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Tracking down the Control Panel applet for Mail in 64-bit Windows

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 will be getting a new one at some time soon and there...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 07-16-2008
Setting up printers in Windows Server 2008

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 I needed to set up a network printer but I was...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 07-08-2008
Removing phantom network adapters from virtual machines

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 server had to be recreated in order to move from the...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 04-07-2008
The Windows runas command and the /netonly switch

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 failed due to security issues. I tried running...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-31-2008
Customising Windows Server 2008 server core

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 ). Sander Berkouwer wrote a series of blog posts...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-27-2008
Surfing with server core

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 HTTP to a server core machine. No problem - just...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-27-2008
Upgrading from the Hyper-V beta to RC0

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 will not be possible upgrade VMs from the Hyper-V...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-26-2008
Hyper-V release candidate

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 earlier today . According to Microsoft: The...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-19-2008
Hyper-V and networking

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 is fundamentally different in a number of ways . Architecturally...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-14-2008
Burning CDs/DVDs in Windows Server 2008

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 guess but it's kept me busy for the last hour...

Posted to Mark's Windows Server Blog (Weblog) by markwilson on 03-13-2008

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