Earlier this year I attended MVPNation in Seattle in March. During this conference, a number of MVPs across various disciplines, presented sessions around Windows 8 and Windows 8 server that gave a deeper insight to anything that Microsoft had previously done. This content is now being made available for free by SMBNation (the conference organisers). So if you … [Read more...]
My Windows 8 Server keeps crashing…
Sounds pretty horrific doesn’t it. One of my servers I’ve got here is running the Windows 8 Server Developer Preview version and this morning, it started to spontaneously reboot every 2 hours. This worried me initially as it has been 1000% rock solid since it’s installation. I dug into the event logs and the first thing I noticed was that it happened every 2 … [Read more...]
I wonder how much of this will be in the next version of SBS?
Microsoft are doing their bit at CES this week to show the world how great Windows 8 will be and how much we all will need it. Windows 8 from a client desktop perspective certainly has some great new features that will be of great use to single person computer environments – what I mean here is the scenarios where we have one user to one desktop computer. I’m … [Read more...]
SBSfaq.com runs the office on Windows Server 8 with Hyper-V
That’s it – it’s done. All virtualised servers for SBSfaq.com (aside from our public website) are now running on Windows 8 Hyper-V. Yes – I know that Microsoft have said do not run this in production, but I am taking steps to minimise the risk so that I can learn the technology that will be the basis for whatever Microsoft does in the SMB market over the next few … [Read more...]
Windows 8 – File Transfer
One of the things I love about the new Windows 8 server that is available for testing from Microsoft is the file copy dialog box and the graphing it shows you. Below I’m copying a 500GB file from a W2008R2 server over to my Windows 8 test system. It gives me not only the time remaining, but also an indication of the speed of the transfer. If you run Task … [Read more...]