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Course of the Week: Office 365 ProPlus Deployment for IT Pros The goal of this course is for the audience to learn about the IT Pro deployment features of Office 365 ProPlus, such as licensing and activation, Click-to-Run, Office Telemetry, and building App-V packages.

Prêmio Maiores Revisores  Quem fez mais revisões individuais

#1 Durval Ramos com 16 revisões.

#2 Marcelo Strippoli com 4 revisões.

#3 Hezequias Vasconcelos com 3 revisões.

Prêmio Artigos mais atualizados  Quem atualizou mais artigos

#1 Durval Ramos com 9 artigos.

#2 Carsten Siemens com 2 artigos.

#3 Hezequias Vasconcelos com 2 artigos.

Prêmio maioria dos artigos atualizados  A maior quantidade de conteúdo atualizado em um único artigo

O artigo a ter a maioria das mudanças esta semana foi Versões do Active Directory Schemas, escrito por Fernando Lugão Veltem

O revisor desta semana foi Fernando Lugão Veltem,

Prêmio Artigo com mais longa atualização  O artigo mais atualizado desta semana

O artigo que obteve maior atenção esta semana foi Versões do Active Directory Schemas, escrito por Fernando Lugão Veltem

O revisor desta semana foi Fernando Lugão Veltem,

Prêmio maioria dos artigos revisados  Artigo com mais revisões em uma semana

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Agenda de Publicações no Blog Wiki Ninjas Brasil, escrito por Fernando Lugão Veltem. Ele foi revisto 3 vezes na semana passada.

Os revisores desta semana foram Hezequias Vasconcelos, Alan Nascimento Carlos& Durval Ramos

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Portal VBA e VBS, escrito por Durval Ramos. Ele foi revisto 2 vezes na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Durval Ramos,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Nslookup - Default Server Unknown, escrito por Thiago Guirotto. Ele foi revisto 2 vezes na semana passada.

Os revisores desta semana foram Thiago Guirotto& Peter Geelen - MSFT

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Wiki: Modelo de Objetos HTML, escrito por Durval Ramos. Ele foi revisto 2 vezes na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Durval Ramos,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Guia de Sobrevivência: Windows 8 e Windows 8.1, escrito por Jorge Barata [JB]. Ele foi revisto 1 vez na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Marcelo Strippoli,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Plataformas, escrito por Jorge Barata [JB]. Ele foi revisto 1 vez na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Marcelo Strippoli,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é TechNet Wiki: Como Adquirir Liderança , escrito por Durval Ramos. Ele foi revisto 1 vez na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Carsten Siemens,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Conselho Internacional TechNet Wiki, escrito por Durval Ramos. Ele foi revisto 1 vez na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Durval Ramos,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Entrevista com Wiki Ninja Brasil., escrito por Hezequias Vasconcelos. Ele foi revisto 1 vez na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Hezequias Vasconcelos,

Esta semana, a maioria que brincava com artigo é Como Formatar sua assinatura no Fórum da Microsoft, escrito por Durval Ramos. Ele foi revisto 1 vez na semana passada.

O revisor desta semana foi Carsten Siemens,

Prêmio do artigo mais popular (pt-BR)   Colaboração é o nome do jogo!

O artigo a ser atualizado pela maioria das pessoas desta semana é Nslookup - Default Server Unknown, escrito por Thiago Guirotto

Os revisores desta semana foram Thiago Guirotto& Peter Geelen - MSFT

O artigo a ser atualizado pela maioria das pessoas desta semana é ALM – Integração Visual Studio e Enterprise Architect, escrito por Alan Nascimento Carlos

O revisor desta semana foi Alan Nascimento Carlos,

Roy Taylor is Corporate Vice President and Head of Global Channel Sales. In this role, Taylor is responsible for managing and growing AMD's channel business globally.

A 25-year industry veteran, Taylor has had a multi-faceted career as a technology evangelist, content strategist and entrepreneur in both start-ups and established companies. He joins AMD from Rightware, a Finland-based software start-up where he was chief sales officer. Prior to Rightware, Taylor spent a decade at NVIDIA where he held a number of leadership roles including Vice President Telco Relations, Vice President Content Relations and CTO for PCGA (PC Gaming Alliance), Vice President for GPU Sales and Vice President of EMEA Sales.

An avid gamer and IT enthusiast, Taylor started his career in the component distribution business and was a founder of Addtron, a firm representing sales and marketing for semiconductor leaders such as Aureal, IBM Microelectronics, NEC, Nexgen, and others in Europe. Taylor holds a bachelor's degree in Business Studies from Maidstone College, Kent, United Kingdom. More details can be found at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/roytaylor

To listen to the interview, click on this MP3 file link

DISCUSSION:

Questions--Interview Time Index (MM:SS) and Topic

:00:27:
Roy, can you share highlights and useful lessons learned from your long successful history with entertainment, technology sectors, and entrepreneurship?
"....In my twenties I won a very large contract from IBM Microelectronics to be their sales marketing rep company in Europe which at the time set a lot of records.....In my thirties I went to work for NVIDIA, set up their business in Europe from scratch and then turned that into a 300 million dollar business....During my forties and my tenure in America with NVIDIA I developed a number of worldwide programs which helped propel them to record sales....In terms of lessons during that time....The ability to think boldly and act big and not be intimidated I think are important lessons certainly from my career's success...."

