Refresh Hosts file without rebooting

Tried this with Windows 8.1 and it is easier than you would think as it a command you should be very familiar with.

IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS

Small Business Server 2011 with only 4GB RAM

If you follow minimum requirements you would allocate 8GB ram for a virtual machine just to evaluate Small Business Server 2011.

Although the motherboard on my Hyper-V system should take this in it stride the jump from its current 8GB to its 16GB max is expensive.

So do I need 8GB to evaluate SBS 2011? I couldn’t if I wanted to as Hyper-V needs some RAM so I gave it 6GB and it fired up. What about 4GB SBS 2008 worked on this and the only reason 2011 wants 8GB is Exchange 2010.

Here is a shot of my task manager running with 4GB of memory and the Exchange Console running. Onwards with the evaluation.

I have also stopped WSUS from downloading but not disabled it.

Disable WSUS on Small Business Server

I have various versions of Small Business Server running in an evaluation environment and don’t want WSUS constantly downloading updates here is a useful guide from the SBS Diva Blog. Should work for SBS 2008 and 2011.

The guide demonstrates how to prevent WSUS downloading updates without mangling the system. You in effect just put WSUS into a monitoring state.

SBS Diva Blog: Disable WSUS on Small Business Server 2008