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Well ik was a long week of sessions and after party’s community stuff , getting swag and more swag. Hope it was intresting for all of us now we have to wait for a year to see Teched 2009 Europe yes not Emea but europe.

so for the next 2 years Teched Europe in in Berlin.

But if you can’t wait and missed teched in berling you can go to dubai ;-)  1-3 march 2010. I posted a new photo book and You can see the TechEd Country Drink.

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Just a quick recap on the cluster sheets this week, there were a lot of questions how do I solve the split brain thing.

Well make sure you have one cluster node up and do start the services with force state like below

net start clussvc /fixquorum

Or with powershell

Start-ClusterNode –FixQuorum

So just now there is new documentation discussing special cases and consideration when migration to a R2 cluster (from 2003, 2008 or R2). Additional considerations needed for DFS-Replication, DHCP, (MS)DTC, Exchange, File Server, MSMQ, Print, SQL, VMs and 3rd Party

Resources. Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee791924(WS.10).aspx Our general R2 migration guide is here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730990.aspx

Additional detailed guidance for the following migrations on a cluster is also available:

DHCP: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee460952(WS.10).aspx

Hyper-V: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957256

Steps for migrating from R2 RC to R2 RTM are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/09/02/9890272.aspx

There where today alot of sessions because teched is fully booked you must come early or else your seat is gone this is a bad thing, I had this blue shirt with microsoft on it and Staf on my badge so I have been kicked out in a cluster session. this to make room for other people , Microsoft personal where not allowed –| .

So you can see clustering is getting popular and why well Hyper-V wants it for the cluster shared volumes ( CSV ) and with this you can do live migration of hyper-v VM’s . The CSV volumes are not suitable for file sharing it will not work the volumes are getting corrupted if you do !

SVR319 Multi-Site Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2

This session is all about clustering the do’s and don’t

What if you have only one datacenter ?       Well multi-site clustering is now here          You can give the network interface a “OR” option

If you have only one san But you need 24x7 uptime than you san needs replication but how ?

So make a choice whay do you need sync or A-sync and very important is the cluster validation tool.

  here is a overview of the new Witness disk the old quorum disk.

CLI306 How-to: Windows 7 Deployment on a Stick!

What do you need

use the MDT 2010 tool kit and make sure you use imagex ! here you can image your system and create a image for redeploying in the old days this was a riprep image you all know this was sometimes a pain in the % . now it rocks.

The POS session is also about deploying and imagex

EMB203 Using Windows Deployment Services and Microsoft System Center to Deploy and Manage a Point-of-Service (POS) System Running POSReady

at this session there where only a few people so was it not interesting ? well below are a view of the PPTX.

As you can see SCCM come across in most of the products now days time to learn SCCM the new SMS 2003 yes or no. I like the product but only for OS deployment ??? no use WDS think create build and deploy TCBD is my opinion easy to do test it in your hyper-v environment build a DC, WDS , deploy windows 7 and capture a image with imagex and put the image.wim file in the wds and redeploy it to a new machine so 4 VM’s can do this. hardware one quadcore  and 4 gb memory a basic desktop now days.

there is more to come but you have to see this stuff slides are fine but the realthing is better.

And remember there will be NO 32 bit windows 2008 R2 OS !

on some slides microsoft uses the x86 but this means not always that it is x32 no it means this is a intel based machine.

I had a lot of questions of when will there be a 32 bit windows 2008 R2 server ? why do you want to have this server for testing ? but you have hyper-v for testing ?

Well suppose you have running windows 7 and want to do a virtual windows 2008 R2 then you have a problem… tomorrow a new day and fresh questions.

Today was a long day early up and late in the hotel.

Yesterday we had the Exhibition openings party and the springboard party below is a brief overview. 

the watergate club

and tomorrow there is the dutch community party.

Today is the first day for the most of the delegates at teched 2009 Berlin so here is a first impression of teched 2009 Berlin

there will be a teched middle east so this teched is the last EMEA teched next teched will be teched Europe !

