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November 27, 2009 |
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If plan to upgrade your ESX 4.0 hosts to ESX 4.0 Update 1 and are running HP ProLiant gear, you should be aware of an issue that has been discovered: On HP Proliant systems, when attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1 (U1), you may experience these symptoms:
- Upgrade operation may fail or hang and can result in an incomplete installation
- Upon reboot, the host that was being upgraded may be left in an inconsistent state and may display a purple diagnostic screen with the following error:
COS Panic: Int3 @ mp_register_ioapic
This issue occurs if you are running the HP Insight Manager agents on the ESX hosts. VMware will be releasing an updated installer for Update 1 in the near future, but the workaround for the time being is to disable the agents on the host prior to beginning the installation. Full information on the KB from VMware can be found here : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070 |
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November 04, 2009 |
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 Keeping with the theme of good [free] reading, Microsoft has released a pretty decent free ebook on Windows 7. "Deploying Windows 7: Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit" is 332 pages, most of which was taken from Mitch Tulloch's Windows 7 Resource Kit. Microsoft's Windows Resource Kits are notorious for having great content.
You can download it here from Microsoft or below: Download:  "Deploying Windows 7: Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit " (6.5 MB) |
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October 26, 2009 |
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 With the recent release of Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has released an eBook for download on the Windows Server website. Although not a huge tome, it has some good content, including:
- What's new in Windows Server 2008 R2
- Hyper-V R2
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and VDI
- Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access
- IIS 7.5
- DirectAccess
And the best part - it's free. Get it here from Microsoft, or below: Download: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 (11.1 MB)
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October 22, 2009 |
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For you date watchers out there, today (October 22, 2009) marks the day that both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 hit the retail streets. Of course, the bits have been available on MSDN and to Enterprise Agreement customers for quite a while now. Lots of goodness on both fronts. Personally, I've been using Windows 7 now for about 6 months and I've never looked back [to XP/Vista]. The two best features are Libraries and XP Mode. I highly recommend it! Windows Server 2008 R2's biggest splash (from my edge of the world) is Hyper-V, plus some other gems like DirectAccess and RDS advancements. Microsoft has a free eBook available for download here . It's no slouch either, at 200 pages. Who doesn't love free?
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October 23, 2007 |
I just updated the template tonight. I'm still working out a few kinks with the bullets and reorganization, but for the most part, it's up. If you notice anything that doesn't display correctly, please let me know either by sending me an email or using the Contact link at the top. More updates to come soon!
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August 21, 2007 |
Actually, it's been over a year since I last posted any new
content. So what's been keeping me so busy? Well, as a
consultant, there have been numberous engagements that I've been on,
traveling all over, etc. I've also been very active writing that
I haven't had much time to keep this site up to date. I'll be
posting many of these things on the site over the next few weeks along
with new content.
I've been focusing a lot on virtualization and the VMware side of the
industry. There is just so much going on there. There has
also been an enormous amount of activity on the SoftGrid side of
things, particularly since the Microsoft acquisition a year ago.
The site is going to be evolving into covering a lot more than simply
Citrix and terminal services. I'll be focusing on all areas of
virtualization, from the application level, through the infrastructure
layer, all the way out to the presentation layer. I am also
working on an entire revamp of the site, both in the look and feel and
in the organization.
So for all those wondering where I've been, that's where. More exciting news to come! Stay tuned...
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January 01, 2006 |
If you haven't seen this one yet, this is a great White Paper on the new Citrix Presentation Server 4
printing subsystem and really details how it all works. Highly
recommended!
Download: CPS4PrintingEnhancements.pdf (1693 KB)
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December 13, 2005 |
If you read my article on Customizing the RDP Web Connection (TSWEB), then you may have downloaded my customized page from here. Well, I also added the TSWEB connection page to my site here.
You can use this page to connect to any Terminal Server that is
accessible from the Internet. Feel free to bookmark the page, or
you can download a complete copy of the site from this page - look for TSWEB-COMPLETE-SITE.ZIP.
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