Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides—Release Announcement

Windows Server Virtualization

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated virtualization guides: Windows Server Virtualization and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, outline the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of these virtualization products.

The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows Server Virtualization takes the reader through the process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification of the Hyper-V™ server hosts required is presented in easy-to-follow steps, helping the reader to design and plan virtual server datacenters.

The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager assists readers in the design and implementation of SCVMM architecture, thus enabling centralized administration of physical and virtual machines. Identification of the VMM server instances required is one of the simple, seven-step design processes presented in this guide.

Download the IPD Guides for Virtualization at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee395429.aspx
Infrastructure Planning and Design streamlines the planning process by:

• Defining the technical decision flow through the planning process.
• Listing the decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
• Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
• Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.

 

Uitnodiging SDN DIWUG avond event, dinsdag 29 september

De zomer is weer voorbij! Tijd voor een nieuwe DIWUG avond! Dit keer een gevarieerd programma met twee interessante sprekers: 2 Nederlandse MVP's!
Deze avond wordt gehost door Qurius. Qurius AS is met de auto goed bereikbaar. Het kantoor ligt vlakbij alle belangrijke uitvalswegen en ze beschikken over eigen parkeergelegenheid. Deze parkeergelegenheid is echter wel beperkt. Om die reden, en met het oog op de verwachte drukte, raden wij je aan om op 29 september a.s. met het openbaar vervoer naar Rijswijk af te reizen. Het station ligt op een steenworp afstand van het kantoor van Qurius. Klik hier voor complete adresgegevens

Inschrijven voor deze avond kan via www.diwug.nl. 

DUTCH INFORMATION WORKER USER GROUP

Welcome to the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) website. DIWUG is a platform for people that are interested in Information Worker solutions. Several times a year, DIWUG organizes an event where members can meet, share knowledge and see interesting presentations in an informal setting. If you would like to join us or receive more information about our activities, please subscribe for the next event, or contact us by email .

SESSIE: DINSDAG 29 SEPTEMBER

DIWUG heeft op 29 september weer een interessante avond voor je in petto! Dit keer een gevarieerd programma met twee interessante sprekers: 2 Nederlandse MVP's!
Deze avond wordt gehost door Qurius. Qurius AS is met de auto goed bereikbaar. Het kantoor ligt vlakbij alle belangrijke uitvalswegen en ze beschikken over eigen parkeergelegenheid. Deze parkeergelegenheid is echter wel beperkt. Om die reden, en met het oog op de verwachte drukte, raden wij je aan om op 29 september a.s. met het openbaar vervoer naar Rijswijk af te reizen. Het station ligt op een steenworp afstand van ons kantoor. Klik hier voor complete adresgegevens

AGENDA

18:00-18:45
Ontvangst met een hapje eten

18:45-19:00
Introductie door DIWUG

19:00–19:45

Kleine moeite, groot resultaat: Het aanpassen van bestaande en toevoegen van nieuwe blokken aan de SharePoint blokkendoos.
In veel organisaties wordt SharePoint gebruikt als platform voor een intranet of een samenwerkingsomgeving. Bij het inrichten van zo’n omgeving ben je vooral bezig met het realiseren van aanpassingen aan en uitbreidingen op het platform, in plaats van met het bouwen van grote maatwerk oplossingen. Je kunt op het SharePoint platform vaak met weinig inspanning veel effect sorteren. In deze sessie zal Ton van een aantal van deze aanpassingen laten zien hoe ze te realiseren zijn en hij zal uitleggen waarom hij voor een bepaalde aanpak gekozen heeft. De voorbeelden zullen onder andere bestaan uit:

• Eenvoudiger gebruikers beheer
• Navigatie in wiki's
• Gebruik van meerdere RSS feeds in een nieuws site
• Aanpassingen aan standaard gedrag SharePoint search scopes
• Wijzigen van SharePoint documenten met Office 2003
• Extra navigatie in MySites

Na deze sessie heeft u een goede indruk van hoe de SharePoint blokkendoos aangepast en uitgebreid kan worden.
Spreker: Ton Stegeman (MVP SharePoint)

