TED Talks: Mismatch between What Science knows and What Business Does.

Mismatch between What Science knows and What Business Does

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

 

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html

 

Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work

http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html

 

 Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html

 

Ted Talk: what makes us feel good about our work

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work.html

Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work

http://www.ted.com/playlists/60/work_smarter.html 

Exchange 2003-2010 Migration, SPLITDNS URLs

http://exchange.sembee.info/2010/install/clientaccesshostnames.asp

Ted Talk: what makes us feel good about our work

Ted Talk: what makes us feel good about our work

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_about_our_work.html

 

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Sizes, formated output

Here is the command to output a formatted table with the Mailbox size formatted to be human readable.

 

[PS] C:\Users\adminpds>get-mailboxstatistics -server ex-002 |Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending |Select-Object Displayname,  itemcount, TotalItemSize, database |ft Displayname,itemcount,@{n="Total Size (MB)";e={"{0:N0}" -f $_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()};a="right"}, database

 

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices Checklist

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices Checklist

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices
   http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/11/03/windows-server-2012-r2-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx
   
• Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices Checklist
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/10/windows-server-2012-hyper-v-best-practices-in-easy-checklist-form.aspx

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If you are demoing Hyper-V on a laptop, how do you set up Hyper-V networking to allow you to use your wireless card on the host?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IoZJYQeq4U

VLAN Tricks with NICs - Teaming & Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012

How do I add Multiple VLAN's to my Windows 2012 Hyper-V server?

Turns out there there are 2 ways to do this.  The choice of which is better depends on your application of the VLANs

1. Add another Team Interface and VLAN to your NIC Team
2. Configure all VLANs within the Hyper-V Virtual Network Switch

According to the original post, for VM's to access VLAN's, it is recommended to use method 2.
I think, however, that Option 1 is the only workable option.  Especially for isolating Replication traffic.

Option 1 ) How to add another Team Interface and VLAN to a NIC Team?

To add a new Team Interface to an existing team, launch the NIC Teaming wizard from the Local Server page in Server Manager:

1. Select your existing NIC Team in the “Teams” list box, and then select the “Team Interfaces” tab in the “Adapters and Interfaces” list box. Click on the Tasks menu and click Add Interface.
   
   
   
2. In the New team interface dialog box, type the VLAN ID to assign to the new interface in the Specific VLAN field and click the OK button.
   
   
   
3. You will now see two team interfaces associated with a single NIC team – the original team interface still operating in “default” mode and the new team interface that is assigned to a specific VLAN ID.
   
   

Alternatively, the Add-NetLbfoTeamNIC PowerShell 3.0 cmdlet can be used to configure a new team interface on an existing NIC team using the following command line

Add-NetLbfoTeamNIC -Team NetTeam01 -VlanID 56

Thanks for this original post:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2012/11/20/vlan-tricks-with-nic-teaming-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
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Also, see How-to-blog/how-to-use-hyper-v-replicas-in-windows-server-2012/
And Deploy Hyper-V Replica

Also see How to configure your Switch for Teaming

How to fix Cisco Anyconnect VPN Client on Win 8

Symptom:
After installing (or Re-installing) the Cisco AnyConnect Client on Windows 8, unable to initialize the NIC.  Error is “AnyConnect was not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway.  Please try connecting again”

The Fix is to correct an error in the Description string for the VPN Connection in the registry.

• Run Regedit
• Navigate to the key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vpnva
• Open the properties of the key DisplayName
• The text will look something like this:

@oem20.inf,%vpnva_Desc%;Cisco AnyConnect VPN Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64

• Change the field to:

Cisco AnyConnect VPN Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64

by removing all the text and characters that are on the left of the word Cisco.   

• Exit Regedit and try again.

HYPER-V Logon as a service

Discovered today that you need to create a GPO to allow the account “NT Virtual Machine\Virtual Machines” to logon as a service.

Without this, you will discover that eventually you will not be able to start a VM.   It will give a Logon denied error message.

• Install the GPMC on a Hyper-V server
• Create or modify an existing GPO to include the above account in the LOGON AS A Service policy
• Run GPUPDATE /FORCE on all Hyper-V servers.

No mouse? What to do...

Using your computer without a mouse

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Computer-Without-a-Mouse

Before anyone flames me, this was required for me to install a Windows Server 2003 Pre-SP1 as a VM on Hyper-V 2012.  This was required for a migration lab.  You are unable to install the Integration Tools until SP2 is installed. 

Installing .NET Framework on Win2012

A "bug" in Windows 2012 is that the source files for .NET Framework are not installed with the default GUI install of Windows 2012.

A quick review of Get-WindowsFeature in Powershell will show that
[ ] .NET Framework 3.5 (NET-Framework-Core) has a status of "Removed".

Documentation on the net indicates that this will "install on demand" from the source media or from Windows Update.   Not true.  Even though this is on the Win2012 Certification Exam, it actually does not work.    

The command to get past this little "bug" is to run DISM.

The command then to install this feature is:
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:d:\sources\sxs

Your Welcome.

For reference, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/hh506443.aspx 

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Microsoft Reference Site
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Exchange 2013 Reference Site
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124413(v=exchg.150).aspx