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Within DeploymentWorkbench go to Deployment Shares\<YourDeploymentshare>\Task Sequences.
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Organize the available task sequences into folders. Task sequences that aren’t in a folder can’t be restricted.
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Within DeploymentWorkbench go to Deployment Shares\<YourDeploymentshare>\Advanced Configuration\Selection Profiles.
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Create a new selection profile and at “Select the folders that should be included in this selection profile” select the folders below Task Sequences that should be visible for this profile.
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Edit CustomSettings.ini, add UserID to Priority before the value Deffault under [Settings]:
[Settings] Priority=UserID, Default
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Define a section in CustomSettings.ini in the form [userid]. Example: if the User ID is Helpdesk then the section should be [helpdesk].
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Define the selection profile to be used for this user below this section. Example: to give helpdesk access to the Helpdesk selection profile, add the following:
[helpdesk] WizardSelectionProfile=Helpdesk
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Create a selection profile in which no folder has been selected and place a WizardSelectionProfile=nameofemptyselectionprofile below [Default] if you want none other than the defined user IDs to have access to the task sequences.
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Now when the user logs into the wizard in the WinPE environment, he/she sees only the task sequences that are available in the selection profile.
Source:Microsoft TechNet – MDT Forum – How to hide/show task sequence for specific users/user groups?
Tag: Deployment
VMware View Bootcamp
VMware is organizing a nine-part VMware View Bootcamp: every day a new video is published for you to view. At the end of this bootcamp, you will have a good understanding of the VMware View solution, how to roll it out and how to optimize View in your environment. A free e-book of all the presentations is included in this bootcamp series. A hope I can download the free e-book 
. Because I am going on Holiday next week.
VMware View Bootcamp Series
Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview
- Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
- Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment
Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices
- Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
- How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
- Sizing and workload considerations
Network Considerations and Best Practices
- Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
- Network requirements for LAN and WAN
- Bandwidth requirements deep dive
- Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication
Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View
- Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
- How to build and tune your desktop image
- User and workload considerations
- OS specific tips (XP, Win7)
Delivering Applications
- Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
- Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
- Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
- Application migration, application conflict and compatibility
PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices
- Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
- How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
- How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
- Bandwidth requirements
Automating View 4.5 with Powershell
- Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Introduction to View PowerCLI
- Setting up an environment and basic tasks
- Creating your own scripts
- Integrating with vSphere
Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP
- Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Introduction to Security Server
VMware View’s Reference Architecture
- Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Review of RA for stateless desktops
- Description of test environment, equipment and lab results
MDT 2010 WSUS deployment Error 0x80244019
I added so as always WSUSServer=http://ward-bh01 to customsettings.ini
When the deploying the image I get de following error
The Error
Solution:
Ad the Port number to de WSUSServer address in customsettings.ini. In my case it was 8530. Because the WSUS site was running on that port number see the pictures
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WSUSServer=http://ward-bh01:8530
Office 365 Handy Documents
Some handy white papers about Office 365 
Security in Office 365 White Paper
Microsoft Office 365 Jump Start
The Microsoft Office 365 Jumpstart series provides an excellent perspective of the overall value Office 365 provides to modern organizations in terms of productivity, access, familiarity, security, control and reliability.
- Office 365 Jump Start (01): Microsoft Office 365 Overview for IT Pros
- Office 365 Jump Start (02): Deploying Clients For Office 365
- Office 365 Jump Start (03): Microsoft Office 365 Administration & Automation Using Windows PowerShell™
- Office 365 Jump Start (04): Microsoft Office 365 Identity and Access Solutions
- Office 365 Jump Start (05): Microsoft Office 365 Directory Synchronization
- Office 365 Jump Start (06): Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
- Office 365 Jump Start (07): Microsoft Exchange Online Administration
- Office 365 Jump Start (08): Microsoft Staged Exchange Online Migration
- Office 365 Jump Start (09): Hybrid Options with Exchange Server & Exchange Online
- Office 365 Jump Start (10): Exchange Online Archiving & Compliance
- Office 365 Jump Start (11): Lync Online Overview & Configuration for IT Pros
- Office 365 Jump Start (12): SharePoint Online Overview
- Office 365 Jump Start (13): SharePoint Online Administration
- Office 365 Jump Start (14): SharePoint Online Extensibility & Customization
- Office 365 Jump Start (15): Office 365 Deployment Overview
Exchange Video’s from TechEd North America 2011
Some interesting video’s from TechEd North America 2011 about Exchange 2010 
- EXL302 Archiving and Discovery in Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online | Krish Sundaresan
- EXL306 Best Practices for Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange 2010 | Jim Lucey, Jeff Mealiffe
- EXL307 Load Balancing with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 | Andrew Ehrensing
- EXL309 Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Migration Case Study | John Logan, Danny Kim, Ann Vu
- EXL310 Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Simple Migration Live! | Ram Poornalingam
- EXL311 Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office 365: How to Set Up a Hybrid Deployment | Jim Lucey
- EXL312 Designing Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mailbox High Availability for Failure Domains | Ross Smith IV
- EXL313 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Tips and Tricks | Scott Schnoll
- EXL322 Microsoft Exchange Online: Unified Messaging in Microsoft Office 365 | Michael Wilson
- EXL324 Top 10 Insights on Development of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 against Microsoft Office 365 | Albert Kooiman, Robin Thomas
- EXL326 What’s New in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2: Featuring GAL Segmentation | Greg Taylor
- EXL327 Real-World Site Resilience Design in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 | Robert Gillies
- EXL401 Exchange Server 2010 High Availability Management and Operations | Scott Schnoll
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 Available
Microsoft has just released as a public beta the newest version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 with a few important updates:
- Supporting System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012.
