Are Vmware afraid of Hyper-V 3.0?

For some odd reason skips now Vmware their yelled at pricing model, just as Microsoft releases Windows Server 2012. Interesting... :) (article in Swedish)

http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.462441/vmware-slopar-utskalld-prismodell

5 seconds of fame

A nice series of articles about System Center 2012 where i have a comment about news and enhanced integration in SCVMM 2012. (article in Swedish)

http://techworld.idg.se/2.2524/1.448493/system-center-skolan-lektion-2-en-narmare-titt

How to route between internal networks in Hyper-V

If you have a Hyper-V lab environment and want to make it a little more like a corporate network then you might want to set up multiple networks and routing between them. But how would you accomplish that? There are different ways to solve it as a Vyatta router (or any other small Linux firewall) or perhaps a Forefront TMG. The way that I chose and that's very simple, you can read about on the following page.

http://www.infotechguyz.com/server2008/hypervrouting.html

How to configure NTP server for Windows Server 2008 R2

To configure the NTP server in Windows is not exactly complicated, but because you get various different suggestions when googling I thought I would just write a short tutorial that I know works. Instruction is verified on Windows Server 2008 R2. What is needed is essentially three short lines:

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org,0x8 /syncfromflags:MANUAL
net stop w32time
net start w32time

Don't forget to disable time sync if you have virtual server.

Which NTP Server should you choose? Or should you choose several? Yes, redundancy is never wrong, and considering how easy it is to set up several, it is preferred. SP Technical Research Institute provides a free time sync service.

So, tell me. Give me an example. Coming below ...
Run the following in a elevated command prompt:

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"ntp1.sp.se,0x8 ntp2.sp.se,0x8" /syncfromflags:MANUAL

net stop w32time
net start w32time

P.S. One tip is of course to check the system log afterwards to see that the time sync seems to work.

How to export a list of users from an Active Directory group

Every now and then you will come across these little annoying problems while working with Active Directory, which should be easy to solve but requires special tools, for example, that there is no way to export all members of a group in Active Directory Users & Computers . That's when "dsquery" and "dsget" comes into the picture. Here is how to list all members of a particular group.

List all members of the group "MYGROUP":

dsquery group -name MYGROUP | DSGET group -members

You can always send the results to a text file by adding  "> mygroup-members.txt" in the end.

Shortcut key for new folder

Something that I have always missed in Windows Explorer, and today found out is that there is now a shortcut to create a new folder!

•  CTRL + Shift + N: Creates a new folder in Windows Explorer

Requires at least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7.

Hidden computers in WSUS

Client machines created from an image with a duplicate client ID appears only once in the WSUS admin console. Each client must have a unique ID generated for each individual installation. WSUS admin console will display only one client for each unique ID. If you have multiple clients created from an image that share the same ID, only one appears in the WSUS admin console. All clients will check in and receive updates, but only one will appear and display the status in the WSUS admin console. In cases where clients do not check in, and they were created from an image, the following steps will restore the existing duplicate client ID.


a. Run regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate
b. Delete the PingID, SUSClientID and the AccountDomainSID values
c. Stop and start the Wuauserv Service
d. From the command prompt run: wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow