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 [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 There is new free e-book from Microsoft available to download: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2. This e-book has been written by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker and it has 200 pages. You can download Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book here.
Original post at Khanov blog.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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