:02:37:
As a notable top leader, what are your top leadership tips?

:04:41:
What are your top five tips for innovation and entrepreneurship?

:08:07:
What attracted you to AMD considering the many options you have?

:10:38:
What are AMD's current plans and future goals and more importantly how will they be executed?

:14:07:
I know that you were at CES in January, what was the reaction there?

:14:38:
How does AMD differentiate itself?

:15:59:
What are your views on global challenges?

:20:08:
Are there other areas or ecosystems or market conditions that continue to surprise you?

:21:50:
What will you do next?

:22:50:
What do you see as the top 5 upcoming disruptive innovations?

:29:04:
There is rapid growth in free content - what are your views on that?

:32:02:
Can you talk about what are the top ICT growth regions internationally?

:35:44:
There is this whole idea of crowdfunding which is just exploding worldwide. In fact the World Bank did a report on it in 2013. What are your views on that?

:38:20:
From your extensive speaking, travels, and work, please share three stories (amusing, surprising, unexpected, amazing).

:41:19:
Outside of your role at AMD, what are your three passions?

:42:33:
If you were conducting this interview, what 3 questions would you ask, and then what would be your answers?

Merhaba Technet Wiki ailesi,

Yazımın başlığından anlaşılacağı üzere Technet TAT Wiki Ninja olarak Karadeniz TV Gündem Özel programına konuk oldum. Programda "Türkiye'de Bilişim Sektörü Ne Durumda?" konu başlığında ve içeriğiyle konuştuk. Videoyu izlediğinizde bizler Technet TAT olarak neden varız, neden Türkçe kaynak oluşturuyoruz, neden gönüllü çalışıyoruz bu gibi soruların cevaplarını bulacaksınız.

(Please visit the site to view this video)

Hepinize iyi pazarlar. Sevgilerle

Turkish Ninja Uğur

Welcome back for another analysis of contributions to TechNet Wiki over the last week.

First up, the weekly leader board snapshot...

Mmm..monster score from Mehmet this week, with Mohammad also scoring incredibly high!

Top ninjas Carsten and Peter also producing a busy wiki week. We salute you all!

Yelenah and Boinoit topping the new articles monthly tally this week. Lovin' your work guys!

As always, here are the results of another weekly crawl over the updated articles feed.

Most Revisions Award   Who has made the most individual revisions

#1 Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT with 404 revisions.

#2 Mohammad Nizamuddin with 193 revisions.

#3 Carsten Siemens with 109 revisions.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

#4 Sandro Pereira with 52 revisions.

#5 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 49 revisions.

#6 Durval Ramos with 48 revisions.

#7 i.biswajith with 24 revisions.

#8 Matthew Yarlett with 23 revisions.

#9 Naomi N with 16 revisions.

#10 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 16 revisions.

Most Articles Updated Award   Who has updated the most articles

#1 Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT with 392 articles.

#2 Mohammad Nizamuddin with 147 articles.

#3 Carsten Siemens with 78 articles.

Just behind the winners but also worth a mention are:

#4 Sandro Pereira with 41 articles.

#5 Durval Ramos with 25 articles.

#6 Peter Geelen - MSFT with 23 articles.

#7 Benoit Jester - MTFC with 11 articles.

#8 Yavuz Tasci -TAT with 9 articles.

#9 Tomasso Groenendijk with 8 articles.

#10 Matthew Yarlett with 7 articles.

Most Updated Article Award   Largest amount of updated content in a single article

The article to have the most change this week was Windows Server 2012 R2 WSUS 4.0 Kurulumu ve Yapilandirma Bölüm 1 (tr-TR), by Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

This week's revisers were Yavuz Tasci -TAT& Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT

This new article from TAT member Mehmet a beautifully illustrated guide on how to use Windows Server 2012 R2 WSUS to keep everyone on the same page, so to speak!

Longest Article Award   Biggest article updated this week

This week's largest document to get some attention is Data Validation in MVVM, by Srithar

This week's reviser was Mohammad Nizamuddin,

This was a winning article for the TechNet Guru competition, back in January '14.

This is a very good introduction to a very important subject in the XAML world.

Most Revised Article Award   Article with the most revisions in a week

This week's most fiddled with article is TechNet Guru Contributions for March, by XAML guy. It was revised 15 times last week.

This week's revisers were Nonki Takahashi, Geetanjali Arora, Rahul A Shinde, dev hedgehog, Manjunath Sullad, Matthew Yarlett, loplim, Mr X, Raghunathan S& Naomi N

Yey for March, as we MARCH into another month of absolutely awesome articles! Have you posted something yet?

