Sydney Windows Infrastructure User Group: Unanswered Threads

Windows 2008 and Hyper-V

Mick — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:29:19 GMT

Hi there,

I haven't managed to attend very many meetings, the travel from the Central Coast makes it difficult to fit into my day. Perhaps we can look at having the on the web with OCS ? Anyway ...

I have a Dell 2950 where I have installed 2008 RC0. I was following the below link to have a look at Hyper-V.

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2007/09/24/windows-server-2008-rc0-with-windows-server-virtualization.aspx

I've installed KB939853 and KB939854, but I don't see "Windows Server virtualization" as an available role to add. The only roles I have currently installed are Terminal Server and Web Server.

Anyone have any ideas ?

PS Found XPSP3 RC on technet last night which enabled me to play with TS RemoteApp, very slick.

Get Ready for Windows Vista Migration - new Microsoft tool just released!

baldwinn — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:43:17 GMT

Hello,

Are you getting ready for Windows Vista migration? Check out this Microsoft tool called Windows Vista Hardware Assessment!

Blog: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/08/16/hello-world-windows-vista-hardware-assessment-2-1-is-going-global.aspx

Download Tool: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83115

Cheers,

Baldwin Ng

Career Opportunity - Data Centre Consultant - Intel Solution Services

consultingjobs — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:07:00 GMT

Hello, I am writing to introduce you to Intel Solution Services and to our career opportunity based in Sydney, Australia. We are Intel Corporation's worldwide consulting group focused on driving business transformation and competitive advantage to companies through the practical application of new technologies. We work with leading vertical industry global 2000 organizations and our client base typically represents those organizations that recognize a business value, through innovative use and adoption of advanced technologies.

Currently, we are seeking an experienced technical consultant focused on delivering data centre solutions. This position is responsible for consulting to clients on Data Centre and IT strategies and the integrating of new and emerging IT capabilities and/or technologies into client IT environments. Additionally, this individual will perform analysis of the environment, capabilities, current and future technologies, and develop cutting-edge technical solutions. This is a full-time position based in Sydney, Australia. Intel Solutions Services is a professional consulting organization and as such our positions require a travel component (approx.60-70%).

Interested individuals should contact and submit their cv to consultingjobs@intel.com

No third party / agency resumes will be accepted.

Changes in PMTU Black Hole Router Detection in Longhorn Server

apawar — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:40:31 GMT

Changes in PMTU Black Hole Router Detection

Path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) discovery, defined in RFC 1191, relies on the receipt of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Destination Unreachable-Fragmentation Needed and Don’t Fragment (DF) Set messages from routers containing the MTU of the next link. However, in some cases, intermediate routers silently discard packets that cannot be fragmented. These types of routers are known as black hole PMTU routers. Additionally, intermediate routers might drop ICMP messages because of configured firewall rules. The result is that TCP connections can time out and terminate because intermediate routers silently discard large TCP segments, their retransmissions, and the ICMP error messages for PMTU discovery.

PTMU black hole router detection senses when large TCP segments are being retransmitted and automatically adjusts the PMTU for the connection, rather than relying on the receipt of the ICMP Destination Unreachable-Fragmentation Needed and DF Set messages. With TCP/IP in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, PMTU black hole router detection is disabled by default because enabling it increases the maximum number of retransmissions that are performed for a given segment.

However, with increasing use of firewall rules on routers to drop ICMP traffic, the Next Generation TCP/IP stack enables PMTU black hole router detection by default to prevent TCP connections from terminating. PMTU black hole router detection is triggered on a TCP connection when it begins retransmitting full-sized segments with the DF flag set. TCP resets the PTMU for the connection to 536 bytes and retransmits its segments with the DF flag cleared. This maintains the TCP connection, although at a possibly lower PMTU size than actually exists for the connection.

AD Schema Management

William — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 06:40:50 GMT

I'm looking at improved AD schema management for a medium sized organisation, but both they and I have no real idea about it. I've gone through a fair bit of Microsoft information (including Microsoft IT's management process - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/deploy/adschemamgmt.mspx). I'll pick up one of the AD books as a bit more background.

Does anyone have any advice on other good sources of info or tips for the inexperienced?

Thanks

A Free Tool for Microsoft Partners to automatically deploy servers, Active Directory, WSUS, DNS, DHCP, etc...

baldwinn — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:26:38 GMT

Hello,

Today, the Microsoft SMB Solutions Group announced the launch of the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Solution for Midsize Business (ADS) version 2.1. ADS is a suite of automated tools with guidance designed for Microsoft Partners to assess and deploy typical midsize IT networks to the latest Windows Server infrastructure platform including Windows Server 2003 R2, Exchange 2003, MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition. Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS, IIS, etc are also installed automatically.

This saves partners and end-customers a significant amount of deployment time and simplify infrastructure deployments. Check it out! https://partner.microsoft.com/global/assessdeploysolution

Baldwin Ng
Product Manager
Microsoft, SMB Solutions Group

A Free Tool for Microsoft Partners to Automatically Deploy Servers, DNS, DHCP, WINS, etc...

baldwinn — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:24:32 GMT

Hello,

Today, the Microsoft SMB Solutions Group announced the launch of the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Solution for Midsize Business (ADS) version 2.1. ADS is a suite of automated tools with guidance designed for Microsoft Partners to assess and deploy typical midsize IT networks to the latest Windows Server infrastructure platform including Windows Server 2003 R2, Exchange 2003, MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition. DNS, DHCP, WINS, IIS, etc are also installed automatically.

This saves partners and end-customers a significant amount of deployment time and simplify infrastructure deployments. Check it out! https://partner.microsoft.com/global/assessdeploysolution

Baldwin Ng
Product Manager
Microsoft, SMB Solutions Group

Microsft Active Directory Portal

mark — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:35:17 GMT

Here is a link to the MS AD portal.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.mspx