What with work, kids, work courses, work and what ever else life has been going at 100%. The house is starting to wind down now as we have some big events soon.
Hopefully all will be OK, next week will tell on one, and probably by mid Aug the other big event will be over. now that's the family stuff over onto the other stuff.
Did a AD2008 and Hyper V course recently for a few days. All about some of the new things in Server 2008, AD DNS and of course Hyper V. And it was fun, saw some stuff, got to play with Hyper v away from the work load, work problems for a dew days and that's always cool. Its a nice product, missing some stuff in comparison to VMware server, but easier than MS virtual Server. Well it is in my head - I always seemed to have a mental block that I never bothered getting fixed on Virtual Server. It goes back to the horrible days I spent preparing for my MS exams.
Either way on with the info. I have a number of VMware virtual machines that I worked on, used, and just generally broke. I had what I called templates for these machines, so when I was bored, had done to much to repair it or just forgot to take snapshots, i blew them away and started again. Now trying out HyperV seemed like a good idea, but I couldn't find out how to convert from one to another. apparently there is a MS product coming down the tracks SCCMVMMTC$$%£$"£$ or something like that, but I don't have those bob's. VMware has a converter that's does other funky stuff, and again I don't have their bob's either.
I have Google, time, a great resource in the Minasi Forum, gratious plug, www.minasi.com and well a big happy server box at home that likes challenges. So I came up with this. Its heavily modified, borrowed, robbed and other stuff, but it works.
This will bring a Windows OS, from a physical box, or a VMware Server or any other variant into Hyper-V.
Install latest version of Hyper-V onto Server 2008, link at the bottom. Now changed, so Google some more folks. Its RTM for the last 2 weeks so should be picked up by Microsoft Updates on a purchased Server 2008 with Hyper V Role installed.
On the VMware version uninstall VM tools from your VM.
Shutdown the VM
Add a new IDE disk drive to your VM; (any size will do 2GB will make it quick)
Change this to be IDE Device 0:0, you will probably have to move the CD ROM drive to the other IDE port or channel.
Boot up your virtual machine with both drives connected and check that it detects your new IDE drive (along with a primary IDE channel and a disk device driver). You should be able to see the new drive as "not initialized" in Disk Management.
Power off your virtual machine and remove the newly created IDE disk from your VM (you can delete it from disk as well).
Do not power on your VMware Machine again!
Convert your VMDK file to VHD format using the Vmdk2Vhd utility, link at the bottom. Conversion performance was a lot quicker converting an image from one physical disk to another physical disk, over twice as fast.
Move image from VMware Server machine to Hyper-V machine.
Create a new Virtual Machine in Hyper-V.
Make sure you select “Use an existing virtual hard disk” and select the VHD file that you just created.
Power it on.
Install “Integration Services” and reboot when prompted
Assign the original IP address(es) to your new network card(s)
Check Network Discovery is on, and your host machines Network Addresses.
Do another reboot
Check that everything is running and working OK.
I found DNS had shutdown as well as DHCP.
Links.
HyperV RC1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7EDAA89F-9F64-488D-93C0-858D2D8799DF&displaylang=en
VMDK to VHD
http://vmtoolkit.com
Normally you need to use Ctrl-Alt+Left arrow to release the console, but you can double tap the Windows Key to do a similar job, except when in Full Screen Mode.
I've been up to some other training as well. Got lucky enough to get sent on ESX configuration training, but that'll be next week.
18 July 2008
27 April 2008
Virtualization - the bad stuff.
This is important stuff, especially if your new to it like I am, and don't have the budget for iSCSI, SAN or whatever else is out there.
Have a backup of the data on the VM.
Raid is not a VM Data backup.
Have a backup of the VM.
Raid is not a VM VHD backup.
Have a backup of the Host machine.
Raid is not a backup of a Server.
Have notes on all the machines, including at least the following and anything else you care and if you have extra please email them to me at mcglynn.joe@gmail.com.NOSPAM -
IP's of all the machines both virtual and Physical.
Server names, FQDN and Netbios.
An odd one, but how long the physical machine needs to reboot, trust me, if your sitting there waiting for a machine to reboot and you thing that it should do it in 2 minutes, the 5 minutes it may take to reboot is real long and lonely.
