The Cloud is a neighborhood

Just sitting playing around with ntdsutil and the possibility to change the directory service restore mode password. This is a feature that most companies forget, or are not aware of. If you dont know the password for the domain controllers you cant restore the Active Directory database, remember that domain controllers don't have local user database?. So the password you typed in during domain controller setup "dcpromo" are important, but easy to forget. Lots of times it's not documented and different on all dc's You had to use a tool called "Ntdsutil", an important tool for Directory Services administration, to change password after the first setup of "Dcpromo". Luckily you could run the command from just one of the domain controllers and change it on each any every domain controller by using a line of parameters Scripting have been the way of doing it automaticly, you had the choices of making an advanced script to collect dc server names...

Of course, and this tuesday I am just going to ramble about it. http://mtug.no/Forside/tabid/58/ModuleID/416/ItemID/80/mctl/EventDetails/language/nb-NO/Default.aspx Holding a norwegian presentation about feature and stuff that could optimize you Windows Server experience. Don't understand norwegian?. Thats strange!!!!, every norwegian person start to learn english when they are 8-9 years, so I just asummed that every english speaking country learned norwegian at the same time ;-) Give me a sound if its worth doing a english version webcast or something

There are few applications with more log files then Sccm 2007, and remember all of them and what they do might se imposible. But thats the great thing with internet, somebody have of course been think about this and posted info for us to use already. This time its Micosofts Technet site who have given us this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892800.aspx :-)

Holding a Microsoft Sccm course next week and this is just some notes about stuff thats nice to know but easy to forget: Some important abbreviations: MP – Management Point DP – Distribution Point RP – Reporting Point BDP – Branch Distribution Point DDR - Data Discovery Record FSP – Fallback Status Point SMP – State Migration Point SUP – Software Updateing Point SLP – Server Locator Point PSP – PXE Service Point SHV – System Health Validator IBCM - Internet Client Based Management (Native mode) Link to a Glossary: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff977081.aspx Link to the Infrastructure planning and design guides for System Center: http://technet.microsoft.com/solutionaccelerators/ee395430 Link to some super flowcharts to help in the processes like deployment of clients, backup, etc.: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff385001.aspx Link to Quizzes about SCCM: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh180876.aspx Link to documentation l...

And you find a link to the download and info here Biggest focus are cloud of course (Manage both public and private cloud as well as your datacenter) This is what the Q&A picks out as the biggest news: ·          Common console across datacenter and clouds. You get a consistent view across the Operations Manager 2012 console, web console, and SharePoint, with the information you need to keep IT services running across datacenter and cloud resources. In addition, you can use dashboard templates to create custom views tailored to your specific needs. ·          Rich Application Performance Monitoring: With newly integrated AVIcode technology for monitoring .NET applications, Operations Manager 2012 delivers .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics. Additionally, support for JEE application health monitoring has been added to help ensure the availability of a broad number of busines...

Something are now starting to getting leaked about the next server version and Hyper-V :-) Not sure about the limit but you can now assign more then 16 virtual cpu to each virtual guest (my guess are 32 is the limit, but they might still surprise us) And the coolest feature (at least for now) are Hyper-V Replica some info here Its free and a buildin feature of the next Hyper-V who can replicate your virtual machine over the network to different devices, or just a ordinary windows server. It can contain different timed versions (snapshots) and will be a much better function than having the snapshot eating your diskspace on the Hyper-V disk system (and the problem with merging snapshots file who now only accour after a shutdown of the computer).Yet another free feature that other will charge a leg and a arm for :-) About 37 minutes into this you can check it out http://bit.ly/qRXLqF

MAP 6 are now finished and ready for download, you can find the download here The main news are Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track , Microsoft Office 2010 & Office 365  and Windows Azure Platform . So its a "cloud" upgraded version. Nice if you consider staring your own cloud or just want to se if Office 365 could be a solution for you. MAP are also a great tool if you want to check if your customers (or your own company) can upgrade to a Windows 7 platform, Office 2010, Hyper-V, Sql and all the other features in MAP. It even makes a nice report and propsal document that you can give the customer after running the collection of information. The template can be edition to suit your needs or contain yor companies logos and information Be sure to test it out, its easy and you can download great documentations on how to use it.