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2010 50

  1. So long, farewell Auf Wiedersehen, good bye
  2. Thinking about the cloud - part 2, Office 365
  3. Thinking about the cloud (part 1).
  4. An unexpected call from a help desk? Hang up.
  5. Working with the image module for PowerShell; part 3, GPS and other data
  6. Exploring the IMAGE PowerShell Module
  7. GPS, and other kinds of Picture tagging with PowerShell
  8. How to make and share Panoramas more easily – Microsoft ICE + Photosynth
  9. The 50th birthday that would have been
  10. Virtualization announcements today.
  11. Re-post : Desktop Virtualization Hour
  12. Book Review: Windows Powershell 2.0 Best Practices, Ed Wilson
  13. IE 8 is safest. Fact.
  14. UK techdays Free events in London – including after hours.
  15. Cars, social media, phones, windows media and there’s no hiding with co-pilot.
  16. A FAT (32) lot of good that did me …
  17. Photographic resolution and scans.
  18. How to use old drivers with a new OS – more on XP mode
  19. Steve Ballmer talks about our cloud strategy
  20. Retirement Planning (for service packs)
  21. End of life planning.
  22. Desktop virtualization update.
  23. What is Windows Azure ?
  24. The Zombie cookie apocalypse (or how flash bypasses privacy)
  25. The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It
  26. How to Kill IE 6
  27. Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions
  28. Desktop Virtualization Hour
  29. Windows Phone (again)
  30. Giant Deepzoom mosaic, in a good cause.
  31. Windows Phone announcement this afternoon.
  32. PowerShell and HyperV
  33. How to deploy Windows 7 – 3 useful posts
  34. Windows 7 activation update.
  35. Safer Internet day
  36. Installing Windows from a phone
  37. More tricks with the Windows phone. Remote desktop.
  38. Another trick of the Touch-Pro 2: Radio.
  39. Video, Windows 7 and Windows Phone
  40. But I don’t want the default browser
  41. The GPS / Sat-Nav experience with the Touch-Pro 2 and CoPilot
  42. Finding a Twitter client for Windows Mobile.
  43. Early days with the HTC Touch Pro 2
  44. I’m a photographer, not a terrorist (or any other kind of bogeyman)
  45. How to Pretty Print XML from PowerShell, and output UTF, ANSI and other non-unicode formats
  46. “Vague is good” revisited: How to make usable PowerShell Functions
  47. The “Joy” of Reg-ex part 3: Select-String
  48. The “Joy” of Reg-ex part 2 – ways I use it
  49. The “joy” of Reg-ex part 1.
  50. New year, New user group … Newcastle.

2009 154