Physical drive sizes, nice to know what should have been there.
Virtual drive sizes, again nice to know what should be there.
A set of Server XXX or whatever is your flavour disks, nothing like trying to rebuild a server when all you have is a XP Service Pack CD.
As a friend of mine calls it, a lifeboat machine. You need another box to run your VM's on if your main box crashes, I mean after all, isn't this part of the reason we are here...
Notes on the complete build, what did and did not go right. What programs are installed on each VM. This is real important if you have to rebuild a VM that did something...but what was it... Belarc will give you a nice report of all installed software.
All of this stored somewhere else other than on a VM or the Host machine. A printout is good, a CD is good, but whatever works for you.
A VM toolkit. start looking at some of the VM or VHD tools out there and see what can or cannot help you if a VHD disk gets corrupted.
Belarc - nice report on a server, hardware software etc.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
VM Back - Driver Disk to open a VHD
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html#top
WinImage - a program to allow you take a look at the data on a VHD
http://www.winimage.com/
Hope this is of some use.
Joe
Have a backup of the data on the VM.
Raid is not a VM Data backup.
Have a backup of the VM.
Raid is not a VM VHD backup.
Have a backup of the Host machine.
Raid is not a backup of a Server.
Have notes on all the machines, including at least the following and anything else you care and if you have extra please email them to me at mcglynn.joe@gmail.com.NOSPAM -
IP's of all the machines both virtual and Physical.
Server names, FQDN and Netbios.
An odd one, but how long the physical machine needs to reboot, trust me, if your sitting there waiting for a machine to reboot and you thing that it should do it in 2 minutes, the 5 minutes it may take to reboot is real long and lonely.
Physical drive sizes, nice to know what should have been there.
Virtual drive sizes, again nice to know what should be there.
A set of Server XXX or whatever is your flavour disks, nothing like trying to rebuild a server when all you have is a XP Service Pack CD.
As a friend of mine calls it, a lifeboat machine. You need another box to run your VM's on if your main box crashes, I mean after all, isn't this part of the reason we are here...
Notes on the complete build, what did and did not go right. What programs are installed on each VM. This is real important if you have to rebuild a VM that did something...but what was it... Belarc will give you a nice report of all installed software.
All of this stored somewhere else other than on a VM or the Host machine. A printout is good, a CD is good, but whatever works for you.
A VM toolkit. start looking at some of the VM or VHD tools out there and see what can or cannot help you if a VHD disk gets corrupted.
Belarc - nice report on a server, hardware software etc.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
VM Back - Driver Disk to open a VHD
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html#top
WinImage - a program to allow you take a look at the data on a VHD
http://www.winimage.com/
Hope this is of some use.
Joe
23 April 2008
Norfolk Airport.
Just so I remember next time.
The VB Resort Hotel is about 20/ 25 minutes from the Airport.
The Marriot where we stayed in 2007 was about 45 minutes.
Thanks to Dave for the lift.
The VB Resort Hotel is about 20/ 25 minutes from the Airport.
The Marriot where we stayed in 2007 was about 45 minutes.
Thanks to Dave for the lift.
Minasi Forum 2008
I have to leave.....I've had a great time, but between un-notified flight changes etc I had to leave early and I'm sad about that. I'm missing the end of JamesNT's talk on SQL, the finial words from Eric and Mark and the roundtable.
I was a bit aprehensive about the meeting as I wasn't sure that I'd have an interest in all of the stuff, but just the sheer energy comming from the speakers about their subjects is enough to infect their interest in you. I've had the hardest time trying to get my head around power shell and why I need it. But Don Jones, great speaker, made a point thats hard to not accept. If you want to be a 'high level IT' person in the windows world, you will have to be a Power Shell user. And PS2 is on its way. Everything in the Windows world will aparently be controlled from this interface.
For all its scareyness there appears to only be a few things in it. 16 Verbs as per some places, but 14 in others and approx 130 Nouns. Help actually works, and its almost close to readable language. At least I'm a bit more confident that I'll learn this thing.
Verb List
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/powershell_nouns.htm
Noun List
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714428.aspx
I need to finish this up, but I think a plane is waiting.