The first session was Virtualization 360: Microsoft Virtualization Strategy, Products, and Solutions for the New Economy

Kenon Owens is making an overview of all the items you come across when you do de virtualization

When You use Hyper-V then you should use CSV cluster shared volumes ( like vmotion )

Now you can do a live migration or do a failover to a other data center. HP give a nice demo how to use windows 2008 R2 and use SCCM,SCOM,SCVVM.  In SCOM us can use the MP from HP to manage the HP servers be aware this is not the same as using the Web tools of HP there was a demo that fails over a Exchange 2010 server to a other Datacenter.

Power management is a hot issue today ,datacenters are consuming more power and more is better but Today less power is more so the vendors are using tools to give detail info about the power consumption

Today the hyper-T and h yper-D where sharing get on the bus T-shirts and they give us 7 reasons not to join tech-ed and 7 to join.

But the highlight was that Exchange 2010 is now Live

The Exchange Server 2010 bits are available for download now

#TEE09 Teched Europe #keynote #20jmf

http://www.citymosaic.de/

Der Mauerfall am 9.11.1989 ...

... hat eindrucksvoll gezeigt, was eine große Gemeinschaft bewirken kann. Nur der Wille und die Hartnäckigkeit der demonstrierenden Massen haben die Wiedervereinigung möglich gemacht. Wir möchten jetzt, 20 Jahre später, dem Volk ein Gesicht geben und das größte Fotomosaik der Welt erschaffen. Jeder kann mithelfen und sich mit einem oder mehreren Bildern verewigen, um damit seinen Eindruck des Mauerfalls, der Feierlichkeiten zum 20 jährigen Jubiläum oder sonstigen Impressionen zu dem Thema allen Menschen mitteilen.

Das „BerlinMOSAIK“ ist eine virtuelle Kunstaktion von Sascha Ackermann und Lars Beckmann, die jeden herzlich einlädt, an der Aktion teilzunehmen, der das Tag 20jmf verwendet. Personen, die Bilder mit dem vorgenannten Tag (Namen) über das Uploadtool oder einen anderen beschriebenen Weg hochladen erteilen uns mit der Namensgebung die Erlaubnis, das Bild in dem Mosaik zu veröffentlichen und für Marketing- oder PR Maßnahmen rund um das Mosaik zu nutzen.

Eine Selektion oder Kontrolle kann leider nicht in der Gänze erfolgen, daher weisen wir darauf hin, dass die Bilder die persönlichen Impressionen der teilnehmenden Nutzer darstellen. Daher stellen diese weder die persönlichen Meinungen noch Einstellungen der Betreiber dar. Wir übernehmen explizit keine Verantwortung/Haftung für jeglichen extern bereitgestellten Inhalt.

Wir werden versuchen, sämtliche Bilder, die diskriminierenden, fremdenfeindlichen, anstößigen, sexistischen oder verbotenen Inhalt darstellen schnellstmöglich auszufiltern und von der Seite zuverbannen. Ein Anrecht auf eine Teilnahme an dem Mosaik besteht aus den vorgenannten Gründen daher nicht.

source :http://www.portel.de/nc/nachricht/artikel/41093-microsoft-teched-europe-2009-in-berlin-eroeffnet/12/

In seiner Eröffnungsrede gab Achim Berg einen sehr persönlichen Rückblick auf das heutige historische Datum: "Wie Millionen andere Menschen saß auch ich am 9. November 1989 wie gebannt vor dem Fernseher und verfolgte live den Fall der Berliner Mauer." Entsprechend unterstützt Microsoft Deutschland das neue virtuelle Gesamtkunstwerk "BerlinMosaik", das die Berliner Künstler Lars Beckmann und Sascha Ackermann zum Jubiläum gestartet haben. Nutzer können dabei Fotos in unterschiedliche Communities wie Picasa, Twitter oder Flickr hochladen und den Tag "20jmf" einbinden.

Eine von den Künstlern entwickelte Applikation findet die Bilder und gliedert sie in das Social Media-Projekt ein. Tausende von Fotos lassen sich dann gleichzeitig zoomen oder neu anordnen. Realisiert wird das innovative Projekt über die Microsoft-Technologie Silverlight 3 mit Deep Zoom.

Microsoft ruft alle Nutzer auf, bei diesem Projekt mitzumachen.

