Problem Description When trying to protect SQL Server 2005 SP2 (patch version 9.00.3042.00) that is installed on a Windows Server 2008 machine with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 you will not be able to enumerate the SQL databases for protection...

You may encounter the following dialog box with attempting to upgrade an existing Operating System The text of the dialog box reads: Upgrade has been disabled The upgrade cannot be started because you are running a 64-bit version of Windows and are trying...

On October 1, 2008 the Professional level “Enterprise Platforms Support” business at Microsoft will transition to a call-back model for all Professional support incidents in the United States and Canada.  Below is a description of how...

Now that you’ve decided to take the leap and migrate your Virtual Server 2005 R2 or Virtual PC environment to Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V; Welcome! I know you’re going to love it! Some of the hurdles that you can run into may be a little worrisome...

If you Inspect the disk in Hyper-V Manager that you just altered it will show the correct new maximum size however. Even though the disk is a Dynamically Expanding type disk, we still need to tell the Operating System about the container size change....

A commonly asked question among people looking at a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 installation is “why is the WinSxS folder so big?!”   To answer that question I need to first describe componentization, and how components...

One of the most common questions asked about using Hyper-V is, "How can I access files on the Parent partition from inside the Child Partition?". In other Microsoft virtualization products like Virtual PC and Virtual Server 2005, this was possible...