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Converting some virtual images form our ESX 3.5 environment to a demo machine did have some impact on on my demo machine. The demo machine running the RTM bit of Server 2008 64bits with Hyper-V for some initial testing, did surprise my happily. Fast responses and 10Gb network adapters for internal communication works great and fast. Just a few things I bumped into installing Hyper-V, Hyper-V has a problem with the non-US regional settings. If your installing Hyper-V and don’t have the regional setting to English US the role will not install. Changing the regional settings back to US-English fixed the problem for me.

Installing VMWare workstation 6.0.2 on the demo machine, Server 2008,  was no problem at all. It run fine until you start a virtual machine inside VMWare:-(. The Virtual machine will boot and after 30 sec in the boot process you will get a blue screen on Server 2008, error code 0×0000124. Just uninstall the Hyper-V role, reboot, and the problem is solved.

Hyper-V is still in beta so no hard feelings there. I think Hyper-V alone is a good candidate for server consolidation, in combination with Virtual Machine Manager it could be a lot more for less, Hyper-V only costs $28 extra on top of Server 2008.

Regards,
Walter Eikenboom
http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com

Well most of you know me as a Groove fetish guy. I even have a favorite port number 2492 and that is the Groove SSTP(Simple Symmetric Transport Protocol) port.

Now I got really confused when I saw that Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 also use SSTP but is not the same as the Groove SSTP. For Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 SSTP means Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol.

So we have two Microsoft products with protocols with the same name. I feel a bit schizophrenic now.

SSTP within Groove is used to setup a peer to peer connection to Groove clients. And to talk to the Microsoft Office Groove Relay servers. Its a UDP protocol by the way.

SSTP within Windows Server 2008 the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is to allow VPN connections over HTTPS/port 443. SSTP is an alternative for the PPTP or L2TP/IPSec protocols that were available in Windows Server 2003. SSTP will reduce the management and overhead for maintaining a VPN, as most organizations allow port 443 to pass unhindered through their firewalls.

I think that both SSTP’s are great but please change the abbreviations my dear Microsoft. Because we never say the complete names.

By the way, What is your favorite port number???

see ya

Jeroen

I’m running Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 for a few weeks now and I generally love it. And because it’s based on the same codebase as Windows Vista, you can actually run it pretty much as you would with Vista - though the license would be pretty steep for a desktop OS ;-). Compared to Vista I have found only 3 features missing:

1. Support for Infrared and Bluetooth adapters. There is no support for these technologies in the system.
2. Media playback optimizations. Vista contains additional improvements to make sure your audio and/or video runs smoothly, even when there’s load on the system. Not so with Windows Server 2008.
3. Windows Mobile Device Center.

So I thought, could you install this new WMDC update on Windows Server 2008? Yes you can! I love common codebases!

I am enjoying Longhorn beta 3 at the Longhorn TAP event in Seattle.

I have got a little stampede going on. On my Vista box, a Dell 810 with 2 GB of ram, I’m able to run 4 Virtual Longhorn Beta instances.

Two core installs and two regular installs, one of the regulars is a Domain Controller.

I think I could another one or maybe two instances when I close a couple of other open programs, but because I’m running all from my local disk I have some limitations because of the amount of free diskspace

 

Rob

 

 

I got Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 running natively on my Dell laptop! Based on my experience so far, I like this OS even more than Windows Vista! It’s stable, fast and fixing quite a lot of annoying bugs from Vista RTM. Vista SP1 will bring most of these improvements to Vista as well, fortunately. But until then, Windows Server 2008 is my new favorite OS!