As I’m building or extending a number of Hyper-V Clusters in the next 4 months I’m gathering/updating my list with the Windows 2008 R2 SP1 hotfixes relating to Hyper-V and Failover Clustering. Microsoft has once published KB2545685: Recommended hotfixes and updates for Windows … Continue reading
After an initial false start (https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2011/01/14/windows-2008-r2-windows-7-sp1-rtm-today/) Window 2008 R2/Windows 7 Service Pack 1 has been officially RTMed today . SP1 brings Dynamic Memory& RemoteFX to hyper-V virtualization. I’m probably doing a SQL Server virtualization project and thus I’m very interested … Continue reading
Good news. Microsoft just released the Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Release Candidate. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/sp1.aspx for more information. I’m downloading it from here here as I type this blog. You can also get a vhd image. That the RC is here … Continue reading
As you might recall from a previous blog post of mine (https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2010/03/29/perversions-of-it-license-dongles/) one of the show stoppers for virtualization can be USB dongles. Apart from my aversion of USB license dongles that should never be mentioned in the same sentence … Continue reading