- Using Lite Touch Installation (LTI), great improvements in the client side look-n-feel.
- Also for LTI, behind-the-scenes enhancements for partitioning, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), and user state migration.
- Some minor bugs fixed.
MDT 2012 Requirements
Same as MDT 2010:
- Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) 2.0. You can download it from here.
Note: The download page indicates that the WAIK version is “1”; but don’t worry, the actual version is 2.0. - MSXML 6.0
- PowerShell.
- .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. Available for download here.
Note: Even though .Net Framework 2.5 SP1 is not a requirement for MDT 2010 installation; one of its features, User-Driven Installation (UDI), does requires the latest Microsoft Framework installed.
MDT 2012 Look-n-Feel
For what I’ve seen so far, the user experience of the Deployment Workbench console is pretty much the same.
MDT 2012 Beta 1 Download
The beta is available in this link from Microsoft Connect,
Kemp LoadMaster Sizing Guide for MS Exchange 2010
Kemp released a cool tool: LoadMaster Sizing Guide for MS Exchange to see which of our products is best for you.
Some info about Kemp:
KEMP LoadMaster combines versatility with ease-of-use to speed deployment (see our step-by-step guidelines in the LoadMaster Deployment Guide for Load Balancing MS Exchange 2010) of the complete portfolio of advanced messaging applications and protocols used by Exchange 2010, including Outlook Web Access, Outlook Anywhere, ActiveSync, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP and RPC Client Access (Native MAPI). With built-in SSL acceleration and/or overlay, the LoadMaster offloads a key source of CPU drain to improve the capacity of Client Access Servers. Layer 7 healthchecking at the LoadMaster ensures that should one of the servers become inaccessible, the load balancer will take that server off-line, while automatically re-routing and reconnecting users to other functioning servers. Not quite ready to make the move to Exchange 2010? KEMP LoadMasters integrate seamlessly with earlier versions of Exchange as well. 
Screenshot from de sizing tool:
Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool
The Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool provides analysis of your on-premises environment in preparation for an Office 365 enterprise deployment. The readiness tool is integrated with the guidance provided in the web edition of the Microsoft Office 365 Beta Deployment Guide.
Download HERE
I run the tool in my test environment. See below the results
Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Readiness Tool
Beta
Office 365 Deployment Resource Kit build 01.00.00.00 
Click here for the Microsoft Office 365 Beta Deployment Guide for Enterprises
Domains
Deployment Guide: Adding Your Domain(s) to Office 365
All email domains discovered in your environment:
Total: 3
All primary email domains discovered:
Total: 2
Primary email domain suffixes with greater than 50 users:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
User Identity and Account Provisioning
Active Directory
Statistics
Total number of domains discovered in your forest: 1
Estimated total number of users: 59
Estimated total number of contacts: 0
Estimated total number of groups: 54
Estimated total number of mailboxes: 53
Estimated total number of objects for Directory Synchronization: 113 
Note: Filters were applied to obtain the above object counts for an Office 365 deployment.
Forest and Domains
The following domains were discovered in your Active Directory forest:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
Trusts
No forest trusts found 
You may deploy AD FS 2.0 and Directory Synchronization without multi-forest constraints
Schema and Forest/Domain Functionality Levels
Active Directory forest schema level: Windows Server 2008 R2
Exchange schema level: Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Domain Functionality:Windows Server 2008 R2
Forest Functionality:Windows Server 2008 R2
Domain Controller Functionality:Windows Server 2008 R2 
It appears that your Active Directory schema is prepared for Exchange Rich Coexistence 
Deployment Guide: Exchange Rich Coexistence Requirements
Deployment Guide: Active Directory Cleanup
samaccountname (user name) Attribute
Character length test passed 
Unsupported character test passed
givenname (first name) Attribute
Character length test passed 
Unsupported character test passed
Character length test passed 
Unsupported character test passed
Character length test passed 
Unsupported character test passed
mail (email address) Attribute
Character length test passed 
Unsupported character test passed 
No duplicates found
Character length test passed 
Unsupported character test passed
proxyaddresses (email addresses) Attribute
No duplicates found 
Unsupported character test passed
Directory Synchronization
Object count assessment:
Estimated number of objects for Directory Synchronization (entire forest): 113 
Deployment Guide: Object Count Considerations
Enterprise Admin rights: 
It appears that you are an enterprise admin
Directory Synchronization admin requirement met! 
