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Microsoft releases beta for Microsoft Orchestrator 2012
011 months ago
Source: Microsoft
The System Center Orchestrator Beta product provides the capability of automation of workflows (Runbooks) across other System Center and 3rd party products. These runbooks are created in the Runbook Designer, deployed via the Deployment Manager and run and monitored locally or remotely via the Orchestrator Console.
Feature Bullet Summary:
- Management Server
- Orchestrator Console
- Runbook Designer
- Deployment Manager
- Web service for reporting
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 enters beta stadium
012 months ago
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 continues to deliver on the promise of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, simplifying and improving endpoint protection while also greatly reducing infrastructure costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager, allowing customers to implement endpoint protection as part of a unified infrastructure for securing and managing physical, virtual, and mobile client environments. This shared infrastructure lowers ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security. New features in the beta release include:- Support for System Center Configuration Manager 2012- Role-based administration- More efficient delivery of security updates.
Microsoft released service pack 1 for APP-V 4.6
01 year ago
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Service Pack 1 (App-V 4.6 SP1) updates App-V 4.6 with the latest security and stability enhancements to help keep computers running App-V up-to-date, reliable, and more secure. The goal of this service pack is to increase the overall quality of the existing product features while maintaining a high level of compatibility with previous releases.
Feature Summary:
- Streamlined application sequencing – Improvements to the App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer make packaging applications for App-V easier and faster.
- Support for using a read-only cache on RDS – App-V 4.6 SP1 now supports using a shared, read-only cache in both VDI and RDS environments.
- Support for sequencing Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 – App-V 4.6 SP1 now supports sequencing the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
- Customer Feedback and Hotfix Rollup – App-V 4.6 SP1 also includes a rollup up of fixes to address issues found since the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 release.
Upcoming: Microsoft Lync client for Windows Phone 7
01 year ago
2 good colleagues of mine, has used a bit of their sparetime to develop this great looking Lync Client for WP7.
Take a look at the video
It will be made available for free on the Windows Phone Marketplace very soon.
Microsoft released rollup package 2 for Data Protection Manager 2010
01 year ago
Microsoft released rollup package 2 for Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM). Below the details.
This rollup resolves the following issues:
- When you change the ports that are used by the Data Protection Manager 2010 Remote Access service, recovery jobs may fail.
- On some client computers, the System volume runs out of space when local shadow copies are created and when the shadow copy storage is set to UNBOUNDED.
- When you try to protect more than 1,000 client computers from one Data Protection Manager 2010 server, you receive a warning that you cannot protect more than 1,000 client computers by using Data Protection Manager 2010, even though Data Protection Manager 2010 can protect up to 3,000 client computers.
Citrix XenApp 6 shutdown and restart problems
11 year ago
A lot of my customers reported the same issues with XenApp 6. During the night servers are restarted to provide a clean server to their employees. These servers sometimes hangs during the shutdown/restart procedure and will not restart until an system administrator manually forces the servers to restart.
Citrix released a hotfix to prevent this issue from happening. Besides this issue it will also resolve the following issues:
Create a Root CA on Windows Server 2008 R2 core edition Part 3
01 year ago
This is the third part (Part 1, Part 2) of the how-to guide on installing and configuring an offline Root Certificate Authority on a Windows Server 2008 R2 core edtion.
Within this part we are going to install and configure Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) on the Root CA. Also we are going to backup the root certificate with private key to external storage and encrypt this drive Bitlocker to go.
Prerequisites
The following must be available before using this guide:
- Part 1 and Part 2 of the installation guide must be completed;
- Root access to the Root CA server (ILO, VMware, vSphere console);
- SetupCA.vbs must be downloaded (click here) and stored on the Root CA (C:Temp)
- One or two USB drives (dedicated for the backup of the root certificate and private key).
Installation steps
Create a Root CA on Windows Server 2008 R2 core edition Part 2
01 year ago
This is the second part (Part 1) of the how-to guide on installing and configuring an offline Root Certificate Authority on a Windows Server 2008 R2 core edtion.
Within this part we are going to encrypt the OS drive with BitLocker. By encrypting the drive it will be almost impossible to steal the private key of the root certificate. Within this guide we are going to use a virtual machine on VMware (Hyper-V or XenServer are also supported). Because our virtual machine does not have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) we are using a virtual floppy which will be needed everytime the server will be powered on.
This guide can also be used on all Windows Server 2008 R2 core servers.
Prerequisites
The following must be available before using this guide:
- Root access to the server (ILO, VMware, vSphere console);
- Windows Server 2008 R2 core edition already installed;
- A server with Windows Server 2008 R2 full and the Bitlocker feature installed.
Installation steps
Exchange 2010: Remotely create a mailbox
11 year ago
I have created an script which will remotely enables a users mailbox.
# This powershell script creates a remote mailbox.
# Created by Bart Timmermans
$Server = Read-Host "(Please enter the hostname of your Exchange 2010 Server)"
$User = Read-Host "Please enter the username (domainuser)"
$ServerFull = "HTTP://" + $Server + "/Powershell"
# Start session to remote Exchange 2010 server.
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri $ServerFull -Authentication Kerberos
Import-PSSession $Session
# Create new mailbox
Enable-Mailbox -identity $User
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway SP1 rollup 3 released
01 year ago
Source: Microsoft
This article lists Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that apply to Forefront TMG 2010 SP1. The issues that are described in these articles are resolved in Software Update 1 Rollup 3 for Forefront TMG 2010 SP1.
Issues that are resolved by Software Update 1 Rollup 3
