Using Opalis automating patching Hyper-V Clusters

Using Opalis automating patching Hyper-V Clusters

Great Blog about using Opalis in real world scenarios
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/11/22/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/12/01/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/12/02/opalis-6-3-automating-hyper-v-cluster-patching-using-the-configuration-manager-ip-part-3.aspx

ProcDump v3.01

This release fixes a bug that could cause ProcDump to crash when used with the miniplus dump option (-mp).

Hyper-V Integration Components version list table

Would you want to know what version of Hyper-V are you running right now?

This is a table to make a fast relationship between your current VMBUS.SYS version and the corresponding Hyper-V level.

Active Directory for Demos

Active Directory for Demos

Andrew Fryer

 

Are you bored setting up domain controllers for your demos to work with, not sure of all the prompts to fill in then try this on a clean copy of Windows Server 2008 R2..
Create a text file called NewDC.txt and copy this into it..

Import Bulk Users to Active Directory

Import Bulk Users to Active Directory

Maged Ezzat

This step is important when decide to build a brand new Green Field Windows 2008 Active Directory service and want to start utilizing the new Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory by importing all organization users’ names and passwords into the Active Directory:
1) Build CSV file that include Organization Users with specific attributes to be imported in the new Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory,
Sample of CSV can be as the following:

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format)

Disk2vhd v1.63

By Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
Published: October 14, 2010
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Introduction

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

SQL 2008 for SCCM R2 - STEP by STEP GUIDE

SQL 2008 for SCCM R2 - STEP by STEP GUIDE

1        SQL Server 2008  Installation & Provisioning
 1.1       SQL Server 2008 Installation
 1.1.1       Pre-Installation tasks
Reboot your machine prior to starting the SQL Server installation process to make sure that you do not have any pending reboot requests which will block the SQL Server installation process.
Create following Service Accounts in the Domain: SQLAgent, SQLReporting, SQLService
1.1.2       Installation Step by Step
Install Dotnet 3.5 SP1 and Windows Installer 4.5. These are the prerequisities for SQL 2008.

Start the setup from the media by running “setup.exe”.

Free Resources and Tools to Plan and Deploy Windows 7

Free Resources and Tools to Plan and Deploy Windows 7

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

Work with disks with out drive letters

When we set up a cluster of virtualization is commonly used CSV to have more than one VM per LUN (disk).

Windows 7: 77 Windows 7 Tips

Whether or not you're upgrading from Vista or skipping it altogether and moving up from Windows XP, you'll need to know how to make the most of it in your environment. Here are 77 tips and tricks to get you there.

Edited by Keith Ward

Hyper-V Managing dynamic memory VI: Controlling pressure

Managing dynamic memory VI: Controlling pressure

dmatey dmatey

SP1 de SCVM R2, de momento la RC no incorpora a sus management packs de SCOM la información que necesitamos para tener contralada la presión de memoria en nuestras VMs una vez activemos la memoria dinámica en ellas. SCVM R2 SP1, so far the RC does not incorporate their management packs for SCOM the information we need to have contralateral memory pressure on our VMs once activated dynamic memory in them.

Detailed Hyper-V blog article series that explains technically exactly why we use this technology

An extremly detailed blog article series that explains technically exactly why we use this technology and no other:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/03/18/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/03/25/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/04/07/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-3.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/04/21/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-4.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/05/20/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-5.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/07/12/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v-part-6.aspx

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX for Hyper-V

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX for Hyper-V

Toni Pohl Toni Pohl

Mit der Veröffentlichung der Beta von Service Pack 1 für Windows Server 2008 R2 sind auch Fragen aufgekommen, ob die neuen Funktionen Dynamic Memory und RemoteFX für Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 unterstützt werden. With the release of the beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 questions are also raised about whether the new features and Dynamic Memory RemoteFX for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is supported.
Die Antwort ist: Ja. The answer is: Yes. (“…the two most important developments in SP1.”) ("... The two most important developments in SP1.")

Hyper-V R2 wird mit SP1 Dynamic Memory unterstützen. Hyper-V R2 SP1 Dynamic memory support. Hyper-V Hosts ermöglichen mit Dynamic Memory den verfügbaren RAM Speicher dynamisch an die Arbeitslast der virtuellen Maschinen anzupassen – und somit eine noch bessere Auslastung zu erreichen – es können mehr Maschinen laufen. Hyper-V hosts offer with Dynamic Memory available RAM memory dynamically adapt to the workload of the virtual machines - and thus to achieve an even better use - it can run more machines.

