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One of the things that my laptop was unable to do after installing Windows Server 2008 on it, was being able to get Bluetooth working. Several people have, in comments on my previous post, asked for a solution. Thankfully Gil Kirkpatrick has published a great howto explaining how to hack the Bluetooth stack drivers to get them installed and running on Windows Server 2008.

In his Installing the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on Windows Server 2008 post, he gives a detailed explanation on how you should be able to make certain changes to several .inf files to enable their installation in a Windows Server 2008 environment. The trick is to to go through the various files, and basically replace the amd64...1 string in them with amd64...3 this making them installable on a server operating system.

I can vouch for the accuracy of his post, and method. I just spent 10 minutes going through the experience, and yes, I do now have a working Bluetooth stack on my ThinkPad T60 running Windows Server 2008.

Thanks a lot Gil, you made my day!

Out of the blue, Microsoft has released beta 1 of their virtualization hypervisor Hyper-V (formerly known as Viridian). Microsoft seems to have got working on this much quicker than what was anticipated earlier.

It seems the annoucement went live on the 13th, but I didn't see any mention of it until just now. Interesting to see that Quick Migration, as opposed to Live Migration, is still on the table. All in all, the feature set still reads as Microsoft is still playing catch-up with VMware and that there probably won't be any big surprises for the final version scheduled for release 180 days after Server 2008 goes RTM.

For the full details and specific release information, check the Microsoft Press Release and the Hyper-V site.