23 août 2011

VMware vient de publier une vidéo présentant les nouveautés de vSphere 5 et heartbeat 6.4     --> The rest is on the website : http://www.julienmousqueton.fr/2011/08/12/vsphere-5-45-min-de-nouveautes-en-video/

I was playing around in my lab and figured I would give the vCenter Appliance (VCVA)  a try. I realize that today there are limitations when it comes to the vCenter Appliance and I wanted to list those to get them out in the open: No Update Manager No Linked-Mode No support for the VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance) Only support for Oracle as the external database Embedded database, DB2, only supports 5 hosts and 50 VMs No support for vCenter Heartbeat Now that you’ve seen the limitations why would you even bother testing... [Lire la suite]

Microsoft has announced it will release PST Capture, a free tool to search .PST files, import them into Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Online and (optionally) destroy the files. Exchange mailbox data is stored on Exchange servers – either on-premises in your organization’s datacenter, or in Exchange Online if you’re using Microsoft’s new Office 365 cloud service. Historically, Outlook users have used .PST files to store messages on their computers in order to reduce the size of their mailbox on Exchange or simply to... [Lire la suite]

Veeam has announced the release of version 6.0 of its disaster recovery solution Backup & Replication.  This version includes the support for Microsoft Hyper-V which the company already announced in May this year. Version 6.0 is the follow up of version 5.0 which was released in October last year, it included the SureBackup functionality which virtualization.info covered in March last year.   New functionalities include: New support for Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft... [Lire la suite]

As explained in this article there are some important changes in Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 regarding how the formatting of a partition is done. Shortly, when doing a non-quick format the whole drive is overwritten once, compared to Windows 2003 where all information on the main disk area was left behind. If there is data on a partition that should be permanently and safely erased there are plenty of third party tools that could do this, but it is important to know that we have some possibility already builtin. However,... [Lire la suite]

In this article we will look at the partition layout of ESXi 5.0. A change from earlier ESXi 4.x is that the older MBR partitioning system is replaced with a GPT style partition table. The first five partitions are mandatory and consumes exactly 900 MB together, while the last two is not technically necessary. The first small partition is just for booting the system and locating the hypervisor image which could be on one of the next two partitions. The actual system image is located on the first 250 MB partition, formatted... [Lire la suite]

How to see if the default location for new computer accounts has been changed in an Active Directory domain. Ever since Windows 2003 it has been a best practice to redirect the default location for new computer accounts in the domain. Every new AD always domain starts with the default setting of using CN=Computers, DC=Domain, DC=Com for non prestaged computers joining the domain. In this article we will look at how to see the actual setting after the change, which has not been very straightforward. Since the... [Lire la suite]

uite à la lecture et au suivi régulier des mises à jour de l’excellent script de génération de rapports (de Steve Goodman ) exchange disponible sur cette page http://www.stevieg.org/2011/06/exchange-environment-report/ J’ai voulu la faire tourner en tache planifiée Il faut que vous lanciez Powershell en collant les informations ci-dessous %systemroot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe   Le reste est à voir sur le site : ... [Lire la suite]

C'est à l'occasion de la conférence BUILD qui se déroulera du 13 au 16 Septembre à Anaheim que les informations détaillées sur la prochaine version de Windows seront rendues disponibles.A ce sujet, si vous n'aviez rien contre l'idée d'un séjour en Californie début Septembre je dois malheureusement vous annoncer que la conférence est sold-out... il faudra trouver autre chose. Sans attendre le 13 Septembre un premier niveau d'information sur certaines des nouvelles fonctionnalités d'Hyper-V a déjà été rendu disponible au... [Lire la suite]

Yesterday VMware accidentally posted the Release Notes for View 5.0, the latest version of their VDI product which they'll be announcing at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas later this month. The leaked document was quickly deleted, but not before plenty of people downloaded and re-shared it via twitter. The features included are pretty much exactly what Bridget predicted a few weeks ago on SearchVirtualDesktop.com, although she also mentioned a type of disk image streaming that's so far not included. (Could this be the much... [Lire la suite]