This week's secondmost fiddled with article is Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR), by Gokan Ozcifci. It was revised 13 times last week.

This week's revisers were Ugur Demir - TAT, Davut EREN - TAT, Recep YUKSEL - TAT, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT& Ersin CAN - TAT

The TAT have their own blog, and are busy growing a great community of Turkish leaders and legends. 

This week's third most fiddled with article is How to create .EXE of PS1, by i.biswajith. It was revised 12 times last week.

This week's reviser was i.biswajith,

It's new, and it's for you! Lots of illustration too. i.biswajith is a beloved regular here. His bio reads "Always evaluate/test yourself before using/implementing this!"

Most Popular Article Award   Collaboration is the name of the game!

The article to be updated by the most people this week is TechNet Guru Contributions for March, by XAML guy

This week's revisers were Nonki Takahashi, Geetanjali Arora, Rahul A Shinde, dev hedgehog, Manjunath Sullad, Matthew Yarlett, loplim, Mr X, Raghunathan S& Naomi N

The article to be updated by the most people this week is Turkish Avengers Team Council Center, by Gokan Ozcifci

This week's revisers were Davut EREN - TAT, Ersin CAN - TAT, Hasan Dimdik - TAT, Ugur Demir - TAT, Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT& Recep YUKSEL - TAT

The article to be updated by the most people this week is Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR), by Gokan Ozcifci

This week's revisers were Ugur Demir - TAT, Davut EREN - TAT, Recep YUKSEL - TAT, Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT& Ersin CAN - TAT

Two at the top from the TAT. A great team, to be sure.

Reminds me of the teamwork and camaraderie of a group in an on-line MMORG.

All watching each other's backs. All helping each other excel.

Ninja Edit Award   A ninja needs lightning fast reactions!

Below is a list of this week's fastest ninja edits. That's an edit to an article after another person

• Revision 69 of Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR) was saved by Recep YUKSEL - TAT just 4 minutes after Davut EREN - TAT

  A good win for Recep! Congrats to you sir!
  
  Also in the top ten are: 

• Revision 68 of Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR) was saved by Davut EREN - TAT just 6 minutes after Ugur Demir - TAT
• Revision 526 of Turkish Avengers Team Council Center was saved by Mehmet PARLAKYIGIT-TAT just 10 minutes after Ugur Demir - TAT
• Revision 25 of TechNet Guru Contributions for March was saved by loplim just 16 minutes after Mr X
• Revision 70 of Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR) was saved by Davut EREN - TAT just 20 minutes after Recep YUKSEL - TAT
• Revision 9 of Wiki Ninjas Blog: Article Spotlight overview was saved by Peter Geelen - MSFT just 22 minutes after Naomi N
• Revision 67 of Turkish Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule (tr-TR) was saved by Ugur Demir - TAT just 37 minutes after Elguc Yusifbeyli-TAT
• Revision 24 of TechNet Guru Contributions for March was saved by Mr X just 49 minutes after loplim
• Revision 2 of Windows Server 2012 R2 Install From Media Yöntemi ile Additional Domain Controller Kurulumu (tr-TR) was saved by Davut EREN - TAT just 55 minutes after Hasan Dimdik - TAT
• Revision 27 of TechNet Guru Contributions for March was saved by Manjunath Sullad just 76 minutes after Matthew Yarlett

We had a truly huge number of article edits this week, great work everyone.

Keep the quality content coming, we are building a formidable library of knowledge, with some big names being made.

Help us help others, and your name will be known for generations to come.

Have a great week! 

Best regards,
Pete Laker

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the DSC Diagnostics module for troubleshooting Windows PowerShell DSC.

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. This morning the Scripting Wife and I are on the train to Vienna. We had an absolutely awesome time in Prague. We would have loved to spend our entire time in Prague, but then we would miss out on more cool stuff in other places—such as Vienna. The last time I was in Vienna, I was teaching a Windows PowerShell class at the Microsoft Office, and it has been several years since we have been back to the city where culture meets business.

As a former music major, and opera lover, I am certainly psyched about returning. There are several awesome operas playing this week, and at least one ballet. Teresa is excited about seeing the Lipizzaner horses. At any rate, we leave behind an awesome couple of friends in Prague—we had lots of fun with Windows PowerShell MVP, David Moravec, and his lovely wife Andrea.  

As the high-speed train speeds along the tracks leaving Prague, I have my Zune playing one of my favorite violinists, Vanessa-Mae. Now she is playing a tune called Red Hot, a sort of classical mixture bridge mix, which is just about perfect for working with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC).

     Note  Today is the eighth day in a series of blog posts about Desired State Configuration.

• Intro to PowerShell 4.0 Desired State Configuration
• Using PowerShell 4.0 DSC Parameters
• Specifying PowerShell 4.0 DSC Configuration Data
• Using PowerShell 4.0 DSC to Control Configuration Drift
• Configure SMB Shares with PowerShell DSC
• Use Configuration File to Apply PowerShell DSC to Multiple Servers
• PowerShell, Network Adapters, and Domain Name System

Download the DSC Diagnostics module

The first thing to do is download the xDSCResouceDesigner Module from the Script Center Repository. The module released with the Wave 2 DSC Resource Kit, and it is a free download.