I was a bit aprehensive about the meeting as I wasn't sure that I'd have an interest in all of the stuff, but just the sheer energy comming from the speakers about their subjects is enough to infect their interest in you. I've had the hardest time trying to get my head around power shell and why I need it. But Don Jones, great speaker, made a point thats hard to not accept. If you want to be a 'high level IT' person in the windows world, you will have to be a Power Shell user. And PS2 is on its way. Everything in the Windows world will aparently be controlled from this interface.
For all its scareyness there appears to only be a few things in it. 16 Verbs as per some places, but 14 in others and approx 130 Nouns. Help actually works, and its almost close to readable language. At least I'm a bit more confident that I'll learn this thing.
Verb List
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/powershell_nouns.htm
Noun List
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714428.aspx
I need to finish this up, but I think a plane is waiting.
05 March 2008
Ooops
Its been an age since I've put anything up here, yet I have a lot of stuff emailed to myself that I'm supposed to put up here!
Where does the time go?
OK I'm going to put up some rought stuff and edit it later....yea right!
SKU011.CAB Missing
This one I've met several times recently and this is the best fix I've found for it;
This is due to incomplete installation of an office...
You can check this MS article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896866/) for this issue.
You can search for the file for download on net. Sometimes, if the version of office is Basic, just word, excel and outlook you can repair it with the Basic Office CD.
You can have some registry modification, but before doing it, just back-up the registry keys.
Go into Registry Editor(Start->Run->Regedit)
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Delivery.
There should be only 1 directory under Delivery, which is your DownloadCode (indicated by some numbers)
Select that directory [or all if more].
On the right side of the screen, right-click on CDCache.
Change the value to 0 and the problem is solved.
Handy link to find ouyt the key of the MS Office that you are using is
http://www.skaro.net/cd-keyreader/
Following on from this I also ran into problems trying to add Exchange Mail accounts for people in a Domain with roaming profiles and a few otehr things.
Even though I had the right Server name and user name, Exchange could not resolve or find the user mailbox.
In ADUC (start->programs->admin tools->Active Dir Users & Computers)
Exchange Advanced tab - show exchange list, tick that box, and hey presto the users appeared again.
Wireless
I found this and as of yet have to try it all out, but it seems good
To secure their wireless access points without making it to maddening, we could try the following.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=587
Info on what/ how to secure a wireless access point with a radius server.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035-6148579.html
how to install a radius server.
Ok, bed calls, I'll tidy this up again.
Where does the time go?
OK I'm going to put up some rought stuff and edit it later....yea right!
SKU011.CAB Missing
This one I've met several times recently and this is the best fix I've found for it;
This is due to incomplete installation of an office...
You can check this MS article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896866/) for this issue.
You can search for the file for download on net. Sometimes, if the version of office is Basic, just word, excel and outlook you can repair it with the Basic Office CD.
You can have some registry modification, but before doing it, just back-up the registry keys.
Go into Registry Editor(Start->Run->Regedit)
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Delivery.
There should be only 1 directory under Delivery, which is your DownloadCode (indicated by some numbers)
Select that directory [or all if more].
On the right side of the screen, right-click on CDCache.
Change the value to 0 and the problem is solved.
Handy link to find ouyt the key of the MS Office that you are using is
http://www.skaro.net/cd-keyreader/
Following on from this I also ran into problems trying to add Exchange Mail accounts for people in a Domain with roaming profiles and a few otehr things.
Even though I had the right Server name and user name, Exchange could not resolve or find the user mailbox.
In ADUC (start->programs->admin tools->Active Dir Users & Computers)
Exchange Advanced tab - show exchange list, tick that box, and hey presto the users appeared again.
Wireless
I found this and as of yet have to try it all out, but it seems good
To secure their wireless access points without making it to maddening, we could try the following.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=587
Info on what/ how to secure a wireless access point with a radius server.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035-6148579.html
how to install a radius server.
Ok, bed calls, I'll tidy this up again.
31 October 2007
Gotta put this up....
http://web2.minasi.com/forummeet2008/
I was here this year 2007 and it was brilliant; beer, computers, great food and better company. Hopefully all going well I'll make it again next year and have just as much fun.
