Author: Ward

MDT Restricting the available Task Sequences by user

  1. Within DeploymentWorkbench go to Deployment Shares\<YourDeploymentshare>\Task Sequences.

  2. Organize the available task sequences into folders. Task sequences that aren’t in a folder can’t be restricted.

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  3. Within DeploymentWorkbench go to Deployment Shares\<YourDeploymentshare>\Advanced Configuration\Selection Profiles.

  4. Create a new selection profile and at “Select the folders that should be included in this selection profile” select the folders below Task Sequences that should be visible for this profile.

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  5. Edit CustomSettings.ini, add UserID to Priority before the value Deffault under [Settings]: 

    [Settings]
Priority=UserID, Default

  6. Define a section in CustomSettings.ini in the form [userid]. Example: if the User ID is Helpdesk then the section should be [helpdesk].

  7. Define the selection profile to be used for this user below this section. Example: to give helpdesk access to the Helpdesk selection profile, add the following:

    [helpdesk]
WizardSelectionProfile=Helpdesk

  8. Create a selection profile in which no folder has been selected and place a WizardSelectionProfile=nameofemptyselectionprofile below [Default] if you want none other than the defined user IDs to have access to the task sequences.

  9. Now when the user logs into the wizard in the WinPE environment, he/she sees only the task sequences that are available in the selection profile.

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    Source:Microsoft TechNet – MDT Forum – How to hide/show task sequence for specific users/user groups?

VMware vSphere 5.0 Documentation

VMware vSphere™ 5.0 (“vSphere”) introduces many improvements and new features to extend the benefits and capabilities of vSphere 4.1. These advancements build on the core capacities in vSphere to provide improved scalability; better performance; and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the following new features and enhancements:

• Virtual machine enhancements
• Improved SSD handling and optimization
• Command-line enhancements
• VMware® ESXi™ firewall
• vSphere Image Builder
• vSphere Auto Deploy server
• vSphere Host Profiles
• VMware vCenter™ Update Manager

Build your own book of TechNet articles

The build-a-book process is a new TechNet feature and is currently in a beta release. It’s now available to you in the Microsoft TechNet Library. We encourage you to try it out. Here’s some instructions:

Get ready. You’ll need:

  • A recent browser. Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9 work, as do other recent versions of other browsers. If you use IE 8 or IE 9, make sure they’re running in regular browser mode (not in compatibility view mode).
  • A Live ID for signing into TechNet.

Make sure you’re using the Lightweight view in TechNet. (If you’re currently in Classic or ScriptFree view, click Lightweight at the top of the TechNet page.) When you’re in Lightweight view, the upper right corner of the page should look like this.

  1. Sign in at http://technet.microsoft.com using a Windows Live ID.
  2. Click the drop-down arrow next to the printer icon on the upper right corner of the page and then click Print Multiple Topics.

    A Help page will open. That page provides Help, but it also serves as your start page.
  3. Read the How does it work? overview on the Help page and then click Start. The Print Multiple Topics (Beta) toolbar will appear at the top of your window.
  4. Browse through the left pane of the TechNet library, and pick topics or folders for your collection. Each time you select a topic or a folder, right-click it to add it to your collection.
    • If you right-click a folder, you can choose Add this topic or Add this set of topics. The number in parentheses indicates the number of topics in the set.
    • If a selected folder contains more than 100 topics, you’ll get a notice that says "(100+) Too Many Topics." In that case, you’ll have to select topics or sub-folders one by one within that folder.
    • If you want to select more than 100 topics, you’ll need to create a second book.
  5. When you’re finished, click Collection on the Print Multiple Topics toolbar (top of page). The Manage Collection page will open and the list of folders and articles that you’ve selected will be displayed.
  6. Organize your topics into the sequence you want and into chapter groupings that you like by using drag and drop. You can rename chapters, add more chapters, and delete chapters or topics on this page.
  7. Under Advanced Options, in the Export Your Collection area, select the file format you want (XHTML or PDF).
    Note: You must be signed in with your Live ID before you can export your collection.
  8. Click Generate.
    • While your book is generating, a Generating progress bar will appear at the top of the page.
    • When the book build is done, you’ll see Finished at the top of the page.
  9. Save your book either by right-clicking the Download your Document link, or by downloading the document and then saving it.

To start a brand new collection, click Delete on the Manage Collection page. Otherwise, the articles you selected for the current book build will remain in the collection.

