I decided to sign up for Microsoft Connect and download the Windows Home Server “Vail” public preview and install it in my lab vSphere lab. I recently picked up an Iomega ix4-200 and had some extra space so I wanted to try to streaming media and backup functionality.
After Windows (Server 2008 R2) installed, and the [...]
I’ve been experimenting with creating a good Windows Server 2008 R2 template for VMware vSphere 4 and wondered just how many times Microsoft would allow an activation on the same MSDN license key (Multiple Activation) for the OS. I often deploy multiple servers at a time and am always fearful of activating since I don’t [...]
This is a quick post, or maybe not so quick, just to illustrate how to create and add records to a DNS zone on your own Windows Server with the DNS role configured. This server can be a domain controller with DNS installed or just a DNS server, it doesn’t make any difference.
A quick primer [...]
Have you tried rebooting?
I ran across an issue on Windows Server 2008 R2 but also found the issue to happen on Windows 7 installations.
Apparently this will be fixed in the R2 releases of SQL but since those aren’t available yet for the enterprise and similar versions, there’s a pretty simple fix. I found an article [...]
As I’ve upgraded my lab environment to vSphere over the weekend, I’ve been running across the occasional VM that fails to allow me to upgrade it’s VMware Tools. This seems to be predominantly happening with my Windows Server 2008 VMs.
I’ve received various error messages including ‘can’t find vmware tools.msi’ looking at c:\windows\installers, and messages [...]
Tonight I decided to go on the magical journey of upgrading my ESX 3.5 environment to vSphere using the Host Update Utility. I’m usually a firm believer in ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’ but this time I decided to take the plunge and see what happens.
A few months ago, I ran through the [...]
Here’s the scenario, I decided to try out Subversion as a source control repository on a Windows Server 2008 server, attached to a Win Server 2008 domain, with ISA Server forwarding HTTP traffic. After doing a little bit of research, I decided to give VisualSVN Server a try. If you don’t know it, it’s a [...]
This post picks up where the last post left off. In the last post, we created a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Domain Controller and stopped short of going on to add Certificate Services into the mix.
If you’re not sure if you need certificate services for your environment, it never hurts to have it [...]
I posted a tutorial on creating a domain controller using Windows Server 2003, and decided to post an update that included step-by-step instructions for Windows Server 2008 R2. This should be the same for Windows Server 2008.
This is great for developers, testers, and anyone looking to learn Active Directory or deploy to a small network. [...]
Windows 7, along with Windows Vista, both have issues interacting with Buffalo Terastation and similar Buffalo products. This is due to updated NTLM security settings in both Windows 7 and Vista. The un-patched behavior is continued prompts to log in / authenticate to the NAS.
Buffalo has released a registry patch that allows Windows 7 and [...]