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VMworld 2011 Copenhagen – My schedule so far

Session-ID Schedule Title Speaker(s)
VSP1882 Tuesday 9am Managing VMware ESXi with VMware vSphere PowerCLI Alan Renouf
Luc Dekens
EUC2871 Tuesday 12pm Project Horizon: Managing VMware ThinApp as a Cloud Service Andrew Johnson
Mehul Patel
VSP3305 Tuesday 1.30am Upgrading to VMware ESXi 5.0 Kyle Gleed
SUP1017 Wednesday 10.30am Transitioning to ESXi Charu Chaubal
Jessica Cu
BCA1902 Wednesday 12pm Design, Deploy, and Optimize Exchange 2010 on vSphere Alex Fontana
BCA1931 Wednesday 1.30am Design, Deploy, and Optimize SharePoint 2010 on vSphere Alex Fontana
Itzik Reich
VSP2868 Wednesday 3pm Horizon App Manager Technical Deep Dive Michael Eakes
Will Pugh
EUC3158 Thursday 11am VMware Zimbra: Better than Exchange Jon Dybik
VSP3307 Thursday 12.30pm Deployment Considerations for ESXi 5.0 David Day
Kyle Gleed

 

Hands-on-labs that I plan to do:

Lab number Title Track
HOL04 Reducing Unplanned Downtime in Your Virtual Environment Cloud Infrastructure: Business Continuity
HOL09 Improve Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning for Your Virtual Environment Cloud Application Platform
HOL27 NetApp Storage Efficiencies and Integrated Management Cloud Infrastructure: Management and Operations

Fujitsu H710 laptop review

I’ve recently replaced my faithful “old” work-laptop, the HP 2540p – with a new Fujitsu Celsius H710 workstation-grade laptop. It’s pretty nice spec’ed, with the new Sandy Bridge i5-2540M 2,60Ghz, 8GB DDR3-ram, 1GB Nvidia Quadro 1000M and a 160GB Intel 320 series SSD. The monitor is 1920×1080 Full HD which was my primary reason to upgrade from the 12” 2540p(1280×800). Doing a lot of remoting daily it’s a little easier when you have the complete remote screen available. Also doing some virtual machines, the more RAM and the quad-core will be nice. Doing the default benchmark in x64 Windows 7, result in this:

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Wouldn’t imagine that a 1GB graphics card would pull the number down Smile should remember to say that the memory test was done with 4GB and the SSD disk controller is in Compatible mode and not AHCI(sorry, my bad)

On the design point, Fujitsu still has a looooong way to go. The laptop feels 2000’ish in design, the dock is a piece of plastic with ports on it… But the technology is not missing a thing and to my knowledge the pricing also makes Fujitsu attractive.

Small note for migrations from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

When migrating users from Exchange 2003, they apparently have no language settings set on their mailbox. This can be a problem because among others NDR messages are created with a default language, which is not always the correct if you have multiple languages in your organization. To set the language you should use the following powershell command: Set-Mailbox –Identity “Username” –Languages da-DK (Culture code for all languages can be found here:http://sharpertutorials.com/list-of-culture-codes/) I had the need in my case to apply this based on Organizational Units in AD – but not all users in the OUs have been migrated, so I needed a parameter to only select the Exchange 2010 mailboxes – to do this I used the following command:
get-mailbox –OrganizationalUnit “domain.local/OU-name/Userfolder” –RecipientTypeDetails “UserMailbox” | Set-Mailbox –Languages da-DK

The RecipientTypeDetails “Usermailbox” parameter guarantees me that it is only Exchange 2010 migrated users.

Additional mailboxes in Outlook 2010 with Exchange 2010

Did you notice that in Outlook 2010, if you have Exchange 2010 and "Full Access" to a users mailbox, it will automatically be added to your mailbox view? I was wondering a bit about this and how to remove these folders, because they were not in my usual mailbox overview, and I had done some testing with the mailboxes but afterwards wanted to get them out of my Outlook 2010…but they were not in the “Additional mailboxes” under E-mail settings:

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That made it a bit difficult to remove the mailboxes in my view, until I remembered that I might not have removed the Full Access rights for my own user to these mailboxes. After doing this and restarting Outlook, the mailboxes were automatically removed from my view.

