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Moving DHCP from windows 2003 to windows 2008

Posted by jayb | Posted on 13-08-2010

Category : featured, microsoft, technology

Tags: admin, data, database, mac, microsoft, server, windows, windows 2008, windows server, XP

I’m getting ready this weekend to replace one of my windows 2003 domain controllers. This DC is a DNS,DHCP, and WINS server.

Moving DHCP from windows 2000 to 2003 was a royal pain if both machines where already DC’s

Microsoft has much improved this process for 2003 to 2008

Here’s the steps to follow from a MS KB Article

Bookmarks for July 15th through July 19th

Posted by jayb | Posted on 19-07-2010

Category : Daily Links, Misc

Tags: activedirectory, free, freeware, infopath, microsoft, sharepoint2010, sn, utilities

These are my links for July 15th through July 19th:

Update User Attributes from CSV File (VBScript) – Update active directory user attributes from a CSV File. (See Notes section for additional information and instructions)
Bulk AD Users – WiseSoft Bulk AD Users is a tool that makes it easy to perform bulk updates to Active Directory User account attributes. Previously you might have wrote scripts to perform these types of updates or gone through a very tedious process of performing these updates one at a time via the ADU&C interface. Bulk AD Users makes this process much simpler and also provides an XML log file that allows you to undo any unwanted updates. The application has powerful query capabilities that allow you to target updates to only the required user accounts and number of methods are available for updating user account data depending on your specific requirements.
Get columns Totals for date column in a sharepoint list using XPath Query in sharepoint designer | DEV-Blog.com – If you want to use totals in sharepoint list view to get the maximum/minimum/sum… or any of the totals for any column then it is easy, you just need to edit the view of your list and add the total you want based on any column.
Infowise Ltd – SharePoint web parts and components – SharePoint web parts and components
Hide form fields in SharePoint | My SharePoint of View – Sometimes when building SharePoint solutions or creating custom lists you want to hide some columns from the new or edit form. But the default new and edit form are automatically generating the form fields with all the columns that are created for the list.
How to Pass Querystring data into an InfoPath Form – Microsoft InfoPath 2010 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – After showing you how to customize a SharePoint list with InfoPath 2010, and describing the differences between SharePoint list forms and form library forms together with Kate Everitt, I’m back with a quick tip for easily sending a value from the browser’s query string into an InfoPath form.

Bookmarks for April 23rd through May 6th

Posted by jayb | Posted on 06-05-2010

Category : Daily Links, Misc

Tags: activedirectory, citrix, email, exchange, microsoft, sharepoint, sn, tutorials, VDI, virtualization

These are my links for April 23rd through May 6th:

Kaviza, VDI, affordable virtual desktops, virtual, infrastructure and server – Home – Realize immediate ROI with Kaviza – deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs. Get the benefits of centralized desktop management, lower desktop support costs and greater uptime, all within a PC budget.
SharePoint 2010 – Where’d “My Links” Go? – Laura Rogers @WonderLaura – In MOSS 2007, we’re used to seeing a link in a drop-down box at the top right of our SharePoint sites, called My Links. At first glance, it seems that this functionality has been removed from SharePoint 2010. It’s still there, sort of. Here are a couple of places that you can find it:
EndUserSharePoint.com – Nice site with Sharepoint examples and tips
Jorge ‘s Quest For Knowledge! : How to move a DC to another site? – In this case you need to change the IP of a DC and move it to another AD site
QVLWeb: Exchange Add Hidden Mailbox – After hidding an account of a terminated user, I needed to add the account to the managers mailbox for monitoring of business related mail.

Bookmarks for March 6th through March 24th

Posted by jayb | Posted on 24-03-2010

Category : Daily Links, Misc

Tags: activesync, bn, deployment, esx, exchange, iphone, mdt, microsoft, powershell, sharepoint, sharepoint2010, sn, vmware, wds, windows

These are my links for March 6th through March 24th:

Script List « Virtu-Al – Sweet powershell scripts for ESX
The iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Guide – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat – The iPhone now has most of the functions of the BlackBerry: Over-the-air push and sync of Exchange email, contacts, and calendars! This guide is intended as a concise walkthrough of how to get up and running with an iPhone and Microsoft Exchange server.
SharePoint Warm-up Scripts – From The Field – If your SharePoint servers are a little slow in the mornings try warming them up with the Field Engineers favourite scripts and tools:
Lets Collaborate – Tips, Tricks ‘n Best Practices – Consulting and training for SharePoint 2007 beginners and business users<br />
An ongoing list of tips from real world experience gained.
JaLaBlog » Blog Archive » Vista and Windows 2008 Deployment with WDS, WAIK and MDT LiteTouch – So it is intended as a reference for my own usage, but you might find it useful if you want to deploy Vista SP1 and/or Windows 2008 server in a fully automated way without third party tools, nor any MS-System Center Config Manager. It’s all in the box or freely available for download on microsoft.com.

