Custom Format Drive During Server 2008 Install
Mark Berry June 29, 2010
I’m installing SBS 2008 in a Hyper-V VM. I want the system partition to be formatted with 16KB allocation unit (cluster) size. Whether that turns out to be a good idea or not is another discussion. The question here is, how do I even do that during the SBS 2008 installation? The standard “Format” button doesn’t offer the option to change allocation unit size.
Here’s the workaround.
More...Connecting Windows 7 to SBS 2003
Mark Berry August 25, 2009
I recently installed Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit RTM) on a laptop that had previously run Vista. While I'm liking Windows 7 much better than Vista, it was quite a challenge using /connectcomputer to get it into my SBS 2003 domain. The Official SBS Blog has a brief post advising one to install hotfix 926505, which I had already done for Vista. That, however, was not enough. Here's what I learned.
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