I was going to extend a volume on one of my Server 2008 Core machines, and it told me "there is not enough space to perform this action"...

There was however enough space, but for some reason Microsoft Forefront decided that I shouldn't be allowed to extend a volume remotely.   So I disabled the services and did it anyway.

We are currently considering moving one of our DHCP servers to a VM on Hyper-V.  I was looking for something else and saw this thread on the TechNet Forums, and I want to keep it for later reference:

http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/8004c699-1a22-4f33-9fcd-7271bfcaf74e

So I posted that I feel dumb some days, but when I wrote that, it was related to how frustrated I was trying to figure out System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta.  I thought that I had be shown the light by someone in the product team posting detailed instructions on how to do what I was trying to accomplish.  I would just like to set the record straight and say that IT STILL DIDN'T WORK!

Now I am running Hyper-V RC1 so SCVMM 2008 Beta doesn't work with that yet anyway...  Ah, the joys of life on the bleeding edge....

And some days, I just am dumb...

I have been working with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (before that I had been working with Hyper-V Beta, and RC-0) and trying to configure the SCVMM and System Center Operations Manager connection.  It would help if I were fluent with the SCOM (or OpsMgr if you prefer) environment and how it all works...

Anyway, I have been posting in the TechNet Forums for a few days now and I think someone may have figured out how to educate me... The Virtual Machine Manager team has posted the instructions on their Blog.

Thanks to Brian Ehlert for alerting me to the post.

I have come across a few articles that talk about how Server 2008 is what Vista hoped to be.  Here is an article that a Microsoft person wrote about it:

The Way I See It : Using Windows Server 2008 as a SUPER workstation OS

Also, this article talks about some performance testing:

Windows "Workstation" 2008 - Vista Done Right?

And if you want to run Hyper-V on your laptop, you may want to see this article about how to get the Wireless to be available to the VMs:

Using Hyper-V with a Wireless Network Adapter 

or

Using Wireless with Hyper-V