[windows2000] Re: Server almost dead after security update - windows 2008
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:57:09 +0200
Patrick <> scribbled on Monday, September 08, 2008 12:51 PM:
Have you had any problems with NICs being knocked out after the fix and after
further updates? It might have been a temporary glitch.
> Hyper-v is out of beta and working ok. I have had my environment working
> for well over 3months, just got knocked out by the security update, but
> like I said it all seems to be working ok again.
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> With regards to beta hyper-v, the only issue was that you had to have the
> language and environment settings set to US for it to work, but I hear with
> the new ones it does not matter.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 11:22:32 AM
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Server almost dead after security update -
> windows 2008
>
> Patrick <> scribbled on Monday, September 08, 2008 11:41 AM:
>
> I have something similar as you; a Fujitsu Primergy Econel 110 S2. Had no
> problem with the NICs or anything. OTOH, I did a rather small install, only
> added IIS to the roles. I was thinking of installing hyper-v, but the
> installer said something about it being a beta and I didn't like the sound
> of
> that.
>
> Has hyper-v come out of beta yet? If not, can you use Vmware's equivalent
> instead? I think they have an ESX "Express"-version (or something) as a free
> download and use, if that works for you.
>
>
>> Hi Sorin,
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>> I have my server on a x64 duo core 4GB mem. It works ok, but I think
>> Hyper-v was the most affected by the security update. I know a new folder
>> was created and the VM's moved, permissions were also changed. One of the
>> onboard GB Nics failed. The one bound to the Virtual Network, But like I
>> said I have to reinstall over the old installation to get things up and
>> running again.
>>
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>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 10:13:56 AM
>> Subject: [windows2000] Re: Server almost dead after security update -
>> windows 2008
>>
>> Patrick <> scribbled on Monday, September 08, 2008 10:48 AM:
>>
>>> not sure if anyone has experienced this, but I recently applied several
>>> patches to the Test Windows 2008 server enviroment, and it practically
>>> killed the box, so much so that I had to do a reinstall (Update) to get
>>> things up and running again. Is there anything out there that one need to
>>> know about?
>>>
>>> Just a brief description of symptoms.
>>>
>>> 1: All VM's would not not start or be recognised.
>>> 2: Noticed that the Nic save for the Virtual Network had been uninstalled
>>> and would not re-install. 3: The VM's had been moved from
>>> Users\Public\public documents\Vm Folder to a totally new folder and the
>>> permissions had been modified accordingly
>>>
>>> Although I had to go through the long way to get things up and running
>>> again, I would like to know what the possible cause is.
>>
>> I installed a new win2k8 x64-server some months ago to be used exclusively
>> with Windows Sharepoint Services 3 (WSS). During the time, I've had it run
>> updates more or less automatically with no problems, except for the
>> occasional hiccup (rarely really) when backing up the 2GB WSS db and sites
>> failed.
>>
>> For me this win2k8-installation (department's only one so far) has been
>> extremely stable. More so even than some of our win2k3-servers, which I
>> guess is a good sign. Knock on wood...
>>
>> Can you tell us more about the hardware on your win2k8-server?
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