oktober 2008 - Posts
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an integrated platform with tools and guidance that make it easier for you to assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your IT needs. It offers easy inventory, powerful assessment and actionable recommendations for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 R2, Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid), System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Microsoft Online Services, and Power Management. The popular Windows Vista Hardware Assessment readiness tool has now been replaced by this platform.
For more information on the toolkit including instructions for downloading see http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=297
Blog trackback: http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/10/16/the-microsoft-assessment-and-planning-toolkit-3-2-beta-is-now-released.aspx
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Windows Server 2008 File Services
This guide provides the basic building blocks upon which many other infrastructure services are based. Enjoy peace of mind in knowing that all critical phases of the plan are included, allowing you to establish a good foundation for future expansion.
Windows Server 2008 Print Services
The goal of this guide is to enable you to strategically plan your print infrastructure. By analyzing your printing needs, you will be able to design print servers with sufficient memory and spooler capacity. Efficiently designing printer pools can help you avoid problems before they begin, erase performance bottlenecks, and serve your customers more reliably.
Link to originally blog: http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1742-2-new-Microsoft-infrastructure-planning-and-design-guides-Server-2008-File-Services-and-Server-2008-Print-Services.html
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Så er det tid til at være med på TAP programmet til næste version af System Center Essentials…
This announcement is to alert you that the next version of System Center Essentials Technology Adoption Program (TAP) is now accepting nominations.
Do you want to be part of making the next generation of the System Center Essentials product great? If you are a responsible for managing the IT assets and services for a midsized business and have a passion for providing feedback, you could be a great candidate for our Technology Adoption Program (TAP). We view our TAP program as one of the most important investments we make as a product team. We are very selective in which customers we invite to participate and we intend is to partner very closely with you. Our goal is to develop a mutually beneficial and long term relationship with you to enable building the next version of the System Center Essentials product that is designed to meet your needs to the best of our abilities.
For more information and to nominate yourself for the TAP please click this link.
Thank you! The System Center Essentials Team.
Faldt lige over denne blog omkring VVS for Hyper-V: http://thelazyadmin.com/blogs/thelazyadmin/archive/2008/10/06/backing-up-hyper-v-with-windows-server-backup.aspx
As with anything you should be backing up your Hyper-V machines. I think that just goes without saying. Backing up Hyper-V has gotten easier with the addition of VSS and Windows Server Backup (WSB). WSB is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that replaces the old NTBackup from days gone by. It is not installed by default but can be easily added with the Add Features wizard in Server Manager. Once installed there is one last setting you must configure before backing up the Hyper-V virtual machines.
While Hyper-V does support VSS backups, it is not enabled by default. I am not sure why but you need to set a few registry settings to get WSB to recognize the Hyper-V VSS writer. You can enable this with the following two registry settings.
Under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WindowsServerBackup\ApplicationSupport add the following key {66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE
Then under that newly created key add a new REG SZ string called Application Identifier with the value Hyper-V. Once that is done you are ready to go! To make it a bit easier you can copy and paste the following to a command line (with administrative privileges) and it will get it all set up for you. You will need to set this on all Hyper-V servers in your organization but there is no reboot required!
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WindowsServerBackup\ApplicationSupport\{66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}"
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WindowsServerBackup\ApplicationSupport\{66841CD4-6DED-4F4B-8F17-FD23F8DDC3DE}"
/v "Application Identifier" /t Reg_SZ /d Hyper-V
For more information see:
Windows Server 2008 Backup Step By Step
Jeg var på udkik efter at starte en Windows 2008 server, som har installeret Hyper-V rollen, uden at starte Hypervisoren.
En hurtig søgning på nettet gav denne løsning: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/04/14/creating-a-no-hypervisor-boot-entry.aspx, som er beskrevet her.
From time to time I want to run Virtual PC / Virtual Server on my Hyper-V system. While I can do this with the hypervisor running, the result is that Virtual PC / Virtual Server run quite slowly. An easy fix for this is to create a second boot entry for my system that starts Windows without starting the hypervisor. To do this you need to open an administrative command prompt and run:
- bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - no hypervisor"
This copies your currently active boot entry (assuming that this is the one you want to copy) and gives the new copy an appropriate description. - bcdedit /set {identifier for the new boot entry (copy from the output of a plain 'bcdedit' command)} hypervisorlaunchtype off
After doing this you can choose whether the hypervisor gets loaded whenever you boot the system.
Fik lige denne mail fra Virtual System Center Users Group. Hvis du vil holde et indlæg, så skriv venligst til admin@systemcenterusergroup.com
We're writing to you to find presenters for the next Virtual System Center Users Group scheduled for Thursday Nov 13th at noon Central. If you have topics you'd like to present, please send them to admin@systemcenterusergroup.com and we'll work quickly to put together the new schedule and outline.
Please send in your topics by close of business Tuesday October 14th.
