Montag, 16. Dezember 2013

DELL Venue 8 Pro Slow Network

during searching for a small issue to network performance with my new DELL Venue Pro 8 I read some articles about this issue and my solution is:

Reset your device complete (Update/recovery)
After init deinstall KB2883200 from Updatelist
Restart
Install all other Updates (new check)  (but not KB2883200)
Restart
Install KB2883200
Restart
Update with the newest Qualcom driver from DELL Support Website.

Please leave your comment !

Montag, 25. November 2013

Freitag, 22. November 2013

Can not install DPM 2012 R2 with PDT 2.5.2708

If the installation of DPM 2012 R2 failed during your PDT deployment, enter the System Center Serial Number into your Workflow.XML and the installation will work !

Montag, 11. November 2013

Dienstag, 5. November 2013

System Center 2012 R2 Deployment Toolkit PDT

Yes Microsoft has released the next perfect PDT Tool. With this tool you can Setup a whole System Center envrionment in 2 h (depends on the Server IOPS and CPU) on physical or virtual boxes. But even better than in 1 Week with manuel keyboard and download sessions! The scripts can also deploy the new Azure Pack 2013 and SQL Cluster !!! Great work and thank you to Rob Willis and his team.

Get the latest release here

download

Hyper-V Gen 2 Converter

For all of you searching how to convert Gen1 to Gen2 Hyper-V VMs during migration from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Here you can find the Convert-VMGeneration.ps1 tool from John Howard. A perfect how to is attached on the link.

download


Sonntag, 30. Juni 2013

Hyper-V Managemen Pack MP for System Center Operation Manager 2012 and 2012 SP1

With this community driven MP for Hyper-V you can go deeper with System Center Operation Manager.

  • VMs Integration Services Version monitor
  • Hyper-V Replica Health Monitoring Dashboard and States 
  • SMB Shares I/O latency monitor  
  • Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical processor monitoring
  • Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual processor monitoring
  • Hyper-V Dynamic Memory monitoring
  • Hyper-V Virtual Networks monitoring
  • NUMA remote pages monitoring
  • SLAT enabled processor detection
  • Hyper-V VHDs monitoring
  • Physical and Logical Disk monitoring
  • Host Available Memory monitoring
  • Stopped and Failed VMs monitoring
  • Failed Live Migrations monitoring

Link to Codeplex

What's new in System Center 2012 R2

System Center 2012 R2 App Controller
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

To use Powershell to download all SC 2012 R2 preview VHDs ...use vniklas blog

Dienstag, 25. Juni 2013

Default cluster sizes for NTFS

What is the standard Block size for NTFS ?
link 


Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster and Hyper-V Hotfix List


Do you know this moment: Are all patches deployed by WSUS for my Cluster, or are this event log entries from a bug ?


Actual Hotfixes:

KB 2799728 Virtual machine enters a paused state or a CSV volume goes offline when you try to create a backup of the virtual machine on a Windows Server 2012-based failover cluster
v1 dont install: there are a lot of memory leaks reported
v2 intermediate version but not final: link for the new KB 2813630 but be aware of ODX and disable it if you need to ! There are still errors with v2
Please follow this forum link we expect a v3 stay tuned. "The Windows team is investigating other issues found during testing and not included in this release.  However they wanted to get this fix published since the memory leak issue is fixed and provide immediate relief"
v3  new release from Microsoft :Update that improves cluster resiliency in Windows Server 2012 is available will replace v2 (KB2813630) with v3 (KB 2838669)
v4 the KB2838669 was replaced with KB 2870270

One other thing to think about is that a LUN (CSV) created under Windows 2008R2 should not be used. Create a new LUN (CSV) with Windows Server 2012 (R2)

  1. Open a Windows PowerShell session as an administrator.
  2. Check whether ODX is currently enabled (it is by default) by verifying that the FilterSupportedFeaturesMode value in the registry equals 0. To do so, type the following command:
    Get-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode"
  3. Disable ODX support. To do so, type the following command
    Set-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode" -Value 1


KB2796995 ODX Fix for Microsoft Server 2012 link

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Microsoft cluster Patch that is released for Windows Server 2012 Part1 link

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Patches Part 2 link
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Patches link
Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 Hyper-V Patches link

Windows Server 2012 R2 / System Center 2012 R2 Preview released

Download your Testversion incl. Key here:
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Download your System Center 2012 R2 Preview here:
System Center 2012 R2 Preview

Download Windows Azure Pack here:
Download Windows Azure Pack


Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Information Updated for Windows Server 2012 and System Center Service Pack 1

The Fast Track Information was updated to Windows Server 2012 and System Center Service Pack 1

The Download starts here:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Management Architecture Guide
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Deployment Guide


Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013

Get TAG from DELL Products

Want to see the DELL TAG Number ? open your CMD and past in the following Command:

wmic bios get serialnumber

 


Montag, 11. März 2013

Important Changes to Forefront Products

These Forefront products are discontinued :
  • Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE)
  • Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP)
  • Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS)
  • Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG)
  • Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Services (TMG WPS)
more link

Freitag, 8. März 2013

Delete an IP-Pool in VMM 2012

If you want to delete an IP Pool in VMM 2012 theres an error telling you to delete first all IP Adresses


So you can find them with:

get-SCIPAddress

and delete them with :


$ip = get-scipaddress –IPAddress “192.168.2.116”

$ip | revoke-scipaddress

Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013

Bios Version Hyper-V

If you want to figure out on which Hyper-V Plattform your VM is running 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 , you can use this litte Powershell Lines.

This is important if you deploy Systems with a 3rd Party Software in an heterogeneous environment like vmware, hyper-v V2 or hyper-v V3. So you have to check the VENDOR ID and the BIOS ID to figure out the underlaying hypervisor plattform.

Hyper-V Bios Versions:
VIRTUAL - 3000919 Hyper-V 2008 R2 V2
VIRTUAL - 9001114 Hyper-V 2012 beta
VIRTUAL - 5001223 Hyper-V 2012 V3

Powershell:
$BIOS = Get-WmiObject Win32_bios
$BIOS.Version



System Center 2012 Monitoring Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Now for all the System Center 2012 SP1 beta Operation Manger installations out there, the Management Pack for Windows Server 2012
download link

for all operation Systems (Server Microsoft) link





further Management Pack for:

Hyper-V 2012 MP: link
Power Management Server 2012 : link
File and iSCSI Server 2012: link 
Internet Information Services 8 : link
AD Certificate Services: link