Category Archives: Windows Server 2008

Some of the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides are after been updated to cover Windows Server 2008 R2. The following guides in the Infrastructure Planning and Design series have been updated to reflect new features and capabilities available in Windows … Continue reading →

Microsoft have released a Windows Server 2008 R2 Performance Tuning Guide and it can be downloaded from here. The Windows Server 2008 Performance Tuning Guide was recently updated to cover service pack 2 and it can be downloaded from here. … Continue reading →

On the Windows Vista Team blog they announced that Service Pack 2 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Some of the key benefits of Windows Vista SP2: Windows Search 4.0 for faster and improved relevancy in searches Bluetooth 2.1 Feature … Continue reading →

I came across this article on how to migrate from a Windows 2003 DHCP server to a Windows 2008 DHCP server. The article is from the DHCP Team blog. http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2009/02/18/migration-of-dhcp-server-from-windows-server-2003-to-windows-server-2008.aspx

Some lucky timing on my part, there is now a Step by Step Guide for Live migration available up on Technet. Live Migration was not working properly for me, of course I had not read any documentation. I was just … Continue reading →

So I decided to have a go at playing with Live Migration, so I moved all the machines off my test Hyper-V cluster. I decided to go with a clean OS install rather than an in place upgrade. I disconnected … Continue reading →

This is one I have been waiting on for a while. The ability to backup running Hyper-V machines is the feature that interests me most. There are some improvements for SQL 2008 and Sharepoint backups. More information at the DPM … Continue reading →

So in a previous post I was talking about the issues that I was having with getting VMM 2008 working with my test Hyper-V cluster. I was getting the error below when I was trying to add the cluster as … Continue reading →

I recently recently installed Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and I started managing two of my host systems running Hyper-V. One is running Server Core and the other is a full installation. I did hit a problem that caused me some … Continue reading →

I have been using Windows Server 2008 Core edition for the last while as a Hyper-V host and one of the things that I have thinking about is when I go to production will I use Server Core for production … Continue reading →