describe their relationship with us....
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/10/2008
Net maps - PowerShell and Excel
Over the weekend I picked up a link from Jeffrey, which took me to this post by Doug. My post from...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/08/2008
Today's "Get virtual now event" - official information published
The link to this story is now on the press pass home page Today more than 20 partners announce...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/08/2008
Ferrari International Assistance does it again
It's amazing. I don't normally link to ITV's web site, but if you go here, make sure you're on the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/07/2008
Monday's "Get Virtual Now" event
You may have seen that there is a big Microsoft Virtualization event happening in the US on...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/07/2008