Wishing you a happy new year and all the best for 2011, hope sow to see you on my blog again.
Category: General
Merry Christmas & a happy New Year
Merry Christmas & a happy New Year
Blog 2 years online
On 24 july 2008 I started my blog.
In two years time a get al lot of visitors.
Some stats till now in totally:
Hits 556.775
Unique visits 308636
Hits (bots) Hits 164201
Unique visits 93724
This year a get al lot of new visitors:
Hits (+282069) 2009: 137353 2010: 419422 still growing
Unique visits (+190172) 2009: 59232 2010: 249404 still growing
I’m very pleased with this numbers. I means for me that I do a good job.
I 
blogging.
Still writing nice about nice Stuff. I have not enough time to write every thing.
Next week have some days off. I will write some nice articles. Please if you have Questions let me now.
With kings regards,
Ward Vissers
HP Virtual Connect for Dummies Version 2
The HP Virtual Connect team is pleased to announce that HP Virtual Connect for Dummies® – 2nd Edition is now available as an e-book, simply register and you will be taken to the download page:
- What’s new with Virtual Connect and all about the new Virtual Connect FlexFabric Module
- How HP Virtual Connect simplifies your data center, lowers costs, and saves time
- About the HP Virtual Connect product family
Data Protection Manager 2010 Operations Guide
Microsoft released a nice manual for monitoring and managing DPM servers and tape libraries, and protected computers that are running Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Virtual Server, or the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This guide also provides instructions for setting up protection of data on desktop computers that are connected to the network, and portable computers that are connected to the network intermittently, and for setting up disaster recovery.
Removing the Browser Choice option During deployment with MDT 2010
The Deployment Guys created a nice script to remove the Browser Choice option.
If you are in the European Union, you will have seen the installation of the Browser Choice option from Windows Update. This is a good thing if you are a consumer, however if you are managing Volume Licensed (VL) builds and you don’t want the Browser Choice in your deployment image.
But you do want to make use of the MDT 2010 ability to go off to Windows Update or your WSUS Server and install patches automatically during your deployment task sequence.
Check HERE how to config MDT to use your WSUS server
MDT 2010 comes with a number of task sequence templates. The one I used many times is the standard client task sequence template. As part of this template there are two tasks for applying Windows updates (Pre-Application Installation and Post-Application Installation).
These tasks are really useful as part of the deployment of a client machine because you have always an up to date image.
As part of this automated Windows Update process KB976002 will be downloaded and installed giving the options shown below in your core image.
Recently KB2019411 has been released which provides information about the Browser Choice update for system administrators who are in managed environments that are under a Volume Licensing program . De Deploymentsguys have created a MDT based script for implementing the suggestions in the article KB2019411. Adding the registry entries to control the display of the Browser Choice screen and to remove the Browser Choice icon from the desktop.
The script (CFG-HideBrowserChoice.wsf) should be placed in the MDT Distribution Share\Scripts folder and then a “Run Command Line” task should be added to your image engineering task sequence (after the last Windows Update task but before the sysprep and image capture tasks). The command you should run is cscript.exe CFG-HideBrowserChoice.wsf.
An example of this is shown below.
When the task runs, the script will turn off the Browser Choice and removes the icon from the desktop. You will also find a log file that the script generates in the usual MDT log location (MININT\SMSOSD\OSDLOGS\CFG-HideBrowserChoice.log)
You can get the CFG-HideBrowserChoice.wsf script from the Deployment Guys SkyDrive by clicking HERE
Tested and I worked great
Source: blogs.technet.com
Update 1 for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1
Microsoft released some days ago Forefront TMG Update 1:
SafeSearch Enforcement. Forefront TMG can enforce blocking adult text, images and videos from search results by popular search engines. SafeSearch can be enforced on specific groups or to the entire organization.
Including non-primary URL filtering categorizations. Forefront TMG uses an algorithm to select a URL’s “primary” category from among up to four categorizations provided by Microsoft Reputation Services (MRS). In Update 1 you can control access to sites that match any of the non-primary categorizations provided by MRS. For example, a URL with a primary categorization of News can now match a rule by any of its non-primary categorizations (such as Web Mail).
Support for Exchange 2010 SP1
Bug fixes and various other improvements. For details, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=201151.
Reviewing Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP
I was recently approached to do a book review on “Least Privilege Security for Windows 7,Vista and XP by Russell Smith” published by Packt Publishing. I will review it soon. It show you how to configure your Windows environment so that your users can operate without administrator permissions.
Here is a list of the just some of technologies that this book talks about to achieve a Least Privilege Security:
- Program Compatibility Wizard
- Applications Compatibility Wizard
- User Account Control
- Group Policy Software Deployment
- Internet Explorer Add-on Management
- Troubleshooting Remote Users
- Configuring Windows Firewall
- Software Restrictions Policies and AppLocker
- Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
- CD Burning
- ActiveX Controls
- Changing system time and time zones
- Power Management
- Managing networks
- Standard Users Analyzer
- Applications Compatibility Toolkit
- Logon Scripts
- Remote Desktop Services
- App-V
- Med-V
I have read already some chapters. I think it is a great book to have on your collection.
You have always not enough time thinking about security. This book does it for you.
As a special offer Packt Publishing are also letting people download preview chapter of this book by download here Chapter No. 3 – Solving Least privilege Problems with the Application Compatibility Toolkit
Free Ebook Notes on Desktop Virtualization by Brain Madden
Brain Madden has released a free eBook Notes on Desktop Virtualization by Brain Madden.
Index:
1) Virtualization is MORE than just VDI
2) Why storage matters
3) 3 Issues to address
4) What is IOPS and why does it matter?
5) The dumbest thing you can do
6) The secret to desktop virtualization savings
7) How the *@&% is it possible for multiple users to share the same disk image?
8) How Win7 will affect your storage and virtualdesktop environment
9) Does the storage protocol matter?
10) Multiple classes of storage are okay
11) Ten questions to ask when evaluating your storage vendor
12) "TCO" and "ROI" Confusion
13) Why VDI?
14) 5 sure-fire ways to get canned
15) Which kind of virtualizer are you?
16) Why do people like VDI?
17) The Vicious Cycle of VDI storage
18) Notes for article “Desktop VM sizing & IOPS”
Just Click on the picture to go to the NetApp site where you can download this free eBook 
If you click HERE you have the PDF file direct
Holiday Molveno Italy
So now I am back from my Holiday. I was ten day’s in Molveno Italy
Doing some Canyoing, Walking, Moutainbiking, Climbing & Abseiling.
It is was a nice ten day’s.
Next monday it is my first workday after holiday again. Soon I will start blogging again.
First few days rest. 