Bookmarks for February 18th through March 4th

Posted by jayb | Posted on 04-03-2010

Category : Daily Links, Misc

Tags: citrix, deployment, imagex, microsoft, office2010, sharepoint2010, sn, windows2008, windows7, xendesktop

These are my links for February 18th through March 4th:

Step-by-Step: Basic Windows Deployment for IT Professionals – The Windows® Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help IT professionals deploy the Windows® 7 operating system.
Configure a silent installation of Office 2010 by using Config.xml – This article provides required information and procedures to configure a silent installation of Microsoft Office 2010 by using the Config.xml file. The Config.xml file is used to configure installation tasks and is used only when you run Setup. It is not installed or cached on users' computers. You can edit the Config.xml file to customize the installation. By default, the Config.xml file that is stored in the core product folders (core_product_folder_name.WW folder, for example, Enterprise.WW or Pro.WW) directs Setup to install that product. For example, the Config.xml file in the Pro.WW folder installs Microsoft Office Professional 2010.
Customize setup for Office 2010 – This section provides information to help you customize an installation Microsoft Office 2010.
Anything about IT » Blog Archive » Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Silent Install – I have started looking at the deployment of Microsoft Office 2010 today.
Part 4: Choosing and Image Strategy and Building Windows 7 System Images – Springboard Series Blog – The Windows Blog – Now that we’ve talked about deployment all-up, data migration, and application compatibility, let’s focus on imaging. Now this is not the imaging that involves photos and cameras, but the imaging of computer disks.
Measuring SharePoint Page Rendering –
http://sharepoint-sandbox.com/ – "Sharepoint Sandbox" is a site for sharing tips and discovering new tricks about SharePoint. Click here to read more.
Citrix and Microsoft Team up for "Hands On Lab"! » ocb – Citrix Community – Citrix and Microsoft Team up for "Hands On Lab"!

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace

Posted by jayb | Posted on 18-02-2010

Category : microsoft

Tags: facebook, microsoft, office

Image via Wikipedia

We are testing Office 2010 at work. I should have it by the end of next week along with windows 7. I’m currently running Office XP with outlook 2003. I was using Xobni, but it seem to eat up RAM and caused outlook to have issues closing. The social features of xobni where nice. But the performance hit wasn’t worth it. I uninstalled it and install windows desktop search. Windows desktop search was just as good if not better than xobni, but I was still missing the social integration. Well it looks like once I get outlook 2010 installed, I’ll be able to test microsoft’s new Outlook social connector, very nice….

In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.

We are continuing to deliver on that vision today with two new announcements. First, we’re proud to announce the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook, which will enable our millions of Office 2010 Beta users to connect the OSC to a public network for the first time. Second, we’re excited to announce partnerships with Facebook — the most popular social Web site in the world, and MySpace — a leading social platform connecting people through expression, content, and culture.

[Continued]

To recap, here is what you can do today to get started with the Outlook Social Connector.

Download the Office 2010 Beta at www.Office.com/beta

Download the latest beta version of the Outlook Social Connector from the Microsoft Download Center.

Get the LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector at www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.

Keep watching the Outlook team blog for availability of the Facebook and MySpace download for the Outlook Social Connector at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/.

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace
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Windows time service on domain controllers

Posted by jayb | Posted on 21-08-2009

Category : microsoft, technology

Tags: microsoft, time

We moved a new server into the PDC emulator role of a 2003 AD forest. This new DC wasn’t keeping time correctly which was effecting the entire forest so I found a few links and commands that helped me get things syncing again.

Here are the two commands that helped me set the PDC emulator to sync with an external source:

 w32tm /config /computer:<<PDC-FQDN>> /manualpeerlist:time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /update

w32tm /config /computer:<<PDC-FQDN>> /syncfromflags:domhier /update

To synchronize the domain controller with an external time source

Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.
In the Command Prompt window, type the following line, where peers is a comma-separated list of IP addresses of the appropriate time sources, and press ENTER:
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist: peers /syncfromflags:MANUAL
The time sources you choose depend on your time zone. For example, if your domain controller is located in the Pacific Time zone, this line might read:
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:131.107.1.10 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
In this example, the IP address of the timeserver is used instead of the fully qualified domain name for security purposes.
Press ENTER. You should get a message that the command completed successfully.
Type w32tm /config /update
Press ENTER. You should get a message that the command completed successfully.
W32time uses a variable poll interval based on the quality of timesync with the server. On DCs, this interval defaults to between 64 and 1024 seconds.
To immediately synchronize with the external time server, type w32tm /resync and press ENTER. You should get a message that the command completed successfully.
Type Exit and press ENTER.