SADev

Yesterday I needed to install MSMQ on my laptop which runs Windows Server 2008, which wasn’t as logical as it first appeared.

I have been spoilt for a long time by living in an Exchange environment, so when I recently had to use a POP3 environment (even if it was just temporarily), I felt like I had gone back 15 years.

The last of the hurdles to overcome for the deployment was the running of the DNS server. This is because we run on a private IP range internally and use ISA to match external IP's and ports to the services we want to publish (i.e. NAT).

So before I get into core, let me first state that Win2k8 is the best server OS Microsoft has ever released.

As I approach the end of this series I want to highlight some of the technology that the hosting machine is built on and some of the experiences I learnt with that. These last few posts are much shorter than the earlier ones but hopefully provide some quick bite size info.

So if you have looked at standard HMC then add all the technology we have added to it, you would assume there is a building full of servers. The reality is the server room has got lots of space and isn’t that big. How did we achieve this?