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W2K3 to W2K8 Active Directory Upgrade Considerations

I have collected some upgrade considerations from a couple colleagues of mine and have been sharing them on our internal technical DLs as the question comes up.  I have gotten positive feedback on the notes and have been encouraged to post them.  So, here they are.  Though, [...]

SMS 2003 Server on Windows 2008??? – No.

Don’t even waste time on it.

Oh, I’m sure you COULD get it to work, but I would not bother.

Update 29 July: It is not compatible as SMS 2003 hooks into IIS.  And that is not possible with Windows Server 2008.

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Installing Windows 2008 Server Core on the ASUS EEE Box PC

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

Install Windows 2008 Server Core When finished, logon to console with Administrator / <no password> You will be prompted to change the password. Install the RealTek network driver, with the command pnputil -i -a <path to extracted driver files>netrtx32.inf Configure a (static) IP address Enable Remote Firewall Management.  [...]

Windows Server 2008 SP1? – WTF???

Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, and it’s already at SP1!

WTF!?!

Yeah.  At first glance you may think it strange that a first version of a product would already be at SP1 level.  So I thought I would throw out a couple of reasons why Windows Server 2008 is at SP1 [...]