Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

re: Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

CypherBit — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:36:20 GMT

Keith, do you experience any of the issues that have plagued the Hyper-V role with Nvidia drivers on 2008 pre-R2 (did you before R2 came out)?

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/4e1c53f5-0400-4ca9-8819-f942c10881c1/#page:1

http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/optimize-performance/

RDP was quite slow for me, but the biggest issue was playing any content in VLC (which I badly need for streaming). I'm currently using the default MS drivers, so no Aero, multimon... for me.

re: Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

KevinRemde — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:41:30 GMT

Thanks, Keith. Very useful.

I'm not a big fan of doing AERO on my demo server, but the driver will definitely come in handy for making sure my 2-monitor presentation style will work correctly.

Cheers, my friend!

-K

re: Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

Keith Combs — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:18:32 GMT

Like I mentioned above, Aero will most likely only be used by people that want to use Windows Server 2008 as their primary production environment because they need the 64 bit guest VM capabilities of Hyper-V.

Robert Larson is a good example. He runs that way, although I don't know if he uses Aero or not. Which reminds me, he has a great little tip on his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/roblarson/archive/2009/05/02/installing-windows-server-2008-r2-on-a-notebook-and-getting-all-those-required-drivers.aspx. In that tip he indicates how to get all of the Windows 7 RC drivers to install into Windows Server 2008 R2 RC. And no, I haven't tested this. :)

Running Server 2008 at client site

michael wharton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:55:32 GMT

I am a project architect consultant and as you would expect I'm on my client's network. I would expect that some client's would be upset if they saw a new standalone server on their network. Any comment on this?

re: Installing the Windows Server 2008 R2 RC on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p

Keith Combs — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:12:34 GMT

Why do you need to run server?