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 [...]
How to install Windows Server 2008 R2 in virtual machine?
Monday, September 7th, 2009After reading my post How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?, you realized that playing with virtualization and virtual machines doesn’t have to be very difficult. You just have to follow few easy steps and there it is, you have your virtual operating system. But wait! We still don’t have virtual operating system. We have [...]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTM
Monday, August 24th, 2009 I just got this message from SCVMM Team, this is only one part of it:
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has released to manufacturing (RTM’d) and will be generally available (GA) via volume licensing is October 1. A 180-day evaluation version is now available on the Microsoft Download site. You can access [...]
How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Let me show you how to add new Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system on top of Hyper-V 2.0, which is part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. So, I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on my machine, I have Hyper-V role installed and enabled (How to install role [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Today I downloaded Windows Server 2008 R2. Few days ago I downloaded and installed Windows 7 from MSDN. Now I have two newest Windows operating systems burned on DVDs, and I had to take one photo of them. Just for fun .
Windows Server 2008 R2 available to download
Friday, August 14th, 2009The day has finally come. I expected to see Windows Server 2008 R2 available to download at the same day as Windows 7, but Microsoft decided to make it available at today’s date. So, if you are MSDN or TechNet subscriber, you can now download Windows Server 2008 R2.
When to download Windows Server 2008 R2?
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009I expected to see Windows Server 2008 R2 to be available to download from MSDN and TechNet on the same date as Windows 7, but I was wrong. I don’t know why (maybe to reduce “attack” on their download servers from users who want to download Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 immediately) [...]
Great new features in Windows Server 2008 R2
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Together with announcing that Windows 7 has reached RTM, Microsoft has also announced Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM. I already wrote something about Windows Server 2008 R2 new features , reasons for moving to Windows Server 2008 R2 and few other posts, but here is official announcement from Windows Server Division. Of course, they [...]
Official announcement of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Microsoft has published video showing the most important moments of announcing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM at MGX conference in Atlanta. I am very surprised by the size of the audience at MGX and their reaction after Steven Sinofsky announced news that we have been waiting for so long. As Marin [...]
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Everyone is speaking about Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, but almost no one wrote anything about Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has also reached RTM version, as stated at Microsoft virtualization team blog.
These R2 releases continue to highlight one of our core goals for Hyper-V. Simply:
We believe everyone should [...]