Tag: Windows XP

Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless toolkit that finds computers on a network and performs a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and the Remote Registry Service. The data and analysis provided by this toolkit can significantly simplify the planning process for migrating to Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Server® 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Forefront® Client Security and Network Access Protection. Assessments for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Vista include device driver availability as well as recommendations for hardware upgrades.

You can use MAP to inventory the following platforms:

  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP® Professional
  • Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 R2
  • Windows 2000 Professional or Windows 2000 Server
  • VMware ESX
  • VMware ESXi
  • VMware Server

Reporting
– Identification of currently installed Windows client operating systems, their hardware, and recommendations for migration to Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The tool also reports if desktops have anti-virus and anti-malware programs installed and if the Windows Firewall is turned on.
– Identification of currently installed Windows Server operating systems, their hardware, and recommendations for migration to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008.
– Identification of currently installed Microsoft Office software and recommendations for migration to Microsoft Office 2007.
– Detailed assessment and reporting of server utilization gathered using the Performance Metrics Wizard.
– Recommendations for server consolidation and virtual machine placement using Hyper-V
– Assessment of client machines, servers, and the technology environment for the implementation of Microsoft Application Virtualization (APP-V)
– Identification of machines where Microsoft SQL Server components are installed.
– Identification of virtual machines, their hosts, and details about each.
– Identification of Windows Server Roles

Hardware Requirements:
– Windows 2003 x86/x64 or Windows 2008 x86/x64
– 1,5 GB (2 GB 2008)

Software Requirements:
– NET Framework 3.5 SP1
– Windows Installer 4.5
– Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Word 2003 SP2
– MIcrosoft Office Excel 2007 or Excel 2003 SP2
– SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008, or SQL Server 2005

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Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is coming

Exchange Team announced that SP1 for Exchange 2010 is coming with a lot new features

I highlighted the things with I like from the coming update. It’s a whole list but i thing with this update is Exchange 2010 SP1 the best version ever!!! 😀

A list of al new things in Exchange 2010 SP1:

Archiving:
– Personal Archive to a different mailbox database from their primary mailbox 😀
– You can import historical e-mail data from .PST files, directly into Exchange
– delegate access to a user’s Personal Archive
– SP1 updates the Exchange Management Console with new tools to create Retention Policy Tags
– support access to a user’s Personal Archive with Outlook 2007 Coming with A update

Outlook Web App
– Delete, mark as read, and categorize operations running asynchronously, these actions feel instantaneous to the user
– Attaching a very large file, will not block the rest of the OWA experience
– Sharing calendars to anonymous viewers via the web if you enable this.
– OWA themes back
– Reading pane can be placed on the bottom or the right side

Mobile:
– Support for send-as
– Support for notifying the user if their device has been placed on block or quarantine by their admin
– Full implementation of conversation view
– To sync only unique parts of messages.
– Setting up mobile device to access mail via POP/IMAP/SMTP, information is available in OWA.

New Management UI
– Create/configure Retention Tags + Retention Policies in EMC
– Configure Transport Rules in ECP
– Configure Journal Rules in ECP
– Configure MailTips in ECP
– Provision and configure the Personal Archive in ECP
– Configure Litigation Hold in ECP & EMC
– Configure Allow/Block/Quarantine mobile device policies in ECP
– RBAC role management in ECP
– Configure Database Availability Group (DAG) IP Addresses and Alternate Witness Server in EMC
– Recursive public folder settings management (including permissions) in EMC

Read the whole article at HERE.

Exchange 2007 The exchange server address list service failed to respond. After Upgrading Domain Controllers to 2008 R2

I want to creat a new mailbox for a new user. But i get the following error: The exchange server address list service failed to respond.
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Solution:
Go to Organization Configuration in EMC. Right click it in EMC and select Modify Configuration Domain Controller. Point it to your DC hosting the PDC

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After that restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant services on the mailbox server.

The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant Service does the following thing:

Forwards directory lookups to a global catalog server for legacy Outlook clients, generates e-mail addresses and offline address books, updates free/busy information for legacy clients, and maintains permissions and group memberships for the server. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

MDT 2010 Health Care

MDT 2010 Health Care is een samenvatting van best practices voor het aanpassen,  bouw en migreren, en beveiligen van Windows XP, Windows Vista of Windows 7 machines. Ook wordt hier kort beschreven hoe men applicaties kan uitrollen (scripted installs,silent installetie, application packages) als onderdeel van de uitrol. Het gaat om het uitrollen van een standaard desktop voor gemeenschappelijk gebruik. Tevens wordt besproken hoe men de gegeven van een gebruiker mee kan nemen naar de nieuwe werkplek.

Handleidingen:
Healthcare Desktop User State Migration Guide
Automated Build Application Integration Guide
Healthcare MDT 2010 Administrators Guide
Automated Build Healthcare Desktop and Server Guide

Downloaden van de MDT HealthCare doe je hier: MDT HealthCare

Installatie:

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Voorbeeld wat Health Care automatisch aanmaakt:

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Rollup 3 voor Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

Microsoft heeft Rollup 3 voor Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 vrijgegeven.

