May 2008 - Posts

Friday, May 23, 2008 3:47 PM

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RC1 Released

Earlier this week Microsoft released the Hyper-V RC1 package for Windows Server 2008 64bit.

Improvements over Hyper-V RC0  

·         Bug Fixes

·         Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 guest’s included in Integration Services Setup Disk.

·         New Graphics for Hyper-V Manager and Virtual Machine Connection – including a “Now” icon in the snapshot pane.

·         IPv4 Address Migration - when creating a new Virtual Network bound to an adapter with a static IPv4 address the IPv4 settings are migrated to the new virtual adapter.

·         Support for additional guest operating systems. With RC1, Hyper-V now includes support Windows 2000 Server SP4 and Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4.

 

RC1 is now available at Microsoft Download Center
Windows Server 2008 x64 Hyper-V RC1 Update - KB950049

 Pay Attention

·         Saved-state files are not supported between RC0 and RC1 releases of Hyper-V.  All virtual machine saved states should be discarded before upgrading to RC1, or prior to resuming virtual machines after upgrading to Hyper-V RC1.

·         Online snapshots contain virtual machine save-states and thus online snapshots taken with Hyper-V RC0 are not supported after updating to Hyper-V to RC1.

·         System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta does not support Hyper-V RC1.

·         You can’t go back to RC0 or Beta after installing RC1.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:12 PM

MOSS 2007 SP1 Troubleshooting

After install SP1 MOSS cannot complete configuration wizard step 8 out of 9,
and this message shows up:

Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies. An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown.

Workaround Steps:

1. Stop the services on the server
You can find these in Central Admin/Operations/Services on Server.
You should make a note of the settings for each as you may want them when you restart the services.
This is one place I would have, given the time, determine which of these needed to be stopped.

2. Stop the World Wide Web Publishing service on the server
WWWP is in Windows Services. If you have multiple web front ends I would stop it on all of them
and pay close attention to the instructions for installing SP1 in a farm.

3. Run the upgrade using PSCONFIG
Open a command prompt to the Office Server BIN
(typically 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN')

Execute: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force
NOTE: It did not restart, start the World Wide Web publishing service

4. Restart services in the farm
Go to Central Admin/Operation/Services on Server and restart the services.
It’s recommended to delete the offending database and had Central Admin recreate it.

5. Open the SSP Admin and click on Search Settings under Search
You'll get an error – An Indexer is not assigned to the Shared Services Provider 'YourSSPName'

6. Click on Configure an indexer and a search database for this SSP.
Assign an Index Server, and click OK.

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