MCSA Windows Server 2012

MCSA 2012 in the pocket!

The advantage of this cert is that it opens a way for several MCSE of your choice, see more http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/mcse-certification.aspx

Smartphone wars are over

The Smartphone Wars Are Over, Everyone Wins.

http://readwrite.com/2013/05/27/the-smartphone-wars-are-over-we-won

Problem with MacOS 10.7.5

Bumped into a problem described here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3238744?start=15&tstart=0

Error messages:


5/25/13 12:18:43.043 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.xpchelper.F8010000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[53840]) Exited with code: 1

5/25/13 12:18:43.063 PM xpchelper: getpwuid_r() failed for UID: 504, ret: 0, errno: 0

those messages filled up system.log. I could not open terminal or activitymonitor to try to kill opendirectoryd. After power off everything is back to normal. The root cause is unknown.

Learning big numbers with Microsoft

New Microsoft file system ReFS support 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 files in a directory. That is 18 "american quintillions (10¹⁸)" . It is funny, but it is much less than "european quintillion (10³⁰) ".

Windows 2012 hyper-v snapshots online merge

If you still suffering from waiting when deleted snapshots in Windows server 2008 will merge and free disk space while VM is turned off,  you may want to know that in Windows server 2012 it is done in the background while VM is up, thanks Microsoft!

70-247 and 70-246 materials

found this on twitter, seems to be cool reference for 70-247 and 70-246 exams.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/04/01/build-your-private-cloud-in-a-month-new-article-series.aspx#.UZ5Ea5Wj00M

java.facebookupdate on MacOS

java.facebookupdate is running in the background and requests update from facebook. This is an object that comes when you use facebook video chat. if you want to remove this java object look at /Users/[my username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.facebook.videochat.[my username].plist  and
/Users/[my username]/Library/Application Support/Facebook/

Delete everything there.

Free powershell ebooks

http://powershell.org/wp/newsletter/


and a good boot start video her http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WSV321

70-417 exam materials

Nice free training for Microsoft 70-417 exams:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Upgrading-Skills-to-Windows-Server-2012-Jump-Start/Upgrading-Skills-to-Windows-Server-2012-01-Installing-and-Configuring-Servers-Based-on-Windows-Serve


also hand-on labs

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/hh968267.aspx

upd: hey, nice reference with links to Technet per topic: http://www.enduria.eu/preparation-resources-for-the-exam-70-417/

Build Sharepoint 2013 lab in Azure cloud

Register for free 90 days Azure evaluation, then using the scripts provided by author get your lab running.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/05/17/step-by-step-build-a-free-sharepoint-2013-lab-in-the-cloud-with-windows-azure-31-days-of-servers-in-the-cloud-part-7-of-31.aspx?goback=%2Egmr_58750#.UZZ6JqLWXVQ

Hyper-v vhd vs vhdx file format in Windows 2012 and 8

Windows 2012 offers new format of VM disk file vhdx, obviously name inspired by docx xlsx pptx from Office platform.  The main advantage of using vhdx is disk space above 2T. However,  it is also faster due to large block size,  more resilient sure to new disk log, supports natively 4kb sector disks (look for AF in disk specs) and has user defined metadata. There is also a highly expected feature called "Trim/Unmap" - you know it from SSD world - which will notify underlying file system or hardware that free space can be returned to storage.

You can convert from one format to another assuming you have no space limitations. So, you still have vhd? What are you waiting for?

A little dose of cloud humor for today and for the future

http://www.cloudtweaks.com/cloud-humor/

WEF Global IT report

WEF published Global IT report 2013. Click on your country to see details:

installing CentOS 6.4 on Windows 8 Hyper-V

Since this release has integration services build-in, you do not need to do anything except bricolage of NIC cards. Set up VM as usual with legacy network adapter, then when CenOS is up and running, add native network adapter and set statis MAC of the legacy one. Remove legacy adapter and boot up CentOS who will recognize native adapter as eth0. Unlike FreeBSD snapshot-revert works fine in CentOS.
CentOS would also recognize shutdown request from hyper-v manager, however stop-vm powershell cmdlet will just turn off power (looks like stop-vm and GUI commands are not doing the same action).

CentOS 6.4 comes with native support for Hyper-V

CentOS 6.4 comes with Linux integration Services build-in.
"Microsoft Hyper-V drivers have been added to allow CentOS to be more efficient as a Virtual Machine when installed on Microsoft Hyper-V server."
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.4
Bravo. Will FreeBSD 9.x follow?

The linux kernel 2.6.32 has the hyper-v support and other distributions such as Ubuntu should also be compatible.

FreeBSD 9.1 SU+J issues under Hyper-V

After several days of running freshly installed  FreeBSD 9.1 64bit is showing signs of fatigue - SU+J file system corrupt "panic: ufs_dirbad: .. mangled entry", running fsck -y in a single mode fixed the issues but many installed previously packages, such as ruby, mc were damaged.

Clearly it comes from somewhat poor integration with virtual environment, in this case hyper-v. I will reinstall FreeBSD from scratch and try to disable SU+J to see if it is getting more stable.

Remotely managed Windows 2012 core error: "Events from WebServer.Events.xml could not be enumerated"

Solution is to create the missing file as per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2721972