Overview
This article and video covers a clean installation of Exchange Server 2010 SP2. In order to successfully complete this installation without worrying about an upgrade situation, we have a new Windows Server 2008 R2 setup for the purpose of this demo, that includes all of the hotfixes and prerequisites. The easiest way to ensure that your Server 2008 R2 is ready for the SP2 install is to simply run Windows Update until all the updates are done. After that, the server will be ready to handle Exchange Service Pack 2.
(Instructional video below provides a walkthrough of the steps contained in this article.)
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When deploying or thinking about deploying Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), it is important to understand the concept of a service profile. A service profile is an idea that is central to the deployment of UCS as it is used to define the computing, networking and storage requirements of each deployed server. This article takes a brief look at the concept of a service profiles and how it can be used to reduce the amount of ongoing management of the UCS.
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PC-over-IP (PCoIP) is a display protocol that allows complete compression of a desktop which is then displayed through a zero client device over a standard IP network. While there are several display protocols that exist in desktop virtualization such as RDP, ICA and RGS, PCoIP has become the most prevalent protocol for display back of a virtual desktop.
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In part 1 of Troubleshooting VMware View 5, we examined six common failure points that you’re likely to stumble upon when working with VMware View 5. We also reviewed the connection procedures for connecting users to their desktops before moving on to linked clones.
Today we’ll take a look at some real world examples of problem desktops in View 5 and show you some of the usual steps we take to troubleshoot them. So take a look at the video, from TrainSignal’s new VMware View 5 Training before reviewing the troubleshooting steps outlined below.
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I’m assuming many of you use Windows PowerShell to create reports for servers, events and all the other items you come across in a Windows network. You probably create text files; perhaps even some nice HTML reports. But you can also use Microsoft Word, assuming you have it installed of course. In the next few articles, I want to guide you through incorporating Microsoft Word into your PowerShell work.
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Overview
Cloud computing offers the ability to rent capacity and share applications on a third party’s server farm. IT departments worldwide are actively looking at how they can embrace this new model for delivering computer solutions to their users.
This article is part of a series of focused articles that will help you successfully embrace this new delivery model. In this article, we are going to focus on the three common mistakes that IT professional make when selecting a third party cloud service provider.
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Overview
In today’s post we’ll tackle the most common failure points in VMware View 5 and talk about the best ways to troubleshoot them when issues arise. The failure points we’ll review include:
- Network connectivity failure between client and connection or security serve
- Network connectivity failure between desktops and connection server
- Failure to create a pool
- VM stuck in provisioning state
- VM stuck in customizing state
- USB redirection problems
After learning about the different points of failure you should look out for, we’ll take a look at the connection procedures for connecting a user to a desktop and how linked clones work, which will help you troubleshoot vmware view issues related to your composer-based pools.
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Last time I showed how to use the command tool EVENTCREATE.EXE, to create your own custom event log entries. Today I want to demonstrate how to accomplish this task using Windows PowerShell. Here we’ll use the Write-EventLog cmdlet. The first step should be to look at cmdlet help.
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Introduction
Office 365 provides options for working with Exchange online, SharePoint online, and Office Web Apps, in addition to features such as Active Directory Sync and access to full featured Office 2010 Professional software.
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I’m sure you’ve used the event logs in Windows on more than one occasion. They are an invaluable resource for IT Pros when it comes to troubleshooting, analyzing or reporting. But did you know you can create your own event log entries? It doesn’t even require any programming or scripting. Perhaps you want to write an entry to the System event log when you run some sort of audit process. Perhaps you need an entry in the Application log to reflect the installation of an in-house application. Or perhaps you simply want to “touch” an event log.
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