  1. Fighting talk from VMware.
  2. Powershell Parameters 2: common parameters.
  3. Parameters in PowerShell functions: vague is good.
  4. Drilling into ‘reasons for not switching to Hyper-V’
  5. Server 2008 R2 feature map.
  6. Add-ons and plug-ins – do you have a favourite ?
  7. Hyper-V resource round-up.
  8. Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool update
  9. Search stories … or “how do people manage on XP”
  10. Get-Scripting podcast
  11. Security updates.
  12. The nights are drawing in, stoke up the fire and listen to some senior Microsoft Execs
  13. Shouldn’t regular reboots be a thing of the past ?
  14. Windows Deployment information
  15. How easy is it to deploy a Virtualized server ?
  16. Decisions Decisions, and “When is a phone not a phone ?”
  17. How to deploy Windows: Windows deployment services.
  18. Panel discussion: So, you want to be an MVP ?
  19. Interview: Cybercrime , defence against the dark arts.
  20. Announcing the PowerShell Configurator.
  21. Two Posts from Viral worth a read
  22. A few thoughts on the power of social media
  23. A Windows 7 trick for multiple sound cards
  24. “ThriveLive! Online IT Professional Virtualization Tour
  25. Saving the world, and your sanity, one gadget at a time.
  26. Making word clouds (Part 2: how to use it , and clouds from twitter).
  27. Making Word clouds (Part 1: how it works).
  28. The point of Windows 7 libraries and search
  29. Car trouble – a possible metaphor for new software ?
  30. You can’t be a 21st century admin without PowerShell
  31. How to cut the crap in IE8 (IE and Privacy Part 2)
  32. IE8 and privacy , part 1
  33. Can Bing do twitter search better than twitter ?
  34. A uniquely good day to be at Microsoft
  35. More on VHD files
  36. Microsoft Security Essentials
  37. A quick thank you
  38. My life in a bag
  39. Hello Exchange 2010
  40. Windows 7… “Media for everyone !”
  41. On Scanners, Cameras and their USB modes, and lifting the lid on how they can be scripted.
  42. Story of a photo.
  43. On PowerShell function design: vague can be good.
  44. How to view RAW image files on Windows 7 (and Windows Vista).
  45. Photosynth re-visited
  46. For your viewing pleasure …
  47. How to use $myInvocation to do simple command profiling in PowerShell
  48. Select string. Finding a PowerShell *
  49. Windows 7 upgrades: my experience
  50. How to load files into the PowerShell ISE editor – or “What’s in your profile”
  51. Sophos error: facts not found
  52. How to Boot from VHD (VHD booting re-visited.)
  53. VMware – the economics of falling skies … and disk footprints.
  54. Core parking in Server 2008 R2 – why it’s like airport X-ray machines.
  55. Update on Windows 7-E / IE 8
  56. Vulcan hunting: a mini case study in social media
  57. Seventh Heaven
  58. PowerShell on-line help: A change you should make for V2 (#3) (and How to Author MAML help files for PowerShell)
  59. A tale of two codecs. Or how not to be a standard.
  60. Oink flap –-- Microsoft releases software under GPL --- oink Flap
  61. Release the Windows 7 !
  62. PowerShell Modules: A change you should make for V2. (#2)
  63. How to activate Windows from a script (even remotely).
  64. Michael Jackson memorial concert
  65. Tennis as a way of testing search.
  66. New Podcast available, of , er … me
  67. “Thumbing” Windows 7 onto Netbooks – my experience
  68. More PowerShell: A change you should make for V2. (#1)
  69. How to: have nicer Active Directory management from PowerShell – without upgrading AD
  70. How to get user input more nicely in PowerShell
  71. New demo videos for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
  72. Technet virtual conference – tomorrow !
  73. Fifteen minutes of fame. Not like this, thanks.
  74. More on VMware and YouTube
  75. Parsing lists to objects in PowerShell – Tzutil
  76. Events: TechNet Virtual Conference 19th June
  77. Llet the [scripting] Games begin.
  78. A few interesting links.
  79. Free the Windows 7 !
  80. How to Install an Image onto a VHD file.
  81. How to: customize Windows images with DISM
  82. How to: work with VHD files at the command line.
  83. Windows 7 – how low a spec will it go to ?
  84. How to configure iSCSI on Server 2008 R2 core or Hyper-V server
  85. Another reason why I like IE8 – dealing with broken scripts
  86. Boot from VHD – the joy of BCDedit and a nice hyper-v gotcha or two.
  87. Making easily Tweetable blog posts from Live writer
  88. Thoughts on uses of YouTube … and virtualization
  89. A Windows 7 tip for (untidy) presenters
  90. Customizing the Windows 7 logon screen: no additional tools required
  91. Buy the book(s)
  92. Windows 7 for everyone !
  93. Windows 7 XP mode: helpful ? Sure. Panacea ? No.
  94. Virtual Windows XP … picking myself up off the floor.
  95. Exploring Windows XP mode for Windows 7
  96. Easy transfer is not a sign of weakness
  97. Clarifying: the new virtual PC, Windows XP mode for Windows 7, and MED-V
  98. F1 thoughts.
  99. Now available on Technet and MSDN – RC of Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
  100. Now available on ebay … I’ll have a slice of that !
  101. XP mode for Windows 7
  102. Warming to Action Center
  103. Things that work with Win 7 which didn’t work under Vista
