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re: I passed my CISSP!

timd — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:48:11 GMT

congrats. I took the exam on November 9th and I am still waiting for results. It's killing me!

re: Extend your Server 2003 Active Directory Schema for Windows Vista and Server 2008

rwagg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:44:53 GMT

That's an interesting question. I do not see that a schema extension will have any impact on a migration. Unfortunately, I'm not able to test that specific scenario.

re: Extend your Server 2003 Active Directory Schema for Windows Vista and Server 2008

Venkat — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:17:45 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for this excellent post Rob.

I have a question. In the case of Windows 2003 Forest - if I upgrade the schema alone to 2008 version - what impact does it have on a Inter-forest Migration? Do we have to use ADMT 3.1 instead of 3.0? What other things change for me because of this change?

Thanks

Venkat

re: First Thoughts on Installing Hyper-V Server

rwagg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:42:08 GMT

well if you have an HBA, you need to install the driver to support the HBA, right? Any drivers that are able to be installed without a GUI, should be able to install on Hyper-V Server as well. Once you have the driver installed, you should be able to present the LUNs to the HBA and then you could use "DiskPart" from the command line to "list disk". It should show the LUNs presented as drives.

Hyper-V Server is built to be remotely managed, so you can also do this with the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) from a Windows desktop.

How's that?

re: First Thoughts on Installing Hyper-V Server

Harish — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:08:11 GMT

How do you install drives for HBAs?

Is Virtualization an Enabler or a Solution?

Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:55:55 GMT

I read this blog by Doug de Werd, and he makes a good point. Check it out: blogs.technet.com/virtualization

re: Improve your Virtual Machine Performance

rwagg — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:39:58 GMT

Well I did some looking around and there is not a black and white answer to this one. I've addressed this in a new blog posting since I talk about the various items to consider. Check out: ts2blogs.com/.../how-big-should-pagefile-sys-be-on-a-server-2008-hyper-v-server.aspx

Until next time!

Rob

re: Improve your Virtual Machine Performance

Helen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:32:39 GMT

Thanks for the article. What do you do about your host system's pagefile? I'm thinking more about size. Do you leave the default? I have a 16GB system and 12GB of that is allocated to VMs.

Do I size the host pagefile for the whole 16GB or just for the 3 or 4GB not used by the VMs? Of course, I want to reduce paging and disk I/O for the host, but if I don't need a huge pagefile, then I'd rather not.

Still researching to see if the old 1.5x RAM sizing is still applicable to x64 large-RAM Hyper-V systems.

Thanks!

Great White Paper on Hyper-V and Clustering

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re: First Thoughts on Installing Hyper-V Server

rwagg — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:28:42 GMT

Julian,

Thanks for the question. I thought it would be a simple process, but boy was I surprised. Check out my newest blog on setting up BitLocker on a Hyper-V Server.

ts2blogs.com/.../installing-bitlocker-on-hyper-v-server.aspx

I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any more questions.

Rob!

Installing BitLocker on Hyper-V Server

Rob’s Ragg…. Tech Talk & Cool Toys for Grown up Boys — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:14:15 GMT

I recently received the following question: "How do you install and use BitLocker on Hyper-V Server"

re: First Thoughts on Installing Hyper-V Server

Julian Dyer — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:29:59 GMT

Any thoughts on how to enable bitlocker on HyperVServer ?

Thanks

How to install Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008

The things that are better left unspoken — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:48:45 GMT

Microsoft released a new server hardware virtualization product yesterday: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.

re: Now that you've seen Response Point, what do you think?

rwagg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:46:51 GMT

Dave,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. I can understand your concern, but we are adding new SIP trunk providers as we “speak”. As far as a "closed" system. We only support a limited number of handsets since we do require that the handsets offer the "Blue Response Button", but we are open to working with any OEMs that would like to use our software platform. The Blue Button, is part of our differentiator, and we do require its presence on every Response Point (RP) certified device. This button is part of what provides our differentiated value.

As far as your 'cake' analogy, Response Point can send SMTP voicemail to any email server, not just Exchange. It's a configuration setting that your customer, or you, can define on a PER USER basis. You can configure RP so that most people receive their VMs in the traditional way where they dial the VM number and access their VMs via phone. OR you can configure RP to email the VMs to your users via the SMTP email server and DELETE THEM from the RP unit so they do not reside in two places. OR you can choose to email the VMs to the users AND store the VMs on the RP device.

We've tried very hard to offer flexibility in this area on a per user basis. If you need assistance in configuring this for your users, please let me know and I’ll be happy to provide the detail on configuring this feature.

Our intent is to not create a proprietary solution, we’ve opened our specifications to anyone that wants to develop against them, but our specifications do require minimum requirements to ensure that the user has a consistent, and excellent, experience. Our goal is to avoid sub-par hardware so that we can avoid some of the frustrations in the SIP arena that have plagued us in the PC arena.

Your last point was cost. Our offering does provide consistent pricing, our intent is that our partners will generate revenue on the RP devices through their services offered. There are plenty of customization extensions our partners can provide to our customers. Our goal is to provide an offering on a consistent and extensible platform. RP runs on Windows, so any Windows developer can easily extend their skill set to developing for RP. Our intent is to help lower the VOIP entry costs for our small business customers. The Syspine RP device is offered at Costco, and the pricing is very aggressive (~$1799). Here is the current URL to the response Point device offered at Costco:

www.costco.com/.../Productgroup.aspx

I do not see that our offering will raise customer costs, we expect that offering additional choice for our customers will help drive down their costs.

This is our first entry into the small business VOIP offering and we continue to enhance the platform based on our users’ and OEMs feedback.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and please let me know if you have any questions.

Until next time!

Rob