Microsoft System Center advisor - interesting product

Microsoft System Center advisor

www.systemcenteradvisor.com

60 day trial

SCOM 2007 R2 agent

no real time monitor

it uses port 80

use MS cloud service to do analysis



 

SBS 2011 NIC teaming

SBS 2011 NIC teaming

..... not supported on a physical platform

- virtual machine ok

only 1 NIC in a physical SBS 2011 server
 

SBS 2011 install - hard drive requirements

SBS 2011 install - hard drive requirements

- the C: drive must be at least 80GB

70GB wont do,

- 120GB recommended

nephew's HP notebook got wiped , sister blamed ......

while on the internet, a message appeared , restart needed

and after restart everything is gone;

got /boo/bcd error

put in your installation desk...

I tried to repair over the phone, press F8, nothing seems to happen. eventually run the HP diagnostics, the hardware seemed fine

last nite, I physically started the recovery, no luck.... I found out the hard drive space used to about 500MB, everything is gone,...

finally decided press F11 to reload everything

backup up, backup and backup your data ... phew ..........

I got blamed for using Microsoft security essentials .... I failed to stop it ....

but this could be some physical fail?

a couple of their classmate with HPs also had this problem in the last couple of days....

I wonder HP got hacked or some cosumer notebook got defexcts

 

Microsoft User State Virtualization - the new UE-V

Microsoft User State Virtualization

MS add User Experience Virtualization (UE-V)  in addtition to Folder-redirection and offline files

Microsoft User State Virtualization includes several Windows technologies that together can provide a consistent desktop and application experience for a user across multiple Windows desktops. User State Virtualization provides access to data and personal settings on any device.
User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) synchronizes application and personal settings to a file share in your datacenter. This means that users can move to any device and the settings are copied to the device when required. Application settings are not handled as a single entity such as a user profile, but are treated as separate for each application and synchronized separately. This means that the synchronization task is a small, fast synchronization that occurs after changes have been made and the user locks the screen or logs off the desktop
By adding folder redirection,and offline files if required, users always have access to their data in the same location from every device, providing a seamless desktop experience while enabling users to roam from device to device, or ensuring desktop consistency in the case of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) pooled deployment

( source MS MVA)

how to solve a server/client performance problem - shadow volume copy

how to solve a server/client performance problem - In this case , volume shadow copy ...

a customer is running sbs 2008, on a low end HP ML110
Rob said every morning at 7:xx am or 12:xx pm in there afternoon, they couldn't print and open excel file on server
what could be casuing the problem....
by default, MS volume shadow copy will run at 7:00am and 12:00pm
I changed the schedule a bit early in the mroning and bit later in the afternoon....
ah... they said still slow at those times....
I checked again, well the volume shadow copy session wont finish in 30 minutes, it actually run for more that 1 hours....
or dear I will never assume how soon it will finish,,,, only the log will tell


by the way ,,, the google bloggeer is way too slow , oftern stopped responding

how to re-activate windows xp after re-imaging

how to re-activate windows xp after re-imaging

the activation screen just wont appear, the PC just will shutdown upon login

need boot to safe mode

do something to re-arm windows xp trial (in 30 days)

but it still wont show the activation wizard...

the trick in this case is to install IE8, (not the ie 6 on the PC)