TIP:Delegate Control to Users to Work with GPOs

Delegate Control to Users to Work with GPOs

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You can allow a nonadministrative user or a group (including users and groups from other domains) to work with a domain, site, or OU GPO by granting one of three specific permissions:

Hyper-V Cloud

Hyper-V Cloud

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To help you deploy commercial private and public clouds based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, System Center, and related products, Microsoft offers a set of programs and initiatives called Hyper-V Cloud. These programs can help you:

Build your own private cloud with help from the Hyper-V Cloud Deployment Guides and Hyper-V Cloud partners.

TechEd 2010: Attack and Defence: Authentication and Passwords!

TechEd 2010: Attack and Defence: Authentication and Passwords!

PTSAustria PTSAustria

9 Nov 2010 4:03 AM November 9, 2010 4:03 AM

Markus Murray – mein absoluter Lieblingsspeaker auf der TechEd ! Mark Murray - my favorite speaker at TechEd!
Wahrscheinlich fürcht ich mich gleich wieder ;) Probably I fear me again;)

P2V fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied

P2V fails with Error 2910 (0x80070005) Access Denied

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Symptom

When using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to perform a Physical-to-Virtual conversion (P2V), the following error message appears during the Scan System phase.
Error (2910)
VMM does not have appropriate permissions

Reading LDAP SSL Network Traffic with NetMon 3.4 and NMDecrypt

Reading LDAP SSL Network Traffic with NetMon 3.4 and NMDecrypt

 

Hi folks, Ned here again. Today I show you how to decrypt LDAP traffic protected by SSL by using Network Monitor and its handy add-on NetMon Decryption Expert. This is useful when you need to see what an application is asking your domain controllers, especially when that app has lousy logging. Since the traffic is all encrypted on the wire, ordinary network captures are useless.
I’m not going to explain LDAP and SSL as we already have some great articles by James, Mike, Rob, Randy, and Dave here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/tags/ldap/

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory–Recycle Bin

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory–Recycle Bin

With  Recycle Bin now available I may now be able to get a job in Active Directory, as it provides recovery form the sort of finger trouble I occasionally suffer from.  To use it you need to turn on the feature and this ironically cannot be undone, as it changes the way deletes are handled from this

IIS Application Pool Tracking

Tip 40: IIS Application Pool Tracking

This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip.
When strange things happen to IIS application pools I am reminded of the old public service announcement, “Do you know where your children are?” Well, do you know what your application pools are doing? When was the last time one restarted? What is the history of restarts? If you cannot answer these questions read ahead.
To find out when an application pool has started or how long it has been running use Process Explorer to view the time the application pool process started.

How to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

How to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

 

Just a heads up on a new KB article we published on how to determine if a cluster is over-committed in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.  If you do any kind of admin work with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 you'll want to add this to your favorites.
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Symptoms

The cluster status displayed in the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Administrator's Console may change from "OK" to "over-committed" after a cluster refresh operation completes.
Note : The host status values do not change in the VMM Administrator Console until the VMM server performs a host refresh, which runs automatically every 30 minutes. You can run a refresh on demand by right-clicking the host and then clicking Refresh.

Enhanced Event Viewer -

Enhanced Event Viewer -

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sateesh-arveti/archive/2010/11/22/enhanced-event-viewer.aspx

Windows provides a nice tool for viewing event logs of our machine. This tool called as Event Viewer is having lot of features to browse through our event logs. Even though, it is a very useful tool to browse our event log, but it does not provide certain features like searching and auto-show up of new events etc. So, I thought of doing an application that makes our event log browsing faster and much easier. I will explain the features provided by it.
Features provided by this Viewer:
•  Easy to navigate among the Logs.
• Easy to filter events.
•Easy to do Search.
•Click away to access it.
•Connect to remote machine's Event Log.
•Listener to show new event entry automatically.
•Better User Experience and lot more.

Download Enhanced Event Viewer -
http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-PostAttachments/00-03-37-01-91/EnhancedEventViewer.zip

Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts

Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts


http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/11/23/use-powershell-to-create-local-user-accounts.aspx

How To Improve Windows 2003 File Server Performance

How To Improve Windows 2003 File Server Performance


TipsOverview and Implementation Some tests allow us to find out that may be some con...Overview and Implementation
Some tests allow us to find out that may be some configuration that would help youTo improve Windows 2003 file server performance.
Although, these configurations may help you, use this modification without testing them
 

Mastering Trust Video Now Available!

