Windows 2008

Lors d'un dépannage client, j'ai du résoudre un problème de réplication Active directory assez particulier.   2 sites Active Directory ont été coupés pendant plusieurs jours, et durant ce laps de temps, les contrôleurs de domaine ont changé le mot de passe de leur compte ordinateur (cf loi de Murphy)  Après la coupure, le client n'a pas tout de suite remarqué que les réplications ne se faisaient plus. Au bout d'un temps, il a lancé des outils de diagnostique qui ont retourné l'erreur suivante :   DCDIAG reports... [Lire la suite]

Un petit retour client, avec le fameux problème du répertoire WinSxS de windows 2008 R2/Windows 7 qui grossit jusqu'a faire exploser la partition système, voici un outil pour nettoyer ce répertoire!   WinSxS Cleanup Tool Available for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft released an optional update last week that adds a Disk Cleanup Wizard to Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. The Disk Cleanup Wizard removes the update files that pile up in the WinSxS folder on Windows systems. Consequently, this wizard can free up... [Lire la suite]

Login Consultants has released a paper titled: “Decoding Microsoft’s VDI Licensing Arcanum“. The paper which contains 43 pages is written by Falko Gräfe can be downloaded for free from the Login Consultants website after registration. The paper covers Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) licensing and compares this against Server Based Computing licensing and single user terminal server licensing being used by some of the Desktop as a Service (DaaS) providers nowadays. --> Please see the rest on the blog... [Lire la suite]

For VMware Horizon View it is recommends that you configure your VMware View Horizon Servers with a signed SSL certificate. Default when you install a VMware View Horizon servers, a certificate is generated that is not signed by a CA. Because it is not signed by a CA It is possible to to intercept traffic. So it is highly recommend to replace the default certificate with a signed certificate after the installation. In the VMware View Horizon Administrator dashboard you can see that the Connection Server does not have a valid signed... [Lire la suite]

I sincerely hope this saves somebody else some time because I had a fair amount of head scratching with this today. Installed a Windows Server 2012 VM on vSphere 5.0 U2, pretty standard install with a C:\ drive for OS, Software etc and D:\ for data. This particular server needed to run SQL Server 2012, however the install kept repeatedly failing with the error “Could not find the Database Engine startup handle”. Initially I suspected that it might be a problem with a corrupt ISO as there are numerous postings around that and some,... [Lire la suite]

Mis à niveau avec un support natif de Microsoft RDP 8.0, les clients légers d’IGEL accèdent aux nouvelles possibilités de Windows 8 dans des environnements hébergés par Windows Server 2012. En intégrant le support natif du protocole Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0 dans le firmware de ses clients légersUD3, UD5 et UD9, IGEL leur donne accès aux nouvelles possibilités de Windows 8 dans des infrastructures de bureaux virtuels hébergés par Windows Server 2012. Applicable d’ici la fin du mois sur... [Lire la suite]

VMware and Hyper-V Metrics that shows the Performance Issues This whitepaper provides descriptions of Top VMware and Hyper-V metrics – those 20 metrics collected from VMware’s vCenter that indicate when resource-related bottlenecks and capacity issues are occurring. The second part of the paper is oriented on Microsoft’s Hyper-V metrics. Some of those are critical and are related to VMs, where others are less known, but necessary to understand how to quickly check performance of Hyper-V. What’s examples of metrics you’ll find in... [Lire la suite]

C’est une question très fréquente, alors pour y répondre il faut prendre en compte la version de l’hyperviseur Windows Server 2008 ou Windows Server 2012 Pour Windows Server 2008 R2 cf http://blogs.technet.com/b/gavinmcshera/archive/2011/03/27/3416313.aspx Pour Windows Server 2012 on parle de Converged Fabric et donc on va pouvoir pleinement optimiser le nombre de cartes cf http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/05/06/converged-fabric-in-windows-server-2012-hyper-v-server-8-beta.aspx --> A voir sur le blog de Fabrice... [Lire la suite]

A travers cet article, je vais tenter d’expliquer comment mettre en place le SSO (Single Sign On) pour l’utilisation de RemoteApp publiées sous RDS 2008 R2.   Pour les besoins de l’explication, je vais partir du principe que l’infrastructure en place est la suivante :   - 1 domaine : core.lab - 1 ferme de 2 serveurs RDSH o RDSH1.core.lab o RDSH2.core.lab Le nom de la ferme est RDFARM.core.lab - 1 RD Connection Broker : RDCB.core.lab - 1 RD Web Access : RDWA.core.lab - 1 RD Gateway : RDGW : RDGW.core.lab ... [Lire la suite]

Teradici extends the PCoIP Protocol to the Windows Remote Desktop Services /TSE !!!!   Teradici Remote Desktop Services Host (RDSH), a software-based solution, brings PCoIP remote display protocol to Microsoft Windows Server RDS (terminal services). Consolidate and simplify mixed deployments of VMware View and Microsoft RDSH on a single PCoIP protocol Teradici RDSH is an ideal solution for enterprises with mixed deployments of VMware View/Windows published desktop as it enables companies to: optimize network infrastructure... [Lire la suite]