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In january I will be speaking on the Nordic Infrastucture Conferense in Oslo. For more info about the conference you can visit http://www.nic2012.com/ The list of speakers are impressiv and contains some of the best speakers world wide and on all your favorite Microsoft technologies ranging from powershell to the cloud. My topics have been changed to include:

29.Feb: Working also with the new Consumer Preview!!! Lots of new cool features are coming with the new version of   Windows, and it might be interesting to test it out now, even if it’s just an developer preview version that are out now. Of course you can try it out virtual (and if you have Windows 8 installed you can use the Hyper-V role to test out..eh, okay, that’s one of the new features in Windows 8). But it’s always better to test out new operation system on actual hardware. So this would ordinary lead up to dual booting operating systems (Windows 8 are not stable or feature rich enough to be you only operation yet, maybe that will change in the beta release) or changing hard disk. But one new cool feature that you can use without actually installing the operating system is the “Windows 8 To Go”

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. :-)

Working with the management console for SCCM on the server might be a slow experience, and often it's not a sign for bad performance on the sever itself (even though it might be). The main reason are that your session are a foreground session, and you will then have low priority on the server system since it as default are setup to prioritize background sessions. This is how it should be on a server so don't go in and change this. The solution are to install the Sccm console on your own pc and run it from there.

There are many cool shortcuts that you can use with the windows button. Some are already using "Win + E" to start the explorer and the "Win + arrows" to move the active window, but if you dont do or if you dont know all her are a list.

Last week I blogged about cover art, this week I remove the art bit and go into cover versions. Faith Healer Cover versions can some times make you cry. Sadly most of the times it's because it kills a great song like when like Brittany Spears did " I love Rock'N Roll " (Don't worry, the link goes to Joan Jett & The Blackhearts original version). But sometimes you just cry of happiness like when Fish does "Faith Healer" an Alex Harvey song. A great Scott, covering another great Scott.

Finally Microsoft have given away the time for the Beta release of Windows 8. During a App store session they told late february as dato of the beta release. If you want to check it your self, just take alook at this video, and if you don't care about the App store just go to 3:23

From time to time I get questions about memory limits, and since I have a limit amount of memory myself I might forget, so here are a link to a site with the answers Short summary:

The days of going out and buying an LP , is long time gone. As a format for music I really don't miss it at all, even though there is people claiming to the sound quality, which was superior (most notable in old recordings that was not made for the digital format). But the thing missing with todays music purchases are the visual pleasures. Coming home with a brand new LP was a 2 part deligth, the music itself, the cover art and some times all pictures, artwork and lyrics inside the sleev. Many artist still create greate art for cd covers, but the cd are just to small to really enjoy it.

Remebering time zone name and number are a hasle so here are the list for the next time you (or I) need it. Norwegian settings for MDT are: TimeZone=110 TimeZoneName=W. Europe Standard Time (InputLocale=0414:00000414) (KeyboardLocale=nb-NO) The complete list are as following:

Back in the "old" days there was a registry setting to show all hidden devices in device manager [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment] Just add "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES" as a REG_SZ (String Value) with valuve 1 You have to use this to show devices that was not shown even after turning the "View - Show Hidden Devices" on. So no, its not a typo in the title, its to show hidden hidden devices Yesterday I got a great tips, that makes it posible to do the same thing with out addning registry setings. How to use it can be found at this Microsoft articel here

Second entry in the Music weekly post series, added late on the sunday, but I made it. Mike Oldfield have done alot of great music, but he also like to play around with it. One of my favorites by Mike Oldfield are one of his stranges songs. Just listen to the lyric. Mike Oldfield - Altered State  Spotify link Mike Oldfield - Altered State Youtube link

Sitting and playing with a Fujitsu q550 tablet and have had some driver issues. But in Windows Explorer you have know this cool buttons: I managed to get in drivers app by using the "Troubleshoot compatiblity", some it automaticly fixed (even suggested it when the installation failed) and some it tried to use the XP settings, but it need to bee Windows 7.

