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Just before the weekend, I was trying to run an application on a 64-bit installation of Windows Server 2008 and was presented with a strange error: This application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the...
I've written previously about running Windows Server 2008 as a workstation (I do it on the notebook PC I use for work) but now it's even easier. Steven Bink has published details of a Windows Server 2008 Workstation conversion tool (via Garry...
At long last (and not before time), my corporate mail account has just been moved across to an Exchange Server 2007 system with Outlook Anywhere enabled. Unfortunately, I sold my Apple iPhone (which now has Exchange ActiveSync support) last week but I...
For the last few months, I've been running Windows Server 2008 as my desktop operating system . It's been rock solid, despite not being designed for laptop hardware and even if I can't hibernate (because I have Hyper-V enabled). Earlier today...
Last night, I rebuilt my Windows Server 2008 machine at home to use the RTM build (it was running on an escrow build from a few days before it was finally released) and Hyper-V RC0. It was non-trivial because the virtual machines I had running on the...
Earlier today I needed to administer a Windows Server remotely, using a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. Unfortunately, the computer I was using was in one domain and the remote server was in a workgroup, meaning that many of the MMC operations...
A few months back, I wrote a post with a few commands to get started with server core on Windows Server 2008. Since then, I've had some fun tweaking server core installations (including some cheekiness installing third party web servers and browsers...
The whole point of the server core installation mode for Windows Server 2008 is a reduced attack surface - no Windows Explorer, no Internet Explorer, no .NET Framework. That's all well and good but sometimes it's useful to download a file over...
One of the problems when you ship a beta product with a released product is that people will use it . Damn those users! Yeah, well, I’m one of those users and it’s all very well including a comment in the Hyper-V beta release notes warning us that it...
For a couple of days now, I’ve been itching to write something about the Microsoft Hyper-V release candidate (RC), which was made available to beta testers earlier this week. Well, the wait is over as the (feature-complete) product was officially announced...
For those who have worked with hosted virtualisation (Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server, VMware Workstation and Server, Parallels Desktop, etc.) and haven't experienced hypervisor-based virtualisation (paravirtualisation), Microsoft Hyper-V...
One of the downsides of running Windows Server 2008 as a workstation operating system is the lack of native CD/DVD-burning capabilities. Quite why Microsoft decided that administrators don't need to write optical discs from servers is anybody's...
When Windows Vista was launched, I wrote a post about the volume activation (VA) 2.0 activation process . With Vista SP1, reduced functionality mode has been removed although there is still the same legal obligation to run properly-licensed copies of...
Last week I wrote about how Windows Server 2008 can be used as a great workstation OS too ... then I realised that I didn't have any wireless networking capabilities. Although Device Manager reported that my device was working properly, there were...
It took me months to convince my manager that I need a new laptop. Then it took me a few more to convince the IT department of the specification I needed (and to prise it out of their hands) but today I finally got my hands on it. It's nothing special...
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