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Hyper-V Session Notes

Autor brendon | 30.07.2010 | Category Rant

I recently did some free M$ run training on the Hyper-V R2 & System Centre VMM. Good and interesting, I can definitely see this being useful for a number of our smaller deployments. Small things put MS ahead of VMWare I see are:

• Support for USB monitoring of UPS / USB Backup Disks pass through.
• Built-in support for existing AD authentication, no special ‘root’ passwords for individual ESX hosts.
• Group Policy Support.
• Time based power management policy for Hyper-V hosts. (Low power after hours).
• FREE Hyper-V R2 version of 2008 server. Downloadable direct from Microsoft.
• Host updates can be done using existing WSUS server.

Keeping all this in mind, I still see VMWare vSphere as the king of the data centre. I just think (similar to Terminal Services and CITRIX) Microsoft will catch up over the next few years.

My notes from the sessions are here:

Lotus Domino 5 to Exchange 2007

Autor brendon | 30.07.2010 | Category Rant

I recently had to run a migration from a Lotus Domino 5 server to Exchange 2007 on SBS 2008. Microsoft has released a funky little tool to assist in the synchronisation of Domino & Exchange address lists and allow the graceful migration of mailboxes. MSExchange.org has a useful article on how to configure the free Microsoft connector ‘MS Transporter Suite‘

The mailbox migration had me stumped as the Domino 5 was not hosting several of the required roles PLUS Lotus notes version 6 to 7 must be installed on the server for the import to work.

As we were doing a single import of all users mailboxes and not planning on running the two systems in parallel, the toolbox gives the ability to import mail items directly from the domino NSF files. There are a few gotcha’s but read on for the steps I followed to import the user mailboxes:

Modify the number of TV Guide Rows

Autor brendon | 16.06.2010 | Category 7, MediaCenter, TechStuff

In Brisbane, there are about 12 Digital channels worth watching. I run my MCE at 1080p which leaves a lot of wasted space on the default Channel Guide page. Hack7MC has found a useful little tool that allows you to increase the number of rows shown. The how-to is easy to follow and the TV guide looks great once it is done.

Trend Micro Officescan root User password reset

Autor brendon | 16.06.2010 | Category TechStuff

Strangely there are no KB articles showing how to recover the root password of an Officescan v10 server. You need to log a support call with Trend and they send the following information out: