Came across a problem the other day with running Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition as a guest on Microsoft Virtual Server. The problem? Windows 2003 Datacenter edition doesn’t have a suitable driver for Virtual Server, meaning that it’s fairly usless as a guest operating system (which negates one of the main benefits of having datacenter edition [...]

Due to seemingly non-existant documentation on moving a WSUS 3.0 database to a new server, I figured i’d write up my experience. Database configuration is all stored in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\UpdateServices\Server\Setup The keys you’re interested in are SqlServerName and SqlInstanceIsRemote. Microsoft only officially support Windows authentication, so that’s what i’ll cover here. You’ll be able to connect [...]

Looking to free up some space on your Windows drive? Here’s a nifty tip for ISA Server users out there. By default, ISA stores it’s debug tracing in c:\Windows\Debug, which is about 1Gb in size. This can be moved to somewhere else (i.e a bigger drive) by modifying the following registry keys: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ISATrace] “AlternateTracingFile”=”D:\\ISA\\Tracing\\ISALOG.BIN” “UseAlternateTracingFile”=dword:ffffffff