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-- Ben Armstrong, Virtualization Program Manager

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Monday, November 09, 2009 3:27 PM

Welcome to blog week!

While this will not surprise my regular readers – some of you will be interested to know that blogging is usually only a very small fraction of my job.  My official title is “Program Manager Lead” which means that my responsibilities roughly break
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:18 PM

Hyper-V in my House

I often chat to people about how I use Hyper-V in my house – so I figured that I should write it down for all to read. At the moment I have a single server in my house. It is a single processor quad-core system (Q6600 processor) with 8GB of memory. This
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:49 PM

Searching my blog finally works properly!

After years of lackluster search capabilities on my blog – the blogs.msdn.com people have finally moved from the built in search engine of our blogging platform to using bing.  Hoo rah!  You can finally use the search box and get good results.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:05 PM

Why Virtual PC Guy?

The other day I wrote up the story of how I became Virtual PC Guy .  One question that I left unanswered in that post was why I chose Connectix Virtual PC over VMware Workstation.  Today I would like to elucidate on this question. Before I get
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Monday, August 31, 2009 11:25 PM

How I became “Virtual PC Guy”

I have been meaning to blog about this for a long time now, and since I seem to be writing a number of insufferably long blog posts lately, I figured there was no better time than the present. Most of you know me as someone who has been working on Microsoft
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:15 AM

Geeking out with Windows Deployment Services

(Stick with me on this one – it will take a while but I will bring this back to virtualization at the end of it all.  Oh – and be warned – this is a very long post.) This weekend I had a challenge to solve: A while ago I bought myself one of the
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:57 PM

It’s a boy!

You may have noticed a lack of posts from me in the last week, and you may have thought that this was strange – due to all the virtualization activity going on. Well, my darling wife has just delivered our third child, and it is a boy: As such I am currently
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:38 PM

Must be a hardware problem...

Today I spent some time working on a relatively complex virtual machine setup (private domain + App-V server + App-V sequencing virtual machine + SCCM + SCOM).  I had this all running on Hyper-V configured on a server core computer off in another
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Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM

TechEd Australia and New Zealand

Next week I am going to be jumping on a plane and going to New Zealand and Australia to talk virtualization. Here is my speaking schedule: New Zealand: Session: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios and Networking Deep Dive Date:  
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Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:47 PM

Command & Conquer available for free download

Okay, so not really Virtual PC or Virtual Server related (except that I have posted about Command & Conquer under Virtual PC before - here and here ). But EA have made the original Windows 95 version of Command & Conquer available for free download.
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Monday, July 23, 2007 9:45 AM

Off on holiday...

Well - I am heading out for a couple of weeks of well earned rest. I will also be speaking at TechED Australia and New Zealand this year - so if you are attending either of those - try and drop by and say hello. In the mean time blog posts are going to
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 1:29 AM

A New Book on Virtual Server - written by me!

Time for me to unveil a personal secret - I have written a big honkin' book about Virtual Server. For more details - check out this write up that I have made which details everything that you can find inside. Cheers, Ben
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:57 PM

For those who may be interested...

I have decided to start a personal blog at http://mumblingtomyself.spaces.live.com/ Cheers, Ben
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:06 AM

Virtual Machines Rock...

In case that wasn't obvious! So why is Ben saying this today? Well I have been setting up a personal domain environment for playing around in - and to be honest it is getting quite complex. By now I have a domain controller, a file server, an iSCSI server,
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Friday, June 23, 2006 1:16 PM

Where has Ben been?

Hi All, you have probably noticed the dearth of posts this week. Unfortunately I had some unexpected surgery (nothing major) and have been recovering from that. You can expect the posts to resume in earnest next week. Cheers, Ben
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