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Tools for Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation

There are times that you may want to use Windows Server 2008 as your personal workstation OS, and Daniel Petri shows you how.

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The Registry and System Tweaks for Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation

In my previous article titled “Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation – The Logic” I wrote about the reasons for trying Windows Server 2008 as your workstation, that is instead of using Windows Vista for that task. In order to make the necessary changes and tweak your newly installed system to have more “workstation-like”…

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Customizing Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation – The Logic

As the general discontent of Windows Vista was growing on more and more people, I decided to write a series of articles about one alternative to using the modern-day Windows ME counterpart. No, I did not turn to Linux (well not yet, anyway, but who knows, the day isn’t over yet…). I refer to what…

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Seven Simple Ways to Find Your Uptime in Windows Server 2008

While there are plenty of 3rd-party tools that allow you to find the exact uptime of your system, there are also several tools that are either built-in to Windows Server 2008, or can be used quite easily. This article walks through seven such methods for finding your server’s uptime.

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Reduce Your Windows 2008 Server Core Installation by ~200MB

In Windows Server 2008, Server Core installation does not include the traditional full graphical user interface (GUI). Although Server Core is a lot smaller than a regular full-GUI Windows Server 2008 installation, you may be able to free up as much as 200 MB more disk space if you remove all un-needed roles and features. Learn all about it in this article by MVP Daniel Petri.

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Windows Server 2008 Foundation: An Entry-Level Server Platform

A new version of Windows Server 2008 has been announced: Windows Server 2008 Foundation. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri examines the benefits and limitations of this new addition to the Windows Server family; geared towards smaller and growing organizations.

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Identify Your Windows Vista/2008 Operating System Version and Architecture in 2 Steps

In order to successfully install Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 server, you must meet the required system and hardware prerequisites. One of these is to have a hardware that’s capable of running 64-bit operating systems. Furthermore, there are versions of Windows Server 2008 that do not support Hyper-V at all. In this article, MVP Daniel Petri will show you how to determine the system’s operating system version and architecture type.

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Creating Custom Event Views in Windows Server 2008

The Event Viewer is one of the few components that has changed very little since the days of Windows NT. This tired interface received an overhaul in Windows Server 2008, and now includes the option of creating custom views. In this article, Brien Posey shows you how to use this new feature.

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Installing Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008

Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008, and provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. It provides scalability and high performance by supporting features like guest multi-processing support and 64-bit guest and host support; reliability and security through its hypervisor architecture; flexibility and manageability by supporting…

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Windows Server 2008 ADPREP

  Before you can introduce Windows Server 2008 domain controllers into existing Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 domains, you must prepare the forest and domains with the ADPREP utility. ADPREP.exe is a command-line tool that extends the Active Directory schema, and updates permissions as necessary to prepare a forest and domain for a domain…

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