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• This blog is moving... me too!

  This blog is moving to http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/ Read More... Posted 12 August 2005 17:30 by mark.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Microsoft, Industry News, Cool Stuff/Geeky, Tips and tricks, SharePoint, ISA Server, Windows Platform, Macintosh, ISP, SQL Server, Networking, IIS, Office Products, Open Source/Low Cost Software, Security, Exchange and Outlook/Outlook Express, Mobility, Systems Management, Virtualisation, Messaging, *nix, Integration, Web Browsers, Apache, Web Development, Inane Waffle

• Grabbing screenshots using the Microsoft virtual machine remote control client

  I just discovered this and think it's really useful... I'm in the process of documenting a client's server configuration, using a virtual machine with a VPN connection to the client's network and then a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to their Read More... Posted 26 July 2005 18:14 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Tips and tricks, Windows Platform, Virtualisation

• Performance tips for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005

  A few days back, I blogged about the performance issues I'd experienced with Microsoft's virtualisation products . John Howard's blog reports that Microsoft knowledge base article 903748 was released today, featuring a whole load of performance tips for Read More... Posted 20 July 2005 22:06 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• Virtual PC and Virtual Server performance issues

  I used to use Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 on my work PC (e.g. running my work environment inside a VM so that I can easily resurrect it after a rebuild ) but I found that performance was abysmal after I resumed from hibernation. Well, it seems it wasn't Read More... Posted 15 July 2005 09:01 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• Don't get caught out by Virtual Server's built-in DHCP server

  A couple of weeks back, I was testing a DHCP configuration scenario using a number of virtual machines and needed them to obtain their IP addresses from a Windows 2000 DHCP server within my virtual network. That should work, but for some reason, my virtual Read More... Posted 13 June 2005 12:06 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Platform, Virtualisation

• Building a Windows cluster using Virtual Server 2005

  Last year, I blogged about building a Windows cluster using VMware . Since then, new versions of VMware have made this more difficult/expensive (as it no longer works with VMware Workstation) and Rob Bastiaansen has removed the virtual SCSI disks from Read More... Posted 13 June 2005 11:27 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Platform, Virtualisation

• Direct access to ISO images

  A couple of months back, I blogged about a driver to provide direct access to virtual floppy disks . Today, I've come across a number of sources (most notably Thomas Lee and Steven Bink ), that pointed me in the direction of a similar tool for directly Read More... Posted 12 April 2005 13:31 by mark.wilson | 2 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• Direct access to virtual floppy disk files

  I'm sure that, from time to time, many Virtual PC users would find the ability to mount a virtual floppy disk (.VFD) file and directly access its contents (create, view, edit, rename or delete files, format the disk, or launch a program) useful. Well Read More... Posted 22 February 2005 13:38 by mark.wilson | 2 Comments Filed under: Tips and tricks, Open Source/Low Cost Software, Virtualisation

• A new use for virtualisation?

  The running of legacy applications that cannot be ported to a modern operating system, in their own legacy environment, inside a virtual machine on a modern host operating system is often cited as one of the advantages of virtualisation. I have a slightly Read More... Posted 21 February 2005 17:46 by mark.wilson | 3 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation

• Trials and tribulations with RIS

  After a few weeks developing my unattended PC build using physical PCs, today I needed to deploy a virtual PC (VPC). It should be simple to boot a VPC to a Remote Installation Services (RIS) server and apply an image as normal, but in case anyone else Read More... Posted 15 February 2005 18:58 by mark.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Tips and tricks, Windows Platform, Virtualisation