So I’ve now got SharePoint with the Welsh Language pack working. Turns out the first install was corrupt somewhere along the line and wouldn’t show the option to change the language to Welsh. Without a complete re-installation it was looking like a £220 phone call to Microsoft.

WordPress is now on version 3.0. I’m sure I’ve tried in the past to manually upgrade and it wasn’t this easy, but it’s all working and a short DB upgrade later it’s all working. The only issue I had was with my host not allowing my enough memory to upgrade the system automatically, but hey we can’t have everything can we?

Now I’m off to try an configure Windows Server backup to a remote location, it might have to come down to tricking it into using iSCSI as a “local drive”.

So I’ve been battling getting VMWare running on CentOS and Ubuntu for the past 2 weeks (and the rest).
Last week enough was enough, I’d spent too much time trying to get the modules re-compiled and working with some sort of stability. In that amount of time I could have paid for the Windows license in the wasted time I’d spent trying to get it working. I’d followed all the guides to the letter, and trying following them with some imagination, but nothing seemed to work

I’m now running Server 2008 R2 Core as the VMWare host, it runs a slightly higher load than Linux, but with most services not installed as a default it’s much better than your average Server installation.

So if you’ve spent more than your fair share of time on VMWare, just take the bullet and go for a Windows VMWare host.

I can’t say it has much better performance or, I no benchmarks to prove it, but it does *just work*.