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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:05 PM

Virtual PC doesn't seem to like huge shared folders

I'm trying to install SQL Server 2008 and setup claimed that: "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installation has failed. SQL Server 2008 Setup requires .NET Framework to be installed." which was strange as Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 service pack 1 was in
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Friday, July 24, 2009 12:26 PM

Out of Memory (0x8007000e) installing service pack 2 for Windows Server 2008

Initially applying the service pack on my VirtualPC machines complained about lack of disk space and I messed about for ages to free up a few vital GBs. Then the update changed its tune and reported Out of Memory (0x8007000e) without elaborating any further
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:22 PM

"Windows cannot locate the Disk Cleanup program."

Always problems... I'm trying to free up space in my Virtual PC machines so I can apply service pack 2 for Windows Server 2008. First place to go is Disk Cleanup - usually good for a few GB. Strangly, my upgraded machines report that I no longer have
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:58 PM

Service Pack 2 released for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Yes, I know it's a bit late but I didn't realise it had been Released To Web until Windows Update prompted me to install it today. From The Windows Blog : "Consumers with Windows Vista SP1 can visit the Microsoft Download Center or use Windows Update
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Friday, April 03, 2009 2:26 AM

Current list of MSMQ hotfixes

[[Edited November 6th, 2009]] I think it is always a good idea to keep on top of any changes to the products you are using and this includes knowing what hotfixes have been released since the latest service pack. To this end I've produced a table of the
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:35 PM

Virtualising BizTalk - what are your options?

[[Edited April 2nd, 2009, as my initial understanding of the SVVP was incorrect]] [[Edited September 15th, 2009 to update product list]] There is a useful document out on the subject you may want to read through: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide (
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:41 PM

Get the right hardware if you want to virtualise a Windows 2008 Server cluster

Today has been an expensive lesson in the need to keep your hardware up to date - chucking in extra RAM and bigger drives is NOT always enough. The plan was to create a virtualised Windows 2008 Server cluster. I had experience on clustering Windows Server
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:58 AM

Setting up MSMQ with multiple instances of Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)

The Windows Server Core support team has produced a useful blog post that explains how to understand and implement multiple instances of MSDTC, a feature new to Windows Server 2008. How to Configure Multiple Instances of Distributed Transaction Coordinator
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:24 PM

Why does MSMQ complain "not located on a valid NTFS drive"?

Yesterday I discussed changing the storage location for MSMQ. While testing out the user interface with Windows Server 2008 today, I found some strange messages that I thought I would share. Here's the normal Storage tab that you expect to see on all
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Monday, February 02, 2009 11:27 AM

New MSMQ 4.0 functionality that you may not have read about in Windows 2008.

MSMQ 4.0 has been around for a little while now - Windows Vista's 2nd birthday was last week - so the main improvements and additions are well known now : Subqueues Handling Poison Messages Transactional Remote Receive Application-specific dead letter
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:20 PM

MSMQ 4.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2005

Sometimes products just appear out on the wild without any publicity. Prime example is this management pack for MSMQ 4.0 which came out a few months ago. Please download and deploy: Windows Server 2008 Message Queuing Management Pack for Microsoft OpsMgr
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Friday, November 14, 2008 12:48 PM

Installing the MSMQ Windows feature complains "An error has occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed."

If you try to install MSMQ through "Windows Features" in Vista or Windows Server 2008 but receive an error message pop-up ("An error has occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed.") then you may need to check the integrity of your installation.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 4:22 PM

MSMQ and IPv6

As IPv6 becomes more prevalent in your environments, you'll need to make sure that you are running MSMQ systems that can actually cope with the new IP addresses. There are (at least) three issues to watch out for. The addressing of messages is not as
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:25 PM

Getting MSMQ messages out of Windows Server 2008 remotely

I'm now into full swing looking at MSMQ 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 using Virtual Server. I haven't got round to installing 2008 on my 64-bit laptop and desktop yet but maybe in the summer sometime when customers are on vacation I'll have the time. Sending
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 1:35 PM

MSMQ now able to listen to multiple IP addresses on a cluster

In the past, a clustered MSMQ service could only listen on one IP address. This was because MSMQ depended on the network name which in turn could only depend on a single address. In Windows 2008 the address dependency has been changed and now you can
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