We are looking for presenters on topics that are new or current within the System Center management space. Usually there's about 25 to 30 minutes per topic, and the meeting will start Thursday, Nov 13th at noon Central, and will end around 2 pm Central.
If you have anything you'd like presented, please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!
Take care all!
Scott Moss
Virtual Gopher
Virtual System Center Users Group
Faldt lige over denne video, som bare skal ses…
Google Epic er en god historie, som ALLE bør se, hører og tænke over:-)
Related articles
Jeg faldt lige over denne blog og det skal da afprøves:-)
http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1746-Requesting-MS-hotfixes-online-has-changed-slightly-new-way-of-generating-a-request.html
I don't know if this is considered a 'backdoor' or not, but it has worked with every KB article I have tried it on so far.
Most of the time, if a KB article is available to the public, there will be a "Hotfix Download Available -
View and request hotfix downloads" message on the top of the screen like this:
If you have a particular KB article that you want to download, and the image above seems to be missing, try this link in your web browser:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=[KBnumber]&kbln=[KB language]
Replace [KBnumber] with the number of the hotfix you want, and replace [KB language] with your build language.
For instance, requesting KB 940848 for US English, would look like this:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=940848&kbln=en-us
If someone wanted to, you could create a little Javascript applet to ask for the language and KB article, and auto-generate the above link.
Update: As pointed out in the comments section, someone beat me to writing up a Javascript-esque script for automating the request process. It is called Hotfixr. Much like Flickr. We seem to be losing vowels on the Internet.
Jeg har lige hentet den nye version af VMware Workstation 6.5 og den spiller bare max.
Af nye funktioner har VMware frigivet disse oplysninger:
- Seamless desktop experience with “Unity” — Run applications in virtual machines alongside applications on your normal desktop. The desktop of the virtual machine disappears and applications appear as a normal window in the rest of their environment. Color coding of Unity application windows makes it easy to run multiple versions of the same application across different virtual machines.
- Support for DirectX 3D graphics — VMware Workstation was the first desktop virtualization product to support 3D graphics and VMware Workstation 6.5 takes it to the next level with support for DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 2 3D graphics.
- Simplify creating Windows and Linux virtual machines with Easy Install – VMware Workstation 6.5 enables users to save time and simplify Windows and Linux guest operating system installation. Just answer a few simple questions and the Easy Install feature will perform an unattended installation of the guest operating system and VMware Tools in a single step.
- VM record and replay for groundbreaking debugging — VMware Workstation 6.5 lets users record a VM’s entire programmatic execution—every CPU instructions, every memory page, and every disk write—over time and then replay the recording to reproduce the exact behavior and state of the virtual machine to help analyze and debug hard-to-reproduce software defects until they are fixed.
- Create ACE encrypted virtual machines — VMware Workstation 6.5 users now benefit from the included ACE authoring capabilities. Encrypt important virtual machines and run them with the included VMware Player for improved data security, or create personal Pocket ACE virtual machines to take virtual desktop environments on the road with a USB thumb-drive.
Hele artiklen kan læses her: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/ws_6_5.html
Enable the Administrator Account
- Open the command prompt with Administrative privileges by opening the Start Menu, and typing cmd in the search box, and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter or click the Start orb, All Programs, Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
- Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter after:
net user administrator /active:yes
- Restart your computer and logon as Administrator.
Note: You might want to set a password for the administrator’s account for at least a little protection.
Disable the Administrative Account
To disable the Administrative account run the Net User command demonstrated above while logged on an account with administrative privileges but not as the Administrator account and replace yes with no
To extend the Vista or Windows 2008 grace period, use the follow commands:
slmgr -xpr (To show the current grace period)
slmgr -rearm (to extend the grace period with 30 days)
Reboot machine
Create a GPO with a logonscript there filter on Vista and Windows 2008 to run the command:
slmgr -rearm
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available (Dean Hachamovitch/MSDN Blogs)
http://www.powerhelp.dk/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=184
Kunden havede Office 2007 US installationen, som en del af et MDT image og alle maskiner var rullet ud for 6 måneder siden.
Opgaven var simpel, installere den danske sprog pakke i Office 2007!
Jeg valgte følgende fremgangsmåde, som er beskrevet på dette link: http://www.powerhelp.dk/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=183
1. Copy language pack (mui) sources into your office source folder (do not replace available)
2. Go into the OMUI.da-dk folder for the specific language and customize the config.xml as follow...
<Configuration Product="OMUI.da-dk">
<Display Level="Basic" CompletionNotice="Yes" SuppressModal="no" AcceptEula="yes" />
<AddLanguage Id="da-dk" ShellTransform="Yes" />
<OptionState Id="OfficeMUI" State="Local" Children="force" />
</Configuration>
3. Install the Language with the following command (where setup.exe is the original from the source, not from the language pack
\\server\office\setup.exe /config \\server\office\omui.da-dk\config.xml