The Techie me !!

Installing Wireless Lan drivers for Windows Server 2008.

Well it was just another day and I was working on my Laptop with the Vista OS on it. The entire organization at my office uses windows XP on the client computers, then I thought why does HP or Dell give Vista preintalled on their on their systems and charge an additional fee for installing XP?

Well......I thought I'll just switch to Longhorn.....the latest of the Server OS by MSFT built on the Vista Kernel.

One of the projects assigned to me as part of my Internship involves working with MOSS 2007 which has compatibility issues with Client OS's.

So I decided to install the Server 2008 standard edition on my machine.
After installing the system without any hassle, I went ahead and installed the video drivers and all that HP stuff designed for Vista........but I got stuck at installing the Wireless LAN drivers.

What to do?

HP only supports Vista and very little of XP. Longhorn is out of thier support boundaries....

After a long search and scanning MSFT support sites, I came across this:

1. Installed the Wireless LAN service from the Server Manager console.
2. Rebooted the server and then figured the make and model of my Wireless device. (I had to goto the device manager and click Show hidden devices and there it was.)
3. Installed the correct drivers from the manufacturers site and finally my server went online.

I would say Longhorn is by far the best OS MSFT has got out.....Thanks to the amazing Dev and QA team !