Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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VMLimited – More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van

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The polyester packing virtualization sales guy from the past is back!  You may have seen Tad in his inaugural video over at VM-Limited.

Tad, VM-Limited Sales Expert

Now the second instalment of his genius is live.  I wish that I could get it on VHS,  Betamax or maybe even VHS 2000 (points for those who remember that format!).  That would be cool Smile

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For those in the UK, Tad’s look screams C & A on the high street.  They were the… Read the rest “VMLimited – More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van”

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Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location

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On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory.    I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even though the server had a single connection which was on the internal corporate network.

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A fix was released on this issue and can be downloaded from Microsoft.

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List Of Updates for Hyper-V

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously the list of updates for Hyper-V was stored and maintained as part of the regular TechNet documentation.

Customers asked to have an RSS feed that they could subscribe to and for the list to be maintained in a more rapid fashion.

Thus the update list was moved from TechNet to a new location on the TechNet wiki.

Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V Update List

You may subscribe to the RSS feed for the Windows 2008 R2 update list here.

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Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required

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After seeing several posts in the TechNet Exchange forums, where people are posting an overview of their environment as part of the problem statement, it is clear that multiple customers are not maintaining the correct service pack level on their Exchange servers.

I previously blogged about this for Exchange 2010, and this time lets focus on Exchange 2007.

The Exchange 2007 lifecycle can be viewed h… Read the rest “Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required”

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Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 or 2008 R2 Host

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

EDIT 8-2-2013:  A new update KB 2744129 has superseded the  original KB 2526776

Please note that this new update now applies to Hyper-V 2008 and 2008 R2  -- the original was only for R2.

 

If you are testing out Windows 8 as a VM which is hosted on a Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 Hyper-V server, then you will need to install the following update.

 

 

An update that enables the Windows Developer… Read the rest “Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 or 2008 R2 Host”

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Windows Server “8” Beta

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Now that the Windows Server “8” beta has been released publically there is going to be a lot of excitement over the release’s new features.  This shouldn’t be a surprise unless you have been in a decompression chamber or living under  a rock this week Smile.   Certainly over a million were not, and downloaded Win8 in the first 24 hours.

Download Windows Server "8" Beta

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Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update

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While working with a customer to resolve networking issues with their DAG last week I enquired if they had installed the recommended update for their DAG.  They were not aware of the Exchange product group’s recommendation so I thought I’d bubble this back up again:

The post is on the Exchange team blog site and mentions the following update:

KB2550886 - A transient communication failure causes a Win… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update”

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Windows Service Log On As Inventory

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active Directory logon for example?  They also wanted to search specific portions of the AD, so logic was added to start searching a collection of com… Read the rest “Windows Service Log On As Inventory”