Microsoft has confirmed that they will be releasing SP2 for Exchange server 2007 in the third quarter of 2009. Of the number of fixes it will provide, the most awaited option is the exchange backup plugin for windows 2008 server. Till now, backing up exchange 2007 using the 2008 server backup utility is not supported. They should have fixed it well before as most of the companies would have purchased a third party product or even their own DPM 2007.

Was that the plan?

I installed Windows 2008 on my laptop successfully in order to play with Hyper-V. My laptop is 64bit and supports hardware virtualization. The first thing that I tried after that was to connect to my wireless router to update windows. To my surprise, the wireless card was disabled. I tried enabling it, but it just wouldn’t do it. After playing around for a while, I found the solution to my problem.

In Windows 2008, you need to install “Wireless LAN Service” feature from Server Manager to connect to a wireless network. Go to Server Manager -> Features -> Add Features -> Select the last feature named Wireless LAN Service and click Install. Once the feature was installed, wireless card was enabled & could connect to my router.

Just a quick note in case anyone is trying the same!