Deployment Guide: Directory Synchronization Required Permissions
Active Directory recycle bin: 
Active Directory recycle bin is enabled in your forest this may impact your total object count quota for Directory Synchronization.
Office 365 Single Sign On and Identity
AD FS 2.0 Directory Cleanup Check:
UserPrincipalName (logon ID for Office 365) Attribute
Update values once you have verified your organization does not have any other application dependencies on the UserPrincipalName attribute. 
Deployment Guide: Active Directory Cleanup 
Unsupported characters test passed 
Spaces in logon value test passed 
Unicode character test passed 
Note: All Unicode characters will be converted to underscores (_) in the UserPrincipalName field. 
No UserPrincipalName duplicates found 
Discovered users without a user logon name (blank value) for UserPrincipalName
You will need to provide each user a UserPrincipalName in order for these users to sign into Office 365. 
Below is a list of your UserPrincipalName domain suffixes in use:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1 
Note: During the Office 365 Beta only one namespace (root and child domains) per AD FS 2.0 farm
Example contoso.com and root.contoso.com would require 1 AD FS 2.0 farm and fabrikam.com would require an additional AD FS 2.0 farm
Password length per domain:
Exchange Online
Discovered Exchange Server(s) on-premises:
Estimated total number of Exchange Servers: 1
Statistics:
Estimated total number of users with default mailbox size (True): 53
Estimated total number of users with larger than default mailbox size (False): 0
Estimated total number of objects with Exchange organization level quota: 6
Lync user assessment:
Estimated total number of users leveraging Office Communications/Lync on-premises: 2
Sip domains: 
The following sip domains were discovered:
wardvissers.local
Total: 1
User object count assessment: 
The number of user objects in your forest is supported. 
Deployment Guide: Object Count Considerations
Client and End User Experience
Deployment Guide: Rich Experience Client Requirements
Summary of client computer readiness (Office 365 single sign-on and rich client checks):
Below is an estimate of computer operating systems NOT ready for Office 365 rich client experience:
Total: 0 
Below is an estimate of computer operating systems ready for Office 365 rich client experience:
Windows XP Service Pack 3: 3
Windows 7 Service Pack 1: 3
Total: 6
IP Configuration:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.150.60
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.150.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.150.254
Trace route to your default gateway:
Tracing route to 192.168.150.254 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.150.254
Trace Route test to Exchange Online:
Tracing route to outlook.com [65.55.94.40]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 192.168.150.254
2 * 24 ms 25 ms 82.169.11.254
3 25 ms 26 ms 26 ms 195.69.145.20
4 145 ms 146 ms 144 ms 10.14.234.234
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 10.14.234.234 reports: Destination net unreachable.
Trace complete. 
For additional tests utilize the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer
Port Query Tests:
Deployment Guide: Ports and Protocols 
portal.microsoft.com
Made a TCP 443 connection to portal.microsoftonline.com 
Outlook.com
Made a TCP 443 connection to outlook.com 
Outlook.com IMAP
Made a TCP 993 IMAP connection to outlook.com 
Outlook.com POP
Made a TCP 995 POP connection to outlook.com 
Outlook.com SMTP
Made a SMTP TCP 587 connection to outlook.com 
Active Directory Federation Services End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to nexus.microsoftonline.com 
Directory Synchronization End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com 
Office 365 PowerShell End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to ps.microsoftonline.com 
Outlook.com PowerShell End Point
Made a TCP 443 connection to ps.outlook.com 
Office 365 Community End Point
Made a TCP 80 connection to community.office365.com 
Lync Online SIP Connection
Made a TCP 443 connection to sipdir.online.lync.com 
Lync Online Federation
Made a TCP 5061 connection to sipfed.online.lync.com
Domain Name System (DNS) name records checks: 
Found the following MX DNS record(s):
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
wardvissers.local
primary name server = ward-dc01.wardvissers.local
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.wardvissers.local
serial = 761
refresh = 900 (15 mins)
retry = 600 (10 mins)
expire = 86400 (1 day)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
Information Gathered On:
WARD-DC01
Date: za 07-05-2011
Start Time: 18:19
End Time: 18:21
How Should Your Organization Deploy Microsoft® Exchange?
Microsoft released a white paper how to deploy Microsoft Exchange: as Exchange Server 2010 on-premises, Exchange Online with Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud, or using both in a temporary or permanent hybrid scenario.
Knowing the benefits and limitations of each deployment option can help you make the right decision for your organization. Whatever you decide, the deployment flexibility that Microsoft provides with Exchange makes it easier for you to get the right solution for your business.
Download HERE the whitepaper