Virtualisation on When Software Attacks!

Generation 2 Virtual Machines on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 plus other nice new features

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

DDD North 2013 was a fantastic community conference but sadly I didn’t get chance to deliver my grok talk on Generation 2 virtual machines. A few people came up to me beforehand to say they were interested in the topic, and a few more spoke to me afterwards to ask if I would blog. I had planned to write a post anyway, but when you know it’s something people want to read you get a bit more of a push.

IT Camp Leeds Roundup

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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Yesterday was great fun and I was really pleased to see so many Black Marble event regulars at the IT Camp. It was great to hear so many requests for more events like it in Leeds. We’re all keen to run more, but we need people to attend and give us feedback in order to be able to do that.

Server Core, Hyper-V and VLANs: An Odyssey

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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This is a torrid tale of frustration and annoyance, tempered by the fun of digging through system commands and registry entries to try and get things working.

Creating a new Virtual PC using the Virtual Windows XP Base Disk

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most useful elements of the Virtual Windows XP feature in Windows 7 is that the VPC is easily replicated and you can have multiple virtual machines all publishing applications which run in their own sandboxes.

Tech Ed EMEA IT: Day 3 - Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation (MED-V)

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

OK, MED-V is cool! Sadly, cool though it is, it’s not something we’ll use3 at BM, but in my previous lives doing large organisation IT, MED-V would have been a killer.

Netware 6.5 on Hyper-V

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As part of a customer project I needed to create a Netware environment for testing. It’s been a little while since I did any netware management and I quite enjoyed it. I did, however, encounter a couple of gotchas which I thought I’d write up for the greater good.