Windows Server 2008

Document is locked for editing on a Sharepoint farm

Posted by admin on 23/06/2010 at 9:45 am

Suddenly out of the blue we where confronted with document locking on our Sharepoint farm. Starting to have a look at the event log, and then the Sharepoint log files. mmmm Nothing wrong with that. Checking the SQL server belonging to the farm al log files clear. I decided to put some search sentences using [...]

Slowly loading MS Word,Visio (and so on) documents from SharePoint.

Posted by admin on 16/06/2010 at 8:51 pm

I found after using the “google-o-matic” several possible solutions.The right way to go? well check this out, the delay is caused by IE. Yes that’s right it has nothing to do with SharePoint.So what to do.See the figure below: Open IE and check the connections tab.Choose LAN settings and check use proxy and check Bypass [...]

PowerShell Revert to snapshot

Posted by admin on 31/05/2010 at 2:43 pm

For our test environment we need to rollback to a snapshot(default) every evening. I don’t like to do that by hand so lets create a script.The second point it has to be run as a scheduled task and I don’t want to parse my credentials within the script as plain text. First of allOn the [...]

PowerShell Show VM having snapshots

Posted by admin on 28/05/2010 at 1:22 pm

By default a param minus 30 days. Save it to a *.ps1 file and it ready to use. param ($Age = 30) Connect-VIServer localhost$vm = Get-VM$snapshots = Get-Snapshot -VM $vmWrite-Host -ForegroundColor Red “Old snapshots found:”foreach    ($snap in $snapshots) {    if ( $snap.Created -lt (Get-Date).AddDays( -$Age )){        Write-Host “MachineName:” $snap.VM “Name: ” $snap.Name ” Size: ” [...]

Instant Message(IM) channel setup for SCOM2007R2

Posted by admin on 21/05/2010 at 1:38 pm

It has been a struggle to get this working. After reading SCOM2007 UNLEASHED and a lot of “googeling” reading a lot of post information its finally working.After the setup of my IM-Channel and subscribers I was confronted with the following message: Alert: Failed to send notification using server/deviceSource: Microsoft.SystemCenter.NotificationServerPath: pscm01.contoso.comLast modified by: SystemLast modified time: [...]

Windows Time-service configuration

Posted by admin on 23/03/2010 at 2:35 pm

Still having problems using w32time service. Well that’s history using the settings below. Choose your ntp server internal or external http://www.pool.ntp.org/ Copy and paste it in notepad and save as *.reg file. Merge it into the registry and restart your w32time service. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Parameters]“Type”=”NTP”“NtpServer”=”nl.pool.ntp.org,0×1″ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Config]“AnnounceFlags”=dword:00000005 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpServer]“Enabled”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient]“SpecialPollInterval”=dword:00000384 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\W32Time\Config]“MaxNegPhaseCorrection”=dword:00000e10“MaxPosPhaseCorrection”=dword:00000e10 Open the command [...]

ForeFront Server and Client.

Posted by admin on 28/01/2010 at 1:19 pm

Forefront is based on 32bits platform, so keeping that in mind. I’m using Windows2008 Datacenter (x86) as OS. Disk space about 60 GB. Activated the following “Roles and Features”: Roles: Application server, Webserver(Application server foundation,web server support also IIS6) Features: .Net Framework 3.0 Features, Group Policy Management,Remote server Administration Tools, Windows Proces Activation Service. Apply [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Injecting drivers into Windows 7 and WIndows 2008R2

Posted by jewe on 02/10/2009 at 12:20 pm

The final part about this item. First of all we need the "Windows® Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows® 7" after installing the Kit I added the directory "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\Servicing" to the system variables path variable. Before we are to inject some stuff. We have to export a image, so right click on your [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Capture a Windows 7 Image

Posted by jewe on 29/09/2009 at 3:11 pm

Well guys it took me a lot of time (and google sessions) to solve this issue. Having installed the Windows 7 OS and installed the complete office surrounding including additional software. After all this work started windows update so the machine is updated to the latest versions. So far so good. mmmmm now the trouble [...]

Setting up Windows Deployment Services – Creating the capture image.

Posted by jewe on 08/09/2009 at 8:44 am

Inside WDS you have to go to the boot images. Select the appropriate one and right click on it. Choose "create capture boot image", enter your image name and description and the location were to store the capture.wim file. Click on next and wait a while. When completed click on finish. Adding the capture image [...]