Welcome to Matts Admin tips. This blog is full of little fixes, tutorials and work-arounds to those anoying problems that a Systems Administrator might face. If you find something that you have found useful please leave me a comment - I appreciate knowing that I've helped! Also, feel free to leave a comment if my tips or ideas don't work in your environment... I monitor them closely and would be happy to help! Matt

Upgrade from Virtual Server 2005 to Hyper-V

Posted November 16th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt

I performed my upgrade over the weekend and thought I would post some quick tips on little gotcha’s that you need to know before starting. – The most important consideration is transferring the VHD files from the old server to the new one. I was upgrading the hardware that the VM’s were running on, so [...]

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Exchange 2007 RTM NOT compatible with Server 2008

Posted October 22nd, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt

Please be aware that Microsoft Exchange 2007 RTM is NOT compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2008. This seems absolutely ridiculous to me, however when you try to install Exchange 2007 the Readiness Checks will fail with the following error: “Exchange 2007 cannot be used with the version of Windows operating system running on this computer” [...]

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