Starting a new weekly blog posting this week. Will share my week's musical highlights, lowlights and maybe nolights. Will of course dedicate the first entry to Fish  the Scotish poet with a stage present that encapsulate his audience with his combination of charm, golden tonge and his own blend of seriousness and humor. For Wikipedia info go here Sadly there is not enough songs on Spofity from Fish but an always highlight is his song for the fans. Fish - The Company  Spofity link Fish - The Company YouTube link And some fun stuff, Fish (during his Marillion years) with Queen Can not forget his Marillion years so here you have Marillion - The Singles '82-'88 Spotify Link Marillion - Kayleigh   Original video on YouTube, just because its the most know song The man can sing loves songs with feelings Well Olav, there is only highlights here what about lowlights/nolights. This "artist" deserve respect, and have humor and self-ironi. I a...

A great news for people wanting to run Hyper-V but have problems setting up the Linux integration components on there linux VM's. Micosoft have been working hard after the code intended to ble implimentet into the kernel back in 2009 was rejected and have now been accepted into the next kernel version. The changes will be availabe in Linux kernel 3.0.0 and will be a major step in making Hyper-V the best choice for virtualization undependent on what you want to virtualize. More details can be found on David A. Wheeler's Blog here

In january I will be speaking on the Nordic Infrastucture Conferense in Oslo. For more info about the conference you can visit http://www.nic2012.com/ The list of speakers are impressiv and contains some of the best speakers world wide and on all your favorite Microsoft technologies ranging from powershell to the cloud. For a list of speaker syou can go here http://www.nic2012.com/nic2012_program/speakers My topic this time are on management and SCOM 2012 Hope to see you there! Nordic Infrastructure Conferense

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Now available: MDT 2012 Beta 2 Reliable and flexible OS deployment-now with support for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Welcome to the MDT Beta program! As an MDT Beta program member you have the opportunity to test-drive the next version of MDT-version 2012! Download MDT 2012 Beta 2 now! Beta 2 of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is now available for download! New features and enhancements make large-scale desktop and server deployments smoother than ever! For System Center Configuration Manager customers, MDT 2012 Beta 2 provides an improved, extensible wizard and designer for customizing deployment questions. MDT 2012 fully leverages the capabilities provided by System Center Configuration Manager 2012 for OS deployment. MDT 2012 integrates with configuration templates from the Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool to ensure a secure Windows installation from the beginning of the deployment. Download the late...

What should you look for when you go into the even viewer in Windows? Is there any events that are more important that others? Of course but its not just easy to know what you should be looking for, going to this site and you will have a better overview of what EventID there is. A little list over important security related events EventID - Event   4782    - The password hash an account was accessed   4720    - A user account was created   4722    - A user account was enabled   4740    - A user account was locked out   4625    - An account failed to log on   4649    - A replay attack was detected   4728    - A member was added to a security-enabled global group

Microsoft have made the Iscsi Software Target available for public download. So if you have a Windows Server 2008 R2 you can use it as a NAS device. Not recommended for big solutions, but perfect for test/demo and small companies/ branch offices.   It's real perfect for testing out clustering featues, like Hyper-v, Exchange and so on. The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 provides storage (disks) over a TCP/IP network. It turns a computer running Windows Server into a storage device which provides shared block storage. You can use Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 to perform a variety of storage-related tasks, including the following: Provide shared storage for Hyper-V to enable high availability and live migration Consolidate storage for multiple application servers (i.e. Microsoft SQL Server or Hyper-V) Provide shared storage for applications hosted on a Windows failover cluster Enable diskless computers to boot remotely from a single operating...

Just watched statistics about where my readers are coming in from, and I think one of the users that was referred might feel tricked :-) Or maybe (s)he has a realy weird fetish, until now not know by the medical socity. Lets call it Geekophil, a none techincal person with only enough computer knowledge too browse porn site, with a craving to read technical content while... Well, lets us just stop there. 

Twitter is a great media, you get lots of info, tips and like in this case a guide. This bare metal recovery guide are easy and well explained, so I recommend it for anybody using Scdpm and haven't berformed a bare metal recovery yet, or if yo want to understand the product better. http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2011/11/01/data-protection-manager-2010-and-bare-metal-restore.aspx

MAP Toolkit v6.5 Beta is now available at Microsoft Connect: https://connect.microsoft.com/site297/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23188 I don't think that you will be surprised over the fact that beside better user interface, its all about the cloud. Download load it now and find out about the new features yourself: Enhancements to the MAP user experience which streamline tasks and improve overall usability   Server virtualization and consolidation feature enhancements including: The ability to customize Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Configurations The ability to set utilization thresholds for virtualization hosts and infrastructure Enhanced UI controls that allows users to quickly find, filter, and select the list of machines targeted for virtualization Additional in-depth migration analysis of applications to the Windows Azure Platform Software Usage Tracking for Forefront Endpoint Prote...

