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Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components Poster
Windows Server 2008 R2 Feature Components poster provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on Active Directory Domain Services, Hyper-V, Internet Information Services, Remote Desktop Services...
Core Configurator 2.0
If you’re using Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition, but you’re too lazy to do all administrative tasks from a command line (Why should I use Server Core?), then Core Configurator 2.0 is the tool for you. It enables you to use Windows Server 2008...
Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Advanced Training Content
Interested in Windows Server 2008 R2? If free eBook Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is not enough for you, maybe some free training content will be. Windows Server 2008 R2 Advanced Series is an on-demand series about the advanced features of Windo...
Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book
There is new free e-book from Microsoft available to download: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2. This e-book has been written by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker and it has 200 pages. You can download Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book here. Original pos...
TechNet Virtual Conference
The October TechNet Virtual Conference will take place on Friday, October 30th. You’ll be able to see 5 sessions and learn more about Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Exchange 2010, SQL Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R...
How to upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V?
If you have Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V role installed and running some virtual machines, and you want to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 because you want to utilize all new features in Hyper-V 2.0, then Jeff Loucks can help you with his post ...
How to promote Windows Server 2008 machine to domain controller – step-by-step guide
Promoting Windows Server machine to domain controller is one of tasks that (almost) every system administrator had done in his life. Using dcpromo tool, promoting Windows Server 2008 R2 machine to domain controller is quite easy, and in this post I w...
How to change SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 using sysprep?
In last post I described how to check SID on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, today I’ll describe you how to change SID on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 using sysprep. I see many of you are looking how to change SID using NewSID, but Ne...
How to install Windows Server 2008 R2 in virtual machine?
After reading my post How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?, you realized that playing with virtualization and virtual machines doesn’t have to be very difficult. You just have to follow few easy steps and there it is, you have your virtual op...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 RTM
I just got this message from SCVMM Team, this is only one part of it: System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 has released to manufacturing (RTM’d) and will be generally available (GA) via volume licensing is October 1. A 180-day evaluation ...
How to create new Hyper-V virtual machine?
Let me show you how to add new Windows Server 2008 R2 as a guest operating system on top of Hyper-V 2.0, which is part of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. So, I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on my machine, I have Hyper-V role inst...
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Today I downloaded Windows Server 2008 R2. Few days ago I downloaded and installed Windows 7 from MSDN. Now I have two newest Windows operating systems burned on DVDs, and I had to take one photo of them. Just for fun . Tags: R2, windows...
Windows Server 2008 R2 available to download
The day has finally come. I expected to see Windows Server 2008 R2 available to download at the same day as Windows 7, but Microsoft decided to make it available at today’s date. So, if you are MSDN or TechNet subscriber, you can now download W...
When to download Windows Server 2008 R2?
I expected to see Windows Server 2008 R2 to be available to download from MSDN and TechNet on the same date as Windows 7, but I was wrong. I don’t know why (maybe to reduce “attack” on their download servers from users who want to download Wind...
Great new features in Windows Server 2008 R2
Official announcement of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Microsoft has published video showing the most important moments of announcing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM at MGX conference in Atlanta. I am very surprised by the size of the audience at MGX and their reaction after Steven Sinofsky anno...
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RTM
Everyone is speaking about Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM, but almost no one wrote anything about Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has also reached RTM version, as stated at Microsoft virtualization team blog. These R2 release...
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Microsoft has RTM’d Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Customers will get their copies on these dates: Technet subscribers: August 6 in English, October 1 remaining languages MSDN subscribes: August 6 in English, October 1 remaining languages ...
Free Hyper-V training
I just wanted to share this short information with you: Microsoft is offering free Hyper-V training! Here is the copy-paste of the post found on Microsoft virtualization user group blog: Microsoft is offering some free Hyper-V training. You will need...
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 boot from VHD
One of the great new features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ability to boot the operating system from VHD file. Why? Look at this example. My colleague, Ales Rosina, Microsoft Student Partner from Slovenia recently wanted to have Windows...
Hyper-V on Hyper-V – is it possible?
As you all know, Hyper-V uses microkernelized hypervisor, which means that when you install Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008, it “sits” beneath Windows Server 2008 home operating system. Windows Server 2008 now acts as a “virtual...
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
While continuing to develop Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is developing R2 version of it’s free virtualization product, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. As I said in my first post about Hyper-V Server 2008, Hyper-V Server 2008 is basica...
Windows Server 2008 R2 RC available to download
With all the hype over the release of Windows 7 Release Candidate, one of the things that is getting over looked is the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 RC. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the next version of the Windows Server operating s...
More about Windows Server 2008 R2 new features
In my previous articles Windows Server 2008 R2 new features, Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Top 10 IT Pro Tasks Made Easier by Windows Server 2008 R2 I wrote something about Windows Server 2008 R2. Also, I recommend you to re...
Top 10 IT Pro Tasks Made Easier by Windows Server 2008 R2
Why you should consider moving to Windows Server 2008 R2? Microsoft gives you an answer. But not only one, there is list of 10 IT Pro tasks made easier by Windows Server 2008 R2. Here they are: Migrating VMs Without Service Interruption Branch File...
Top 10 reasons to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2
As you may know, Microsoft is developing new and improved version of Windows Server 2008, which will be called Windows Server 2008 R2. This version should hit the market in the middle of the 2009 (as far as I know), and it will bring us some cool new...
Windows Server 2008 R2 new features
Michael Pietroforte from http://4sysops.com wrote a series of articles about Windows Server 2008 R2 new features. Windows Server 2008 R2 will hit the market very soon, providing new and improving old technologies. I won’t copy-paste all article...
