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Category Archives: Windows Server
New Microsoft Solution Accelerator: Virtual Machine Converter
Microsoft Solution Accelerators are great tools that help you plan, securely deploy and manage new Microsoft technologies, and they are all free! Read more about Soltion Accelerators here. Recently a new solution accelerator to convert VMWare VMs and disks to Hyper-V was released. So now you really have no excues not to move to Hyper-V! …
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My slide deck from the Norwegian Partner Kickoff event is available for download
Thank you to everyone who attended my session at the Norwegian Partner Kickoff event for Windows Server 2012 today. A special thanks to everyone who took the time to evaluate the session. My slide deck is available for download here. It will also probably be made available by Microsoft at some point in time.
Ever wonder if your Microsoft product is supported for virtualization?
If so, wonder no more! The Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC), a 140-page checklist, lists all the requirements a Microsoft product must fulfill before it can ship. One such requirement is “Must support Hyper-V”. So if you cannot support Hyper-V you cannot launch! Microsoft has been kind enough to list all its server software and …
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Will if fail over, or just fail? Some DNS empirical testing
While out to dinner the other night we got to talking about name resolution in Windows, as one does while out enjoying a fine meal with friends… During the discussion we found that one of us had experienced some strange behavior with regards to the prioritization of DNS servers and failover. Specifically the issue was …
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Authentication errors on NLB cluster
I configred a 2 node NLB cluster to load balance Remote Desktop Session Hosts with Windows Server 2008 R2. These were virtual servers running on VMWare so I selected to use multicast mode for the cluster. The cluster IP (.3) correctly resolved to the cluster multicast address with ARP. The cluster formed and converged successfully. …
The Case of The Strange Folder Redirection Error
I was enabling Folder Redirection for some Windows 7 Professional machines, or rather, for the users of some Windows 7 Professional machines. The users already had a server based home directory with a My Documents folder, which also had data. The purpose of the operation was to, firstly, enable Folder Redirectin, but also to merge …
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If you won’t translate RDS profiles; I will!
Out of pure frustration with the fact that the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) is unable (unwilling is my guess) to do security translation for users’ Remote Desktop Services (RDS) roaming profiles, I decided to take matters into my own hands and created the script below. It is not very refined just now, but I …
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SHA1 Thumbprints for trusted .rdp publishers
Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) has a Group Policy setting that determines which publishers are to be considered trusted when launching connections (typically .rdp files served in various ways). The publisher is identified by the SHA1 thumbprint of the certificate of the publisher (the certificate used to sign the .rdp file). You get the thumbprint from …
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Establishing a performance baseline
Introduction A performance baseline is a vital part of you system documentation. A baseline should be established immediately after a new system has entered production, and should be repeated with regular intervals. That way you can see how your system performs over time and make informed decisions about when a system will have to be …