Cool feature…

HP Proliant Microserver N36L

Seneste tilføjelse af hardware til basen, er den forholdsvis nye HP Proliant Microserver N36L. Dette er HPs forslag til en server for arbejdsgrupper på op til 10 mand. Serveren er med følgende specifikationer:
AMD Athlon II Neo 1,3Ghz Dual-core
1GB ram (kan opgraderes til max 8GB)
250GB harddisk, med mulighed for ialt 4 SATA harddiske
5,25″ drive bay til intern CD/DVD drev
1x Gigabit netkort
1x VGA output
1x USB intern
2x USB bagpå
4x USB foran

Der er mulighed for at udvide portene bagpå med 1x PCI-E(16x) og 1x PCI-E(1x) hvilket giver god mulighed for ekstra netkort eller ekstra grafikkort.

Det spændende ved denne server er at den understøtter VMware vSphere og er et godt alternativ til at have en strømbesparende server til at “lege” med, og med den interne USB port kan du installere ESXi på en USB stick og ikke have nogen diske i serveren og nøjes med shared storage via en NAS eller en anden NFS/iSCSI løsning. Jeg har dog valgt at “lege” med den på en anden måde. Jeg har installeret Windows 2008R2 Standard edition på den, opgraderet den til 8GB ram og installeret Hyper-V så jeg kan få lidt erfaring med det. Samtidig bruges den som lagerplads til vores almindelige data som shares på lokalnetværket, dette synkroniseres til en eksternt placeret Synology NAS via Rsync for at have backup i tilfælde af diskfejl eller værre. Jeg havde tidligere Synology’en til dette, men da det var en model af ældre årgang(DS207) kunne den kun præstere omkring 10mb/sek, hvilket ikke helt er tilstrækkeligt med al den hjemmevideo og højopløselige billeder vi efterhånden har af de små :-) Derfor var jeg spændt på at se hvor meget Microserver kunne levere, og den har ikke skuffet – den leverer mellem 60-70mb/sek, så det er accepteret.

Selve performance delen har heller ikke skuffet, selvom den kun har 1,3Ghz cpu synes jeg ikke man venter på serveren ved brug, og jeg har haft et par Linux “gæster” på Hyper-V og de kørte også OK i forhold til at de ikke havde Integration Services installeret.

Indtil videre må konklusionen være på HP Microserver at den er klart acceptabel til hjemme-serverbrug, man skal dog være opmærksom på at den larmer lidt mere end en NAS-løsning, selvom CPU’en er passivt kølet og alting klares af en 120mm blæser bag i serveren.

Hjælp med at få Kina Grannis til Danmark

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  • Virtual machine failing with STOP 0x0000007F error after upgrading VMtools.

    Came quite unexpected, and the machine also had a failing office 2010 installation runnning twice on top of each other, so there was a lot of reasons to why the machine failed after the reboot. But after trying a lot of troubleshooting, I first upgraded the virtual hardware from version 4 to 7 – then I could get into safe mode and run a checkdisk. This didn’t fix the problem, but after this I was able to get a look at the exact STOP error and this led me to Microsoft supportsite, saying it could be either defunct RAM or if you are trying to run the CPU at a higher clock speed than it’s intended to. This being a virtual machine gave these errors a couple of doable solutions. I set the CPU to the same Reserved and Limited megahertz, not sure this puts the machine at the specified speed but anyway… Also I changed the RAM-size, just to get that rewritten in the .vmx file also. After this the machine booted on the first try. The Office installation is still defunct but thats got nothing to do with the STOP error.

    Update: Seems it can still stall the machine, but changing RAM size makes it reboot fine…

    Samsung Galaxy Tab

    Nyest hit på gadget stammen er Samsungs Galaxy Tab, som virkelig havde format til at bliver en konkurrent til Apple’s iPad. Den blev så endelig officielt introduceret på IFA messen igår 2/9-2010 – desværre afslørede de også prisen £679,99 for den mindste model – men så er den heller ikke sim-locked! Prisen bliver endda måske skruet op når det gælder det danske marked, da den slags ofte er lidt dyrere i Danmark… Jeg var meget spændt på dette device; Android 2.2, 3G, Flash, kamera, lille og fix – men til denne pris kan jeg ikke forestille mig at det bliver et særligt mainstream produkt. Den eneste måde det kan reddes på er hvis teleselskaberne virkelig ønsker at fremme produktet og derfor giver et kæmpe tilskud, men det tror jeg ikke sker…

    links for 2010-08-16

    Udskriv direkte fra iPhone til printer

    Så har Brother været igang med at lave noget smart – du kan nu installere en app på din iPhone, iPod Touch eller iPad og herefter kan du udskrive direkte til Brother-printeren. Dette kan bruges sammen med alle nyere Brother netværksprintere(2009 og frem) – programmet er gratis så det kræver bare at du har en Brother printer.

    Hvis du ønsker at høre mere om dette, så skriv til os på info@billigpc.dk med dine ønsker så vender vi tilbage med dine muligheder!