This is interesting .. have seen this on a number virtual and physical windows 2003 servers, with NetApp or EMC storage. For some reason, external storage is goes missing after a reboot. I does appear in disk management, but as an initialized disk. So far we have found that if you use testdisk, you can
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Comments Off Just a reference to my me as I have forgotten it too many times http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/07/01/installing-sql-server-2005-on-windows-server-2008.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920201 If you want to install SQL bits, including reporting services you need some IIS 7.0 components that maybe missing if you just all the web server role. Component Folder Static Content Common HTTP Features Default Document Common HTTP
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Comments Off oooooooooooohh Thanks Ari for the tip off http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9f073285-b6ef-4297-85ce-f4463d06d6cb#tm Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards, and includes all updates delivered since SP1. SP2 simplifies administration by enabling IT administrators to deploy
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Comments Off Sweet.. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/05/14/9613924.aspx Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS 2008) with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 is now available to all MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. A version for evaluation (TechNet Plus or MSDN), demonstration (MSDN), development (MSDN) or test (MSDN) is now being provided to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers for the first time.
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Comments Off Every day is a school day .. if you remove IIS 7 from Windows Server 2008, it is never going back on properly. . . . EVER! You have to re-install the OS .. hopefully they will fix this in the next Service Pack or R2
Comments Off This is now available for download for anyone on who has access to: TechNet Plus SA Media; TechNet Plus (Retail); TechNet Direct (Retail); TechNet Plus (VL); TechNet Plus Direct (VL); TechNet Cert Partner; TechNet Gold Cert Partner; T1; x64 is 3,119.30 (MB), while x86 is 2,413.73 (MB) Windows 7 RC will expire June 1, 2010,
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Comments Off Cant find the download just yet … Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/04/28/windows-vista-sp2-rtm-windows-vista-sp1-blocker-tool-removed.aspx Today we are announcing the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. SP2 represents the latest step in Microsoft’s commitment to continuous improvement. It includes all updates that have been delivered since SP1, as well as support
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Comments Off WOW … http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/22/potential-windows-8-design.aspx
Comments Off this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch). As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of last week strange things started to happen. Nothing was logged in any
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Comments Off I must admit, I do like having multiple monitors to work with and found this the other day which is quite cool. If you run this: mstsc /span It will multi-mon your rdp session!
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