Mastering Trust Video Now Available!

Pete Herzog presents on security, trust, and how we are broken at SecTor, Oct. 2010

 

Download Video:   http://bit.ly/avWVbJ

VMMap: A process virtual and physical memory analysis utility.

VMMap is a process virtual and physical memory analysis utility. It shows a breakdown of a process's committed virtual memory types as well as the amount of physical memory (working set) assigned by the operating system to those types. Besides graphical representations of memory usage, VMMap also shows summary information and a detailed process memory map. Powerful filtering and refresh capabilities allow you to identify the sources of process memory usage and the memory cost of application features.

Besides flexible views for analyzing live processes, VMMap supports the export of data in multiple forms, including a native format that preserves all the information so that you can load back in. It also includes command-line options that enable scripting scenarios.

VMMap is the ideal tool for developers wanting to understand and optimize their application's memory resource usage.

Download :
http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/sysinternals/dd535533(en-us).aspx

How do I run Powershell.exe/command prompt as the LocalSystem Account on Windows 7?

How do I run Powershell.exe/command prompt as the LocalSystem Account on Windows 7?

Every once in a while I will need to troubleshoot something with the LocalSystem Account.  Using the Runas.exe command with "Nt Authority\System" doesn't work; I'm left trying to supply a password. I don't remember if it ever worked in WS2003.

Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Desktop to the Datacenter, 2nd Edition

Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions - Medium Sized Business Blog - Site Hom

blogs.technet.com

This free, yes, free 400+ page ebook Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions: From the Desktop to the Datacenter, 2nd Edition is the book for IT professionals who want to learn more about the latest Microsoft virtualization technologies, including Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services in Wind

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mediumbusiness/archive/2010/10/27/free-ebook-understanding-microsoft-virtualization-solutions.aspx 

qUICKLY Explained: Active Directory Recycle Bin

To write something about AD Recycle Bin, the two things that we must understand first are

• 1. Difference between Authoritative and non-Authoritative Restore of AD
• 2. Tombstone Lifetime (TSL) - duration that allows all domain controllers to have the knowledge of an object getting deleted.

There’s a new DPM 2010 SCOM Management Pack

There’s a new DPM 2010 SCOM Management Pack - Welcome to the US SMB&D TS2 Team Blog - Site Home - Te

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The Microsoft TS2 Team blog is designed to provide insightful information for Microsoft Partners on the latest products including Virtualization solutions, Hyper-V, VDI, MDOP, and SCVMM. We also cover a variety of topics on Cloud Computing including, BPOS, Windows Azure, SQL Azure, CRM Online, and o

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Hyper-V R2 Live Migration

Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has now got a whole lot better with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Now, you get failover without any downtime for the virtual machine. Jaap Wesselius tells you how to implement it.

The complete windows-7 shortcuts -ebook

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-complete-windows-7-shortcuts-ebook-released

 

Download LINK::

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/downloads/Windows7%20Shortcuts%20eBook.zip

Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk – Test Drive Program,VMs should now be a little easier to find.

Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk – Test Drive Program,VMs should now be a little easier to find.

File server migration toolkit:

File server migration toolkit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d00e3eae-930a-42b0-b595-66f462f5d87b&displaylang=en
As with all servers, hardware gets old, outdated and needs to be replaced every few years. File server migration can be a chore; moving all the data is simple enough but what about the permissions and sharing status? Well this is where the File Server Migration Toolkit (FSMT) saves the day!

Saving and restoring existing Windows shares

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125996


File Server: windows share migration
You have a Windows File Server and you want to migrate the windows shares. What options do you have to complete this job? A) recreate them or B) migrate them from ServerA to ServerB. Sometimes option A is the only one you have but in most cases you want to keep those Windows Shares available as they were before and using some kind of script would be nice. Microsoft published a KB125996 article based on following procedures and my option B:

How to Migrate from IIS 6 to IIS 7

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/06/18/how-to-migrate-from-iis-6-to-iis-7.aspx

Ten Best Practices / Troubleshooting Tips with Process Explorer Tool

http://www.msigeek.com/6229/ten-best-practices-troubleshooting-tips-with-process-explorer-tool

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 unleashed! - Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

http://lnkd.in/MiUJmb