Standalone Hyper-V Server Part 1 - The Hardware

Submitted by Chris Hurst on Fri, 06/26/2015 - 14:42

I'm finally getting around to my first post! This is a simple one to kick off a series of posts for setting up a Hyper-V server in a standalone configuration with an onboard raid controller. We will get into some pretty fun stuff later (think NIC teaming and virtual switches, optimal storage allocation units, and some fun powershell), but for now we'll look at a piece by piece hardware breakdown of a server I have actually deployed, and my selection criteria for each item. Let's get started...

Outlook prompt to login using domain/username on start with Exchange

Submitted by Ben Kistner on Thu, 06/18/2015 - 15:10

In this scenario I was using MS Exchange 2010 and all my domain users were being prompted to login every time they started Outlook. The web app was working fine, but as long as they used Outlook, they would be prompted to login and type in the domain name before their username. It turned out to be an autodiscover problem in IIS. This is how I fixed it...