Here are the steps on how you can enable Hyper-V features in your windows 8 machines, useful for testing virtual machines or simulating lab environment.
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Setup and Install Lync client to communicate to OCS 2007 R2
Using Lync Client to connect to OCS 2007 R2, based on the research which was done by my team 🙂 refer … to Thanks Alton Goh.
Now i can setup and install my Lync client to communicate to my office OCS 2007 R2.
Firstly Create the key in the registry, this is to bypass the version check:
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
Name: DisableServerCheck
Type: DWORD
Value: 1 (00000001)
Setting up Lync Client to communicate back to Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
Successfully setup
Download and install patches (Released in January)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0fd94d10-fe84-4c84-a387-91afe24fb5b8
Restart the machines, and then you are done !!
Reference:
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Newson Ng
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OCS 2007 R2 does not support SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Since SQL Server 2008 has included features changes rather than product hot fixes, currently OCS 2007 R2 does support / has not been tested in the new features introduced in SQL Server 2008 SP2. The current supported Database are listed here:
The following list of supported database management systems applies to the Office Communications Server Back-End Database and to the Archiving, Monitoring, and Group Chat databases:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise or SQL Server 2008 Standard (32-bit or 64-bit edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with SP2 or SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit edition)
Later Service Packs to each supported SQL version are also supported, for example, SQL Server 2005 SP3 and SQL Server 2008 SP1.
Link back to the blog from Microsoft Lync Server Resource Kit team blog:
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Paving S’pore IT road with manpower
In an e-mail interview with ZDNet Asia, Newson Ng, Microsoft solutions architect at Datacraft Singapore, said it is essential that the young generation understand and be passionate in whatever they do.
Quoting a line from Apple CEO Steve Jobs to "stay hungry, stay foolish", Ng added that there were no shortcuts in mastering the skills required to understand technology and how IT tools can be applied to better support an organization.
He noted that IT professionals need to maintain a balance between what technology can do and what the business needs. For this, they need to learn to listen and empathize with the client and understand the background of the problem, he said.
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In place upgrade Windows 2003 DC to Windows 2008 DC
Here is the migration scenarios when you perform a migration from Windows 2003 DC to windows 2008 DC
Pre-condition before perform migration (in-place upgrade)
– Minimum Windows 2003 SP1
– No cross-platform migration x86 to x64 (common sense 🙂 )
– Standard edition can be upgraded to Windows 2008 Std and Ent (if 64 bit then you can look into WIndows 2008 R2)
– Enterprise Edition can only be upgraded to Windows 2008 Enterprise edition.
– Datacenter Edition can only be upgraded to Windows 2008 Datacenter edition
Next are the steps for migrating to Windows 2003 AD to Windows 2008 AD
– Go to windows 2008 installation folders , example d: is the drive letter
– You must have your windows 2003 AD run in minimum windows 2000 native mode.
Prepare the forest
d:sourcesadprep
Since you are going to run a command-line, you can go to CMD and go to the folder location above
d:sourcesadprep
and then type adprep /forestprep
Type C to continue…
Execution Screen, how it looks like when the command-line is entered
The last screen indicated that the command has completed successfully
Next steps is to prepare the domain
type adprep /domainprep
If you are preparing a Read only Domain , the proceed to run the following command-line
type adprep /rodcprep
If not, you can proceed to run setup.exe this will perform an in-place upgrade for Windows 2008
Double click setup.exe to begin the upgrading to Windows 2008
Depend whether the existing windows 2003 have an internet connection, you can download the latest
patch and updates from the internet, otherwise you can click the option “Do not get the latest update xx”
Select The O/S that you want upgrade to, here we select the Windows Server 2008 Standard
Click the accept check-box to accept the terms and conditions
Warning of software compatibility issues
Perform Upgrading by copying the windows files
Gathering Files
Expanding Files
Installing Features and Updates and some restarts which are required
Once, please do not attempt to reboot from the windows 2008 DVD
Completing upgrade
Here you go, windows 2008 domain controller after an in-place upgrade from Windows 2003 Domain Controller.
