configure a CISCO POE switch

well,  blush, bulsh... my first production cisco swx after doing study on that for years

in th GUI, still need to do copy run start

save
 

lenovo servers and IBM servers

now

IBM servers changed to Lenovo server.

two Lenovo branded server here at that place, one has a power supply issue. the other has a faulty mainboard.
 

group policy in Azure Active Directory

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-whatis/

not there yet

comments below ....

AzureAD is not a direct replacement for your on-premises AD as it does not bring all the functionality (yet) such as group policies, OU's, Kerberos authentication to other on-premises services. 

install Office 365 office 2013 Pro Plus on windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop server

install Office 365 office 2013 Pro Plus on windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop server

ok, i am told by local office architect that I can do that, it is just I need run special click-to-run tools to deploy it

office 365 pro plus wont run on RDS if I do a straight forward install

need follow this

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn782858%28v=office.15%29.aspx

for whatever reason the configuration.xml not working for me , if I created it myself.

so I just edited the sample file

even if I followed all the instructions , I still this error

This copy of office cannot run on terminal server .....

some useful links

here
http://blog.powerbiz.net.au/office-365/installing-office365-proplus-on-a-rds-server-terminal-server-using-shared-computer-activation/

the link saved my work day is here

http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2014/09/10/some-more-info-on-shared-computer-activation-with-office-365-proplus.aspx

many thanks to Rod , the fix is

For anyone who installs Office 365 ProPlus on an RDS server and receives the "This copy of Microsoft Office 2013 cannot be used on a computer running Terminal Services. To use Office 2013 on a computer running Terminal Services, you must use a Volume License edition of Office” message, check HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\ClickToRun\Configuration in the registry for the string SharedComputerLicensing with a setting of 1. 

Solved my problem.

its reg_sz string 1

in my case, the string is not there and i created one

Its time to blog office 2013 / office 365 pro plus license activation -- KMS host and KMS VLK office 2013 pro plus activation

it is time to blog about office 2012 / 365 proplus licenses

here is the situation

windows 2012 R2 RDS server,

install VLK version of office 2013 pro plus -- with KMS key

then install VA tools on the same terminal server or rds server

it wont activate

run a MS diag tool, it find out the VA tools and office 2013 install cannot be on the same server

ie KMS host can be on the same host as the client install

shooooot

upgrade to windows 10 --- enterprise edtion

as you probably know, there is no auto-upgrade to enterprise edition as MS only allows home and pro edition free upgrade.

I tried to upgrade my w10 enterprise preview with the new evaluation edition, surprisingly , it wont allow me to upgrade, only a fresh install

so I used the downloaded w10 enterprise ISO from mspartner site ( not free)

then upgrade option is available

I successfully updated my preview to full version


 

see if a VM is Generation 1 or Generation2

http://windowsitpro.com/hyper-v/how-do-i-see-if-vm-generation-1-or-generation2

Get-VM | Format-List Name,Generation

PS C:\Users\Administrator> \Get-VM | Format-List Name,Generation


Name       : WXPDC
Generation : 1

Name       : WXRDS

Generation : 1