Garry's Technology Corner

I’ve been using Windows 7 for quite some time and it’s by far my favorite OS. Over the years I’ve used everything from Apple to Linux to Windows and even a couple that probably no one’s ever heard of.  I think Microsoft has a hit on their hands with this one, I really disliked Vista  BTW, and hope they expand on some of the new features.

In no particular order these are the features of Windows 7 that I find to be my personal favorites:

1) Aero

I didn’t play with Aero much in Vista, like I said I just couldn’t get Vista to work for me very well but under Windows 7 Aero it’s amazing. Glass effects, transparency, flip windowing, Read more…

The process for installing SP2 on an Exchange 2007 cluster has changed significantly since Exchange 2003, firstly the upgrade must be completed via the command line, to upgrade the primary node the cluster needs to be taken offline and finally the cluster needs to be manually failed over to the secondary node again through the command line and upgraded. The process isn’t harder than in Exchange 2003 but there are more steps and its a good idea to schedule a couple hours of downtime.

The process for the upgrade:

• Upgrade the passive node
• Move cluster to passive and upgrade
• Upgrade Primary Read more…

In part 1 of this article the log files were moved from the default install location to a separate drive. In part 2 the database files will be moved, the process is very similar in that replication will need to be stopped, database dismounted, AD configuration changed and finally the files physically moved to the new location. Read more…

There’s an excellent series of articles over at MSExchange.org on installing Exchange 2007 CCR on Windows 2008 in a Failover Cluster I recently used on a project. Even though the article uses the 32bit beta of Exchange 2007 it still applies to the RTM version and worked great. **Take note Exchange 2007 SP1 is required; Exchange 2007 will not install on Windows 2008 you need to use Exchange 2007 SP1.

Once the install finished there were a couple of steps that needed to be completed before Exchange could be put into production. Read more…

Like many geeks, I have several machines at home that I use for different things, with the release of Windows 7 I decided it was time to upgrade a laptop I’ve got hooked up to the TV. The laptop is an older Compaq but has an AMD 64bit processor and 2GB of RAM so running Windows 7 should be fine, or so I thought. Read more…