  104. Resource monitor again – how fast is a broadband connection
  105. I need a human chkdsk to beat Murphy’s law.
  106. Windows7 and batteries, revisited.
  107. Google Street View : photography and the breakdown of common sense.
  108. Imminent Death Of Twitter Predicted: A case study, the Malaysian F1 GP.
  109. A day out with Divers
  110. PowerShell event in Newcastle – oh and another thing
  111. My enduring love for OCS .. and a Nice windows 7 feature
  112. How to use Advanced Queries in Windows search.
  113. A collection of links for the weekend.
  114. IE 8 – something else I’m growing to really like
  115. Windows 7 release candidate…
  116. Testing Windows 7 on a Laptop ? Try this
  117. How to manage the Windows firewall settings with PowerShell
  118. Windows 7 : Photos, Gallery and AutoCollage.
  119. Two useful Hyper-V links
  120. Support for Red Hat OSes on Microsoft Virtualization (and Vice Versa)
  121. How to drive Twitter (or other web tools) with PowerShell
  122. A Job or two saved for my “PowerShell configurator”
  123. Accelerators in IE8
  124. Windows 7 federated search.
  125. Windows 7 SKUs
  126. Virtualization road show
  127. Can I get published if I say that rain is wet or snow is cold ?
  128. Windows 7 and UAC
  129. Shutting down a lot of machines with Powershell.
  130. Live Migration in Hyper-V R2
  131. Checking and enabling Remote Desktop with PowerShell
  132. On Geekdom, Windows Live, Twitter and Stephen Fry. Just another weekend post.
  133. A couple more neat things in Windows 7 – printing and the task bar.
  134. Managing Windows Update with PowerShell
  135. PowerShell and the smarter command line.
  136. Camera-phones One Note and OCR.
  137. New build of my PowerShell library for Hyper-V on codeplex
  138. PowerShell 2, Server Core R2 and Hyper-V server R2
  139. End of availability for the Windows 7 Beta
  140. A Windows 7 Evening with Mark Russinovich
  141. A new bit of Windows 7 (for me)
  142. Songsmith again.
  143. Progress or Luddism … why Windows 7 isn’t an F1 car
  144. Fun and games with VHD files in the new OSes
  145. Hyper-V Server R2 Beta.
  146. Downloading Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2
  147. My first couple of hours with Windows 7
  148. Technet and betas
  149. Songsmith – there goes a chunk more time !
  150. Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 client Betas on Technet
  151. Windows 7 – not a very well kept secret
  152. Lies,Damn lies and licence interpretations.
  153. Thinking about 2009
  154. Gas bills and the people ready business.

2008 203

  1. Grrr. A christmas present which is just going to have to wait.
  2. Borrowing from Windows Explorer in PowerShell part 3: using extended properties with zip files
  3. What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.
  4. IE Security Patch
  5. Virtualization: user group and good stories
  6. Borrowing from Windows Explorer in PowerShell part 2: extended properties
  7. Borrowing from Windows Explorer in PowerShell part 1 – ZIP files
  8. Two more HPC events.
  9. PowerShell Verbs Vs Nouns
  10. Green IT and adding up the numbers
  11. iPhone Adverts.
  12. Safe on-line part 2 (in praise of John Lewis)
  13. Road-show materials.
  14. Get Safe Online ‘08
  15. Server 2008 R2 – Server Core changes.
  16. Back from tech.ed
  17. Slides and scripts from Open XML / PowerShell reporting Session in Barcelona
  18. Virtualization videos
  19. Internet connections and People ready businesses
  20. High Performance computing Webcasts over the next two weeks
  21. Scheduling task on Server 2008 – a Hyper-V snapshot
  22. Mary Jo Foley and Windows pet peeves.
  23. Tech-ed for IT professionals next week
  24. Virtualize or Virtualise ?
  25. PowerShell and Windows Media Player, part 2
  26. SCVMM 2008 released.
  27. PowerShell and Windows Media Player, part 1
  28. PowerShell, WMI and formatting
  29. Hyper-v Server , what is it exactly ?
  30. Dude, where’s my script ?
  31. Not just rewarding failure: 25% off voucher for passing exams.
  32. I, Assassin.
  33. Never, ever run executables which arrive unexpectedly by mail.
  34. Server 2008 AD Free Exams …
  35. Server Core -- Too Dry and Crunchy ?
  36. Active Directory User Group, first meeting with John Craddock and Sally Storey
  37. Justice evades Hamilton
  38. Supercomputers and adverts.
  39. Brighton Pavillion Photo Synth
  40. Need a product code name ? (Dunnington)
  41. Motor racing again.
  42. Hyper-v and competitors /collaborators
  43. Net maps - PowerShell and Excel
  44. Today's "Get virtual now event" - official information published
  45. Ferrari International Assistance does it again
  46. Monday's "Get Virtual Now" event
  47. Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics - a lesson in Benchmarking.
  48. It's not about computation, it's connection and visualization
  49. IE 8 testing - part 2
  50. IE 8 is coming: are you ready ?
  51. Mornington Crescent and Geoffrey Perkins.
  52. A Nice little Milestone for my PowerShell Hyper-V management library
  53. Blogcast part 2 - and one of my favourite bits of feedback
  54. Mail stress.
  55. A novel password policy
  56. Photosynth - follow up
  57. PowerShell in Sweden... Get-Audience -location Stockholm
  58. Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) take 2.
