This may happened I you use a volume-licensed media to deploy Windows Server 2008 SP2 (this was my case). The resolution is to set-up a KMS server on your LAN or switch the product key to a MAK key, find out more here: Volume Activation For Windows Vista: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929712/ Error message when you try to... read more
I followed this procedure from TechNET to configure dynamic updating: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145315(WS.10).aspx. I want to share my results as it went quite straightforward. The DHCP server might be configured in one of the following ways, we choose the second to increase our control over the workstations: The DHCP server registers and updates client information with the... read more
Today we will talk about Windows Server Foundation 2008 on a TechNET webcast. Windows Server Foundation 2008 is aimed to starters with less that 15 workstation on their premises, it became a very cost-effective alternative and a better entry point to the Windows Server platform than Windows Server Small Business 2008. You can go... read more
Last Wednesday 18-February we had a TechNet webcast about the System Center Suite. If you want to go deeper you can download the session resources here: http://cid-5f9c7b75bd402dda.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/TechNet/2009-02-18%20-%20System%20Center%20y%20el%20Centro%20de%20Datos I recommend this session to earn a high-level perspective about the System Center Suite, on the online session you can watch demos about the following scenarios: Datacenter Deployment:... read more
Here at Southworks we deployed many times from scratch a fully virtualized infrastructure and we have many lessons learnt so far. Since 2006, the industry is betting hard to workloads virtualization as it will address the increasing complexity IT environments are facing improving agility on the datacenter. In this post I will share a snapshot... read more
This April 29th I will be part of the Online Event launching Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. My track will be about Windows Server 2008 and the Web Server Role, going though the top features of IIS7 from the Server Administrator point of view. You can (and should ) register... read more