Posted by jayb | Posted on 27-07-2010
Category : technology, vmware
Tags: vmware
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1022137 This video describes the process for using the Data Migration tool to upgrade VMware vCenter Server 4.1. VMware vCenter 4.1 is part of the VMware vSphere 4.1 product suite. The Data Migration tool allows you to migrate vCenter Server 4.0 configuration. The Data Migration tool is provided with your vCenter Server 4.1 installation media.
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Posted by jayb | Posted on 13-07-2010
Category : Daily Links, Misc
Tags: sharepoint2010, sn, vmware
These are my links for July 7th through July 13th:
- VMware Info: How to enable ALUA and Round Robin Multipathing with ESX and Clariion CX4 –
- The SharePoint Community is here to help | Fpweb.net Blog – For What I.T.’s Worth – Let’s say you’ve come dangerously close to solving a tricky SharePoint problem, only to run into a hitch in the home stretch. You know there’s a way
- Watch this: Design a document review workflow solution – SharePoint Designer – Microsoft Office – Learn how to design a document review workflow and a custom Workflow Dashboard that shows you at a glance the status of all workflow tasks related to a specific document.
- Web Parts for views and forms in SharePoint Designer 2010 – SharePoint Designer – Microsoft Office – In Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create list views and data views as well as list forms and data forms. You create such views and forms to help site visitors interact with the data on the site and in the case of a custom solution, manage how data is presented and modified.
- Social Computing and Collaboration Resources – Bill Baer – Site Home – TechNet Blogs – whitepaper that provides prescriptive guidance about profile synchronization and My Site planning and administrative tasks for SharePoint Server 2010 that combines real world scenarios and step by step instructions with accompanying screenshots to help IT Professionals and Developers successfully understand, deploy, provision, and manage the services, components, and features that support and enable user profiles, synchronization, My Site Web sites, and more.
These are my links for June 22nd through July 6th:
Posted by jayb | Posted on 28-05-2010
Category : technology
Tags: cloud, VDI, vmware
I’m really getting sorta sick of all the cloud talk. Seems like the vendors are pushing this more than the customers asking for it. Its a lot like VDI, it fits in some cases but in others is just another name for an old product (hosted services, managed services) I’m not saying there there isn’t certain cases where these technologies fit. But I don’t think it will be the customer asking for the solution, it will be the vendors forcing it even with consumer products.
Here’s a video from vmware about how to start building your data center in the cloud
These are my links for May 22nd through May 27th:
- virtualization.info | XenDesktop beats View in Burton Group’s VDI assessment, none of them is good enough – Both Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 and VMware View 4.01 have been measured against the criteria and a couple of extremely interesting things emerged.
- Home – SharePoint 2010 Admin WIki – SharePoint Dev Wiki – This is the home of the SharePoint 2010 Admin WIki space.
- Importing vCenter 2.5 Customization Specifications into vCenter 4 « Virtualization, Windows, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between – If you have a lot of customization specifications setup in your vCenter server you are likely to want to copy these to your vSphere/vCenter 4 lab or production system when it’s released, otherwise it’s a bit tedious typing it all in again
- Monitor AD Replication Status with Powershell | Technodrone – Repadmin – and if you have not used it before then I suggest you get to know the tool.<br />
repadmin.exe /showrepl * /csv<br />
Ok .. Whoopee! And now what do I do with that info? Well you could:<br />
1. open it in Excel and<br />
2. filter out all the values that have 0 failures<br />
3. and then see where the issues are<br />
That would be nice… but not automated!!<br />
What if you could get the data, filter out to retrieve only what you wanted (which would be all the failures) and send it to an admin by mail. And to make your life complete (just kidding), have this run on a regular schedule?
- Get yer EMC FMA Virtual Appliance here! – Virtual Geek – The FMA (File Management Appliance) is an amazing product. Simple, but sophisticated.<br />
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It will literally migrate files based on a policy (fully automated) from a Celerra or NetApp NAS device to another filesystem or another Celerra or NetApp device – or to a Centera, Data Domain, or Atmos, and is transparent to the end user.
Posted by jayb | Posted on 21-05-2010
Category : Daily Links, Misc
Tags: citrix, emc, free, security, sharepoint, sn, storage, tools, VDI, virtualization, vmware, xendesktop
These are my links for May 20th through May 21st:
- Five Key Steps to Managing SharePoint Users – Managing user permissions in SharePoint can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it empowers users to be responsible for defining who can do what on SharePoint sites without heavily relying on IT. However, on the flip side, user management can be a total mess without proper guidance and a well-defined process.
