Re: DCPROMO seems to be stuck - Windows Server 2008 R2

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My plans are to hook up with MaryAnne. After that, give the Skipper a box of nails made of plastique and watch the fun.

Seriously though, I'm just going to accept (for now) that there is a hardware compatibility issue with my system and 2008 R2. I would imagine any client I set this up for will have a poweredge made in the last 3 years and I'm sure they'll make whatever bios updates necessary to resolve the issue or MS will have a patch. I can't imagine too many people are using desktops as servers so the fault lies with myself, not in my stars.

I appreciate the tips and I think we've exhausted all possible solutions. Since it was a test platform for me to review R2 and Exchange 2010 I've seen what I need to. I am seeing some glitches between the two so I don't think they are quite ready for prime time but I think it will be ready in a couple of months. Unfortunately glitches aside, I'll admit out of all the features I was hoping for in Exchange 2010 - mailbox sizes in the EMC gui was at the top of the list - very saddened they didn't put it back in. And I doubt it will be back even when SP2 comes out for 2010. There are a few new features in 2010 I like but for some reason so many things weren't thought out it really boggles the brain. Like calendar and contacts sharing in the EMC- they only put in half the equation - whose calendars are shared - but they forgot to set viewable by whom as modifiable - it is all or nothing - tragic. My needs for the OS are fewer - speed, security and speed - did I mention speed? (sure I want DHCP, ADS, DNS, GP, etc - I'm pretty happy with R2 so not much to say). Exchange 2010 however they create archives - great idea! But they keep the archives in the same database as the user database - WTF!?! They add in message threading in the OWA- GREAT! However they take away the option to view messages at the bottom which I would say more that 80% of the clients I support prefer.

Why must MS always take away a feature for every couple of features they add? They only alienate their own clients. It's like the ribbon in Office 2007 - I have no problem with using the ribbon but nearly half my clients don't want Office 2007 because they don't want to learn how to find what they've been using for 15 years all over again. MS could have just offered an option on install - classic or ribbon. MS sales are down not because of the economy but because MS won't listen. The adds for Windows 7 make it sound like MS listens - I'd love to see MS execs post here/technet saying we'd like the MVPs to send us their top 15 issues with the product you field questions for. No confinement whatsoever - free form your answer and we'll actually have our engineers read the responses. I beta tested Vista for MS - not one of the survey's I filled out ever let me freeform an answer so I couldn't just say - it is SLOW, it eats up video memory, network performance is wretched... Instead I filled out useful questions like from 1 to 5 - 1 being very good to 5 being perfect - how would you rate the start menu. It was like they were asking survey questions that could only tell them they were doing a great job.

"Ace Fekay [MCT]" <aceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OJLZk$rVKHA.1372@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Nothing wrong with referencing Giligan's Island - my friends and I still quote Thurston - "heavens, he must be a Yale man!"



I remember that! LOL. Good ole' Thurston the Harvard man. :-) I used to watch the reruns when I was a kid. I liked the one with the radioactive fruit and vegetable crate showed up. Gilligan ate the spinach and was able to pick up tree trunks! :-)

Anyway, back to the issue. So what are your plans? To install it into a virtual machine?

Ace





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