Microsoft products cover a multitude of technologies, and thus are managed by a multitude of management attitudes, vision and scenarios. In the past Microsoft products lacked a common vision on management, but Microsoft is slowly changing this. All Windows Server products will be manageable through: Server Manager (locally on Full ...

Mike Nash and Justin Graham announced the Customer Preview Program for Service Pack 2 Beta for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 on the The Windows Blog and the Windows Server Division Weblog earlier this week. While MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers have access to the Beta builds of this Service Pack, mere mortals had to wait until today to ...

Windows Server 2008 brings the successor to ye old NTBackup. The role that can be installed separately includes both a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) as command line tools. In Server Core the role doesn't add the MMC, but sure adds the command line tool wbadmin.exe In this post you'll find: What's new in Windows Backup Backup ...

I've showed you some common commands for IPv4 networking in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Now that you know the commands to change your network settings I feel it's time to perform some tweaks to make your commands just a tiny bit shorter. As an added bonus you might be able to distinguish your Network Interfaces better, which might protect ...

Networking services are a big part of the services you can make your Server Core box perform. Having properly configured network connections are prerequisites to offering these services, so I feel it's time to explain how to properly configure the networking connections on Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008. I'll start with ...

Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a Windows feature we know since Windows XP. (2001)  Microsoft loves the feature enough to continue offering it in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and Server Core installations are no exception. About Windows Error Reporting Windows Error Reporting is a feature that was 'on' by default in Windows XP ...

Now that we have Hyper-V available as a Server Role on Windows Server 2008 Server Core I feel it's time to explain why Server Core would be the ideal Windows Server 2008 Installation method to install Hyper-V on, instead of the Full Installation method. Note: In this post I use 'Root Partition', while others may prefer to use 'Parent ...

Ben Armstrong, the Virtual Guy, just posted about the availability of a special version of Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 that contains an updated version of Hyper-V, which is now a Beta.  The best news is this version is available for public download! There's a small catch for testers though. It looks like the Windows ...

Despite what Susan Bradley thinks it's not just JoeWare that likes this ''new no GUI, no IE, Command line only version of the Server Operating System in Windows Server 2008''... I too am growing very fond of Server Core. I love this little Operating System installation option and I am finding my way in it better everyday I use it. (I must admit ...

Microsoft released Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 publicly today, along with Release Candidate 1 for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. This means the teams are definitely on schedule for a Q1 2008 release date for both products! Downloads You may download one of the following versions of Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 ...