I'll paste some of the official post but essentially you'll get to see, in person, Mark Minasi, who'll give about 20 hours of free info to you, and you get to ask questions, and drink beer, and some more beer....did I mention that...that there may be some beer?
There will also be a few other guys there, well actually quite a lot of guys, who know stuff about computers, so much stuff its kinda scarey, but it is halloween so thats fair enough.
If your in the states and within 500 miles, I'd turnip (get it...halloween) just to see what its all about. If your like me on the other side of the pond, then its a good excuse for a weekend away, work, interests and beer. I hope I've mentioned the beer enough to get a few trawlers interested.... beer beer beer...
For more info see the following pictures...... http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mcglynn.joe/MinasiForum
MR&D Forum Meeting 2008
Please join us for the third annual Mark Minasi Technical Forum Meeting. We will once again be meeting in beautiful Virginia Beach, VA to learn new technologies, share ideas, and meet the people that have become our online friends.
Hosted by Mark Minasi and organized by Eric B. Rux , this meeting will have in depth talks on Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, Windows Home Server (WHS), Windows Vista as well as other hot topics. You won't want to miss this!!
Dates: Sunday, April 20th 2008 through Wednesday, April 23rd. We recommend that you fly in on Saturday.
Location: Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Center
Costs: hotel, airfare, meals and $450 registration fee
Talks
Speakers
Link to register (it's a "seminar registration" page but you'll see the Forum meeting as an option)
Link to pay with credit card if you've already registered but didn't pay when you registered
Technical Sessions
(Schedule Subject to Change)
Sunday, April 20, 2008
1:00 pm: Mark Minasi Keynote
2:15 pm: Break
2:30 pm: TBA Industry Keynote
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: Eric B. Rux Fun with Windows Home Server; trust me, you’ll want one…don’t let the word “Home” fool you
5:00 pm: 'No Host' dinner at local restaurant (share your war stories and learn from the experts!)
Monday, April 21, 2008
9:00 am: James Summerlin Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
10:15 am: Break
10:30 am: Greg Shields Documentation & Change Control: Hating it to Loving it in 75 minutes
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: Mark Minasi Windows Server 2008
2:15 pm: Break
2:30 pm: Jeremy Moskowitz Group Policy 2.0: It’s freekin’ sweet! (with Vista & Windows Server 2008)
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: Nathan Winters Exchange 2007 from the command line – what makes a good Exchange 2007 deployment
5:00 pm: Hosted Dinner at Pungo Grill. Mmmmmm! (we ate there last year, it was very good)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
9:00 am: Greg Shields Tips & Tricks for Preventing an Active Directory Failure
10:15 am: Break
10:30 am: Don Jones Dr. PowerShell: How I Learned to Stop Clicking and Love the Command-Line
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: Rhonda Layfield TBA
2:15 pm: Break
2:30 pm: Curt Spanburgh Journey to Planet Sharepoint
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: Nathan Winters OCS 2007 – An Introduction to the new VOIP world of Office Communication Server 2007
5:00 pm: 'No Host' dinner at local restaurant (one last chance to rub elbows with people in the know)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
9:00 am: Don Jones Windows PowerShell: The Future of Server Administration
10:15 am: Break
10:30 am: Mark Minasi Windows Vista
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: All Attendees Roundtable discussion for as long as you want!
End of Forum Meeting. See you again next year!
I was there this year and had a ball. Discovered a load of new interesting and usefull stuff, but best of all, got to have fun, drink beer and talk computers for a few days.
Come all and have a ball...
Joe
http://web2.minasi.com/forummeet2008/
I was here this year 2007 and it was brilliant; beer, computers, great food and better company. Hopefully all going well I'll make it again next year and have just as much fun.
I'll paste some of the official post but essentially you'll get to see, in person, Mark Minasi, who'll give about 20 hours of free info to you, and you get to ask questions, and drink beer, and some more beer....did I mention that...that there may be some beer?
There will also be a few other guys there, well actually quite a lot of guys, who know stuff about computers, so much stuff its kinda scarey, but it is halloween so thats fair enough.