MGT102-SUN Why Microsoft Built a Backup Solution

Presenters: Jason Buffington, Sandeep Phadke

Sun 11/8 | 16:00-17:15 | New York 1 - Hall 7-1a

This session was about  DPM today and feature

Jason did a brief overview of what is coming this week and take the time for QA. He said DPM is a bit late with his new version because We need this DMP 2010 version now if we want to backup Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V R2

This are the DPM sessions today

Here are some excellent links to the DPM resources

jason says also how the License is working a enterprise agent and a file agent is the bottom line.

I like the product you should see atleast one session and than tell me that you don’t like this product. No this is great yes as an addon.

it is fast and stable and you can easy restore your Microsoft product’s ok it cost a lot of diskspace and you need a fast san. But hardware is cheat these days so this should not be an issue.

Tomorrow is the first day at ask the expert booth so maybe I see you there. I have to go to the bar here Jack Daniel's is waiting.

It took me 3 hours and 25 minutes to get to my hotel and a 30 min walk to the ICC Messe @teched

to take pictures above this speed is not save.  so after getting to the old DDR it is a fly by did not give me the time to stop maybe on the way back.

Yes it is time to go. Tech-ed 2009 in berlin  hard work to do party every day.

during the daytime party and afterhours we have to work, lets face it who knows peter beense.

I have all his Mp3’s who doesn’t , I have stored this files safely on the web If I ever need it I can use it. But not this week.

So 300 miles to drive in 5.5 hours this can’t be right

With my speed max 138 Miles/hour it should be 2,5 hours with an extra two hours in the city. lets change the speed of the PKW ;-)

yeb 4 hours. Hope I can improve my max speed.

I see you @ tech-ed 

Did You know that you can add a VHD disk to your windows 2008 R2 Server and /or boot from it ?

You can easy edit the VHD and reuse it in hyper-v.

So go to disk manager and right click on disk management

You can create a new VHD. If you use dynamic make sure you have the disk space that u needed.

I use a fixed disk with windows 7 on it. that I use in hyper-v as golden Image for my desktops.

fill in the VHD location.   You can make it read only if you need software install that is on a VHD, I have a VHD with all the ISO files on it that I can mount on every server if I need to install extra software or tools.

But now I use the Windows 7 VHD now that I mounted the disk I can use it.

I need a WallPaper on the windows 7

now I can do a offline or detach vhd , If I don;t I get this error in hyper-v

even if the disk is offline

You can also delete the VHD ;-)

or You can boot from the VHD it is just like in windows 7   mount it and use bcdedit to change the boot string.

below are samples.

bcdedit /set {GUID} device file=[c:]\vhd\win7.vhd
bcdedit /set {GUID} osdevice file=[c:]\vhd\win7.vhd

Here are some articles and video about booting from VHD.
http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2009/01/11/windows-7-natively-booting-from-a-vhd-virtual-pc-image-file.aspx

Inside Windows 2008 R2 Virtualization Improvements and Native VHD Support (Mark Russinovich)
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/tv/default.aspx

Today I Replaced a mainboard of my Hyper-V cluster for a better one. after booting up the new hardware wizzard poped up the wizzard found new hardware. I had a Driver DVD ready but what is this no driver disk is needed the driver installation was a automatic process find the hardware and downloaded the driver from the windows driver catalog.

Sure there are hardware items that can’t be found. that is where the driver DVD is needed.

But one thing I changed is the following on the New hardware icon and double clicked it and there was a setting always use the driver catalog. I did not make a screen shot ;-( I tried to reproduce the settings but I’m not able to do this. But remember this you can change this setting Below are the shots of downloading the drivers.

As you can see in the screen shots the driver is downloaded.  Cool ! 

SQL 2008 Cluster The current SKU is invalid.

Invalid SKU Error when Adding a Node to a SQL 2008 Cluster

After setting up several SQL 2008 Clusters I ran in to this problem I think it is only on windows 2003 x64 enterprise but I’m not sure.

The issue is this: After installing the first SQL 2008 Sp1 node you want to add the second node , you do the add node to the SQL server failover cluster and follow the wizard.

But after checking the setup support rules , and the product key check this message pops up that “The current SKU is invalid “ What is this I did install 2 other two node clusters with no problem, is the installation source broken or need the new server a kernel restart.