One more booting…
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Enable Virtual PC on Windows 7
This is to continue from my previous blog on enabling Virtualization on my Windows 7.
There are two type of virtualization in Windows 7, the first one
Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Both of them available on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate, allow you to run multiple Windows environments.
Windows XP mode will allow you to run a Windows 7 incompatible program to run in Windows7 as if it is running within the O/S
Edge technet give a good video on how this is running in Windows 7 (http://edge.technet.com/Media/Windows-XP-mode-for-Windows-7/)
In this screen cast we have a look at how it is setup up, what users see and get an idea of what it can do.
To run Virtual PC, meaning running a completely Different O/S here are the steps by steps on how to do it 🙂 :
Click on Windows Virtual PC mode to run the Virtual PC program, this is where you see the Virtual PC windows which is basically similar with your normal windows explorer windows.
To create a new virtual O/S simple clicking the Cretate Virtual Machine Button on the top of window
A wizard windows to create a virtual machine
Specify Memory RAM
Specify The hard-disk or attached an VDH file
and then that’s it your Virtual O/S is created.
To install the O/S , right click the virtual O/S and attached the ISO file into the DVD drive
Attached the DVD drive to an ISO image which is the O/S image. For this blog i am using Windows 2003 ISO installation file.
There you go, ready for your O/S installation.
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Newson Ng
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WINDOWS 7 God Mode
Windows 7 GodMode puts nearly all OS control panels in one-stop location. here are the steps on how to set it up:
Simply create a new folder and re-name it as : GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Upon renaming the folder, you will notice a change in the icon
Once that is done, the folder’s icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain all of control options.
Now that you know how to do it, what are you waiting for? 🙂
BTW this is also works for Vista 32 Bit version but not the 64 bit of VISTA, FYI.
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The fastest and Best way to Create USB installation disk for Windows 2008 Server
I discovered that you can use Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to install windows 2008 as well.
The advantage to following this process and creating bootable media is that it allows you to install Windows 2008 without having to first run an existing operating system on your machine. If you change the boot order of drives in your computer’s BIOS, you can run the Windows 2008 server installation directly from your USB flash drive or from a DVD when you first turn your computer on. (Please see the documentation for your computer for information about how to change the BIOS boot order of drives.) Good to see Microsoft using OSS software & putting it out as open source, even if it was forced. UI is simple, and it’s nice to see MS allow people to do something different with the installs.
1. Download Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool and install it on your machine
You can download it from http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html
Installation
To install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool:
- Click to open the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool installation file.
- When you are prompted to either save the file to disk or run it, choose Run.
- Follow the steps in the setup dialogs. You’ll have the option to specify where to install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
To make a copy of your Windows Server 2008 installation disk using USB Thumdrive (min 4 GB):
Click the Windows Start button, and click Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool in the All Programs list to open the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
In the Source File box, type the name and path of your Windows 2008 ISO file, or click Browse and select the file from the Open dialog box. Click Next.
Select the ISO file, which is the windows server 2008 iso file, click next to continue
Select USB Device to create a copy on a USB flash drive or select DVD disk, to create a copy on a DVD disk. If you are copying the file to a USB flash drive, select your USB device in the dropdown list and click Begin copying. If you are copying the file up to a DVD, click Begin burning.
If your USB Thumbdrive does not have sufficient size, you will have the following error message.
When your Windows Server 2008 ISO file is copied onto your chosen media, install Windows Server 2008 by moving to the root folder of your DVD or USB flash drive, and then double-click Setup.exe.
For more information about the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, please see
http://store.microsoft.com/help/ISO-Tool
http://store.microsoft.com/help/ISO-Tool
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Enable my EliteBook 6930p for Virtualization
I am building a lab from my notebook, here is what i do when i see this error message on my windows 7 machine.
What i did is to enable the Virtualization on my bios , after you turn-on the virtualization technology. that should fix teh problem.
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Windows Live space 