The new switch to connect to the server’s active console session is: mstsc.exe /admin The old /console doesn’t work anymore!
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Microsoft has released a number of whitepapers on Windows Server 2008 clustering: Microsoft High Availability Strategy White Paper Overview of Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 Quick Migration with Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Architecture Overview WS2008 Failover Clustering Datasheet WS2008 Multi Site Clustering Download
Microsoft has now opend for registrations to TechEd 2008 in Orlando. This year the event is split in a TechEd Developer and a TechEd IT Pro event, like it has been in Europe (Barcelona) for some time. The Tech·Ed U.S. 2008 IT Professionals Conference is June 10-13, 2008, with Pre-conference seminar on June 9th.Register by Friday, April 4, 2008, to receive the discounted rate of just $1,795—that’s $200 off the regular rate of $1,995.Registrer at msteched.com. Hope to see you there…
Just a quick heads up on a new KB article (946202) that we recently published. If you use WSUS to manages updates in your organization then depending on how you have it configured, you may need to take some action to ensure you end up with the version of Internet Explorer you really want: ====== Overview On February 12, 2008 Microsoft will release the Windows Internet Explorer 7 Installation and Availability update to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) marked as an Update Rollup package. Windows Internet Explorer 7 Installation and Availability Update is a complete installation package that will upgrade…
Remember back in the SMS 2003 days we had nice tools that enabled right-click on computers/collections to ping/force policy refresh etc. You will find that now extending the SCCM console is easier. It all comes down to an XML file placed in a proper folder. We can soon expect many extensions (also those from SMS) to be ported to SCCM console. As an example a ping extension for computers from SCCM console. Create a file called e.g. PingWorkstation.xml: <ActionDescription Class="Group" DisplayName="SMS Tools" MnemonicDisplayName="SMS Tools" Description="SMS tools for agent" SqmDataPoint="53"><ActionGroups><ActionDescription Class="Executable" DisplayName="Ping Workstation" MnemonicDisplayName="Ping Workstation" Description="Will ping a workstation"><Executable><FilePath>cmd.exe</FilePath><Parameters> /k Ping…
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944542The "wake on LAN" feature does not work as expected if a site server uses a non-daylight saving time zone in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 12/18/2007 Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945211You cannot install the client software for the System Center Online Asset Inventory Service 12/13/2007 Asset Inventory Services EN EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945213Error message when the System Center Online Asset inventory is not being processed: "HRESULT 0x80092004" 12/13/2007 Asset Inventory Services EN EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945898The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Offer Status Summarizer does not process advertisement status summary data 12/8/2007 Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945536Client…
As scheduled I passed the "TS: Upgrading your MCSE from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008" test Today (exam number 70-649). The test is 55 questions with a passing score on 700 out of 1000. My score was 1000 :-D. This upgrade test gives me the following Windows Server 2008 exams: 70-640 TS: Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory 70-642 TS: Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure. 70-643 TS: Configuring Windows Server 2008 Applications. I have to say that the questions are very easy when you consider its a upgrade test. Lots of the questions could be part of…
Today I passed the "TS: Upgrading your MCSA from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008" test (exam number 70-648).The test is 55 questions (28 + 27) with a passing score on 700 out of 1000. My score was 1000 :-D. This upgrade test gives me the following Windows Server 2008 exams: 70-640 TS: Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory 70-642 TS: Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure. Next: My focus is now at 70-649, and the test is scheduled to january 4th 2008.
International Client Packs (ICPs) contain international-language clients to use with System Center Configuration Manager (SC Config Mgr) 2007. ICP downloads contain only the Config Mgr client files, not the English-language SC Config Mgr 2007, which is required. ICP1 contains the following languages: English French German Japanese Spanish ICP2 contains all languages from ICP1 plus the following: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Danish Dutch Finnish Greek Hungarian Italian Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Swedish Turkish Download
Boot images have an option to enable a command shell while running in Windows PE. This is turned off by default for security reasons (since it would allow an end user to open a command shell during the re-imaging process) but can be enabled on the “Windows PE” property page. Open the boot image’s properties dialog On the Windows PE tab check the “Enable command support (testing only)” option Update the boot image on the distribution points Rebuild any media that uses the boot image (e.g. capture media, boot media, or stand-alone media) When a task sequence is running in…