Windows Server 2008 SP1 and More Than 121 LUNS

We have a few large servers here that require more than 121 LUNS in a mount path scenario.

Guess what? Windows Server 2008 SP1 has a bug and can only handle 120 LUNS. What happens is the Performance Counter crashes (!) which prevents the installation of certain software, namely Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1. The only way of getting a work around is to turn off the Disk Performance Counter using the tool Exctrst. However, this means that we can no longer monitor Disk Performance!
Looking forward to seeing whether SP2 (which RTM earlier this week) fixes the problem...

Windows Update Error 80072EFD on Server 2008

I just installed a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise box for a SCOM R2 implementation we are working on. To finalise the installation I did a Windows Update and got the error 80072EFD and nice litle error message.

After a bit of research I found some posts about adding *.microsoft.com to trusted sites,. but that didn't work.

The next thing I tried was adding a proxy address to Internet Explorer, browsing to a site (and getting an error) and then removing it and trying again...and it worked! Phew...