IT Blog Windows Server Core takes some know-how to activate your Microsoft license, once installed. Learn how to do it, step by step, in this video from WindowsServerHQ. Click the video screencapture below to get started:
IT Blog In a new article from Windows Server HQ, Microsoft Windows guru Brian Nelson delves into 5 things that make Windows Server 2008 so great. He covers each of the following major changes to Windows Server, in detail: Virtualization Core Server Installation Option Read Only Domain Controllers Power...
IT Blog As you know, Microsoft has released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. So how are you going to get training on these new operating systems? Good News! Train Signal has just released theirWindows 2008 R2 Training Video! There are over 6 hours of training jam packed with new features to assist...
IT Blog A new blog has been launched and it is dedicated to Windows Server. If you are a Windows Admin or interested in getting your Microsoft MCTS or MCITP, this blog is for you! The new site is WindowsServer HQ and it is filled with articles and free training videos covering anything to do with Windows S...
IT Blog For those of you considering using Microsoft Windows Server 2008, you might want to check out this TechNet Virtual Lab: Managing Network Bandwidth Using Windows Quality of Service (QOS) You willlearn about using Windows Server 2008 to control bandwidth usage using protocol definitions as well as...
IT Blog I am not sure if this has been fixed in Server 2008, maybe it has, but here is something i encountered in server 2003 that really made me mad. I was migrating a companies DHCP scope to a new server and this company had about 50 or so address reservations. So I was hoping there was a quick way to mig...
IT Blog Debugging a dump from a hung server may not be something you do every day, so you may want to engage with a Microsoft debug expert, however with this information as your guide you may find that you can narrow down a problem and save yourself a call. My Server is hung - what do I do? http://bl...
IT Blog Recently, I created a new video that shows how to install Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008. While this isn't that hard, you do need to know where to go, inside Windows Server 2008, to install and configured Hyper-V. Learn how to install it, configuring it, and use it. Watch my step by step video at: V...
hyper-v, windows server, 2008 IT Blog Sun has a unique application on their web site called Sun Inventory that will track hardware, software and operating systems. It is unique in that it is, more or less, a cloud application. You can access your inventory anywhere that you have internet access. The Sun Inventory application tracks t...
IT Blog In Windows Server 2008, Server Core installation does not include the traditional full graphical user interface (GUI). Therefore, once you have configured the server, you can only manage it locally at a command prompt, or remotely using a Terminal Serverconnection. A third management option is to m...
IT Blog As described in previous articles, Windows Server 2008 has an interesting option to install it with a minimal graphical user interface (or GUI for short). This method of installation is called "Server Core", and it allows an administrator to only install the minimum binaries required to run a specif...
Networking, Microsoft Windows, Windows Computing IT Blog Enable CPU virtualisation assistance and DEP in the BIOS. Install Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 (Core Installation). Determine the NIC ID: netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces. Set the IP address for NIC, let say for NIC #2: netsh interface ipv4 set address name="2" source=static address=192.1...
Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Hyper-V IT Blog I have been evaluating Windows Server 2008sincethe recent release of the base product to retail sale. The highly anticipated virtualization hypervisor or Hyper-V is not part of the commercial product currently available, but Microsoft plans to have it available withinsix months of the initi...
Microsoft, Virtualization, Servers IT Blog Everybody, who just started deal with Windows 2008 knows a very nice (IMHO) version, Windows 2008 core. One of the things, that I , and not just I, do not love, Core Editions of Windows 2008 doesn't support PowerShell. Equally, we can use PowerShell with Windows 2008 Core, but just from remote compu...
IT Blog Here's an interesting juxtaposition. On Tuesday, Microsoft's Sam Ramji talked up the company's progress wooing open-source ISVs to Windows Server 2008. Zend Technologies, the self-proclaimed "PHP company," is the first ISV to qualify for Windows 2008 certification (for its Zend Core....
IT Blog The default management for Windows Server 2008 Core is the command line. Yes, the main powerful of Windows Server Core becomes available when using such an approach, but sometimes it's not so user friendly. This is why I've been asking so many times if exist anything more graphic :). Yes, one of ...
Networking, Microsoft Windows, Windows Security IT Blog Microsoft today announced that it will extend the Open Specification Promise to the hypercall application programmers interface (API) within Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian), and will be available when Windows Server virtualization is released to manufacturing (RTM). In the inter...
IT Blog SO now in addition to normal AD backups you can also take a "Snapshot" of your AD users and groups. This makes it easy to revert back to or compare. To get this going you will need to run NTDSUTIL from an elevated command prompt. Then type Snapshot. Followed by activate instance ntds. You should ...
IT Blog They say the best laid plans of mice and men rarely succeed. It is clear to me then that some of the development team that VMware has working on Server must be what Mulder and Scully were searching for -- not the truth, the other thing, human/alien, (wait, scratch that,) human/mouse hybrids. I figur...
Virtualization, VMware, Andrew Kutz IT Blog Microsofts biggest-ever enterprise product launch appears to be more marketing ploy than a true launch.While COO Kevin Turner said Microsoft would simultaneously launch Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 together at a Feb. 27 event in Los Angeles, that news does not ove...
IT Blog I was real pleased with the way this migration worked. The key to a sucessful migration is that your source server is healthy AD wise which makes it very important to use the SBS 2003 BPA on the source server until the reports are clean and your event logs are clean. Also to use the Exchange 2007 BP...
IT Blog Microsoft will issue six security bulletins on Tuesday, March 13. The issues address seven vulnerabilities. This time, however, only one of those has been given a severity rating of critical; it addresses a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows. Interestingly enough, there are footnotes th...
Patch Tuesday, Patch management, Vulnerabilities IT Blog This blog post was written by Pam Derringer, news writer for SearchEnterpriseLinux.com. Last week, lots of IT guys from New Yorks biggest banks and stock brokerages took a day off to attend the sixth annual Linux/Open Source on Wall Street conference at the Roosevelt Hotel in the heart of Manhat...
IT Blog Folks discounted an earlier report that Microsoft would sync up its gigantic Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio Server 2008 launches into a single "platform release" but thats exactly what its going to do. Thats the word from Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, speaking at toda...
IT Blog With much anticipation I find myself preparing my laptop once again to be used as a tool to demonstrate capabilities of software which I developed. This is no ordinary preparation. I will soon start an extended road trip during which I will be doing both development and demonstrations. Last...
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