If your in the states and within 500 miles, I'd turnip (get it...halloween) just to see what its all about. If your like me on the other side of the pond, then its a good excuse for a weekend away, work, interests and beer. I hope I've mentioned the beer enough to get a few trawlers interested.... beer beer beer...
For more info see the following pictures...... http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mcglynn.joe/MinasiForum
MR&D Forum Meeting 2008
Please join us for the third annual Mark Minasi Technical Forum Meeting. We will once again be meeting in beautiful Virginia Beach, VA to learn new technologies, share ideas, and meet the people that have become our online friends.
Hosted by Mark Minasi and organized by Eric B. Rux , this meeting will have in depth talks on Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, Windows Home Server (WHS), Windows Vista as well as other hot topics. You won't want to miss this!!
Dates: Sunday, April 20th 2008 through Wednesday, April 23rd. We recommend that you fly in on Saturday.
Location: Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Center
Costs: hotel, airfare, meals and $450 registration fee
Talks
Speakers
Link to register (it's a "seminar registration" page but you'll see the Forum meeting as an option)
Link to pay with credit card if you've already registered but didn't pay when you registered
Technical Sessions
(Schedule Subject to Change)
Sunday, April 20, 2008
1:00 pm: Mark Minasi Keynote
2:15 pm: Break
2:30 pm: TBA Industry Keynote
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: Eric B. Rux Fun with Windows Home Server; trust me, you’ll want one…don’t let the word “Home” fool you
5:00 pm: 'No Host' dinner at local restaurant (share your war stories and learn from the experts!)
Monday, April 21, 2008
9:00 am: James Summerlin Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
10:15 am: Break
10:30 am: Greg Shields Documentation & Change Control: Hating it to Loving it in 75 minutes
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: Mark Minasi Windows Server 2008
2:15 pm: Break
2:30 pm: Jeremy Moskowitz Group Policy 2.0: It’s freekin’ sweet! (with Vista & Windows Server 2008)
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: Nathan Winters Exchange 2007 from the command line – what makes a good Exchange 2007 deployment
5:00 pm: Hosted Dinner at Pungo Grill. Mmmmmm! (we ate there last year, it was very good)
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
9:00 am: Greg Shields Tips & Tricks for Preventing an Active Directory Failure
10:15 am: Break
10:30 am: Don Jones Dr. PowerShell: How I Learned to Stop Clicking and Love the Command-Line
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: Rhonda Layfield TBA
2:15 pm: Break
2:30 pm: Curt Spanburgh Journey to Planet Sharepoint
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: Nathan Winters OCS 2007 – An Introduction to the new VOIP world of Office Communication Server 2007
5:00 pm: 'No Host' dinner at local restaurant (one last chance to rub elbows with people in the know)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
9:00 am: Don Jones Windows PowerShell: The Future of Server Administration
10:15 am: Break
10:30 am: Mark Minasi Windows Vista
11:45 am: Lunch
1:00 pm: All Attendees Roundtable discussion for as long as you want!
End of Forum Meeting. See you again next year!
I was there this year and had a ball. Discovered a load of new interesting and usefull stuff, but best of all, got to have fun, drink beer and talk computers for a few days.
Come all and have a ball...
Joe
03 October 2007
October
Where did the time go???
It only seems like yesterday that I was putting up my last one but its almost 2 months ago.
Lots of things happened, Moved location now back in Galway.
Have a new room in the house, now that the builders have finished. And when you think that with the building work done the room is finished, nope, the painter has to come in and the fumes from that will kill you.
New baby, now 8 weeks old almost and she's been keeping us busy.
And due to boredom or stupidity I'm doing a project management course...so homework every evening.
Damn I'll need to clone myself.
Hopefully when all gets settled properly I'll be back to posting some proper info.
Joe
It only seems like yesterday that I was putting up my last one but its almost 2 months ago.
Lots of things happened, Moved location now back in Galway.
Have a new room in the house, now that the builders have finished. And when you think that with the building work done the room is finished, nope, the painter has to come in and the fumes from that will kill you.
New baby, now 8 weeks old almost and she's been keeping us busy.
And due to boredom or stupidity I'm doing a project management course...so homework every evening.
Damn I'll need to clone myself.
Hopefully when all gets settled properly I'll be back to posting some proper info.
Joe
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