Category Archive: Windows

Feb
18

vSphere 4.1 & W2k8 R2

My core O/S is still W2k3 R2 but I also do have some W2k8 member server. This week I wanted to look at at Xenapp 6 now that one of my projects to upgrade to vSphere 4.1 was underway. Since I run a virtualized infrastructure on VM and Xenapp 6 requires W2k8 R2 the upgrade …

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Feb
18

Windows 2008 R2 Licensing the facts

I have spent a considerable amount of time looking at licensing requirements for Windows server 2008 R2. Some books refer to it as a major release upgrade whilst others claim it to be a SP upgrade. In truth, licensing is very unique to this release and could almost be considered a new product. The licensing …

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Apr
15

Hyper-V Management Console

hyper mmv enable           netsh advfirewall set allprofiles settings remotemanagement enable  allow remote administration group           netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=”Remote Administration” new enable=yes Allow remote desktop through firewall            netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=”Remote Desktop” new enable=yes Enable Remote Desktop for Administration, and allow downlevel clients to connect           cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /AR …

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Mar
28

Publishing Exchange 2007 Autodisover in ISA 2006

In Exchange versions previous to Exchange 2007, users would store data inside a public folder. This data included free/busy information, Out of Office messages, Offline Address Book, etc. Beginning with Exchange 2007, this information is stored in Internet Information Services (IIS). The process of distributing these services in Exchange 2007 is known as web distribution. Keep in mind that you will need to have Outlook 2007 clients to support web distribution. If you are running clients previous to Outlook 2007, you will still need to use public folders.

As you can see in the

Mar
28

Windows 2008 R2 Turn Firewall off on Hyper-v

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off