Het overzicht wat er allemaal gefixt is:
"451 4.4.0 DNS Query Failed" status message in an Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server

Later updates do not match a calendar item that an Exchange Server 2007 user updates by using Exchange ActiveSync on a mobile device

You receive an "0x800423f0" error message when you perform system state backups on the passive node of Windows Server 2008-based Exchange Server 2007 CCR clusters

An external recipient misses the last occurrence of a recurring meeting request or a recurring appointment that is sent from an Exchange Server 2007 user

The Edgetransport.exe process crash when it process meeting requests in Exchange Server 2007

The subject of a confirmation message is garbled for certain languages when a remote device wipe operation is performed in Exchange Server 2007

The sender address of a forwarded meeting request does not include "on behalf of" as expected in an Exchange Server 2003 organization and an Exchange Server 2007 organization mixed environment

A SSL certificate validation error is generated on an Exchange Server 2007 server when you run any test commands after you run the Test-SystemHealth command

A mailbox that was moved from an Exchange Server 2007 server to an Exchange Server 2010 server cannot be accessed by using Outlook

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops responding on an Exchange Server 2007 server

The synchronization and the reconciliation between Microsoft Office Outlook and a BlackBerry mobile device fails when a mailbox is moved around between two Exchange Server 2007

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server when a user tries to access a specific calendar item

Read items are marked incorrectly as unread items in an Exchange Server 2007 public folder

A delegate cannot save three settings of Resource Settings for an Exchange Server 2007 resource mailbox in OWA

You receive an error message when you use ExBPA to schedule a scan on an Exchange Server 2007 SP2 server

The store.exe process hangs on an Exchange Server 2007 server

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FREE eBook: The SysAdmin Handbook

Een aantal mensen van Red-Gate hebben weer een mooi ebook geschreven wat elke Microsoft/Exchange beheerder moeten weten. Het is een samenvatting van The Best of
Simple Talk SysAdmin

De Onderwerpen:

Exchange
– High Availability in Exchange 2007
– Message Hygiene in Exchange Server 200731
– Using Exchange 2007 for Resource Booking
– Controlling Email Messages using Exchange’s Transport Rules
– Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Clustering
– Top Tips for Exchange Admins
– Exchange Database Technologies
– Message Classifications in Exchange 2007
– Deploying Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008
– Exchange Server Log File Replay
– Configuring Exchange Server 2007 to Support Information Rights Management
– Reporting on Mobile Device Activity Using Exchange 2007 ActiveSync Logs
– Online Exchange Backups
– Optimizing Exchange Server 2007
– Exchange: Recovery Storage Groups
– Exchange E-mail Addresses and the Outlook Address Cache
– Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007
– Goodbye Exchange ExMerge, Hello Export-Mailbox
– Determining MS Exchange Disk Performance
– Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007: Part 2
– Message Tracking in Exchange 2007
– Third Party High Availability and Disaster Recovery Tools for Microsoft Exchange Server
– Exchange Server 2010 – The First Public Beta Version
– Emulating the Exchange 2003 RUS for Out-of-Band Mailbox Provisioning in Exchange 2007
– Using Exchange 2007 Transport Rules to Protect the First Entry in the Address Book
– Cluster Continuous Replication Network Design
– Building an Exchange Server 2007 environment
– An Introduction to Messaging Records Management
– Installing Hyper-V and Beyond
– Restricting Outlook Client Versions in Exchange 2007
– Using Twitter and PowerShell to Find Technical Information and Join a Community
– Update: Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate
– Exchange backups on Windows Server 2008
– Moving to Office Communications Server 2007 R2
– Monitoring and Scheduling Exchange 2007 Database Online Maintenance
– Exchange 2010 High Availability
– Implementing Cluster Replication – Part 1
– The Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2
– Using Group Policy to Restrict the use of PST Files
– Introduction to Exchange Server 2010
– The Ego and the System Administrator
– Implementing Windows Server 2008 File System Quotas
– Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication, Part 2
– Active Directory Management with PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2
– Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
– Customizing the Outlook Address Book

General Articles
– A SysAdmin’s Guide to Change Management
– A SysAdmin’s Guide to Users
– Change Management – What It Is and Why You Need It
– Manage Stress Before it Kills You
– Hiring System Administrators
– Increase Your Value as a Professional in the Technical Industry
– The Art of Dealing with People

Virtualization
– Virtual Exchange Servers
– Virtualizing Exchange: points for discussion
– Build Your Own Virtualized Test Lab
– A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server – Part 1
– A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server – Part 2
– Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction
– Increasing the Availability of Virtualized Applications and Services
– Microsoft Hyper-V Networking and Configuration – Part 1

Unified Messaging
– An Introduction to Unified Messaging
– Moving to Office Communications Server 2007 R2

PowerShell
– Managing Exchange 2007 Mailbox Quotas with Windows PowerShell
– So You Thought PowerShell Was Only For Exchange 2007

Downloaden klik op het boek

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MDT 2010 Deploy per Computer of per Model MDT DataBase Config

Met MDT 2010 kun je ook Applicaties per Model of per Computer deployen. 
In het artikel MDT 2010 Deploy per Computer of per Model heb ik uitgelegd om de juiste te achter halen.