Source: Build your own book of Technet articles

VMware View Bootcamp

VMware is organizing a nine-part VMware View Bootcamp: every day a new video is published for you to view. At the end of this bootcamp, you will have a good understanding of the VMware View solution, how to roll it out and how to optimize View in your environment. A free e-book of all the presentations is included in this bootcamp series. A hope I can download the free e-book Smile. Because I am going on Holiday next week.

VMware View Bootcamp Series

Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview

  • Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
  • Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment

Watch the Video

Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices

  • Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
  • How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
  • Sizing and workload considerations

Watch the Video

Network Considerations and Best Practices

  • Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
  • Network requirements for LAN and WAN
  • Bandwidth requirements deep dive
  • Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication

Watch the Video

Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View

  • Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
  • How to build and tune your desktop image
  • User and workload considerations
  • OS specific tips (XP, Win7)

Watch the Video

Delivering Applications

  • Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
  • Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
  • Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
  • Application migration, application conflict and compatibility

Watch the Video

PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices

  • Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
  • How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
  • How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
  • Bandwidth requirements

Watch the Video

Automating View 4.5 with Powershell

  • Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
  • Introduction to View PowerCLI
  • Setting up an environment and basic tasks
  • Creating your own scripts
  • Integrating with vSphere

Watch the Video

Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP

  • Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
  • Introduction to Security Server

Watch the Video

VMware View’s Reference Architecture

  • Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
  • Review of RA for stateless desktops
  • Description of test environment, equipment and lab results

Watch the Video

    System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta is released

    Overview

    System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the monitoring component of cloud and datacenter solutions, to help you manage your datacenter and cloud environments by:

    • Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware, with standard configurations to monitor heterogeneous environments.
    • Helping to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics plus JEE application health monitoring.
    • Providing a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.

    Feature Summary

    • Predictable performance and availability of critical applications
      • End-to-end views of application health and topology
      • Establishment of application service-level delivery (SLAs)
      • Precise identification of application errors
    • Flexible and cost-effective infrastructure monitoring
      • In-depth monitoring, diagnostics, and reporting for heterogeneous environments
      • Integrated network device monitoring and alerts
      • Simplified management infrastructure
    • Comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud—on your terms
      • Integrated physical, virtual, and cloud management
      • Common console across datacenter and clouds
      • Rich reporting

    System requirements

    Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3

    • Other Software:
      • Any server role
        • .NET 3.5 or 4.0
      • Management Server, Reporting Server, Web Console, Gateway Server
        • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)
      • Operational & Data Warehouse
        • SQL 2008 SP1 and above
        • SQL Collation – SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
      • Agent
        • Windows Server 2003 SP2 and above
        • Windows Server 2008 SP2 and above
        • Windows Server 2008 R2
        • Windows XP Professional SP3 and above
        • Windows Vista SP2 and above
        • Windows 7

      Supported Hardware Configuration:

      • Operations Manager Operations database: 4 GB of RAM or higher, 50 GB of available hard disk space
      • Management server: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
      • Operations console: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
      • Reporting data warehouse: 4 GB of RAM or more, 100 GB of available hard disk space
      • Reporting server: 2 GB or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
      • gateway server: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
      • Web console server: 2 GB of RAM or more, 20 GB of available hard disk space
      • Audit database: 4 GB of RAM or more, 100 GB of available hard disk space
      • Management server with audit collector: 2 GB of RAM or more, 50 GB of available hard disk space
      • Management server with Agentless Exception Monitoring file share: 2 GB of RAM or more, 30 GB of available hard disk space
      • Agent: Please refer to the recommended hardware requirement required by the operating system.

    Download the beta HERE

    DPM 2010 System State of Bare Metal Recovery Fail on Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7

    When you check the event log of de server you see a event 517.

    Name: Microsoft-Windows-Backup
    Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup
    Date: date
    Event ID: 5
    Task Category: None
    Level: Error
    Keywords:
    User: username
    Computer: computer name
    Description:
    The backup operation that started at time has failed with following error code ‘2155347997’ (The operation ended before completion.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved

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    This a now Bug check KB2182466 you can download the hotfix here KBHotfix

    DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID 316 on DPM Server or DPMRA Event id 85 on Workgroup Client

    DPM 2010 Data Protection Manager Error ID: 316

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    or DPMRA Event id 85

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    Solution:

    On the protected server running the DPM agent

    SetDpmServer.exe -dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER -isNonDomainServer –updatePassword

    On the DPM server

    Update-NonDomainServerInfo –PSName YOURPROTECTEDDPMSERVER –dpmServerName YOURDPMSERVER

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