This will give us a brand new experience of “VPN” like experience… Check this video out…
Archive for the ‘Windows server 2008’ Category
Windows server 2008 R2 – Direct access
Monday, April 20th, 2009Windows server 2008 R2 – Disk management… VHD Attach
Monday, April 20th, 2009It is now possible to create a new VHD or attach an existing VHD to your Windows server 2008 R2…
There are some other features that you can do but it was possible also in non R2 version… That is shrinking and extending partition using Disk Management
Windows server 2008 R2 Active Directory – Recycle Bin Feature
Monday, April 20th, 2009Sometimes you delete user from AD and it could cause a big headache 
Well… No more. Windows server 2008 R2 Beta – which is by the way already publicly available has a new functional level for AD that allows you to activate so called Recycle Bin Feature…
In this demo you will se my AD server with a domain called demoadps.local on which I will enable this feature. As I mentioned before – functional level should be Windows server 2008 R2.
First of all you need to enable the feature by typing a Powershell cmdlet/command:
Enable-ADOptionalFeature ‘Recycle Bin Feature’ -Scope Forest -Target ‘domain.local‘
after that you can check for deleted items by typing:
Get-ADObject -SearchBase “CN=Deleted Objects,DC=domain,DC=local” -ldapFilter “(objectClass=*)” -includeDeletedObjects | FT ObjectGUID,Name -A
This will show you the deleted objects which you can restore by entering:
Restore-ADObject -Identity 6ff46162-15c2-4d42-8e15-2fcac5c8422e
** domain.local should be changed with your domain name
6ff46162-15c2-4d42-8e15-2fcac5c8422e should be changed with a ID that matches your deleted object…
To make it simplier I have recorded a video tutorial to do that…
Hyper-V server 2008 R2 beta is available!!! (with Hyper-V v2.0)
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Here it comes powerfull and with new so desperately awaited features… Hyper-V 2.0…
http://www.virtualization.info/2009/01/microsoft-releases-hyper-v-20-and.html
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Demo-Hyper-V-Server-and-Live-Migration/
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/downloads.mspx
Take a look / give it a try!
PS. take a look at new redesigned Microsoft Virtualization site… Where you can find all information about all MS virtualization products …:
Windows server 2008 AD with Exchange 2007 SP1
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Yes! I managed to make it work…
Exchange transport won’t start if you are installing Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows server 2008 with Active directory on it even if you UNCHECK IPv6 on your network card properties…
The installation won’t complete… 
You need to do it this way:
1. Uncheck Internet protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) in your network card properties
2. Delete localhost value for ipv6 in file called HOSTS in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
::1 localhost
or comment it by using # at the start of line
3. Create/add a 32 bit DWORD with name DisabledComponents and value 0xFFFFFFFF to:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters
My setup was Windows server 2008 standard as Hyper-V platform, inside Windows server 2008 standard with Active directory in functional level 2008 – everything updated and clean.
When I changed this three parameters exchange setup completed sucessfuly and now my testing Exchange 2007 is working! Wiiiii!!!
Windows server 2008 – TS Gateway
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008I would like to share with you fantastic experince of using Terminal services gateway – a new feature of Windows server 2008 terminal services.
It does allow user to use gateway that listens on port 443 (HTTPS / SSL) and then “route” remote desktop protocol to workstations inside network and FOR ME GREAT FEATURE even on other servers on the internet (so now you can lock RDP client to your IP address (where you have your TS Gateway server) and you will be able to access your servers through your TS Gateway and in this way even more secure your remote access).
I hope you will enjoy this fantastic feature!
To understand better I have some pictures to show…
(here you can download Visio files if you need to reedit something)
WAN to LAN example …
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WAN to LAN & WAN example …
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Hyper-V in Hyper-V?!? :)
Thursday, October 16th, 2008For testing and presentation puropuses I have installed inside my full Windows server 2008 64 BIT installation with Hyper-V another standalone Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 - everything works – you can even manage it using Hyper-V manager from other server but you can not (obviously! ) run virtual machines. You get an error saying unable to create partition. You should be a wirdo to even think about souch stuff but I had a chance and I just could not resist pressing the START button. So you know now… Hyper-V inside Hyper-V does not work!
Hyper-V disaster recovery – virtual machine import even if not exported
Saturday, October 11th, 2008First of all I would like to thank Dusan Kosaric to keep my moral up during this operation and for his help when I was trying to restore my virtual machine …
I was very sad when I was not able to make it work… You know something happened to my Hyper-V server and needed to reinstall it. I made a clean installation and after it was set up I tried to import / run existing virtual machine back in… But then I read the articles about import and export of virtual machines… And I already saw myself reinstalling my virtual machine again. But NO! You can put it back to life folowing this steps:
Let’s assume that:
I have a VM folder located on D: so D:\VM and in it my virtual machine called machine01 with vhd called machine01.vhd (I had also a snapshot but it was lost during this procedure becouse I did not copied it… So I did not tested if it also restore snapshots… I only wanted my machine back to work…).
When you establish Hyper-V system again rename your current machine folder to let say machine01old – after that create a new virtual machine with the same hardware configuration as it was the machine before (and also with same location so d:\vm\machine01). When machine is created use Export to export it (not only configuration files but everything). It will create let say d:\Export and in this folder there will be three other folders. Move or copy your original VHD to the location in Export\Virtual harddisk and you are ready… Your machine will start without problems.
As I said this test was made a hour ago and I lost my snapshots but I did not care to restore them I just wanted my virtual machine to get back to life…
So as a conclusion… Hyper-V can be restored even if you are a bad administrator :) like I was in this case.
Hyper-V Server and FreeBSD hand in hand… :)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Finaly we have a true solution for FreeBSD hanging when you want to reboot or stop it in Hyper-V server…
Today I recieved a comment on my article FreeBSD in Hyper-V – WORKS!!!. You can now patch FreeBSD kernel to shut down correctly…
Check this blog too: http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/
Aoyama Says:
October 7th, 2008 at 11:02 edit
I made an easy patch for the kernel.
As a result, a virtual machine comes never to stop.
I expect someone to make the patch by a smarter method.
My patch can be downloaded from the following blogs.
http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/40
This patched kernel confirmed the operation with
Server 2008 Enterprise w/Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server.