  59. Photosynth - 3 words. Create Your Synth
  60. Virtualization: Licensing and support changes
  61. Cars, jobs, and retailing. Why belief matters
  62. Terminal Services Easy print
  63. Windows 7
  64. Virtual Machine clustering in London, how we did it.
  65. PowerShell from Excel (oh oh, VMware again)
  66. It's rude to laugh at other people's misfortunes - even VMware's
  67. Interesting Citrix event, London, September
  68. Microsoft Virtualization User Group
  69. Looks like September for SCVMM
  70. A great demo of Google's privacy issues.
  71. Podcast on PowerShell.
  72. UK Windows server user group
  73. Systems of belief ... and Ray Ozzie.
  74. What do people really think of Vista - Mojave
  75. Where Microsoft went wrong with Vista
  76. Vista start-up times
  77. PowerShell and checking management rights.
  78. How to annoy customers... e-commerce
  79. Scaling Hyper-v.
  80. You know you have been doing too much PowerShell when you translate Macbeth ...
  81. Viacom, Google and the long slow death of privacy
  82. The Windows Server Virtualization Validation Programme
  83. Finding Hyper-V servers in your domain
  84. Hyper-V. Of course it *had* to be yesterday
  85. Off topic. The not so sweet FA.
  86. What operating systems are supported on Hyper-V ?
  87. Are people already ganging up on VMware ?
  88. Hyper-V released !
  89. Setting up Domain controllers on Server Core.
  90. Hyper-V PowerShell library - now on Codeplex
  91. Scripting Sysadmin meme
  92. Security, Security, Security.
  93. Tech Registrations open...
  94. How I get the server 2008 I want: #3: Vista look and feel
  95. How I get the server I want: #2 Getting sound in Hyper-V
  96. How I get the server I want: #1 Disabling the shutdown event tracker
  97. How to get PowerShell snapins to work on 64 bit
  98. Open-XML. This is what it's all about.
  99. Doubts and Powershell, Hyper-V KeyValue pairs and Hash tables.
  100. Surprise of the day. In praise of Roadchef.
  101. A little bit of Microsoft Honesty.
  102. Off topic. The Cost of fuel, market forces and being green
  103. Surprise of the day: In praise of McDonalds
  104. Server 2008 Drives and GUIDs
  105. The Hyper-v API Network interfaces
  106. The Hyper-V API - Disks
  107. Top travel tip. Use the calendar. Properly
  108. You're not a professional without ...
  109. "Lady licensing" blog.
  110. Eggsactly the wrong way to go about things.
  111. The joy of feedback [again]
  112. Hyper-V RC-1 available for download
  113. Saturday morning fun: I can haz snowclones ?
  114. The long tail, Music and the small bookshop
  115. iSCSI, clustering and Hyper-V
  116. On knowing your sh*t
  117. An e-mail message I was unusually pleased to receive.
  118. More on the Hyper-V API
  119. Moving VMs to Hyper-v...
  120. On Ninjas.
  121. A couple of Virtualization links
  122. Ways to tidy up my PowerShell - including making a hash of stuff
  123. Ah, the joy of feedback
  124. Demo of silverlight deep zoom
  125. Something for the photographers: Silverlight Deep-zoom formerly "Sea-Dragon"
  126. Hyper-v Snapshots part 2.
  127. Hyper-v and Snapshots (Part 1)
  128. A little more on PowerShell
  129. SCVMM: If you go down to connect today, you're sure of a nice surprise
  130. Microsoft and VMware and approaches
  131. Humphrey Lyttelton. 1921-2008.
  132. Newton's third Law of presentations
  133. Accessing the Hyper-V API: disks.
  134. On the road again ...
  135. More on the accessing the Hyper-V API from Powershell
  136. Core! that firewall management has some tricks.
  137. SD cards (again)
  138. Who says health and safety people have no sense of humour ?
  139. Blockers. What would we want from IE 8... or 9
  140. It's official, Office Open XML is an ISO standard
  141. Licensing event on 15th April
  142. Remote Server Admin tools for Vista
  143. Manage Hyper-V from Vista
  144. VMware and Powershell
  145. Powershell Tab expansion
  146. We could be heroes ... just for one day.
  147. Powershell in Birmingham
  148. Hyper-V Release candidate officially announced
  149. Vista SP1 now on Windows update.
  150. Building dangerous things into products.
  151. VMware - running hot enough to cook the figures
  152. Reasons to go to San Diego.
  153. Expensive Hypervisors - a bad idea even if you can afford them
  154. Looking after customers...
  155. Parkour at TVP
  156. Everything comes to those who wait ....
  157. An interesting journey with PowerShell, GPS data and SVG. (Part 2)
  158. An interesting journey with PowerShell GPS data and SVG. (Part 1)
  159. PowerShell Community Extensions
  160. On PowerGadgets
  161. While you were sleeping ... an attack on bitlocker etc
  162. Testing Pictures
  163. Skydrive goes Live
  164. A presentation tip (especially for PowerShell)
  165. Makes me glad I got co-pilot.
  166. On film ...
  167. Recommended reading.
  168. Vista SP1 update is now on Technet and MSDN
  169. You know that Virtualization is going mainstream ...
  170. On expectations ...
  171. Deploying Vista SP1.
  172. More news on Vista SP1
  173. Who makes a good decision ?
  174. For our friends in other departments
  175. Spun with Dr Fooner.
  176. Can you see the Join ?
  177. Cartoons about Cartoons and presentations.
  178. It is done.
  179. Getting to grips with Hyper-V's API
  180. Yahoo
  181. Scotty.
  182. Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.