Note  To perform remote diagnostics, the DSC Diagnostics module needs to be installed on the remote machine. Simply copy the unzipped module to the Program files/Windows PowerShell/Modules location.

After I have the module installed, I can use the Get-Command cmdlet to find what cmdlets are exposed by the module. This technique is shown here:

PS C:\> Get-Command -Module xDscDiagnostics

CommandType     Name                                               ModuleName                    

-----------     ----                                               ----------                    

Function        Get-xDscOperation                                  xDscDiagnostics               

Function        Trace-xDscOperation                                xDscDiagnostics  

So, if I want to look at the last two DSC operations, I use the Get-xDscOperation cmdlet and specify 2 for the value of the –newest parameter. This is shown here:

PS C:\> Get-xDscOperation -Newest 2 

ComputerName   SequenceId TimeCreated           Result   JobID                                

All                                                                                              

Eve                                                                                               

nts

------------   ---------- -----------           ------   -----                                 ---

C1             1          3/6/2014 5:34:13 PM   Success  6ab949ca-66be-4167-853c-eeccc87c717d  {@{

C1             2          3/6/2014 5:22:10 PM   Success  953aec3c-80f0-48ee-ba76-2ff7c155a060  {@{

By looking at the time stamps, I can see that the most recent operation would be –Newest 1. I can also pipe the output to the Format-List cmdlet and look at more detail. This is shown here:

PS C:\> Get-xDscOperation -Newest 1 | fl *

SequenceId        : 1

TimeCreated       : 3/6/2014 5:34:13 PM

ComputerName      : C1

Result            : Success

JobID             : 6ab949ca-66be-4167-853c-eeccc87c717d

AllEvents         : {@{Message=Running consistency engine.; TimeCreated=3/6/2014 5:34:12 PM;

                    Event=System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord; Type=OPERATIONAL},

                    @{Message=Configuration is sent from computer NULL by user sid S-1-5-18.;

                    TimeCreated=3/6/2014 5:34:12 PM;

                    Event=System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord; Type=OPERATIONAL},

                    @{Message=Consistency engine was run successfully.; TimeCreated=3/6/2014

                    5:34:13 PM; Event=System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord;

                    Type=OPERATIONAL}}

NumberOfEvents    : 3

AnalyticEvents    : {}

DebugEvents       : {}

NonVerboseEvents  : {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord,

                    System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord,

                    System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord}

VerboseEvents     : {}

OperationalEvents : {System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord,

                    System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord,

                    System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord}

ErrorEvents       : {}

WarningEvents     : 

The nice thing about the Trace-XDscOperation cmdlet is that it will prompt you to enable the trace logs (which are disabled by default). After they are enabled, I can rerun my DSC configuration and reproduce any errors I was having.

Performing these commands remotely requires that I poke holes in the Windows Firewall, or that I simply use the Invoke-Command cmdlet and rely on remoting, which is already obviously enabled (or I would not be using DSC). I need to specify credentials that are valid on the remote machine, so I store the credentials in a variable called $cred. I then use the Invoke-Command cmdlet to run my commands. This technique is shown here:

PS C:\> $cred = Get-Credential nwtraders\administrator

PS C:\> Invoke-Command -ComputerName s1 -ScriptBlock {Get-xDscOperation -Newest 2}

ComputerName   SequenceId TimeCreated           Result   JobID                                

All                                                                              

Eve                                                                                              

nts

------------   ---------- -----------           ------   -----                                 ---

S1             1          3/5/2014 4:59:21 PM   Success  f7764868-4e2a-409a-b10b-d026a57b52c5  {@{

S1             2          3/5/2014 4:51:27 PM   Success  6b737c28-f199-457c-9db7-047381585c87  {@{

Groovy. The last two operations worked. Now, how about the tracing stuff? I simply use the Up arrow to retrieve my previous Invoke-Command command, and I change the stuff inside the script block. (Lazy I know, but hey, I would rather edit than type anew.) So here is the trace:

PS C:\> Invoke-Command -ComputerName s1 -ScriptBlock {Trace-xDscOperation}

ComputerName   EventType    TimeCreated           Message                  PSComputerName        

------------   ---------    -----------           -------                  --------------        

S1             OPERATIONAL  3/5/2014 4:59:21 PM   Configuration is sent... s1                 

I can see part of the message. So I use the Up arrow again, and I pipe the output to the Format-List cmdlet (fl is an alias that simplifies this technique):

PS C:\> Invoke-Command -ComputerName s1 -ScriptBlock {Trace-xDscOperation} | fl *

PSComputerName     : s1

RunspaceId         : 287d2943-8504-4c07-ac8b-db78edd96e38

PSShowComputerName : True

EventType          : OPERATIONAL

TimeCreated        : 3/5/2014 4:59:21 PM

Message            : Configuration is sent from computer C1 by user sid

                     S-1-5-21-1893272736-1364514926-820579994-500.

