One of the common issues we face in our industry is when a new version of a product is released, the support for that new product and our ability to deploy it is limited by the other vendors programs that need to work together. Windows Server 2012 has been released, and here’s a list of the current products that I use for our client deployment and their required versions … [Read more...]
Trying to run Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 on Hyper-V?
If you are trying to test out Window Server 2012 or Windows 8 by running it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V system then you may well see your guest machines lockup on a frequent basis. I’ve seen this myself, but only after I started to do backups on the Hyper-V host on a regular basis. To resolve this problem, you need to download this hotfix and install it on … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate available for download now
Windows Server 2012 Essentials aka the next generation of what was SBS, is now available for download from Microsoft. They announced the RC release here overnight. I’ve been doing quite some testing with this and it shows some real promise as a product for what could be something wonderful. The biggest concern I have now with the product is the pricing for those … [Read more...]
Performance Testing Windows Servers as a NAS
Over the last two nights, I’ve shown you performance testing I’ve done on non Windows based NAS devices, Windows based NAS devices and now tonight, on pure Windows Servers. In my test environment I’ve got a couple of servers configured as just Windows Servers, ie – no Domain Controller roles or anything else. HP ML110G6 – this has 2 x 250GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 … [Read more...]
No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites during migration
Doing an a migration today from Exchange 2003 to 2010 and once I’ve installed the Exchange 2010 server, I rebooted and logged back on to it. I got the following error “No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites.” After a little investigation, I realised that I was logging on with the local administrator account rather than the domain administrator … [Read more...]