  183. Hyper-V API information on MSDN
  184. Touch phones.
  185. Strings, strange forces and being misquoted
  186. The Wow of powershell (again)
  187. Homework, Plagiarism and Intellectual property in the 21st Century
  188. On the superiority of Windows vista.
  189. One of our laptops is missing.
  190. Will you be our hero ?
  191. The Final silence
  192. Powershell to add social bookmarking tags
  193. At the BETT show
  194. Screencast: Hyper-v without integration components
  195. Getting wireless access from a Hyper-V VM
  196. Search: A quick round-up
  197. Screencast and Q&A: Hyper-V integration components Disk and Network behaviour
  198. Too many Gates ...
  199. ScreenCast: Unboxing Server 2008 and Hyper-V
  200. Inspector Morse is dead, alas.
  201. On blogging, leaking, disclosure and the like.
  202. One thing I didn't want for Christmas...
  203. Powershell interview with Jeffrey Snover

2007 246

  1. Another year comes to another ending*.
  2. Happy... whatever
  3. Virtualization futures revisited
  4. The Tafiti code
  5. USB Battery
  6. MY reason for having Office 2007 SP1
  7. Hyper-V BETA (not CTP) is now available.
  8. Slides, Slides and more Slides.
  9. More on office SP1 (pass the tin hat)
  10. Not dead ....
  11. Window borders...
  12. Office 2007 Service pack now out
  13. News in the pipeline ...
  14. VMware and patching
  15. Vista SP1 to drop "Reduced functionality mode"
  16. The voice of Co-pilot 7
  17. Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 Release candidates
  18. Word of the day: Schadenfreude
  19. Product life cycles (and Virtual Server 2005)
  20. Thames Valley Park* ...
  21. Do you trust your search engine ?
  22. Interfaces from hell ...
  23. It must be the truth #2. Astroturf and a rather less green Apple.
  24. Office 2007 support for Windows mobile
  25. Virtualization futures
  26. A blog post about using PowerShell to get blog posts (about PowerShell)
  27. Exchange 2007 SP1 released
  28. It must be the truth ‘cos it’s there in the news
  29. You don't want to start from here.
  30. Video clips - MS Developers on YouTube.
  31. 7M families personal data mislaid by government.
  32. Confessions of an environmental hypocrite.
  33. What else did I miss ?
  34. Shooting fish.
  35. A week is a long time ...
  36. The one hope against the database state.
  37. From the "I want one of those" file.
  38. And I get paid for doing this ?
  39. A police state ?
  40. Linux Virtual Machine additions 2.0 .
  41. Security and blogging.
  42. Phase one: Capture one V4 has a new beta.
  43. Sometimes I feel like a woman.
  44. Phase one strategic alliance
  45. More halo 3 picture fun
  46. Post removed
  47. Units: introducing the millitree
  48. It's 1986 all over again.
  49. Software + Services - X-box live as a model ?
  50. Windows Activation (Server 2008 style)
  51. Skydrive update (and live vs on-line)
  52. One of those "Oh no" moments
  53. Windows Server Virtualization (2008) Rapid Deployment Programme (RDP)
  54. PowerShell and One-Note ... No, really
  55. New Live Search ...
  56. An Unhelpful mire of Marketing-speak
  57. WyMiwyg
  58. Load up on guns, and bring your friends.
  59. Other big news 2008 RC-0 and installing Windows server Virtualization.
  60. Silverlight and more Halo 3 fun,
  61. The truth will out...
  62. What happens if you break a Microsoft embargo
  63. PowerShell and Telnet.
  64. Europe ...
  65. Colin McRae
  66. "Perfidious Microsoft"
  67. Ferrari International Assistance
  68. Feeling that you might be certifiable ?
  69. More tales from the weekend of PowerShell: a bit of a horror story
  70. Windows Server Virtualization beta availability (soon !)
  71. Sun to become Windows Server OEM.
  72. The scientific reason why social networks don't do it for me.
  73. Tales from a weekend of PowerShell: Get-Needle -haystack ...
  74. On Cartoons #2: Software / Services. Desktop and centre
  75. On Cartoons #1
  76. Virtualization on tour, SCVMM Released and a peek at WSV
  77. A stapler on every desk and in every home
  78. So long Compact flash: a new camera
  79. Wanna see what Silverlight video streaming can do ?
  80. Persistent chat - what's that then ? A quick guide to collaboration modes.
  81. "Microsoft to buy Parlano" peristant chat.
  82. Windows Live Writer: Getting a new dictionary
  83. Powershell again. Pipes, and "This is not an output"
  84. ...I will do no work today.
