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TechDays 11 Bern

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In the next two days the biggest Microsoft event in Switzerland will be held at Bern.

Microsoft will bring the latest news about Windows 8, Windows Server 8 and the System Center 2012 Suite from the BUILD conference to the Swiss IT Pro audience. On the IT Pro track, private cloud will be the key topic.

More About the two days:

IT Professionals: 20. Oktober 2011

In der Keynote stellen Ihnen unsere Technikexperten die wesentlichen Neuerungen unserer anstehenden Servertechnologien Windows Server 8, SQL Server „Denali“ und System Center 2012 vor. Anschliessend werden technische Informationen und Demos für Produkte wie SQL Server „Denali“, System Center 2012, PowerShell, IPv6, Virtualisierung und Private Cloud, Windows und SQL Azure sowie Office 365 und Endpoint-Managementangeboten.

Developer: 21. Oktober 2011

Der Tag beginnt mit der Keynote des Branchenexperten Neno Loje über das neue Visual Studio 11, das kürzlich auf der BUILD-Konferenz vorgestellt wurde. Softwareentwickler und –architekten erhalten anschliessend die aktuellsten Informationen und Demos über Produkte wie Windows Azure, ASP.NET MVC 4, Windows Phone „Mango“, Silverlight 5, SQL Server 2008 R2 / SQL Azure / SQL Server „Denali“ sowie Visual Studio Lightswitch und HTML5.

More information and the agenda can you find on the techdays homepage.

See you there…

WHS with HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L

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HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L

Two days ago my HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L arrived. Since I need more disk space I was looking for a good NAS solution. My first experiences with some of the common NAS vendors were not that great, most of the time the NAS was very very slow. Now this may has changed in the past years but still I prefer a mini server with a Windows OS.

That is where the HP ProLiant MicroServer and Windows Home Server 2011 meet, so I gave it a try. And guess what, it’s a great solution and it does exactly what I need. It stores files with a good performance, it’s quiet, it does not need a lot of power, let me stream content to my Xbox and enables me remote access to my data.

HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L

  • HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L
  • AMD Turion II NEO N40L 1.5GHz, 15W
  • 4GB ECC DDR3 SDRAM
  • 2x 2TB WD Caviar Green WD20EARX 5400 rpm, 64 MB Cache, 8,9 ms, SATA3
  • Windows Home Server 2011

Now at the moment I use these two WD 2TB Disks in a RAID 1, and the N40L still offers space for two other drives.

Install SNMP on Hyper-V R2 Core Server

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If your running Microsoft Hyper-V R2 or any Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Server you can install the SNMP Feature on the command line with the command line tool dism.

First you can list all Windows Features

Dism /online /get-features /format:table  

Now you can install for the SNMP Service:

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:SNMP-SC

SNMP Feature Core Server

After you have done this you and you have enabled Remote Management you can mange and configure smtp via remote MMC.

SNMP Service

Important: If you need to configure the SNMP Service on a remote machine you have to install the SNMP feature on the local administrative computer. Otherwise you will not see the SNMP specific tabs.

SNMP Service

More Information on installing Windows Features on a server running a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee441253(WS.10).aspx

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Enhancements

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I could test some features in the new version of Hyper-V which comes with the Windows Server 8 Developer Preview. I did a little overview about the a lot of new features in the new Hyper-V Version: Hyper-V: “Version 3 kills them all”. In this post I will write something about some new things in Hyper-V Dynamic Memory.

Windows Server 8 Developer Preview Hyper-V Memory Settings:

Dynamic Memory Windows Server 8

  • New maximum memory of a Virtual Machine is 512GB
  • You can now change the Dynamic Memory Settings during the VM is running. You don’t need to reboot.
  • You have now three values you can use, Startup RAM, Minimum RAM, Maximum RAM. In Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 you could only setup Startup and Maximum RAM.
  • You can now active Dynamic Memory during the creation of the new Virtual Machine

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Memory Settings:

Dynamic Memory Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

 

 

Quick note on PowerShell 3.0

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Today I had some time to test some of the new Windows PowerShell 3.0 feature and changes. And after playing a while with the Windows PowerShell 3.0 CTP I have to say Microsoft did besides the big new features, like workflows, a lot of small but really important improvements.

First I will show you two very small but very cool things which make working with PowerShell a lot easier.

New help view, which I really like. Here quick PowerShell 2.0 versus PowerShell 3.0:

Second I would like you to show how they simplified PowerShell for daily use. Here Get-Childitem for an example:

In PowerShell 2.0:

Get-Childitem | Where {$_.name -eq "Desktop"}

In PowerShell 3.0 you can do this now much friendlier:

Get-Childitem | where name -eq Desktop

powershell 2.0 vs 3.0 childitem