Posts Tagged ‘windows 2008’

windows 2008 and dotNET framework

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Just installed out first Windows 2008 R2 Server. When we tried to install SQL 2008 it needed .NET framework 3.5, but said that we had to install it via server roles. I found this powershell command to install the .NET Framework
 
servermanagercmd -i NET-Framework-Core
 
I’ve written (pieced together) a few general powershell commands. Likes like [...]

How to tell what version of AD you have.

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There are quite a few ways to tell. Here are a few I found.
The correct version of the ADPrep.exe tool for Windows Server 2003 R2 is 5.2.3790.2075. You can verify the operating system support level of the schema by looking at the value of the Schema Version registry subkey [...]

Adding Disk to Cluster on Windows 2008

The Cluster Guys have a nice post about a few ways to add a disk to a windows 2008 cluster. I would like to see a similar post for windows 2003 clusters. They don’t seem to allow comments so I’m creating my own post and sending them a pingback
Windows Cluster 2008 provides [...]

Transitioning your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008

We’ve talked about starting from scratch again with our AD forest. This post has some great information about the new features of a 2008 AD and options you have to get there.
You might be running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers at the moment and you’re looking to replace these [...]

Updated Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides

AT work we’ve talked about creating a brand new forest and moving all 5 of our current domains (same forest) into it. So we started totally fresh using windows 2008 for all our DCs. Here’s a great list of guides to get us going.
We’re getting ready to release Windows Server 2008 so you’ll see [...]

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