ComputerName       : S1

JobID              : f7764868-4e2a-409a-b10b-d026a57b52c5

SequenceID         : 1

Event              : System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogRecord

This time, it tells me the name of the computer and the SID of the user. I can look up the user SID if I need to, but everything looks like it is going swell, so I will look at the scenery for a while as we zip along the countryside.

Join me tomorrow for more cool Windows PowerShell stuff.

I invite you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter@microsoft.com, or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.

Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy 

Wir bei Microsoft Schweiz sind auf der Suche nach einem talentierten System Center Kollegen. Bei Interesse über das Blog bei mir melden!

Der Stellenbeschrieb in Englisch:

Red Barnet i Danmark er en del af den verdensomspændende organisation Save the Children International, der opererer og samarbejder på tværs af 120 lande. For at optimere kommunikation og samarbejde på tværs af landegrænser, har Red Barnet udarbejdet en vision for at skabe en digital arbejdsplads. Børnerettighedsorganisationen har derfor fået Office 365 med mail, dokumenthåndtering, intranet og chat, der giver nemmere adgang til kollegaer, dokumentdeling og mere effektiv kommunikation. 

Læs mere her.

Office 365 wächst und wächst und wächst. Wir sehen täglich, wie die Services erweitert werden und Limitierungen erweitert und gelöst werden. Seit April 2013 sind sowohl die Zugriffe als auch die gespeicherten Daten um mehr als 480% gestiegen. Bereits jetzt erhalten Benutzer eines E3 Planes standardmäßig 25GB OneDrive for Business Storage, 50GB Mailboxstorage, ein unlimitiertes E-Mail Archiv, 5GB für SiteMailboxen, 10GB für jede Shared Mailbox.

Eine Erweiterung wurde letzte Woche bekannt gegeben, die der Verwendung von SharePoint Online enorm hilft: das Sitecollection Limit wurde auf 1TB / Sitecollection erweitert. Bisher war es möglich, pro Sitecollection max. 100GB an Daten zu speichern, was bei großen Sitecollections schon mal für Unmut gesorgt hat, da man bereits bei der Architekturplanung des SharePoint Tenants darauf achten musste, wie die Lösung angelegt wird. Ein zweites Limit betraf die Tenantgröße: 25 TB waren bisher das Maximum, nun ist die Aussage: unlimitiert. Auch OneDirve for Business (ehemals SkyDrive pro) kann jetzt bis zu 1 TB groß werden.

Eine kurze Zusammenfassung der Limits bei SharePoint Online in den Enterprise Plänen:

• SharePoint Online Tenantgröße: unlimitiert
• Sitecollection: 1TB / Sitecollection
• Sitecollections / Tenant: 10.000
• Subsites / Sitecollection: 2.000
• OneDrive for Business: 25GB Standardmäßig, erweiterbar auf 1TB
• FileUpload Limit: 2GB

Probieren Sie Office 365 aus – dazu können Sie entweder einen 30 Minuten anonymen Sofort-Test eine voll funktionsfähigen Office 365 Tenants verwenden oder Sie registrieren einen kostenlosen 30 Tage Test.

Microsoft offre un site web spécialement conçu pour les utilisateurs de Windows XP. Par les informations utiles, on note un outil de transfert de fichiers qui est disponible pour les clients de type consommateur.

Microsoft vient de lancer le projet Siena. Il permet de développer rapidement une application Windows 8 à partir de données provenant de liste SharePoint, de fichiers Excel ou de tables Windows Azure.

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily create a zip archive.

 How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a zip archive of a folder on my system?

 Use Get-ChildItem from PSCX to copy the files, and pipe the output to the Write-Zip cmdlet:

Get-Childitem c:\fso -Recurse | Write-Zip -IncludeEmptyDirectories -OutputPath C:\fso_bu\fso.zip

Note: I have written several blog posts about the Windows PowerShell Community Extension Project.
For more information about obtaining the PSCX module, see these Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog posts.

Grip sjansen og meld deg på vårens Azure Camper. Vi fortsetter suksessen og har satt opp en ny serie med gratisAzure Camper på Lysaker i Oslo.

MVP Morgan Simonsen og Olav Tollefsen fra Microsoft Norge står klare for å gi deg en introduksjon til Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

Samtlige deltagere vil få tilgang til gratis prøveversjon, noe som gjør at kurset både blir faglig og praktisk.

Vi stiller med lunsj og kaffe  :-)

Finn datoen som passer best for deg:

26. mars Oslo, Lysaker. Meld deg på her

30. april Oslo, Lysaker. Meld deg på her

*Kun 30 plasser per camp.

