Download it here: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/ We are pleased to announce the latest version of Core Configurator built and designed for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition! It is completely open source so it can be amended and change to fit your requirements, this version has been a year in the making and has been written in …
Category: Windows Server 2008 R2
Vmware Vsphere 4.0 ESXi 2008 R2 Server hanging
I recently experienced a problem when i was deploying 2008 R2 Servers on a VMWARE Vsphere ESXi 4.0 platform the server would hang after a few minutes of use. The problem to resolve this was to change the NIC type: After doing this no lock ups experienced 🙂
Forest Functional Levels
Windows Server 2000 The Windows 2000 forest functional level provides all Active Directory Domain Services features that are available in Windows 2000 Server. If you have domain controllers running later versions of Windows Server, some advanced features will not be available on those domain controllers while this forest is at the Windows 2000 functional level. …
Managing AD with Powershell
Windows Server 2008 R2 gives us the ability to manage Active Directory with Powershell. Here is a really nice poster for all the powershell commandlets for AD downloaded from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/adpowershell/archive/2009/03/05/active-directory-powershell-overview.aspx
Free book – Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2
Download it here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Chapter 1 What’s New in Windows Server R2 1 Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration:Adding R2 to Your World 9 Chapter 3 Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines 25 Chapter 4 Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and Application Management Chapter 5 Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access 65 …
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb Overview Using column filters, you can filter the information in these spreadsheets by operating system, component, or computer or user configuration. You can also search for information by using text or keywords. These spreadsheets include the following categories of security policy settings: Account Policies (Password Policy, Account Lockout Policy, and Kerberos Policy), Local Policies …
Slow RDP Performance on a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Host
Hi, I recently encountered a problem on my Server 2008 R2 machine which is running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V installed. After creating a Virtual Network, when i connected via RDP to the server the performance was unbearable and was very unusable. After a little playing about i managed to find the problem. I disabled …
Windows Server 2008 R2 System Requirements
Windows Server 2008 R2 System Requirements To use Windows Server 2008 R2, you need:* Component Requirement Processor Minimum: 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems Memory Minimum: 512 MB RAM Maximum: 8 GB (Foundation) or 32 GB (Standard) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, …
Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2 Release timeline
August 7, 2009 Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance license will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English via the Volume License Service Center. The rest of the languages for Windows 7 RTM should be available within a couple of weeks after that. For more information you should checkout the Windows …