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Running Windows Server 2008 for 240 Days without Activation

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Following on, in my recent trend of joining other people’s conversation rather than starting my own, I thought I’d highlight this tip, which I can see will be handy for testing.
Announced recently on bink.nu was Microsoft KB article 948472.
Basically:

Any edition of Windows Server 2008 may be installed without activation, and it may be evaluated for [...]

Windows 2008 Hacked?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Dean, has put up a post explaining an architectural defect in the way Windows Server 2008 handles the Accessibility Options prior to login.
As Microsoft’s 3rd Law of security states, if you have physical access, then it’s not your box anymore. And this is just another good reason why physical security is one layer in your [...]

Windows Server 2008 and PowerShell

Friday, August 10th, 2007

As we know, there’s a lot of vendors, and Microsoft teams taking up PowerShell in their products.The fact that the next server release from MS has PowerShell available is no surprise, and not exactly new news.
However, I stumbled across this page on the Microsoft website which, if you haven’t seen yet, might be of interest.