Kontakt Irena om du får problemer med påmeldingen. a-irokor@microsoft.com

Agenda

12:30 – 13:15 Introduksjon til Windows Azure v/Olav Tollefsen

Vi går gjennom Windows Azure plattformen med fokus på de nye Infrastructure
as a Service funksjonene (Virtual Machines, Virtual Network).

13:30 – 14:30 Integrasjon med Windows Azure v/Morgan Dahl Simonsen

Hvordan kan Windows Azure integreres med ditt eksisterende nettverk og
tjenester? Vi går igjennom hvordan du etablerer VPN-tilkobling til Windows Azure, hvordan
kjøre Active Directory domenekontrollere i Windows Azure og hvordan føderere og
synkronisere ditt on-premise Active Directory med Windows Azure Active Directory.

14:45 – 16:00 Administrasjon av Windows Azure med PowerShell v/Morgan Dahl Simonsen

Hvordan administrere Windows Azure med PowerShell? Vi går igjennom oppsett
avtilkobling mot Windows Azure for PowerShell og viser hvordan du kan automatisere
hele din cloud-plattform.

Sted: Lysaker Torg, hos Microsoft Norge, 6 etasje.

Tid: 12.30 -16.00

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Hilsen Morgan, Olav og Irena

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Here are two webinars by our Windows Client Specialist in the next couple weeks:

Why Windows Devices are the Best for Education

Thursday, March 20th at 10:00 am (Pacific Time)

Speaker: Cameron Evans

Across the United States, educators are pursuing some form of a 1:1 student-computing initiative that leverages the pervasiveness of cloud computing and the advent of low-cost devices. With so many low-cost devices to choose from, an important question remains. Does the device we choose for teaching and learning matter?   In this webinar we’ll discuss the importance of device considerations in view of task design for teaching and learning. We’ll review the broad device ecosystem—including non-Microsoft devices—and explain why Windows devices provide for superior competency development towards college and career readiness.  At the session’s conclusion, we will provide you with some criteria to support optimal decision-making for your school's transformation to modern learning.
(direct link to registration site is here.)

Getting Started: Migrating from Windows XP in Education

Tuesday, March 25th at 12:00 pm (Pacific Time)

Speaker: Tyler Farmer

In April 2014 Windows XP will reach end-of-life and will no longer be supported by Microsoft.  It is critical that institutions migrate from Windows XP as soon as possible so they can continue to deliver a great learning environment and avoid disruptions to their academic institution’s operations. 

In this seminar we will walk through the right way to begin moving your systems from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8 by using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create your “golden” image.  From there we will demonstrate how to deploy that image to your workstations.   This is an introductory session on MDT.

(direct link to registration site is here.)

Este mês foi especial porque muitos artigos foram criados, por novos membros e também por alguns pioneiros no TechNet Wiki.

Alguns destes artigos foram especiais para à Comunidade, com vários acessos e muita edição de conteúdo, mas apenas 4 artigos podem ser o Destaque do Mês.

Conheça agora, os 4 Artigos selecionados pela nossa Equipe como os melhores da Comunidade em fevereiro:

- Adicionando Aplicativos ao Windows PE (Pre-installation Environment) por Luciano Gusso

- 2ª Geração de Máquinas Virtuais - Hyper-V 3.0 por Thiago Guirotto

- Configurando Licenciamento Remote Desktop Services Windows Server 2012 / R2 por Vinicius Mozart

- Remover nó de um cluster Hyper-V com o SCVMM2012 por Walter Teixeira

Os artigos selecionados estarão em destaque na Home do nosso TechNet Wiki nos próximos 30 dias e recebem à tag Artigo Destaque TechNet Wiki como reconhecimento desta homenagem.

Parabéns à todos os autores destes artigos que valorizam ainda mais à Comunidade Microsoft TechNet Wiki.

Até +,

Wiki Ninja Durval Ramos ( Twitter, Perfil )

Introduction

Robert Hedblom a System Center MVP & DPM specialist sat with me just about a month ago to discuss some options on how we could get through the steps of using Azure backup with DPM. This blog post will walk you through the complete configuration from a System Center Data Protection Manager perspective.

Introduction:

With the System Center 2012 SP1 release Microsoft presented a new feature that provided a solid online protection solution for the companies’ production data. Within the Windows Azure Management Portal, Microsoft created something called a backup vault that can easily be connected to both DPM servers but also the Windows Server Backup (WSB) feature for Windows 2012 Server. Using certificates and explicit passphrases Microsoft can assure not just a great feature to reduce the tape management for companies on a global scale but also a high security.

The steps to get started is to first sign up for Azure services, install a Windows Azure Backup agent on your DPM server and finally register your DPM server.

* If you are not currently using Windows Azure, go here and sign up for a free trial! http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

This blog post will cover:

• Considerations for using Azure backup with your DPM server
• How to configure your DPM servers to enable the online protection using Azure
• How to register your DPM servers
• How to configure the protection groups to enable online protection
• How to manually create online recovery points
• How to recover production data from Azure

Considerations for using Azure backup with your DPM server

The online protection will provide you a great possibility to place your production data in Azure meaning that you can securely and fully optimized provide an off-site replication for the company production data.

