Windows Server 2008 activation gripe

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Here is a tip for Microsoft, if you’re going to pop up and remind me to activate my Windows Server 2008 installation, give me the option right here to enter my product key so that when I hit “Activate Windows online now” it doesn’t fail.

Exchange Server 2007 is now supported for hardware virtualisation

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We’ve been virtualising Exchange Server 2007 since it was first released but this week Microsoft has announced their official support policies for virtualised Exchange environments.  It is a bit heavy on the Hyper-V but also references the list of support partners for non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation.  When I checked this earlier in the week VMWare was [...]

I deleted Temp files and now the SCE console won’t open

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I was doing a little cleanup of the C: drive on a server that was unfortunately created with too small a volume size.  One of the things I deleted was all of the files and subfolders in the Temp folder of my user profile.  A few minutes later I launched the System Center Essentials 2007 [...]