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Extended Security Updates for SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 on Azure Stack

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:59:29 +0000

SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will both be out of extended support within the next 12 months (detailed dates below). This means if you have these versions, you’ll need to migrate to newer versions of SQL Server or Windows Server or buy Extended Support soon to maintain support and receive security …

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In-place Upgrade Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2

Thomas Maurer — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:09 +0000

I’m not a big fan of In-place Windows Upgrades, especially in the server environment. But we had some servers with a small application running on Windows Server 2008, so we decided to in-place upgrade this server to Windows Server 2008 R2. Now guess what, it worked. If the hardware and all applications are compatible with …

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Remote Disk Management with “RPC server is unavailable” Error

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:01:55 +0000

If you have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Server or a Hyper-V R2 Server, which is also managed like a Core Server, you are really happy if you can use the Server Manager for this Remote Machine. Basiclly I had the the Remote Setup done. I could connect to the remote Machine with the …

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Create an OS Image in Windows Deployment Services (Capture Image)

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:46:32 +0000

Here I will show you how you can simply create a new Image in WDS (Windows Deployment Services). You can use this to create own Images for your Servers or PCs or update existing Images. Add Capture Images to your WDS Update your Computer or VM with the latest Software. Use Sysprep to generalize the …

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How to add a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core as Secondary Domain Controller (replica)

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:26:27 +0000

This is a small How to which shows you how you can add a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core as a Secondary Domain Controller or Replica. First configure the Core Server, Name, Domain, IP Adresse and more. You can use the command sconfig to run the Server Configuration Utility. Now you can go back to …

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Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 Server with 3ware 9650SE Raidcontroller

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:39:02 +0000

If you need to install Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Server with a 3ware 9650SE Raidcontroller, you can’t just install it on this machine, you can’t even install it with adding the driver during the installation process. First Update the Raid Controller Firmware by downloading the Codeset ISO from the 3ware Download page …

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Windows Server 2008: Allow multiple Remote Desktop sessions per user

Thomas Maurer — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:50:50 +0000

In Windows Server 2003 you could have multiple Remote Desktop session with the same user. In Windows Server 2008 this is not possible by default. If you login with the same user account the first session will be taken over by second session. But you can allow multiple Remote Desktop sessions per user by changing …

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Swiss Technet Event

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:52:27 +0000

Today I had the chance to visit Microsoft Switzerland. I visited one of the presentations called “Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 – What’s new?”. Speaker of the session was Markus Erlacher (Microsoft IT Consultant). As always Microsoft does a great job by host events like this. I really recommend you to …

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HowTo: Install Roles and Features Windows Server 2008 R2 Core (Shell)

Thomas Maurer — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:00:08 +0000

This Guide should help you to install Roles and Features on Windows Server 2008 R2 per shell or on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Server. Under Windows Server 2008 you could install Roles and Features with the command OCSETUP. Since we use Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft used the tool called DISM (Deployment Image Servicing …

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Active Directory Schema Versions

Thomas Maurer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:52:06 +0000

The list of Active Directory Schema versions: Windows 2000 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 13 Windows Server 2003 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 30 Windows Server 2003 R2 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 31 Windows Server 2008 RTM with all Service packs = Schema version 44 …

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