When setting up demos, labs or just showing customers how to do various stuff in Hyper-V / Server Core / Windows sometimes things get screwed up. Or you need to disable/enable something that’s been turned on/off. In Core this can of course be a challenge, and I’ve lately run across a few different utilities and built in commands that might help you get through your 8 hours with slightly less hassle.… Read the rest
Update
Teaming with Intel ProsetCL
Teaming with Broadcom BACScli
If you’re running Server Core or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 you’ve probably come across the problem of teaming nics. No matter which hardware vendor you choose, they all have they’re special way of doing things.… Read the rest
This how-to will let you install Exchange 2007 SP1 on a Core-installation of Windows Server 2008 R2. I have reproduced this installation following these steps 4 times now, and it works every time. No support given, no responsibility taken. And calling Microsoft is out of the question since they don’t support this at all.… Read the rest
Update: How-to with video – http://www.nullsession.com/2009/12/07/exch2k7-complete-install-on-windows-server-2008-r2-core/
For those of you who are regular visitors (or google a lot) you might remember the attempt to get Exchange 2007 running on Server Core 2008 R2. Everything except the mailbox role went fine.
Well, after A LOT of trouble I’ve finally installed the Exchange 2007 mailbox role on Server Core 2008 R2.… Read the rest
When the Core-alternative of Windows Server was introduced in 2008, not a lot of people saw the greatness. A few tried it once, some tried it twice and others got hooked! Fellow administrators often complain that it’s so hard to administer the roles and features of it.… Read the rest
The latest release of CCC is for R2-versions of 2008 ONLY. This is because the syntax of certain commands have changed, so we decided to not autodetect and fork in this case since the if/else-handling in batch-files leaves a lot to wish for.… Read the rest
Why you should care about it? Well, I think that in the future most of your server workloads will be on one of these babies. No GUI since you won’t need it. All your management will be remote anyway, either through MMC, WinRS or even better automated through System Center Operations Manager.… Read the rest
All CCC versions available at http://www.nullsession.com/downloads
This is the final release of CCC for Windows Server 2008 Core. If a “bug” is reported (it’s more of a typo in a batch-file…) we’ll fix it, but no new functionality will be released.… Read the rest
All CCC versions available at http://www.nullsession.com/downloads
OUTDATED! See http://www.nullsession.com/2009/06/18/release-of-ccc-0-98/ for more information!
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As I promised at the Windows Server 7 TAP Summit I’d make my Server Core configuration script publicly available. Well, here it is. I chose to call it Core Configuration Console, which’ll be CCC for short.… Read the rest
Server Core, it’s sweet isn’t it? Well, it seems there’s a few of us who actually believe it is. There seems to be a huge misunderstanding that it’s hard to configure, hard to use and that it has to defend itself every time someone even thinks about selecting it from the install menu.… Read the rest