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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011After a couple of months of intensive testing, Microsoft finally announced SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM! I already wrote a couple of posts about Dynamic memory, it’s architecture and a need for it, and I also gave two presentations about it. I tested it for a couple of times, and it proved to [...]
DHCP Server requires authentication
Friday, October 8th, 2010A couple of weeks ago, I faced a problem that I’ve never seen before. I’ve seen an environment with Windows Server 2008 R2 installed, without domain, and with DHCP server installed. DHCP Server started asking for a Active Directory Server authorization and refused to start and provide IP addresses. As there is no Active Directory [...]
How NOT to install a virtual Windows Server?
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Few days ago I learned one "important" lesson from the field, which is actually my lab, which is actually my laptop. I’m in a process of writing my final thesis, and I write about Exchange Server 2010. I need to do some demo, so I decided to start a few virtual machines. Actually, 6! On [...]
Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster
Monday, December 7th, 2009Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components poster provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on Active Directory Domain Services, Hyper-V, Internet Information Services, Remote Desktop Services (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)), BranchCache, and DirectAccess technologies. In addition, updates to core file services and server management are illustrated. [...]
Core Configurator 2.0
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009If you’re using Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition, but you’re too lazy to do all administrative tasks from a command line (Why should I use Server Core?), then Core Configurator 2.0 is the tool for you. It enables you to use Windows Server 2008 R2 Core and do all your administrative tasks from a [...]
Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Advanced Training Content
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Interested in Windows Server 2008 R2? If free eBook Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is not enough for you, maybe some free training content will be. Windows Server 2008 R2 Advanced Series is an on-demand series about the advanced features of Windows Server 2008 R2. Topics will include Building a Seamless Enterprise, Virtualization Enhancements, Remote [...]
Killing The Myth: The Machine SID Duplication
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009The most popular posts on this blog are those about Security Identifier (SID). Users are interested in how to change SID using NewSID (which is, by the way, not supported anymore), how to check SID using PsGetSID and how to change SID using Sysprep. Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow at Microsoft (founder of Sysinternals and author [...]
How to upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V?
Thursday, October 15th, 2009If you have Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V role installed and running some virtual machines, and you want to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 because you want to utilize all new features in Hyper-V 2.0, then Jeff Loucks can help you with his post Hyper-V: Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server [...]
How to promote Windows Server 2008 machine to domain controller – step-by-step guide
Monday, September 28th, 2009Promoting Windows Server machine to domain controller is one of tasks that (almost) every system administrator had done in his life. Using dcpromo tool, promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to domain controller is quite easy, and in this post I will show you how step-by-step promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system to domain [...]
How to change SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using sysprep?
Thursday, September 17th, 2009In last post I described how to check SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, today I’ll describe you how to change SID on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 using sysprep. I see many of you are looking how to change SID using NewSID, but New SID is not officially supported [...]
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