One of my test servers (Windows Server 2003 R2) runs as VM within VMWare. When I looked at the remaining disk space, I saw that I had just 3GB left (the total allocated space for the VM was 10GB).
I decided to expand the VM file, so I went to the command prompt, switched to the VMWare directory and issued the following command.
vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20GB “C:\Virtual Machines\WS2K3\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.vmdk”
The command completed successfully and after I rebooted to Windows Server I saw an extra 10GB of unallocated space. I had to expand the system partition to that space so I went and downloaded the GParted LiveCD.
I mounted the ISO file to the VM and configured it to boot from it. When the GUI appeared, I selected the system partition and I dragged it to expand to the unallocated space.
That was it. A couple of reboots later and the VM disk has an extra 10GB of space. Not bad…
With the tight integration of the SBS components, IIS is in the center of all of them. Backup, Monitoring, OWA, OMA etc., all rely on IIS. Although the backups of the IIS metadata happens automatically, it’s always good to have backup before major changes take place.
The first public news, as far as pricing goes, for Microsoft Windows Essential Server came out of Redmond today. The full announcement can be found here
The first thing that I noticed is the doubling of the price for Small Business Server 2008, Standard Edition. That’s not too bad though considering that the CAL pricing was reduced.
Anyone interested to see a preview (read ‘beta’) of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 can go here
TechBash 2008 was a big success!
Everything run smoothly, the presenters were great and the swags…. well… can’t say much about the swags other than they must have been about $10K worth of software and books that were raffled out during the day.
Unfortunately I didn’t win anything, but I can’t complain. Last year I won 4 books and two licenses of Vista Ultimate. I guess I kinda knew this year wouldn’t be the same.
Big thanks to Jason, Rachel and Mike for the hard work putting this event together.
My advise to anyone interest in a free, information packed, one day conference, keep TechBash in your calendar. We had people coming from PA, NY and NJ. It is definitely, worth it.
The most recent issue of TechNet magazine had a very informative article on the backup and restoration of Active Directory in Windows Server 2008.
The article goes into also describing the new backup component of Windows Server 2008 and how it is different from NTBackup. Very interesting article that worth reading. Here is the link
On Saturday, May 10th our .NET user group will present its annual FREE technology conference.
Last year it was a blast. Very interesting presentations both for developers as well as IT professionals and lots of freebies. It was a very enjoyable day. This year the group planned many more sessions and invited more speakers
If you are around Northeast PA on the 10th of May, this function is not to be missed.
I decided to move to a new ISP. The transition isn’t over yet, but moving the blog took some time although it was from WordPress to WordPress. The problems I encountered were due to the difference in the WordPress versions from the old ISP to the new.
I couldn’t export from version 2.2.1 and import to version 2.3.2. I posted some questions at wordpress.com but I didn’t get any answer for the problem. I decided to edit the XML file and noticed that the format is different between the two releases.
All in all, I copied and pasted all the posts from the old blog to the new. It took about an hour or so but it seems everything is back as it supposed to be.
Advanced videos and white papers on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 here
I need to keep a link to these step-by-step guides because I have a feeling they will come handy at some point. They are also a good source of information for evaluating Windows Server 2008