There are some considerations that you must keep in mind:

• The online protection is only available for primary DPM servers
• The retention time for your production data in Azure is 120 days
• You can place two recovery points per day in your backup vault provided in Azure
• You can provide online protection for Hyper-V, SQL and File
• You must have a DPM disk pool attached to the DPM server
• Windows Azure Backup Agent will use Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 feature.

The certificate used for the backup vault in Azure must fulfill the following prerequisites:

• To upload to the certificate to the vault, you must export it as a .cer format file that contains the public key.
• The certificate should be an x.509 v3 certificate.
• The key length should be at least 2048 bits.
• The certificate must have a valid ClientAuthentication EKU.
• The certificate should be currently valid with a validity period that does not exceed 3 years.
• The certificate should reside in the Personal certificate store of your Local Computer.
• The private key should be included during installation of the certificate.
• You can create a self-signed certificate using the makecert tool, or use any valid SSL certificate issued by a Certification Authority (CA) trusted by Microsoft, whose root certificates are distributed via the Microsoft Root Certificate Program.

How to configure your DPM servers to enable the online protection using Azure

Before you can register your DPM server you need to have a Backup Vault up and running in Azure. First you must register an account for Azure services, when that is done go to your DPM console and click on Management followed by clicking on the Manage subscription button in the top left of the console.

Your DPM server will open the windows Azure web page, provide your credentials to log in. First you must register a RecoveryService. To do this click on RecoveryService on the left hand side of the Azure portal.

Next you must create your Backup Vault by clicking on the link CREATE A NEW VAULT in the middle of the portal.

Click on BACKUP VAULT

Click on QUICK CREATE

Enter a NAME for the backup vault and choose the REGION of where the backup vault should be placed or located. To finish your configuration click on CREATEVAULT.

In the Azure portal you will now notice the backup vault being created.

When Azure is finished the STATUS will change from Creating to Active.

Now it’s time to create a certificate that must be used between your DPM server and your backup vault in Windows Azure. You should use the MakeCert executable that is available as part of the Windows SDK which you can download from this URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/bg162891

Open an elevated command prompt and use the following syntax for your certificate configuration “makecert.exe -r -pe -n CN=CertificateName -ss my -sr localmachine -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2 -len 2048 -e 01/01/2016 CertificateName.cer”

Change the CertificateName to any name you prefer. Keep in mind that the certificate must:

• Have a key length of 2048 bits
• Have a valid validity period that does not exceed 3 years

The certificate will be placed under the same catalogue as the MakeCert executable. Next you must upload the certificate to your Windows Azure backup vault, go to your Windows Azure Management Portal.

After you have successfully created your certificate you must provide the certificate to the Windows Azure Backup Vault. Click on the Manage Certificate on the center of the Windows Azure Portal.

Browse for the certificate you just created and click on the check to continue.

The certificate will now be uploaded to the Windows Azure Backup Vault.

When your certificate has successfully been uploaded to your Windows Azure Backup Vault you must install the Windows Azure Backup Agent. Click on the Download Agent link to continue.

Next you must choose which version of the Windows Azure Backup Agent you want to download and install. Choose the Windows Azure Backup Agent for Data Protection Manager and click on the check to continue.

The Windows Azure Backup Agent will be downloaded after you have chosen your download options. Click on Run to continue.

You will be prompted with a Supplemental Notice. Choose “I accept the terms of the Supplemental Notice.” And click on OK to start the installation of the Windows Azure Backup Agent.

The Windows Azure Backup Agent consists of three steps:

• Prerequisites Check
• Installation Settings
• Installation

You will be prompted with a Prerequisites Check that verifies that you have the Windows Identity Foundation feature installed on the DPM server and Microsoft .NET framework 4. Click on Next to continue.

Under the installation settings you can configure the installation path for the Windows Azure Backup Agent and the Cache Location. Windows Azure Backup Agent must have a cache location to keep track of the files the DPM server backs up. The Windows Azure Backup Agent must have at least 2,5 GB of local free space for the cache location but 15 GB is recommended.

Click on Install to continue the installation of the Windows Azure Backup Agent.

After the installation has finished the installation will present a summary and the next step that is the registration of your DPM server.

How to register your DPM servers

Open the DPM console and on the left hand side choose Management, then online followed by Register of the top left part of the console.

Click on Browse to point out your certificate.

Choose the certificate you just created by marking it and click on OK.

Now choose your backup vault and click on Next.

In the next step you have the option to configure the Proxy configuration. Enter the address, port and if needed username and password used by your DPM server so the Windows Azure Backup Agent can communicate with Azure. When you are finished click on Next to continue.

In the next step you will configure the Throttle Settings for your Windows Azure Backup Agent. If you have the scenario of a limited network bandwidth you have the possibility of define your business hours and how much bandwidth the Windows Azure Backup Agent can consume. When you have finished your configuration click on Next to continue.