- How Much Bandwidth Do I Need for My Virtual Desktop – Do you ever wonder how much bandwidth you need to do a desktop virtualization implementation?
- EMC 20% Unified Storage Guarantee !EXPOSED! | Christopher Kusek, Technology Evangelist – However since joining EMC, all I would ever hear from the competition is how ‘space inefficient’ we were and frankly, I’m glad to see the release of the EMC Capacity Calculator to let you decide for yourself where your efficiency goes. Recently we announced this whole "Unified Storage Guarantee" and to be honest with you, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. So I decided to take the marketing hype, set it on fire and start drilling down into the details, because that’s the way I roll.
- Top 10 Free vSphere ESX Tools and Utilities | Tech Blog – here are your Top 10 Free products to use with VMware vSphere
- XenClient: Baremetal Desktop Virtualization | Standalone Sysadmin – At Synergy, Citrix announced XenClient, the next logical step in the progression of desktop virtualization, namely a bare metal hypervisor.
Posted by jayb | Posted on 19-05-2010
Category : Daily Links, Misc
Tags: activedirectory, esx, freeware, hardware, sharepoint2010, sn, utilities, vmotion, vmware, windows, windows2008, windows7
These are my links for May 7th through May 19th:
- Remove users and groups from site access – Windows SharePoint Services – Microsoft Office – To properly manage access to the resources on your site, it is important for site administrators to promptly cancel the access of users who are no longer with the organization or whose role has changed such that their permission level needs to be adjusted.
- Ask the Directory Services Team : RSAT Released for Windows 7 – How do I get back the missing tabs?<br />
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RSAT for Vista finally got back 4 of the 5 missing tabs for ADUC, but RSAT for Windows 7 RTM is still missing them. I assume they should match the names you see in Server 2008 R2:<br />
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•Remote Desktop Services Profile<br />
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•Environment<br />
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•Sessions<br />
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•Remote Control<br />
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•Dial-in<br />
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Since we now have some RODCs on our domain, it would also be nice to have the Password Replication tab.
- How to install and configure the Indexing Service on a Windows Server 2008-based computer – This article describes how to install and configure the Indexing Service on a Windows Server 2008-based computer. Additionally, this article describes the changes that were made to the Indexing Service for Windows Server 2008.
- What is Enhanced vMotion Compatibility anyway? | The VMguy – Let me explain the problem, as some customers find it, and some do not. Here’s the issue: You start your virtual infrastructure by purchasing 3 hosts. Let’s say that the 3 hosts have Intel E5310 processors in them. You start to load up your VM’s on that cluster over the next 6 months. When the cluster is full you go back to your OEM vendor of choice, only to find that they no longer make that server model with a E5310 processor. The same model from the OEM now contains a Intel E5420 CPU. There are some differences in this CPU from those in the original hosts , specifically the instruction set (SSE4). If you try to add that new host to the existing cluster you will quickly find that you cannot vMotion to it.
- CPUID – CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
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:
Posted by jayb | Posted on 17-02-2010
Category : Daily Links, Misc
Tags: citrix, ocs, sharepoint2010, sn, storage, vmware, xendesktop
These are my links for February 10th through February 17th:
Posted by jayb | Posted on 10-02-2010
Category : Daily Links, Misc
Tags: activedirectory, esx, sharepoint2010, sn, sql, vmware
These are my links for February 5th through February 10th:
- Jie Li’s GeekWorld : Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta – Since SharePoint 2010 has been made available for MSDN/TechNet subscriber public now, here’re some steps you would like to follow to get a successful installation. But keep in mind: This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released. This Beta should only be used for evaluation purpose.
- SharePoint 2010 Category – Technet sharepoint 2010 forums
- Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master – Directory Services/Active Directory – Q: Is the Infrastructure Master allowed to run on a Domain Controller which also holds the Global Catalog Server?
- How to migrate the vCenter database to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – NTPRO.NL – Eric Sloof – If you want to relocate your vCenter database from a local express SQL server to a central Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you can use the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard to copy and transform data between supported data sources and destinations.
The purpose of the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard is to copy data from a source to a destination. The wizard can also create a destination database and destination tables for you. However, if you have to copy multiple databases or tables, or other kinds of database objects, you should use the Copy Database Wizard instead.
- Virtual Infrastructure best practices | VMGuru.nl – I choose (a virtual) life! – Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations but others are pretty obvious. Nevertheless you would be surprised how many environments I’ve encounter were the most basic best practices have NOT been met.