Working in the virtual world its often easier to just create an iso file to move data/tools/etc. to the VM's, but Windows 7 can only burn iso files, not create them. (Windows 8 can mount them to) Most free programs have the possibility to either burn or mount them, again not create. Programs that can create ISO files are often complex and/or not free. So today I just installed a cd burner program that I haven't used for years, but its free and small (4-5 Mb). And to my pleasent surpise its have the choice to save as ISO file. Nice :-) Hat of to CdBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

I will hold a session on Intune on the 18 of october in Bergen for the "Microsoft Technology User Group" www.mtug.no This is the day after release of the next version, so it will include the new version as well as the goodies from the first version. Please spread the word http://mtug.no/Forside/tabid/58/ModuleID/416/ItemID/82/mctl/EventDetails/language/nb-NO/Default.aspx

Velkommen til en opplevelsesrik Microsoft-dag Torsdag 24. november setter Microsoft opp sitt fantastiske opplevelsessenter i lokalene våre på Bryggen i Bergen.  Sammen med andre kunder får du et innblikk i mulighetene som teknologien gir. Vi fokuserer spesielt på hvordan oppnå bedre kommunikasjon og samhandling i egen virksomhet og ut mot samarbeidspartnere/kunder. Du får garantert ideer som kan tas i bruk i egen virksomhet! For IKT - medarbeidere tilbyr vi korte foredrag innen Microsoft teknologi; Windows 8, Windows Phone 7.5 (kodenavn Mango), SharePoint 2010, CRM 2011, Microsoft BI, Microsoft Lync, System Center Roadmap mm. Disse går fortløpende utover ettermiddagen i korte “slot’er” à 20 min slik at har anledning du får med deg  – og kryss av på påmeldingsskjemaet hva du vil delta på. Vi starter med en uformell lunsj fra kl. 11:30. Deretter blir det noen timer med faglig påfyll, før det blir litt god mat, drikke og mulighet til å mingle med våre konsul...

And the answer is ME (no not the so called "Operating system") I will have a session on the "Whats Hot?" on thuesday 27. okt talking about System Center 2012 To se more go here: http://www.whatshot.no/oslo/ Or to sign on go here: http://www.ergogroup2.no/paamelding_ekstern.asp?id=3343 After a great day with knowledge we will attend the Tintin movie

The possibility to control group policies with wmi filers have been around for quite a while, but still I see companies doing weird stuff with logon script instead of using it. In fact most companies I am visiting don’t know how to use it, and therefor they don’t. And in many cases running group policies that are not intended for the computer can create serious problems. Instead of using wmi filters and script you might of course create an OU design that will help you, but even then it will be cases with policies running on computers it should not have been applied to or not running on all computers its intended to. For example if somebody creates a new forest wide group policy adjusting the firewall rules, intended for all Windows client. You might not want that policy implemented on your server. Using a security group for filtering might prevent it from running on the servers but it might also cause all new clients to not run it, since they need to be put into the right security g...

Sitting on a Norwegian keyboard with computers that have english settings are often a pain in the ass. Remeber some of the most importen once usely goes ok, but going into the "On-Screen Keyboard" to find the once I forget takes a long time. So here are a list of the once I know beeing used. Give me a comment if somethigs missing How to get English symbols with Norwegian keyboard: English Symbol Norwegian Keyboard Key / - \ * ? Shift + - @ Shift + 2 $ Shift + 4 “ Shift + æ : Shift + ø ; Ø - + _ Shift + ? = \ ( Shift + 9 ) Shift + 0 <   Shift + ; >   Shift + : * Shift + 8 & Shift + 7 + Shift + \ [ Å ] ¨ { Shift + å } Shift + ^ ‘ Æ | Sh...