  85. One small step for search...
  86. NSLookup, WMI and Ping - three random things from the "I didn't know that column"
  87. The power of Silverlight and Live search.
  88. PowerShell to Fix Phone number formats part II
  89. I wish I'd known about Get-Eventlog before
  90. Seems like it was software after all... you might want these patches.
  91. Powershell and Paradigms of VB
  92. Quality assurance Vs Quality improvement. Which thinking do you want ?
  93. System Center Virtual Machine Manager expected this month.
  94. Powershell to fix phone number formats (part 1)
  95. Skydrive. No, not a tie up with Avis...
  96. On Writing. And formats for storing writing. Via sockpuppets
  97. Upcoming event on Software Deployment
  98. This must be hardware ... mustn't it ?
  99. Photosynth. Rocket Science ?
  100. Office Communications Server trial bits available.
  101. "Vanity" searching
  102. A VB class for EXIF picture properties - and using it from Powershell.
  103. Some useful Virtual Server 2005 links
  104. Pigs and blogs and Naked dwarves (Part 2)
  105. Pigs and drugs and naked dwarves ...
  106. OCS RTM (Office Communications Server Releases To Manufacturing).
  107. I-phone... I don't like to say I told you so.
  108. Why I am the one doing this ?
  109. Trains, planes and automobiles.
  110. How not to be read...
  111. When Specs go bad ...
  112. Exploring Photographic EXIF data (using PowerShell, of course)
  113. What's your job title ?
  114. Why Visual studio helps PowerShell
  115. Why I really bought an Xbox-360
  116. Vista's desktop index and PowerShell.
  117. New Virtualization blogger
  118. Digital Image Suite. RIP.
  119. Moving from VB to PowerShell
  120. Tech-ed in Barcelona. Book early to avoid disappointment.
  121. Imagine having 580 Terabytes of data you can't access.
  122. Good news.
  123. We're not afraid.
  124. I wonder if my Laptop's faulty ? Troubleshooting Vista's sleep and hibernate.
  125. Announcing the Virtual server Res-Kit and a great tool.
  126. Open source lobby: "We'll get the EU to stop your telly"
  127. Two stories of consumers who wouldn't put up with it.
  128. I'm beginning to dream of analog days...
  129. Campaign for real numbers update
  130. PowerShell , VB , Media Center and SQL
  131. Virtualization news.
  132. Are you a Time lord ? (Or a shift shaper)
  133. Vista's network throughput improvements
  134. Should we be working on our privacy ranking ?
  135. Mobile phone round-up
  136. Server core, IIS7, things I can't tell you, and why Powershell means you'll still have a job.
  137. Powershell vs VB script.
  138. Manuscript Teaspoons and why Jason's getting a better voice experience than I am
  139. My first steps with PowerShell
  140. Interested in Pictures ? Got 8 minutes ? Watch this.
  141. A little bit more about installing Vista - or Server 2008
  142. ExpressCard (not express delivery), travel and Benchmarks.
  143. Privacy again
  144. Microsoft Surface. Alias Play table. AKA Milan.
  145. Getting a better PDF experience
  146. Xbox 360 - a nice surprise at Amazon.co.uk
  147. Loves and hates
  148. When the police think we're becoming a Surveillance society...
  149. Doing our bit ... but wishing we didn't have to.
  150. Some interesting facts about Vista and why the logo matters
  151. Technical Careers Showcase: an Open evening on June 7th
  152. Office Communications Server round-up
  153. Goodbye "Longhorn" it's been nice to know you
  154. PCs and Macs. And smartphones.
  155. Halo 3 - and well kept secrets
  156. Google stories ?
  157. Windows Server virtualization and taking a dive.
  158. Voice control ... sooner than I thought.
  159. Webcasts on Certification - and 40% off !
  160. If your data is in the cloud... where's your privacy ?
  161. Privacy. And a tale of headless riders, Police blogs and security theatre
  162. Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" E-Learning
  163. Vista After hours
  164. What we do in 18 days takes Google 3 months ... and other stats
  165. Voice command
  166. Psst! Want to be on the Windows Server virtualization Technology Adoption Program ?
  167. Unified communications team goes Hollywood
  168. Rights managed mail. Windows Mobile 6 pulls a new trick.
  169. TV Indirect to your phone...
  170. 3 days with the E650 phone and Windows Mobile 6.
  171. Longhorn Beta 3 released to the public
  172. A new day, a new phone.
  173. Windows Server longhorn beta3 - web casts
  174. Optimization - or how long will some jobs last.
  175. More information on Office Communications Server
  176. NTBackup - restore for Vista
  177. Oops... Vista SP1 date 'slips out': Film at 11.
  178. Presentation skills
  179. Virtualization - 2005-R2-SP1-RC now available.
  180. USB and travel
  181. Will the management sign off this new IM device ?
  182. Longhorn Server 101 – what’s all the fuss about ? Your chance to see.
  183. Who tells our story - we do, providing we aten't dead.
  184. Windows 2003 SP2 slipstreaming - a gotcha with R2.
  185. Vista Activation update
  186. Moving to Ultimate pt 2
  187. Very much alive.
  188. Longhorn server beta 3 ... nearly ... but not yet.
  189. Friday Humour... put the computer back in the box.
  190. If freedom of choice doesn't do it for you how about lower taxes ?
  191. MVPs and Microsoft Transparency
  192. Sign-up for freedom of choice
  193. Network adapter priority in Vista
  194. Moving to ultimate part 1.
  195. Announcement rumour
  196. The Numpty paradox: trying not to insult customers
  197. Things that suck / Things that rock
  198. Jon Honeyball got it wrong.
  199. The "people ready" journey
  200. When communication about Unified Communications doesn't communicate anything.
  201. Whither (or wither) Virtual PC Express.
  202. Office Communications server 2007 Beta available for public download.
  203. On Time-zones...
  204. Windows Vista Deployment slides
  205. Vista Squad - our newest UK user group.
  206. ePHOTOzine article on Windows Vista
  207. Windows Server Virtualization and memory
  208. 64 bit – and the end of the line for some things.
