If you havn’t already heard, Windows 2008 hit RTM today. You can read a brief story and see pictures of the room where it all happens (Room 26 – “the shipping room”) on the teams technet blog. The Hyper-V version isn’t out yet, but no doubt will be in the next few months. If you’re [...]

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 [...]