Unsupported Cluster Configuration
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Beta, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Server 2008 | No Comments »Maybe Michael should go away more often. I seem to get a lot more done when he's out. Today, I added the third node to the Hyper-V R2 cluster we're currently testing. When I did, VMM freaked out and all of ...
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 ...
Disable Hibernation
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Server 2008 | No Comments »If you're in need of disabling hibernation on your 2008 servers (or your Vista desktop, as the case may be), open a command line and type this: powercfg.exe /hibernate off To turn it back on, replace "off" with "on". This will do away ...
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 ...
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 ...
Windows Server 2008
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Server 2008 | No Comments »Today is officially billed as "Laptop Rebuild Day." And today, I will be reloading Windows Server 2008 on my laptop. Rumor (and experience) has it that it performs much better than Vista. So, an article from Mark Wilson on how ...
Updating Windows Server 2008 Core
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in Server 2008 | 2 Comments »Tonight is "Server Night." A night set aside on the third Tuesday of every month dedicated to drinking a lot of caffeine and causing downtime for the company. The first task of the night: update our Core installations (which includes ...