Aaron Tiensivu's Blog

A pre-made VHD for use with Virtual PC or Virtual Server has been updated to the RTM code of SCVMM. You can grab the VHD here.

It is a great way to get a feel for the product before installing it on 'real iron' for use.

The Storport driver is very important for dealing with SANs, volume shadow service and many other aspects of 'storage' with Windows 2003. If you have installed KB 932755 and have experienced problems with MMC hangs, you will want to install KB 940467, which fixes this issue.

As a side effect, your Storport build will go from 4021 to 4133, or "112 builds later".

I alway like to pick the brains of the people deploying new versions of technologies because you learn the pain points and typically what you gain from a new revision of a software package. It is also the same reason I jump in early on any beta product because I like being that 'go to guy' when people don't want the marketing reasons for upgrading to a new product version.

With that said, here are the Top 10 changes of IIS 7 (what Vista and Server 2008 use) from the people that run Microsoft.com, the website.

As a system integrator/architect/whatever-my-title-should-be, I always find this type of information the most useful because I will be running into the same type of issues and enhancements in 2008.