No it is a BUG , yes a bug : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957459/ I downloaded the fix (360784_intl_x64_zip.exe  178 MB)

In my case it did not work ;-( , the problem is clear the product key is not right or the check is no working. The location of the product key is in the defaultsetup.ini I fixed this ini with the SP1 location after I slipstreamed the SP1 in SQL 2008. I removed the defaultsetup.ini and run the add node setup again and I get the product key popup

And there I copied the product key from the defaultsetup.ini and the Installation worked. I know this is not nice but without the defaultsetup.ini my product key is not available in the source so no unauthorized installs can take place.

Now that I have a workaround for the installation crew I checked the microsoft site if there is a bug filed and yeb there is. 

Another Cluster issue fixed.

DirectAccess

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide: DirectAccess.

This IPD guide provides actionable guidance for designing a DirectAccess infrastructure. The guide’s easy-to-follow, four-step process gives a straightforward explanation of the infrastructure required for clients to be connected from the Internet to resources on the corporate network, whether or not the organization has begun deploying IPv6.

The guide covers four key steps in the design process for DirectAccess:

• Aligning the project scope with the business requirements.

· Determining whether IPv6, Teredo, 6to4, and IP-HTTPS connectivity will be supported for Internet-based clients.

· Assessing the need for IPv6/IPv4 network address translation service and ISATAP for internal communication.

· Determining the number and placement of servers, the certificate services requirements, and location of CRL distribution points.

Download the IPD Guide for DirectAccess at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=164151.

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.

Source: Coretech

Download: CoretechCoffeeMonitor-MP-0.0.0.1 18.15 MB

This is very cool now I can build my own beer MP with a recovery task to SMS my girlfriend to buy or bring me more beer.

nice work

The file has included test examples and vlc player. The Management Pack is 32Kb

This management packs can be used to keep track of the level of coffee in left in the pot.

With this management pack, you will never run dry of, what we all know, is the most important part of a productive environment!

This is mostly made as a proof of concept, as this technique can be transferred to other monitor types. It could be expanded with other types of sensors, like a weight to check the level of coffee instead of a camera, or a thermometer to check the temperature of the coffee.

This is the very first version. It has been tested in test environments.

By default, it will trigger a warning when under 50% is left, and a Critical Alert when under 20% is left.

Please do not hesitate to report any bugs and please send suggestions for the next version you might have.

This was developed by Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen with the help of Kåre Rude Andersen

Requirements

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

A network connected camera

Coffee machine with clear-glass pot and free view to all of the pot, see an example in the video.

<> read more on source http://blog.coretech.dk/opsmgr07/opsmgr-2007-r2-scom-coretech-coffee-monitor-management-pack-0001/

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Windows Deployment Services

System Center Operations Manager

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides for deployment and operations: Windows Deployment Services and System Center Operations Manager.
These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server® 2008 R2 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, outline the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of these deployment and operations products.

The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Windows® Deployment Services guides the reader through the process of designing a Windows Deployment Services infrastructure in a logical, sequential order. Following the six steps in this guide will result in a design that is sized, configured, and appropriately placed to enable rapid deployment of Windows operating systems, while also considering the performance, capacity, and fault tolerance of the system.

The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. The guide takes the reader step-by-step through the process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. Identification and design of the required management groups is presented in simple, easy-to-follow steps, helping the reader to design and optimize management infrastructure.

Download the IPD Guides for Windows Deployment Services and System Center Operations Manager at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ee382254.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.

The Service Manager team is very pleased to announce that Beta-2 for Service Manager 2010 is now available for download from connect. Details and links are below.

Download

To download, simply go to the Service Manager site on Connect www.connect.microsoft.com. Once you have successfully signed in, click the Downloads link, click Service Manager Beta-2 and then select all of the following files on the download details page:

· SMCDImage_amd64.exe

· SMCDImage_x86.exe (32 bit console)

· InstallOMMPs.exe

· AuthoringTool.exe (authoring console)

· SM_B2_Public.zip

Click download to begin the download process. Once the files have successfully downloaded, please be sure to read the release notes before installing the product as they contain some important information about the release

You can also use the public forums for feedback and support, link below
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2066&SiteID=17

Please read the “Preparing for Service Manager Deployment” section of the Installation and Configuration Guide for step-by-step guidance on how to install and configure the product.