  209. Windows Vista "breaking" OWA
  210. The mobility dilemma.
  211. Tech-ed EMEA 2007: save the dates
  212. Pentax manifesto.
  213. Windows Server Virtualization round-up
  214. Rolling your own support for 64 bit Vista.
  215. Office Communications Server 2007 Beta announced
  216. Getting PDF Preview in Vista and Outlook. A "must have".
  217. Ooh 'eck. Now I'm the blog Police ?
  218. Vista Reliability...
  219. See Longhorn server core and Virtualization
  220. At Voice-con next week Jeff Raikes will announce...
  221. Groove, Vista and "better together"
  222. Bye bye NTL... could this be a whole new beginning
  223. Brave and stupid posts.
  224. The Campaign for real numbers
  225. Voice mail must become extinct .
  226. Get into the Groove ...
  227. Not exactly a valentine for IBM
  228. Virtualization - never knowing where your next core comes from ?
  229. Change the world and go home.
  230. After 83 days I need to empty the trash :-)
  231. Another machine another rebuild and a Backup headache.
  232. The mouse James Bond would have.
  233. Another lesson in FUD, from a past master.
  234. Interview with a top Microsoft person.
  235. A guide to FUD, thanks to Canon.
  236. Vista activation
  237. Friday Humour
  238. Ooops. I gave out some duff information about limiting logons
  239. Business Desktop Deployment 2007, now available.
  240. End of an era. Apple is no longer a computer company.
  241. The first Windows Vista "Ultimate Extras"
  242. Vista Backup ...
  243. A good day to be a fake doctor ...
  244. Microsoft at CES
  245. More on keyboard short cuts.
  246. Not the usual mobile device review.

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  1. Happy new year.
  2. CLIP and ForFiles my new favorite Vista tools
  3. Bootable USB keys
  4. Readyboost. Money well spent, but what's fast enough ?
  5. USB wasn't meant to be like this !
  6. A tale of two printers and a design error in UAC
  7. Merry Christmas
  8. In Poetic mood today.
  9. Phew: EVO Launch
  10. Does your company discriminate against people with disabilities ?
  11. Exchange 2007 released
  12. Overpriced and over here #2
  13. Ah... the never-ending pool of Wii jokes
  14. We're hiring !
  15. Over priced and over here
  16. Logoff and logon ... how do you want it ?
  17. A little bit of history.
  18. On photographic resolution
  19. The phone is dead #2
  20. The Phone is dead #1
  21. Strange piece of Tech-ed IT-Forum follow up.
  22. Change the world or go home ?
  23. Huskies, Cats ... oh and a whale for good measure.
  24. The customers you don't want.
  25. More on Powershell
  26. Exchange Vista and Office Launch (for Pedants)
  27. Vista Automated Installation Kit (and Windows PE) now available.
  28. Softgrid: what kind of Voodoo is that ?
  29. Got TechNet ? Get Vista.
  30. Powershell ...
  31. On QuickTime....
  32. Long queue for a Wii
  33. Royal Bank of Scotland (and Natwest) just missed my business.
  34. Back from Barcelona.
  35. My Account: Switched
  36. Customizing Windows PE
  37. Open Specification Promise.
  38. Photosynth
  39. Getting started with Windows PE
  40. Trolls: Slain, Lake: crossed, Mountain: climbed, Vista: Released.
  41. Some expert tips for Vista
  42. Is Novell our Eurasia ?
  43. Almost an entry from the "thank heavens for that" file. Vista Licence terms
  44. The VHD testdrive programme: get your Exchange 2007 here !
  45. How much spam ?!?
  46. Office 2007 and Windows Vista: Release to Manufacturing !
  47. Virtual vista
  48. Sony rookit on 1/4 million PCs, MSRT removes a malware somewhere every 3 seconds and other statistics.
  49. Camera lens rules
  50. Hello Scotland !
  51. Good and not so good use of RSS.
  52. Taking a walk on the Virtual side
  53. Hello Girls !
  54. Apple's real problems shipping a virus
  55. Virtual PC 2007 - Beta available.
  56. Why Vista was delayed ...
  57. Follow up to my post on power outages
  58. Reliability... I wish.
  59. Windows 2003 Datacenter with unlimited virtualization rights
  60. Vista RC2 now on TechNet and MSDN subscriber sites.
  61. IE 7 is coming. Are you ready ?
  62. Get Safe On-line
  63. Virtualization event in Reading
  64. Vista Admin event in Manchester
  65. Vista RC-2 availability
  66. Tech-ed IT Forum: It's a sell out.
  67. Vista RC-2 heading into view
  68. On blogging
  69. Patch for IE 6 VML vulnerability
  70. Compatibility includes how you work ...
  71. On Compatibility
  72. Vista update. RC1 is so passé
  73. From the "Thank heavens for that" file. WE DO LISTEN about things you don't want to hear.
  74. Get Safe On-Line, Richard Hammond, and Paypal
  75. The first rule of Politics. Microsoft and the EU
  76. Phew ... I can come up for air now.
  77. Windows Vista Step by step guides for IT professionals
  78. Vista RC-1 is ready ...
  79. On Communication...
  80. Virtual server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta2 goes live - so does Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1.
