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Cloud Computing & Virtualisation for Public Sector & Enterprise

On May 15, 2012, in Cloud, Green IT, Security, Tech, Virtualisation, by ReubenC
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Today we are at an event at The Britannia Hotel, Canary Wharf, London..

Registration, Networking and Refreshments

Refreshments served in the Exhibition Area

9.00

Conference Chair’s Opening Remarks

Warwick Ashford , chief reporter, Computer Weekly

9.05

Reconciling information governance and market reality with cloud adoption, the keys to achieving best value without compromising service delivery

This session will examine the myths and realities around information governance and the various cloud models in the

ICT market, exploring potential future business models which will integrate cloud services as part of wider service delivery.

Value for money (and not necessarily the cheapest option) is a major driver for cloud adoption, but what can this look like for public services and how can it be used to improve transparency and access to services? This session will also look at the opportunities and threats in these 3 areas.

David Wilde Chief Information Officer Essex County Council

9.20

Hard-core CIO, not just public sector and was looking at large scale cloud for Westminster Council

Big emphasis

Not our data, it’s the residents, we just look after it – think like that changes a lot

 

Strategy is a 12-page document with 4 pictures covering:

End user computing – data,voice,video, reduced cost per user per annum, file storage, security connectivity & support

Information Governance – Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection, etc.

Collaboration – Social Networking, SharePoint

IT Skills & Capacity – Training, Capacity & Capability

Customer Centric Services – Self Service, Cloud services,

 

Data protection at the application level rather than organisation..

 

 

UK Cloud Adoption, the future of hybrid computing

Cloud may be seen as over hyped marketing for many peoples taste, but to set the record straight the notion is no longer about IF IT as a Service will grow, it is all about

HOW. In this session we will explore empirical evidence of UK trends in adoption and the impact on the management of IT and the likely outlook over the next 12 months.

Andy Burton Chair, Cloud Industry Forum and CEO Fasthosts

9.35

Formed in 2009

Cloud CSAT >95% in UK & US

Diversity – Hybrid is most common, some on prem, some iaas, laas, etc.

2012 predictions, growth >20%, public sector growth higher as playing catch-up

#1 concern is data security, privacy & sovereignty

 

 

The Future of Cloud for Further and Higher Education

To help universities and colleges improve their efficiency and value for money,

HEFCEs University Modernisation Fund has invested £12.5 million in a Shared Services and the Cloud programme. Managed by

JISC, this programme allows HE institutions across the UK to share IT infrastructure and, thanks to cloud computing, to run services and software on demand, and therefore create cost savings.

The Janet Brokerage funded through this programme has been set up to aggregate demand across the research and education sectors for cloud and data centre products. Their aim is to drive efficiency and to provide advice ensuring customers understand their options and can make informed buying choices. This talk outlines some of the approaches and challenges in achieving this aim.

Rob Bristow, Programme Manager, JISC & Shan Rahulan, JANET Brokerage, Brokerage Manager

10.00

On the face cloud can appear 1.5-2x more expensive, however other IT costs e.g. delivery are often absorbed and not seen by the organisation bringing the gap down

 

JANET now has a 100GB core network acts as a access broker for customers and suppliers – not too sure how this links to Cloud services..?

 

Building the Brownfield Cloud

Only the lucky few will get to build private cloud services with a greenfield infrastructure. The rest of the world will need to get there with a brownfield build.

How do you move a non- or part-virtualized datacentre infrastructure toward the promise of a highly-automated, secure and resilient private cloud?

Luke Mahon, customer evangelist for Dell Cloud solutions in

EMEA, provides insights into how server/storage/fabric infrastructure can be managed as a converged entity to offer a stateless platform for building self-service, self-regulating and highly-automated private cloud.

Luke Mahon, Dell EMEA Cloud and Management Evangelist

10.15

Greenfield is great, but Brownfield is reality for Private Cloud

How to run your own data centre like it is a Public Cloud – easy to manage, easy to use

Dell vStart solutions – pre-configured, pre-engineered, ready to go rapid

3 levels – vStart 50,100, 200

Coming – vStart for Private Cloud – self-service hosted virtualisation on a lease basis

OpenManage integration with System Center 2012

Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM)

For VMware – management plug-in for vCenter

AIM allows workload mobility across Hyper-V & VMware

 

Question and Answer Session

10.30

Morning Refreshment Break and Networking

11.00

Seminar Stream 1

12.00

Networking Lunch

Served in the Exhibition Area

13.00

Dell – Hybrid is the market, very few will go completely public cloud, will be a mix of private cloud & public

 

Seminar Stream 2

14.00

Great speaker!

Schneider Electric – cloud is just a stepping stone to the next big thing, look at the past to see the future..

 

What is Cloud Computing? It is virtualisation!

 

Who owns it? IT or the business?  Ultimately the business

 

Business Value

 

Applications

———————— Demand

———————— Supply

Virtual Machines

Hypervisor

Hardware

Data Centre Infrastructure       Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Building

Utility

 

Cloud pushes the supply / demand line upwards

 

Each kW used in a Data Center costs £10-15K to build and £1K PA to run (Schneider Electric, May 2012)

 

Virtualisation on its own may reduce energy costs, but PUE can increase as the supporting infrastructure is not optimised

 

45 racks @ 10kW need over 13,000 BOE (Barrels of Oil Equivalent) before optimisation, on better smarter infrastructure this can be halved and more!

 

Working in isolation can result in very wrong observations, and conclusions – story of the blind men and the elephant

 

Harkeeret Singh

 

Don’t do the project in isolation

Fight VM sprawl

Right size your physical infrastructure as you grow or shrink your demand (the hard part)

 

Soeren Juul Schroeder (Soeren.Schroeder@Schneider-Electric.com)

 

PUE distorted by inefficient server hardware

 

40-60% of energy lost just turning it on before the server does anything!

 

Reversal of purchase vs operating cost in TCO of a server compared to early 90′s

 

Power consumption of UK DC’s set to overtake current energy production by 2020, worst case 2015 – research needed

 

 

Chair’s Afternoon Address

Warwick Ashford , chief reporter, Computer Weekly

14.15

Next steps in measuring data centre efficiency

The

PUE metric was a great start in describing data centre efficiency for the mechanical and electrical infrastructure in the data centre but there are no generally accepted metrics for the IT equipment or software layers. This has focussed the industry on extracting ever smaller savings from the mechanical and electrical infrastructure at the expense of many other, potentially greater savings. For example, one key issue is not how much power is consumed while delivering peak business output but how much of that power is consumed when not producing that output and when the data centre is idle. This session looks at the relationship between delivered useful work and data centre energy consumption, proposing a simple new metric to drive actions in the next generation of energy efficiency in Cloud architectures.

Kate Craig-Wood FBCS

14.35

Cloud/Virtualisation/Shared Services

With ever decreasing budgets and an expectation for IT to deliver more with less, this session takes a look at how private clouds can enable Recovery as a Service as part of a shared services strategy. With case study examples I will discuss how a combination of replication and private cloud can allow you to deliver disaster recovery services that are independent of the hardware, storage or virtualisation platforms in use within your organisation.

Andy Ebbs solution architect, Vision Solutions

14.50

Question and Answer Session

15.00

Refreshment break served in the Exhibition Area

15.30

Real world e-health cloud applications

Architectures, front end technologies, service aggregation, virtualisation, the role of private/public clouds in e-health, national/international developments, e-health clouds and the internet of things,

DACAR, Cloud4Health,

MUNICH, governance models, Policy management.

Prof. Christoph Thuemmler, PhD Professor of E-Health, Edinburgh Napier University

15.45

 

Information assurance in the Cloud

Alan Calder looks at the use of standards, audits and independent certifications to help customers satisfy themselves that information and continuity risks in Cloud services are under satisfactory control

Alan Calder CEO

16.00

Building The Business Case for Cloud

The fast emerging cloud services business arena is creating numerous new opportunities for both IT users and IT players beyond the traditional Enterprise IT ecosystem. In response,

SNIAs Cloud Storage Initiative (

CSI) has created the Cloud Data Management Interface (

CDMI). Designed to enable interoperable cloud storage and data management, the

CDMI specification is addressing a total cloud storage solution helping users avoid the chaos of proprietary advances and partial solution

APIs that would erode the integrity of the cloud model. This presentation will cover popular use cases for cloud including storage clouds and enterprise or application specific clouds. Multi-tenancy, private, and hybrid clouds are of interest to IT professionals, and this tutorial explores various cloud options and scenarios, along with options and recommendations for building your business case.

Learning Objectives

• Understand your options for cloud and how to create a cloud business case

• Gain an understanding of how popular cloud use cases are architected and implemented

• Understand what essential elements to include in an

RFP/RFI, based on the cloud use case and the business case

Glyn Bowden Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at NetApp

16.15

The need for Cloud ?

In 2003 the human race produced 5 Exabyte’s of information, last year that was done in 2-days, it is believed

http://info.rjmetrics.com/blog/bid/44873/Eric-Schmidt-s-5-Exabytes-Quote-is-a-Load-of-Crap

 

 

 

Question and Answer Session

16.30

Closing Remarks from the Conference Chair

PRIZE

DRAW – *Latest Apple IPad 3, Delegate badges will be numbered and prize must be collected once drawn.*

 

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The Future of Cyber Security 2012–Thoughts and takeaways

On March 20, 2012, in Security, Tech, by AshleyL
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IMAG0311It’s always nice when you leave an event excited and enthused, not so much when that excitement and enthusiasm is to turn off every wifi enabled device you own and keep it that way. More on that later dear reader.

