I love blogging. Last week was WordPress for Android released 
. Now you can live blogging from your android phone.
The app now features a fully refreshed UI, a new post editor with a formatting toolbar, support for Android-powered tablets, background posting, and improved stats!
If you aren’t an Android user, never fear! There are plenty of WordPress mobile apps to choose from.
Microsoft released the official fix for: You cannot close the EMC window on a computer that has Internet Explorer 9 installed. Windows Internet Explorer 9 installed, you start the Exchange Management Console (EMC). After you make a change and then try to close the EMC window, the window does not close. Additionally you receive the following message:
You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console.
Download: KB2618444 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer: December 13, 2011
Here is a common scenario. You are deploying an operating system using MDT Lite Touch, during the deployment you install some user specific applications. However the users think that the deployment is completed an they close the application installs or perhaps start messing with the machine while it is still logged in as the local administrator. Now you could simply inform the user that they should not touch the computer until the deployment is completed. However in my experience this “don’t touch” approach has not always been 100% successful.
Well now we have a better way, you can hide explorer shell while MDT is “doing it’s thing”!
So how do we do this? It is simple, just add the following line to the customsettings.ini file:
HIDESHELL=YES
I have included before and after shots below:
Look explorer…
,
No explorer…. that’s better!
Teradici released a new PCoIP zero client and host card firmware and the PCoIP Management Console. The following releases are now available for download on the Teradici support site (techsupport.teradici.com):
Firmware 3.5.0 update includes key feature enhancements including:
With this release, Teradici continues to innovate PCoIP zero client technology and accelerate the adoption
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been released, raising the Exchange version number to 14.2.247.5. You can download Exchange 2010 SP2 here.
For those still unaware, the 530Mb+ file (1,4 GB extracted) contains the full set of binaries; you can use it to upgrade existing RTM or SP1 installations or deploy new Exchange 2010 SP2 installations.
Besides the usual set of hotfixes, SP2 introduces the following features:
Address Book Policies
Address Book Policies, also known as GAL segmentation, ABPs are meant to segmentize the address book, giving users a certain view of the address book like Address List Segregation did for Exchange 2003/2007.
OWA mini
This will be a lightweight browser like OMA in the past, meant for simple browsers.
Hybrid Configuration
This wizard is to make the configuration of an on-premise Exchange and Office 365/Exchange Online more simple, reducing the steps required from 49 to 6.
OWA Cross-Site redirection
This will allow clients to be silently redirected to the proper site if they log on to a CAS server located in a site different than the site where their mailbox is hosted and externalURL has been specified there.
After preparing your forest for Exchange 2010 SP2, the schema version number will have changed. Check the Schema Versions page for information on the new ObjectVersion and RangeUpper values for Exchange 2010 SP2.
Note that SP2 introduces an additional requirement, which is the IIS 6 WMI Compatibility feature; you can add this feature using the GUI or by using the Powershell cmdlets Import-Module ServerManager followed by Add-WindowsFeature Web-WMI.
The proper method to upgrade mailbox servers that are a member of a Database Availability Group is described here.
The releases notes are not available at time of writing; we’ll update this post when they become available.
Highlights of VMware Workstation 8.0.1 functionality include:
VMware Workstation 8.0.1 is a free update for all VMware Workstation 8 users.
The following sections list the resolved issues in VMware Workstation 8.0.1.
A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk,
CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.VMware Tools unrecoverable error.
Today I upgraded a MDT 2010 installation to MDT 2012 Beta 2.
One of the new features is monitoring 
To Configure monitoring you find a tab Monitoring on properties of the Deployment Share.
You must set a V Enable monitoring of this deployment share
Under the root of the Deployment Share u see now Monitoring. When you click on Monitoring you can see running deployments.
The latest version of MDT is now available on Connect (Join the MDT 2012 Beta 2 Connect program here!)
MDT 2012 Beta 2 offers new User-Driven Installation components and extensibility for Configuration Manager 2007 and Configuration Manager 2012 as well as integration with the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT) for Lite Touch Installation remote control and diagnostics.
Key benefits include:
New features For System Center Configuration Manager customers:
New features For Lite Touch Installation:
MDT 2012 the final release will be available download through to January 2012 I think.
Today i needed to configure the Multipath Policy from “Most Recently Used” to “Round Robin (VMware) on our vSphere 4.1 and HP EVA4400 environment. After reading “Configuration best practices for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family and VMware vSphere 4” I decided to change the path status
To check the status of the Multipath Policy you can run the following PowerCLI script:
Per host:
Get-VMhost ESXHOST | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk 
Per Cluster:
Get-Cluster CLUSTERNAME| Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk
To change the Multipath Policy you can run the following command:
Per Host:
Get-VMHost ESXHOST | Get-ScsiLun -CanonicalName "naa.6005*" | Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy "roundrobin"
Per Cluster:
get-cluster “Cluster Name” | Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | Where-Object {$_.MultipathPolicy -ne “RoundRobin”} | Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy “RoundRobin”
Special thanks to: VMPROS
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