Storage Server 2008

I wanted to share some information about Storage Server 2008.

First, did you know that Storage Server 2008 has a default password when you install it? Well, I wasn't aware of this until I recently installed this to do some testing. I would imagine there are a lot of people who are not aware of this since in every other version of Windows Server that I have installed you either get to set the password or it makes you change it the first time you login.

The default password is: wSS2008!

I highly recommend you changing this password once your install has finished.

The second thing I wanted to touch on was that you can now download Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 for Storage Server 2008 via MSDN or Technet. As the name implies this gives you the ability to make your server an iSCSI target without having to purchase 3rd party software. This is very useful when you need a shared storage solution for clustering in Windows Server.

Th iSCSI Software Target is available in x86 and x64.  

Well that is it for today. Until next time...