January 2009 - Posts
Done an upgrade of a more repressive system with Exchange 2007 SP1 to my main system and Server 2008 R2 is looking good, the test system needed an upgrade to ADSIPREP which it does not look like my main system will. So it’s looking good for the go live of R2, long may it continue.
Having spent a lot of my time recently on Windows 7 I’ve returned to the server world and given Server 2008 R2 a go under Hyper-V and for someone’s spent a lot of time on Windows 7 the install was simple and with the version of Hyper-V installed on the server (Windows Server 2008) mouse support was available without running the installer for the extensions. Very good and welcome, it’s a small point but important to me.
Install time including setting it up as a DC was under an hour, a testament to the setup routine and the simplicity of my setup, but it’s just going to get easier and quicker as we move forward toward release time.
A very satisfactory experience that just goes to show MS are building on a solid framework of security and 64 bit support.
It rocks – by which of course I mean Windows 7. This post is coming from it and it lives up to the postings about speed and stability, quite impressive for beta software.
Was very pleased to see the download was available on TechNet this morning at last I can upgrade my x64 version to the current version, it’s dam stable on my little HP Pavilion tx 2000 and I expect nothing else from the post PDC beta, at least I can join a domain without jumping through hoops.
It is to use a certificate from Thawte (http://www.thawte.com/) to secure your e-mails for a starter it does not support Vista and the new way of handling ActiveX controls, after so long and so many complaining e-mails from so many of us, I even warned them this was going to happen over a year ago.
If so many of my friends were not Web Of Trust signers I would not bother, to the end of it I had to install a Hyper-V XP machine and use it to request the certificate and load it into Outlook and then once I had sent a test e-mail to a friend from XP I had copy across the certificate from Outlook (XP) to Outlook (Vista) and load it into the Trust Centre when all attempts had failed to get me a loaded copy with the singing keys accusable from either IE or Outlook.
Do I recommend them no unless you've some other reason to use them, I'm happy to have got it working but it should not have taken me nearly a week of casual effort.