  81. Builds of Vista. And all I can say (for now) about RC-1
  82. Virtual PC round-up
  83. Windows Marketplace now open ...
  84. DRM: is there a lesson in cricket's PR disaster ?
  85. Zune news. No FM transmitter (yet) it seems.
  86. Blog spam
  87. Vista - we're getting closer and closer.
  88. In lieu of a cartoon of my own ...
  89. Microsoft and open source. IE and Firefox
  90. Putting Vista's index to work.
  91. Feeling stupid Part II
  92. Would Apple sue Scoble's new company ?* . Don't Google for Podcasts. And other stuff from my weekend reading.
  93. Feeling Stupid (part 1)
  94. Interview with the MD
  95. X-box 360 and the "You tube of games"
  96. Windows Live Writer
  97. Vista Power plans - get exactly what you want
  98. On current events
  99. Updates on a couple of Vista bugs.
  100. A new trick for Vista
  101. Not technical for once
  102. Short cut keys in Windows Vista
  103. Free LCS exam voucher ....
  104. Vista’s Scheduling and Defrag
  105. This week’s cartoon
  106. The one minute guide to Microsoft anti-malware
  107. Thoughts on the beta life of Vista and 2007 release
  108. On powerpoint ...
  109. Microsoft Research and Photography
  110. Landlord! IE7 for Everyone !!
  111. Excitement - you can't beat it, you can't fake it
  112. Live Communications server now supports SQL 2005 SP1
  113. We’ll know more Zune.
  114. Changes to TechNet
  115. How not to be read ...
  116. Cartoon 4.
  117. More virtualization goes free: more help for the environment
  118. Small details are important.
  119. Cartoon 3
  120. iPod Killer ? Only if it has a French accent.
  121. More tales from the dogfood bowl. Moving to the new Vista build
  122. Cartoon 2.0
  123. Using Vista’s Diskpart
  124. Disappointment with the latest internet explorer
  125. More on the Vista command prompt
  126. A whole new kind of Driver problem
  127. High Performance Computing: broad reach.
  128. More on Bill ...
  129. Backup in Windows Vista: all change, all change!
  130. New Roadmap for Unified communications.
  131. 10 worst and 10 best of Microsoft
  132. Firefox tops list: IE nowhere to be seen
  133. Mobile devices on Windows Vista
  134. On the late arrival of Vista...
  135. Microsoft don’t do prize draws, sorry
  136. Adobe, yet again.
  137. Vista security tips
  138. More on filing vista bugs
  139. Bye Bill, Bye Robert ... is this the end ?
  140. More on interesting devices
  141. The Motorola Q ...
  142. Bill Gates announces that he stepping down in 2 years
  143. How to get the Road-show slides
  144. RSS in the Enterprise
  145. Vista: just connect to my home network, Please !
  146. Time to start a Vista cool wall
  147. File those Vista bugs !
  148. Good flash / Bad Flash
  149. Adobe again
  150. Homage to Spinal Tap.
  151. Open search: Technorati gets it. Do you ?
  152. What's on your laptop - more tales from the dogfood bowl...
  153. Adobe [Acrobat] Reader for Vista
  154. One care now available.
  155. Longhorn Beta 2 also now out
  156. Vista beta 2 released
  157. Vista DOES HAVE Podcasting! (but it’s a bit ugly). The RSS screen saver is built in too..
  158. Exploring Vista explorer
  159. The Mis-appliance of science pt2 – working for Microsoft
  160. Now on the Vista web site...
  161. The Mis-appliance of science pt1 – talking about the benefits of Vista
  162. Groove and Mind Mapping
  163. When was the last time you looked at Word and said “now THAT is cool” ?
  164. Woof-woof: feed me that dog-food
  165. Slides from Tuesday
  166. On Taxonomy …
  167. Got the search I want in IE7
  168. RSS Stumbler now available for download
  169. Save the Planet with a little at a time [part 2]
  170. Programming RSS - a complete reader in just 90 lines of code !
  171. Save the Planet with a little at a time with Windows Vista
  172. Get the search you want in IE7
  173. Media Centre Edition is dead, Long live Windows Media Centre.
  174. Who's taking the Wii ?
  175. IE is cool again
  176. RSS for the bewildered.
  177. MCP exam in Live communications server
  178. An evening with ...
  179. Communicator mobile access - Now availablle !
  180. The Women of Microsoft
  181. The Virtual Mac - a little idle speculation
  182. Passion: or "What the hell am I doing here ? "
  183. Virtual Server Big News, Linux shock and clarity.
  184. Rumours, silliness and the things we get up to in presentations.
  185. Join DPE, Visit interesting places, meet interesting people ....
  186. The other man's grass is greener - a guide to colour in Windows
  187. Yesterday
  188. Civilisation will come to an end because no one will understand what anybody else is saying
  189. A new blog: who am I, and what am doing here?