I have spent the past few days working on migrating a bunch of classic ASP web applications from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server. A long overdue task, but one who’s time has finally come. The hardware under the Windows 2000 box has been acting up a bit lately and I’m rapidly
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I needed to put a new domain controller up at one of our production sites this week. We had an older web server in the dev environment that doesn’t get much use these days so I converted it to a virtual machine (I love VMware Converter!) and then reloaded it with Windows 2003 R2.
The install
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Sometimes you just have to give credit…
Earlier today I installed VMware Server on a machine at work and then built a client Windows 2003 server on it. The install went smoothly, but once it was up and running I found I couldn’t get it on the network. In fact, I couldn’t even ping the gateway
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I’m having a heck of a time with VMware Converter on my Windows 2003 x64 VMware Server machine. Before I built this particular x64 box, I used to run Converter all the time on a 32bit server with no issues. But for some reason, it gets wonky on the new one.
Heck, I even upgraded to
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VMware announced today that ESXi is now free.
Virtualize processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines with VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class hypervisor with a thin 32 MB footprint for added security and reliability.
My current (also free) VMware Server machine at work is running Windows Server 2003 x64. You can bet it has a
Continue reading VMware ESXi Goes Free — Hmmm…