The subsystem needed…
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Microsoft, Server 2008 | Comments OffSo, I'm bee-bopping along setting up a new Server 2008 R2 virtual host, when I get to our SAN software's install. When I tried to run the executable, the following error was thrown: The subsystem needed to support the image type ...
Server Core Patches
Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »Need to see what patches/hotfixes are installed on Server Core? There's a command for that: WMIC QFE You can also send this to a text file for easier viewing: WMIC QFE > [FILENAME].txt
2008 R2 High Availability
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Hyper-V, Microsoft, Server 2008 | 2 Comments »Michael and I are probably the only two people in the world that would find this even remotely amusing, but... We're testing 2008 R2's Failover Clustering. In particular, we're going to test Hyper-V and highly available machines. So, in Michael's infinite ...
Installation Results
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »When you run the script mentioned here (to updated a Server Core 2008 install), you'll see a part of the output called "Installation Results." In the infinite wisdom of Microsoft, they don't seem to feel the need to plainly document ...
Error 0x800704C8 in VMM
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Forefront, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Security | 2 Comments »I was trying to deploy a new virtual machine today via Virtual Machine Manager, and kept getting this error (names changed to protect the innocent): Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the Hyper-V operation on the [virtualhost.domain.com] server because of the error: '[VIRTUALGUEST]' ...
Windows Web Application Gallery
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, iis | No Comments »I stumbled across something today I think is pretty cool: the Windows Web Application Gallery. From iis.net: The Windows Web Application Gallery makes it easy to explore, discover and install popular community ASP.Net and PHP applications on Windows. Users can browse ...
Create a Service in Windows
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »There are only a few things I hate more than SPAM. Only a few. Anyway, I've been migrating to my new server and with that comes email. And, of course, with email comes SPAM filtering. So, I've been trying to run ...
Injecting NIC Drivers into a WDS Boot Image
Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, WDS | No Comments »We're switching to a new laptop here at the office, and this new laptop uses a NIC driver that is not included in Server 2008 Standard's boot.wim. Naturally, instead of rebuilding the entire WIM (and reinventing the wheel), I decided ...
Lock Your Computer
Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft | No Comments »We are all professionals here - well, most of us. We all know that one should lock his or her computer before leaving their desk. Blah, blah. The keyboard I use at work has programmable keys - I can make them ...
winsxs: The Bain of My Current Existance
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »Long time no see. I was digging through one of our virtual terminal servers today to try and figure out why there was only 29.8MB of 20GB free on the system partition. A large culprit turned out to be the C:\Windows\winsxs ...