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• Update on Patching and Disk Space Usage

  About a year ago, I wrote a post about saving huge amounts of disk space by slipstreaming service packs . Having just been through an ordeal installing Windows Server 2008 SP2, I thought it would be worthwhile to provide an update (since that original Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:09 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server, Infrastructure, Virtualization

• Reclaiming Disk Space After Installing Service Pack 2

  In yesterday's post , I noted the errors I encountered when trying to install Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) due to "insufficient" disk space. I ended up having to expand numerous VHDs (one for each of my VMs running Windows Server 2008 x64) Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:39 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Errors Installing Windows Server 2008 SP2

  Last week I approved Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Vista SP2 on my local WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server. My expectation was that the various physical and virtual machines in the "Jameson Datacenter" would subsequently Read More... Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 8:14 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 3 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, WSUS, Windows Server, Infrastructure

• Redirecting stderr to stdout

  Yesterday I replied to an email from a teammate in which I incorrectly stated that you can't redirect stderr to stdout in DOS -- er, I mean a command window in Microsoft Windows. I would have sworn the last time I tried something like the following in Read More... Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 5:29 AM by Jeremy Jameson | 0 Comments Filed under: Core Development, Windows Vista, Windows Server