I have just set up a VM for Windows Server 2008 R2 and want to install Microsoft CRM 2011 to play around with it. CRM 2011 seems to require Active Directory to be configured and running on the server.
I've never gotten involved with Active Directory and I know that I need to install it and get it going for the CRM 2011 to continue. Does anyone…
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed as a virtual guest in my Windows 7 host via VirtualBox 4.0.
I did this to move my development activity to a controlled environment that doesn't affect my host OS when I don't want to develop.
The problem I have is that when I try to connect to my shared hosting FTP, it's slow as hell on the virtual OS but…
I'm currently running Windows 7 RC and I'm ready to pave and reinstall on my laptop.
Are there features in Windows 7 I won't have access to if I install Server 2008 R2?
Are there applications or drivers that won't work?
I'm primarily interested in running a Server OS to support SharePoint development. (Yes, I am aware of the hackaround to…
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Machine with 1 physical hard drive.
I have an exact copy of the hardware of it, which I intend to use a a redundant backup in case my server fails (hardware or software).
I'd like to routinely "clone" my production server's hard drive, so that when it fails, I'll just swap it with the latest clone.
Is this…
Microsoft Press has published FREE eBook on the most awaiting release of SQL Server 2008 R2. The book is written by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner. Ross is my personal friend and one of the most active book writer in SQL Server Domain. When I see his name on any book, I am sure that it will be high quality and easy to read book.
The details…
Húsvét óta már SAP alatt is használható az Oracle Database 11g R2. Köztudott, hogy az SAP csak a Release 2-re ad ki támogatást, így ez most egy igazán örömteli hír az SAP felhasználóknak, hiszen az alábbi 11g R2 újdonságokat tudják alkalmazni SAP környezetben:
• Advanced Compression opció (táblára, RMAN mentésre, expdp-re, Data Guard…
Today I’ve happy started to install SQL Server 2008R2 on my development machine, which has this software installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU5 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 BOL October 2009 AdventuresWorks2008 Databases SR4 Visual Studio 2010 RTM So, all the basic standard stuff. SQL Server…
When we migrate some BizTalk apps from BizTalk 2006 R2 to BizTalk 2010, and we ran into issue when a .net component called inside the orchestration. In the .net component we are trying to retrieve some promoted property and we also checked in the BizTalk group hub to validate it was promoted, no issues there. Only when we try…
If you’re into SQL Server, you may want to attend the free 2008 R2 launch event that will take place on May 26th, 2010 in Montreal. Agenda: 8:00 - 9:00am : Registration and Breakfast 9:00 – 9:15am: Welcome and Introductions 9:15 – 10:00am: Keynote Presentation 10:00 - 10:15am: Morning break 10:15…
Many people like me want (or need) to do their business intelligence development work on a laptop. As someone who frequently speaks at various events or teaches classes on all subjects related to the Microsoft business intelligence stack, I need a way to run multiple server products on my laptop with reasonable performance. Once…
June 11, 2010 was a wonderful day because I attended the very first SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch event held by Microsoft at Mumbai. I traveled to Mumbai from my home town, Ahmedabad. The event was located at one of the best hotels in Mumbai,”The Leela”.
SQL Server R2 Launch was an evening event that had a few interesting talks.…
A friend of mine is hosting a lot of Linux VM's on his servers using XenServer 5.0. He uses rdiff-backup to make daily backups.
I'm trying to convince him to host some Windows VM's (Windows 2008 R2 Web Edition) too, so he could provide (me) .NET hosting. The main problem at the moment is a backup strategy for these Windows…
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I have a server with two 1.5TB hard drives. I was going to install a Windows Server 2008 R2 and create software RAID1 using Windows Disk Management Utility.
I instaleld Windows, open this console and that is what I see:
http://i.imgur.com/KoC9a.png
Setup program created a System Reserved Partition at my second…
I want to deploy a new DC + Fileserver using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Edition on a Dell PowerEdge R410 and iSCSI storage for a small business (~30 people).
Should I install the system native on the server or use a virt layer?
I don't have a budget for virtualization so i gotta go with something free...
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I am trying to learn how the failover clustering features works with Windows 2008 R2 as I am going to be using as part of SQL Server 2012 always on.
I have been able to find information on how to set it up, and what it does. However, I am having trouble finding a nice technical document on how it actually works in…
What paths are guaranteed to exist on a Windows Server 2008 R2 instance? A client is requiring that some instructions specify exact paths in all cases. (The person executing said instructions is not supposed to have to decide on any path themselves, even when the path makes absolutely no difference.) So I need to…
I need to evaluate in a lab environment the use of Windows Server 2008 R2's NPS for 802.1x authentication with Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches; the general idea is to only let clients connect to the company network if they can provide valid domain logon credentials, placing them in a restricted VLAN instead if they…
I have a VMWare image supplied by my Phone System provider which manages a contact management interface, they tell me that VMWare EsXi5.0 is the highest supported host.
I'm used to MS HyperV and have no VMWare experiance.
At present I have this guest running on a simple desktop PC running ESXi5.0.0, I'd…
We have a small relatively idle windows server 2008 R2 installation that does basic filesharing and exchange for about 10 not very active users.
When running a windows server backup, the incremental data daily is about 20GB. This is not coming from users shared files, nor from changes in their mailbox…
The server allocated for our cross platform projects (both Mac & PC) source repository is running Win2008R2 Core. We're really happy with its stability and we aren't interested in moving over to non-core. We need to get either SVN or GIT installed on the aforementioned box in the shortest amount of…
I have a W2008 R2 installed on a different network (I am on 192.168.0.x - new server on 192.168.3.x)
I had trouble ping and RDP to it. I disabled the firewall to test the connection:
and that opened the ping feature
but I still can not RDP to that machine. the allow remote access is enabled
As…
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I've found some ways of scripting printer creation on Windows print servers using WMI, but it looks like WMI doesn't support clustered print servers (or clustered servers at all).
The scripts in C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts are useless because, they are not…
We are running Windows Server 2008 R2, which is setup to be a FTP server.
Everything seemed to be working fine until one our our cilents started complaining about their uploads being halted with the message "Connection with server reset". Further diagnosis revealed that a specific…
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 that is not join to any domain.
I have developed an web application that will display the domain name and the username on the server itself.
However, when I publish my web application to IIS, it always fail and display different types of error…