Per Computer:
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Per Model (Getest met een Virtuele XP Machine):
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VMWare View GPO settings

Group Policy settings die je moet zetten onder Remote Desktop

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VMWare View Client GPO settings
– Enable the shade
– Pin the shade
– Don’t check monitor alignment on spanning
– Color depth
– Desktop background
– Show contents of window while dragging
– Menu and window animation
– Themes
– Cursor shadow
– Font smoothing
– Desktop composition
– Audio redirection
– Redirect drives
– Redirect printers
– Redirect serial ports
– Redirect smart cards
– Redirect clipboard
– Redirect supported plug-and-play devices
– Bitmap caching
– Shadow bitmaps
– Cache persistence active
– Enable compression
– Windows key combination redirection
– Bitmap cache file size

The VMware View ADM files can be found on the following place:

“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\Extras\GroupPolicyFiles”

– vdm_agent.adm contains properties relating to the authentication and
environmental components of a client desktop controlled by View Agent
-  vdm_client.adm contains properties relating to the configuration parameters of
View Client
– vdm_server.adm contains properties relating to View Connection Server
– vdm_common.adm contains properties relating to all components of View Manager
– pcoip.adm PCOIP Performance properties

Meer hierover vindt je in VMWare View Manager Administration Guide & VMWare XP deployment Guide

VMWare View XP Template

Installatie XP

1. Windows XP SP3 ISO nodig
2. Maak een XP virtuele machine aan met een buslogic harddisk van 16GB en 512MB geheugen 
2. Maak een een harddisk aan van SCSI harddisk aan van 16GB.
3. Boot vanaf de ISO
4. Mount the vmscsi-1.2.0.2.flp”
5. Op de VM ga naar edit settings en dan naar de Options tab en in General gedeelte haal het vinkje weg bij Enable logging.
6. Na installatie Verwijder the Serial, Parallel and Floppy ports.
7. Installeer VMWare Tools custom zonder de Shared Folders driver.
8. Installeer de VMWare View Client
9. Werk de VM helemaal bij zonder de volgende updates.
    – Microsoft Base Smart Card Cryptographic Service Provider Package: x86
    – Microsoft Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP

Configuren van de XP Template

1. Deze Computer, Advanced tabblad, Performance settings. Kies voor “Adjust for best performance”.
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2. Disable Automatisch Updates
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3. Turn Off System Restore

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4. Verwijder alle overbodige Windows Componenten.
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5. Open User Accounts, click Change the way users log on or off, Uncheck both boxes .
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6. Verwijder alle overbodige snelkoppelingen onder All Users Profiel.

7. Disable de volgende services:
– Computer Browser
– Help and Support
– Indexing Service
– IPSec Service
– Network Local Awareness
– Security Center
– Shell Hardware Detection
– SSDP Discovery Service
– System Restore Service
– Task Scheduler
– Themes
– Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
– Wireless Zero Configuration

8. Start –> Run –> FSUTIL behavior set disablelastaccess 1

9. Start –> Run –> sfc /purgecache

10. Start –> Run –> sfc /cachesize=0

11. Start –> Run –> Regsvr32.exe /u msutb.dll

12. Start –> Settings –> Printers and Faxes.
      File, Server Properties, Advanced tab verwijder alle vinkjes
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13. Installeer User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

14. Start –> Control Panel –> Network Connections –> LAN –> Properties Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
–> Properties > Stel het IP address van je DNS Servers in. 

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15. Verwijder alle overbodige mappen. Zoals C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$

16. Draai Disk Clean Up
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17. Defragmenteer de Schijf

18. Vergeet ook niet op RDP aan te zetten
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19. Maak een nieuwe gebruiker aan en configureer dit profiel en als je klaar bent log dan in met administrator account en kopieer het profiel naar de default user

20. Verwijder de tijdelijke gebruiker die je hier voor hebt aangemaakt.

21. Zet de VM uit en maak een snapshot en convert to template.

RES Powerfuse 2010

RES Powerfuse 2010 is de nieuwe opvolger van RES Powerfuse 2008 SR7.

Wat is nieuw
Desktop Transformatie
— Desktop Sampler
— Workspace Designer
— Workspace Model
Zero Profile Technology (Geen profiel)
Microsoft SQL Azure Database Ondersteuning         
Folder Synchronisatie
Gebruiker Instellingen Terug zetten

Handleiding:
RES PowerFuse 2010 – Introduction Guide
RES PowerFuse 2010 – Getting Started Guide
RES PowerFuse 2010 – What’s New
RES PowerFuse 2010 – Product Profile
RES PowerFuse 2010 – Edition Comparison Chart
RES PowerFuse 2010 – Version Comparison Chart

Video van de nieuwe functies 

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