March 2008 - Posts
I had this in my inbox for quite a while now but finally found the time to share this with you. Group Policy preferences are made up of more than 20 new Group Policy client-side extensions (CSEs) that expand the range of configurable settings in a Group
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Last Saturday during the IT-Talks UG meeting I was talking about the fact that with RDP 6.1 the /console switch has been depreciated and to connect to a console session on a W2K3 box you now need to use the /admin switch. With the /console switch you
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In the two previous parts of this topic we created the Server Core Machines, connected them to the storage and added the Failover Clustering Feature. In this last part we are going to configure the Windows Failover Clustering feature and form a 2 Node
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In my previous post I've talked about how to use base images to quickly deploy new servers in my Hyper-V environment. In this post we will configure the shared storage based on the microsoft iSCSI target software, in a real life environment you could
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During the Dutch Launch event I presented about Windows Failover clustering and I also prepared some demo's. I build a failover cluster on top of a Server Core. In Part 1 I will briefly explain the sysprep process because I had to rebuild all my VM with
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Remember one of my previous posts around Configuring Windows Server 2008 Server Core with the inbox tools, now if don't like using commandline tools then this will definitively be your tool: CoreConfigurator Features: Product Activation Configuration
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In one of my previous posts TechDays and the Community Heroes , I've talked about the community game during the TechDays, we were very happy with the results and here are the winners of the Xbox360: Congratulations to all winners and a BIG THANK YOU to
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We've released the Hyper-V Manager MMC (RC release as well) for Vista SP1 (x86 & x64). What this allows you to do is install the Hyper-V Manager MMC on Vista SP1 which appears here in the Administrative Tools like this: From here, you can launch the
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A few days ago we released the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to the web. RSAT is the collection of Windows Server 2008 management tools which enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their PCs running
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It has been a while since Alexandre Verkinderen started his SCUG blog onto the trycatch site and now he decided to take it one step further and to make it an official UG in Belgium. The SCUG will be announced during the TechDays opening keynote but if
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The UG community in Belgium are organizing a community game during the TechDays, underneath you find the info I received from the community game lead, take a look at it and if you want to win an Xbox 360 then you should definitely join this game. This
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Join Mark Russinovich and a panel of experts at 9:00 A.M. Pacific Time, March 5th for a live, interactive discussion on adopting Windows Vista into a desktop infrastructure. The panel will feature subject-matter experts and IT pros from around the world
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