19:45–20:00

Pauze

20:00–20:45

Best practices Excel Services
Excel is een van de meest gebruikte gereedschappen in het bedrijfsleven. Naast het maken van berekeningen wordt Excel vaak toegepast als project management tool, het bijhouden van lijstjes en het maken van formulieren. Het nadeel is uiteraard dat de Excel werkbladen op de computer van één medewerker staat, met als gevolg dat anderen er geen gebruik van kunnen maken. Natuurlijk is dit voor een deel op te lossen door de werkbladen in een SharePoint document library te plaatsen. Echter, er is betere manier om de kracht van Excel te combineren met het gemak van SharePoint: Excel Services. Excel Services is een onderdeel van MOSS 2007 waardoor je in staat bent om Excel op de server te laten draaien en alleen de resultaten van een werkblad te presenteren aan de gebruikers van de data. Dit opent een heel scala aan mogelijkheden! In deze sessie laat Dennis Vroegop (Software Architect, voorzitter dotNed en Microsof Most Valuable Professional) zien wat Excel Services is, hoe je het toepast en welke valkuilen je tegen kunt komen.
Spreker: Dennis Vroegop (MVP .NET)

21:00–21:30
Netwerken met drankje

Active Directory Recycle Bin is a new feature in windows 2008 R2 it is not an option that you can turn on or of.

Yes it is a hidden feature and you can only turn it on. What do you need well only a windows 2008 R2 DC

By default, Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2 is disabled. To enable it, you must first raise the forest functional level of your AD DS or AD LDS environment to Windows Server 2008 R2, which in turn requires all forest domain controllers or all servers that host instances of AD LDS configuration sets to be running Windows Server 2008 R2. After you set the forest functional level of your environment to Windows Server 2008 R2, you can use the instructions in this guide to enable Active Directory Recycle Bin.

The restore can only be done with powershell there is no supported tool from microsoft but there are nice gui tools.

http://powergui.org/shares/powergui/sbin/docs/Advanced_Reporting_PowerPack/Advanced_Reporting_PowerPack.html

http://www.overall.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40:adrecyclebin&catid=15:adrecyclebinexe&Itemid=64

How does It work.

You can enable it if your forest is on windows 2008 R2 <> check it in Active directory domains and trusts <> right click on domain<> raise domain functional level.

I started the Powershell and get this.

Oh ok I never used the powershell on this server so I have to import the modules

 

Now I am ready to go , mm what is this error

security ! ok we can fix this so check our powershell policy : Get-ExecutionPolicy

Restricted easy thing change one letter G=S

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

  Now we have set the policy and get a list off commands

Get-help set-AD*

this shows a list of all set-ad starting commands.

We have already checked that the domain is in 2008R2 mode but you can set this with powershell.

set-ADForestMode -Identity mvp.local -ForestMode Windows2008R2Forest.

To enable the AD recycle Bin we use Powershell, you can do this by hand in the CN=Partitions but this is the best way.

No Ad recycle bin key.

We run the enable option. you can get help on this get-help Enable-ADOptionalFeature

Enable-ADOptionalFeature –Identity ‘CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features,CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration, DC=MVP,DC=local’ –Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet –Target ‘mvp.local’

Now there is a key CN=Recycle Bin Feature

To verify that Active Directory Recycle Bin is enabled, navigate to the CN=Partitions container. In the details pane, locate the msDS-EnabledFeature attribute, and confirm that its value is set to CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features,CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration, DC=mydomain,DC=com, where mydomain and com represent the appropriate forest root domain name of your AD DS environment

We do a list of deleted items check on deleted=True

I used a user that is called “Deleted”

 

 

Get-ADObject -Filter {displayName -eq "delete"} –IncludeDeletedObjects

 

Get-ADObject -Filter {displayName -eq "delete"} -IncludeDeletedObjects | Restore-ADObject

So now you can delete and restore AD items but better would be if there where gui tools.

There are no Gui Tools from microsoft at this time. but there are some great community tools . I like the tool from Overall solutions, but there is also a powergui tool

 

 

Have fun with it don’t tell your user or IT manager this that you can restore Items with a click or script in 10 min time. Else you get more work on recovering deleted items. Even the helpdesk can do this. IMHO this is a must have option just like AGPM Or my old post

 

On September 29th at 9 am (PST) please join us here on www.thenewefficiency.com for a kick-off discussion on “The New Efficiency” live from San Francisco as a part of Microsoft’s Virtual Launch Event.

Join in the conversation during this must-see event and see top technology leaders and Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, debate the role of IT during this economic reset. Can cost savings, productivity and innovation come together to drive business growth? Get a closer look at how real companies are justifying IT investments across desktop, server, network and beyond.  You’ll also find sessions related to new releases of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Forefront, Microsoft System Center, and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.

Mark your calendars; watch it live; submit questions in advance.  Don’t miss it!

