Started taking a Windows Server 2008 class at a community college. It's pretty cool so far. I was wondering if any of the AZ IT guru actually use it? Bought the Windows Server 2008 Inside Out book and the Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration book. The price was pretty disgusting to say the least. Thirty five dollar for 1,500 pages and two smaller networking book for one hundred dollar.

I ran into a problem when trying to install WS2008. The board I use power on, but there was no video. This was a asus htpc board with onboard video. I tried both DVI and VGA. I also try a separate video card and still nothing. I was piss so I took the board out and threw it on the side. I tried a different htpc board and this one was from Intel. Problem is, this is a beta board. I couldnt find the i/o plate, but whatever I just wanted it to boot. Everything install great until it went to the desktop. The picture was horrible. So I figure I'll go download the video driver. I selected Vista x64. After the files downloaded, I select Run. It proceeded a little further and then nothing happen. I'm like wth... I go to the directory and double click on the file. It was going to extract the package to a directory, but gave me an error. Something about this file has been corrupted, please download the file again, check the integrity and re-run it. So I download the driver again in the same directory and overwrite it; it was done just like that. I'm like wth...so I download it to another directory; it was done just like that again. I ran the driver and got the same error. I then try to download the 32 bit version of the driver even though the WS2008 is 64 bit. Try to run the driver and got the same error message. I gave up trying to load the driver. I went into device manager and notice that there was an exclamation mark next to the standard vga adapter. Went into the properties and it said something about not have enough resources.


- How is it that WS2008 able to bring up a download file right away? I overwrite the file, save it to another directory, deleted the file, and even empty the recycle bin. Yet if I download it again, the download is already done. It's like it was never deleted. How is WS2008 doing this? Is the file save somewhere in a temp folder?

- Never ran into any issue about resources for the vga adapter. How to fix this resource problem? I'll try a different video card. But my gut feeling tell me it's this shitty mobo; it is a beta board...

My 1st experience with Windows Server so please take it easy.

 

at home only though. I also have exchange 2007 sp1 and hyper-v running Windows home server as well. This system is currently offline cause of some odd hardware problem. maybe I should've have built this sytem with a cheap ass mobo?

OS adoption is usually slow for businesses, they usually wait until SP1 version comes out to start rolling it out. But as you probably know Win 2008 is based off of Vista sp1

 

With my school I'm able to download and use almost any MS software for free. Everything but office and consumer stuff is on this site, and I mean everything. Expression studio 2, mappoint 2009, exchange server 2007 sp1, Win server 2008 datacenter edition, Vista business and enterprise, XP, msdos, sharepoint server, one note, groove, Visual studio 2008, etc, etc, etc. It's fargin awesome!!! They best way to learn is to use it. Check to see if your school does this and if they don't then go to another school.

 

in regards to your download question it seems as if wherever you were donwloading it from was giving you a shitty file, that was small or incomplete or something. That's why it was downloading fast. Server 2008 doesn't do anything special like that.

 

I'm pretty sure the community college doesnt have that capability. I don't really need it but pretty cool to have. At work, we have a MSDN account.

It's a little hard to explain, but let me try to explain it again. The first time the video driver was downloaded, it took about 4 minutes. The file is about 200MB. If I try to download the file again, even on a different path, the file downloaded instantaneously.

 

We run it in production. I can't stand the UI. 2003 was much more streamlined.

 

We don't have it in production, but we've already committed to use it as the platform for our Exchange 2007 rollout this Summer. Virtualization aside, I've seen very little in the way of complaints about it on the various tech sites I read.

The only thing I'm not particularly fond of is the path Microsoft continues down of requiring VB-esque coding skills for routine automation of management tasks. What was wrong with command line executables and batch files? They worked for > 90% of anything I ever needed to do in the good old days.

 

I manage a few Windows Server 2003 boxes, but for the most part I try to push Linux for our server OS whenever and wherever Windows isn't absolutely necessary.

 

We are currently deploying it for a customer for their Exchange 2007 project. Both VM's and stand-alones.

 

Woke up this morning and it was still mirroring and formatting the drive. 750GB raid 1 and 400GB x 4 raid 5. mirroring was at 92% and formatting was 12%. Still couldnt get the video driver to load....

 

Why do video drivers matter on a server? You'll be remoting into it most of the time anyway (via RDC), right?

 

because it looks like crap on my dell 30". I'm using the system as a learning too for my class. I cant learn anything if everything is blurry.

 

Use Vista drivers.

That is what we do at the office for 2008.
Unless the developers were idiots when coding it and locking to vista.

 

We're deploying it with EBS 2008 for couple of clients. i hate ISA server, it sucks (imo).

 

I tried both Nvidia Vista x32 and x64 drivers, but neither work.

 

I just added a server to my office....I'll take a free copy of Windows Server 2008 please!

 

So we ran into a problem in class yesterday. The computers cannot ping each other. WS2008 is install in a VMWare session. The ethernet is set to Bridge. The WS2008 can ping the host computer, but the host cannot ping WS2008. I believe this is due to Windows Firewall being turn on. None of the host computer have Administrative right so we cannot turn off the firewall. However, if we turn off the firewall inside WS2008, we can ping the other computers. Unfortunately, the professor doesn't want to do this. There has to be another way? I was thinking maybe changing the network to Private and instead of Public. Also edit the firewall to allow Network Discovery?