Windows 2008 R2 Server

Windows Server 2008 R2 HyperV Clustering

I have a on going project bringing in 12 new servers and a c7000 HP Blade Enclosure and a MSA 2012i going on right now and one of the interesting things I have done is to setup 2 Windows 2008 R2 HyperV Servers connecting to a HP MSA 2012i iSCSI Storage device and using the new HyperV Clustering in the Failover Clustering piece of 2008 R2. This is my first attempt at Failover Clustering of any kind and it has been pretty simple actually. It was some trial and error with getting the connection presented to the servers off the MSA but it was a matter of the Lun numbers. I was trying to present the LUN to each server with the same ID. I found that is I add a different ID for each one on the different connections it works then. There is a good article out on how to set this up and here it is. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732181(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_Connect

 Til Later just Roger

Windows 2008 R2 ADPrep Problem

I was working on a Windows 2008 DC and getting it ready to Prep the domain for a Windows 2008 R2 DC. I wasn’t on-site so I had no access to the a DVD Drive but I had the iso downloaded. I extracted the files and copied the Adprep folder over to my Windows 2008 32bit DC well when I ran adprep /forestprep I got the warning wrong version of OS 32bit versus 64 bit. OK now what to do as there is no 32bit version of Windows 2008 R2 RTM. I went over my possibilities and went back and looked at the apdrep folder a little closer and what I found as there is a adprep32.exe in the folder so I ran this on my Windows 2008 32bit DC and away Prepping the forest and domain went. I now could bring in my Windows 2008 R2 DC to the domain.

Til Later just Roger

Installing Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008 R2 Server

I was working on my ISA in front of a SBS 2008 server and got myself side tracked again. Well I setup a 2008 R2 domain controller running on my 2008 R2 HyperV Server and then seen they had released the beta of Exchange 2010. Ok I thought I wonder if this will run on my test domain and at first glance I found that it wasn’t suppose to be able to. But I keep digging and found a few that had actually set this up on a 2008 R2 server. So ok I setup a member quickly on the domain and installed Exchange 2010 on the the 2008 R2 server. The articles that are out there now that tell you how to setup Exchange 2010 on a 2008 Server that you need to download this update and the Power Shell 2.0 well you don’t have to do those as they are already in 2008 R2 server. But the install went fine and rather straight forward and pretty much like Exchange 2007 installs.

When I got the Exchange installed I got some Access denied errors but I made sure I did this on the Exchange Server and then I could get around in the management just fine.

Disable anonymous auth in IIS on the Power Shell Virtual Directory
set-user yourusername -remotepowershellenabled:$true

and I ran this from the Exchange Power Shell

But from first glance of the Exchange 2010 right now it is pretty much the same look of Exchange 2007. But there has been changes as something was not where I expected them to be but it makes sense. So I will post more on this as I play with this more and see what is all there. One thing I have found is you can text message to your mobile phone from the OWA. Will have to see if that will have any advantages or not.

til Later just Roger