The Recovery Folder Settings will help you define where you want to temporarily place the restored data from Azure before you let DPM move the data from the recovery folder to the production servers via the DPM agent. A recommendation is to use a separate disk for this purpose, in my example I have used a specific restore disk for my Azure protected production data. Click on Browse to point out your catalogue and click on Next to continue to the next step.

In the Encryption Setting step it is important to remember one thing, copy the passphrase to the clipboard. Click on Generate Passphrase followed by Copy to clipboard. You will receive a message that your passphrase has been copied to the clipboard. It is now a very good idea to open notepad and paste the passphrase from the clipboard and save the file, also print the file and lock it away. Click on Register to register your DPM server with your Backup Vault.

You will receive a message that your DPM server is successfully with your backup vault in Azure. Click on Close to continue to the next step, enable the online protection.

How to configure the protection groups to enable online protection

After you have registered your DPM server with your Azure Backup Vault you are ready to configure your protected production data. Worth mentioning again is that you can place the following workloads in your backup vault:

• SQL
• Hyper-V
• File

You can either create a new Protection Group or modify an already configured Protection Group for online protection. In this example I already have a Protection Group and will show you how to add the online protection for my DPMDB that is a SQL database that is supported for online protection.

The modify wizard for a Protection Group contains a few steps that are specific for online protection. The first one is Select Data Protection Method step. To enable the online protection for your protected production data just check the checkbox for I want online protection followed by Next.

The second step is the Specify Online Protection Data step. In this step you will choose which workloads you would like to enable for online protection. Check the checkbox and for your production data and click on Next.

The next step is the Specify Online Protection Goals. Here you can define your online protection goals by using a daily or weekly synchronization frequency, this blog post will cover both scenarios. As mentioned in the previously in this blog post you have the possibility to store data for 120 days and also synchronize your DPM server data twice per day.

For the weekly synchronization frequency you can choose specific weekdays and if the synchronization should occur every week or biweekly. You can have your DPM server synchronize your protected data up to every fourth week.

After you have run through those steps you will notice that your production data is enabled for online protection in the DPM console.

How to manually create online recovery points

In some scenarios you want to manually create recovery points for your production data. The prerequisites id that you have the online protection enabled for the data source present in your Protection Group.

To create a recovery point manually for your protected production data right click the data source and choose Create recovery point.

You will now be prompted with the Create recovery point wizard. Choose Online protection in the dropdown menu followed by clicking on the OK button.

Now your DPM server will create a backup and store it in Azure, you can follow the progress in the Create recovery point task window.

The progress could also be monitored in the DPM console monitoring part.

Always keep in mind that bandwidth is very important. It’s always an important thing to verify your network performance from on-premises to Azure. You can use the following tool http://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net/ to verify your network latency depending on your closest Azure datacenter.

How to recover production data from Azure

As mentioned in the introduction of this article the restore process from Azure is a two-step process for DPM. During the registration phase we pointed out something called “Recovery Folder Setting”, this folder comes now into play during the restore process. As you probably already knows DPM’s focus is to be an easy restore function in a modern datacenter, this also applies for the Azure restore operations. To restore your production data from Azure you must go to Recovery within the DPM console.

On the left hand side of the console you will find your protected data sources both active and inactive. Start by expanding the tree so that your data source will be visible, in my case it’s the C drive of my SQL server.

Next you must choose the right date followed by choosing the right time from the drop-down list.

Finally to start the restore right click the data source and choose recover.

The Recovery Wizard will open and present the actual restore process. Click Next to continue.

Now you need to choose the recovery type for the restore operation. You can choose to restore the data to its original location or an alternate location, in this example I will choose to restore my data to its original location. Mark the radio-button and click on Next to continue.

Last you must choose your Recovery Options that will manage your Existing version behavior, security settings and so on. Click on Next to get to the Summary.

At the Summary step you need to verify your suggested restore operation. If it fits your need click in the Recover button to start the recovery process.

During the restore process you can either monitor the work progress in Recovery Status window or in the DPM console under Monitoring and applying the filter All jobs in progress.

When the restore operation is finished DPM will raise an alert regarding the status of the restore job indicating the status of the restore. In this case the restore was successful so the DPM server raised an informational alert.

Keep in mind that Azure is applicable for all kind of company sizes. Orgnaizations should be able to perform daily or weekly backup of the DPMDB, this is a great solution of how a DR scenario for DPM could be setup.

About Robert Hedblom 

Robert Hedblom is a SR Consultant and DPM specialist for company in Sweden. A Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Robert blogs about DPM, and many other components in the System Center suite. Robert is happy to answer any questions around DPM and can be reached at any of the links below. Robert is an awesome guy, and I wanted to thank him for working through this solution with me!

You can reach Robert and find out more about him here:

Blog: http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @RobertandDPM
MVP Profile: http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/MVP/Robert%20Hedblom-4030660

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Christian Booth (ChBooth) | Sr. Program Manager | System Center

Program Lead: System Center: Cloud & Datacenter MVP