Ondrej Žilinec – IT Blog

Couple days I installed Windows Server 8 and I started to play 🙂

There is weird desktop in new Windows. It’s not as pretty as it is in Windows Server 2008. It’s kinda forced to use touch screen, but who would use touch screen to administer servers? Not me 🙂

Normal stuff

• I couldn’t find any way to restart/shutdown Windows Server 8. Only way I could use is command line (shutdown.exe). But there is a way via Metro…upper right corner…Settings…Power…Restart (http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831491.aspx)
• I don’t know how to turn IE ESC off. I couldn’t find any setting to enable/disable it
• It is nice to be able to team network interfaces, but there is no help what each setting means

Active Directory

Nice article about changes http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/04/06/group-policy-management-improvements-in-windows-server-quot-8-quot-beta.aspx

DNS

They have imported DNSSec into DNS server.

Security tab for DNS server settings is running faster 🙂

Windows Update Service

I received errors after installation and I couldn’t run WSUS console.

Windows Server Backup

There is new feature called Microsoft Online Backup. You can configure your backups to be stored at Microsoft servers online. First of all you need to register at Microsoft web and then install Microsoft Online Backup Service Agent. Then you need to configure Agent to be able to backup server to Microsoft storage.

Here is how:

First screen

Input registration information

Encryption options

Registering machine

Done registering

Set backup as ussual

Now we will wait for result… 🙂

And the result is, that it WORKS 🙂 Even I could do restore of files:

Backup is working

There will be another post about the rest of new stuff.