Installing an Exchange 2007 Hub Transport Server on Windows Server 2008

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This tutorial will show you how to install the Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport server role on a Windows Server 2008 server.

Preparing a New Server for Exchange Server 2007

Install a new Windows server on 64-bit hardware for Exchange Server 2007.  Both Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 can be used for Exchange Server 2007 without making much difference to the rest of the transition, so you can choose to install any of the following operating system versions: Windows Server 2003 64-bit Standard/Enterprise [...]

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Announced

Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2007 will be released in Q3 of this year.  The MS Exchange Team has listed some of the key new features in their blog post here. A welcome addition is the new volume snapshot backup plugin for Windows Server 2008.  Currently Exchange Server 2007 cannot [...]

Installing VMWare Tools on Windows Server 2008 Core

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When installing the VMWare tools on a core install of Windows Server 2008 some people are confused to find that nothing happens after selecting “Install/Upgrade VMWare Tools” from the client window. Even though the VMWare Tools image mounts to the virtual CD-ROM drive it does not autorun as you would expect in a normal install [...]

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.

Installing WSUS 3.0 SP1 on Windows Server 2008

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In this post I’ll show you how to install Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 with Service Pack 1 on a Windows Server 2008 server. Install WSUS pre-requisites First, install the WSUS operating system pre-requisites.  These pre-requisites are listed on the WSUS 3.0 release notes and can be installed using the ServerManagerCMD.exe command line tool. [...]