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To help configure Microsoft SQL Server for the cloud, we’ve prepared some tips.

After creating a server from our Microsoft SQL Server pre-install, you’ll need to install and configure SQL Server. But, before beginning the SQL Server installation, please review Windows Firsts to ensure your Windows server is best configured for Open Hosting.

After creating a Windows pre-install, we recommend you follow these steps to patch and secure your newly deployed Windows server:

1. Specify at Least 2 Cores: We’ve found that Windows gets happier with more cores, and we recommend at least two. While the server is shut down, navigate to the server configuration page to explicitly set the number of cores.
   

We feel our platform is terrific for Microsoft Windows. And, our VLANs are a great way to privately network your servers. The physical network infrastructure over which the VLANs route traffic have no contact with the Internet. Plus, the traffic is unmetered, and very fast. But, getting Windows Server 2008 to properly recognize our VLANs can be a little tricky.

Among the first things you should do after deploying Windows at Open Hosting is enable our platform firewall and enable Microsoft Remote Desktop.

This applies to both our pre-installed Windows builds and Windows servers you’ve uploaded yourself. In other words, all Windows. These particular directions were written using Windows 2008 Server.