Windows Server 2008, Now with Network Capabilities!
April 16, 2008
I gave getting Windows Server 2008 setup another go over the weekend. After biting the bullet and actually scouring the Internet on my other machine which was hooked up to the Internet I was able to locate two happy little drivers for my NICs. I had to scavenge a CD-ROM drive for my now-Windows Server and buy a pack of CD-Rs to complete the process, but in the end I was left with a very nice machine. I have to say that the storage management is probably my favorite part of the new server as setting up a dynamic RAID array was a piece of cake. I was hoping for SAN functionality, but alas, Windows Server lacks this.
I'm now working on getting Virtual PC setup so that I can run all of my nice Linux services like mail, www and svn. I'm pretty psyched to get this whole setup completed so that my computing can settle down to normal.
Update - 2008-04-16
Huh. Windows Server 2008's firewall is kind of made of pewp. First off, Windows obviously adds eight million exceptions to the public interface but it doesn't even allow you to select multiple exceptions to make them only apply to the private interfaces. Nice. I love having my Active Directory published to the Internet. Secondly, it doesn't allow port forwarding. You can forward it at the public Internet level - but not internally. It's most unfortunate, because the only way to really test it is to go off site which also means that you have to update anything that depends on a specific domain whenever you're internal.
Suck. Oh well, it looks like I'm putting a real firewall in front of it to prevent this kind of BS from happening. It's most unfortunate that they didn't beef up the firewall much.
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| Tagged: Windows, OperatingSystems, Administration, Windows2008
Brandon Bowman 2008/04/19
lol, Ubuntu + VMware Server FTW
Draz 2008/04/23
I never understand a thing you blog about, Jordan.
Andy 2008/04/23
Me neither. And he didn't even post a cat on Caturday. Tsk...
Emily 2008/04/26
You don't understand anything he blogs about? Try not understanding most of what he talks about. Except for things about cats of coarse, I understand that.
Alani Kuye 2008/04/29
How does it interact with enterprise Blu Ray servers in a networked environment? I know the drivers for Linux are currently available, also for windows but not sure about Windows server 2008. We're working on a newer version. Not sure if you've tried this yet.
Alani