Solution: Server management
Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution
For those of you who’ve enabled the Hyper-V role in WS08. It has been determined that a certificate error can occur resulting in the inability to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
Best Practices Analyzer Resolution Guidance Now Available Online
Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool included with Windows Server® 2008 R2. BPA can help administrators reduce best practice violations by scanning one or more roles that are installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, and reporting best practice violations to the administrator.
Live: the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta TechCenter
Have you already downloaded and started kicking the tires on Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta? Here’s your chance to read prerelease documentation about how to configure and use technologies available with Windows Server 2008 R2.
Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta!
In the life of Windows Server, today marks general availability of public beta for the new Windows Server 2008 R2-and, for me personally, I’ve never had my geeky mitts on a better version.
The Microsoft Web Platform Installer – One click to Install Them All
If you visited the new Microsoft Web Platform site yesterday, you would have noticed that we’ve performed a radical overhaul of the site, with a fresh new look and articles and media content aggregated from popular external and Microsoft sites. Windows HPC Server 2008 RTM’s
We’re DONE with HPC Server 2008! We shipped our first beta last November, then a series of CTPs, then a second Beta in May, then a couple release candidates, and now we are FINISHED. 600MB of technical specifications, 500K lines of code, 250 customer based design changes, and 3000 beta downloads.
Microsoft and Cray Team up to Bring High Performance Computing Mainstream
For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best – – the Cray CX1! What is the CX1, you ask? It’s a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008, that’s what.
64-bit, Windows Server, Hyper-V, and the future
With the launch today of Hyper-V – available only in x64 versions – I thought that now would be a good time to revisit the topic of “64-bitness.” I’m a technical product manager on the Windows Server team focused on Windows Server 2008, R2, clustering, and power management, along with a few other areas.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 for Hyper-V
On the heels of Hyper-V’s release last week, today Microsoft announced the release to web of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1 (MAP). Formerly known as Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.
Windows HPC debuts in the Top 25 fastest supercomputers in the world…what more do I need to say?
A few months ago we completed our runs for the Top500 list. For those of you not familiar with this bi-annual benchmark, the Top500 list represents the 500 most powerful computers in the world. It is the supercomputing supergeek superlist. We completed runs with the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA) and with Umea University.