 

The easy things are often the hard things to do. Clustering, DCHP,DFS,SQL,SCOM,SCCM,SCDMP,MOSS,

I had this project that runs completely on SQL with a IIS .NET app and I migrated them to SQL 2008 Clustered and on Windows 2008 R2 but I had this Question I want to mirror the DB to an off site location, ok no problem just follow the wizard and do next next Finish like I always do ;-)   “I hate the Wizards “ but yes they did and it won’t work. So they hired me to do the job. I saw the mistakes and see why people don’t READ. Some IT crowd just have a lot off stress to help the company to get things running again. Ok the youtube links are a bit off topic but the It crowd of this project did know all of them and we had a lot of fun during the installation in this 100% success fully project. I had again a happy customer.

But If you want to mirror the SQL DB you must not forget to do just one step use  named pipes.

So I have my 2 SQL 2008 servers running and as you can see I have the Mirror consol open and there are DB in it.

in less than 10 steps we do DB Mirroring.

 

Logon to SQL server ( source DB ) and or make A DB

 

Make Sure the DB is in full Recovery mode !

This is the key thing USE named pipes ! on source and target.

So now we have a database that we want to mirror, I check a few steps with a SQL script.

Just to make sure the DB is in full recovery.

use master

go

alter database Moss2007

set recovery full;

go

The next step is backup the DB

Backup database Moss2007

to disk = 'c:\moss2007.bak'

with format

go

And backup the Database Log files

backup log MOSS2007

to disk = 'c:\moss2007log.bak'

go

Yes I can be done easyer but this is a step by step and you can do things twice.

 

So the first server done. Lets go to the second server and copy files to other server. The backup files are now on the target server.

Maybe the path location is not the same than on the source, better is to use the same location but you can easy change this.

What I did I did an all in one job restore and change the path.  the SQL script speaks for it.

 

use master

go

restore database moss2007 from disk ='C:\moss2007.Bak' with norecovery,

replace,

move 'moss2007' to 'C:\sql\moss2007.mdf',

move 'moss2007_log' to 'C:\sql\moss2007_log.ldf'

go

restore log moss2007 from disk ='C:\moss2007log.bak' with norecovery, replace,

move 'moss2007' to 'C:\sql\moss2007.mdf',

move 'moss2007_log' to 'C:\sql\moss2007_log.ldf'

go

So now we moved the DB files to the C:\SQL location , there is no better place than the c drive to place your DB files , if it uses all your disk space and there will be a sudden reboot the system is broken if you are lucky.

USE a disk other than the C drive.!!

 

We go back to the Source server.

   

On the Source server we follow the menu task<>mirror <> configure security. We can’t do anything else here yet.

 

So easy next <>next , in my case I have only 2 servers but better would be 3 servers the third server as a witness server,

I choose NO here, next would be source SQL server.

To support automatic failover, a database mirroring session must be configured in high-safety mode and also possess a third server instance, known as the witness. The witness is an optional instance of SQL Server that enables the mirror server in a high-safety mode session to recognize whether to initiate an automatic failover. Unlike the two partners, the witness does not serve the database. Supporting automatic failover is the only role of the witness

 

    

Next choose the target server , you will get a SQL logon window , logon and proceed

 

  

Now if you run SQL on a service account than use this account for the mirror.

And finish

 

  

The database mirror is complete you can start it directly or in the first menu where you started. If you do a failover you will see that the DB is moved to the other location, and you app can still be up the sql server is mostly one item. remember the SQL server name is different than the first one so the app must see that the DB is moved to the other server witch can be down.

This shows the DB mirror console nice info can be found here.

 

Today there is this story about the SMB BOSD is it true ?

first here is the full story http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/2009/09/windows-vista7-smb20-negotiate-protocol.html

My Windows Versions.

I run the exploit and yes there is a BSOD 

but there is no firewall on and everything is wide open. This is on my windows 2008 R2 RC build 7100

even with the Firewall on it still gets a BSOD the only thing you can do is block port 445. And I did a test on Windows 7 in my domain with the BSOD DC ;-( and no BOSD my Windows 7 is secure !!

 

On the left windows 7 <> right Windows 2008 r2 RC build 7100

After replacing the srv2.sys file and a reboot I did the test again and no more BOSD

  but where did I find this new srv2.sys file <> yes in windows 7

Story confirmed partly true. but it can be fixed. when I do not know. but remember changing this file is not supported.

and you need to bypass the NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller security rights.

You must remember turn your firewall on does not always help you port 445 ,138,139 are open if you make a block rule 445

but maybe you need 445 ;-)

No I’m not gona help you to test this or tell you where to find the tools to do this.