Windows 2003 Datacenter Guest NIC Driver for Virtual Server
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 [...]
Moving a WSUS 3.0 Database
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 the the Windows Internal [...]
Move ISA Tracing Location
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