In this post I’ll explain why but also what Reuben Cook (Co-Director) and I thought about it and the quality of the companies there showing there products.

I would like to point out one major disappointment before going any further. Despite entering no less than four competitions to win an iPad 3 I didn’t win a single one… thoroughly unimpressed.


UK Cyber Security Policy

It’s clear from the presentations given by several of the speakers that the UK is finally getting itself together with a coherent security policy. While it’s not clear what the likes of GCHQ have in terms of offensive and defensive capability (I’m sure it’s not to be laughed at) up until quite recently, i.e. less than 4 years ago, the UK didn’t have a cyber security policy in place. It sounds like only through the determined efforts of people like Lord West were things actually changing inside government.

It is the norm for government to be staffed at it’s most senior levels today people who didn’t grow up with, and aren’t in the digital revolution, certainty not to the extent that people younger than 40 are anyway. While not always the most security conscious at all times, the DR’s (Digital Revolutionaries) we understand the risks and benefits, the technology and most importantly – the terminology of the paradigm shift taking place around us on a daily basis.

In 10 years the situation should be very different. The generation that is “wired in” will be be filling the halls of government and the digital economy will be the economy. The importance of the security and integrity of the system will be the on par with energy supply. Hopefully nothing nasty happens before then to the beautiful, ugly, amazing and appalling thing that the internet, this network of our thoughts and ideas.

Show highlight

At the start I mentioned the enthusiasm and excitement I felt; well now I’m going to tell you why. Jason Hart, guest speaker for Orange demonstrated a simple attack which pretty much anyone with a little motivation and very little skill could deploy.

Who knew fruit could be so scary? The attack consisted of a pineapple – a modified wifi access point which reported to be any access point your device trusts – and Kane & Able attack software. With it, after the obligatory disclaimers and implicit approval from the audience, he got every wifi device within range (about 100 devices by the looks of it) to connect to his access point. From there the devices happily started communicating with web services automatically. Meanwhile he was intercepting SSL certificates and very soon after, passwords started showing up too. To protect peoples anonymity he hid the usernames but displayed about 10 passwords in clear text.

This scary example of an effective attack against any wifi device has always existed. It goes to show that if you don’t own the network, you don’t own your data, period. Leaving your wifi on might improve location accuracy (which all our devices encourage us to do) but that is exactly what makes this attack so effective. It’s only shortfall is it requires proximity.

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  • The UK is doing something about cyber security, it’s not ignoring the threat or the opportunities.
  • Security education is the responsibility of everyone
  • It’s a people problem as much as a technology problem
  • End point security is everything
  • Patching is the best defence against malicious code
  • Don’t trust pineapple’s, they will only steel your passwords.
 

Moving a OneNote notebook to SharePoint 2010

On January 26, 2012, in 2010, Guide, How do I, Microsoft, Office, SharePoint, by AshleyL
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A customer was having trouble with moving a OneNote notebook to SharePoint 2010 so they could collaborate on it together so I thought I would do a quick post on the process.

Creating a local notebook

In order to move a notebook to SharePoint you need to have a notebook to move. You probably already have one so I’ll just leave you with a screenshot of creating a new one.

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So now you have your local OneNote notebook.

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Creating a Document Library on SharePoint

You will need to create document library on SharePoint to hold the notebook. You can either create a new one or using an existing one. From a logical separation point of view you should use it’s own library.

Give it a name and set the document template. The document template choice simply changes what happens when you click on the New Document item in the library, nothing more. You could pick anything you like from the list.

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Before leaving the page you need to copy the link to the library. Make sure you only copy up to the the library. Don’t copy the /forms/allitems.aspx bit, it won’t work. If you are having trouble with this part, you can also get the exact link by clicking on the “Email a Link” button and copy it from there.

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Moving the local notebook to SharePoint

Back in OneNote, right click on your notebook and on “Properties”.

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Click on “Change Location”.

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Paste in the link to the new library and click on “Select”.

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OneNote will now move your notebook to SharePoint.

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Once it’s done you will see a confirmation, click on “OK”.

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That is it, simple and quick. You can how invite people to work with you on your notebook and the changes will sync pretty much live between everyone’s machines and also be available offline.

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Cloud Expo Europe 2012

On January 26, 2012, in Cloud, Expo, Systems Management, by AshleyL
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So we were at the Cloud Expo Europe yesterday which we knew wasn’t going to be as good as the IPEXPO in Earl’s Court back in October simply due to some big vendor names not being there as well as being the lesser of the Olympia exhibition halls.

Still, we got some great contacts out of it and had an interesting chat with the guys from Fusion-IO (who have some scary fast IO accelerator technology) about one of our customers. The speakers at the presentations we went to were great but the one that really stood out was an industry panel done lead by Equinix.

While the venue was OK, and some vendors were conspicuously absent it still shows just how important cloud platforms and services have become by the explosion of companies in this fairly new and rapidly growing sector. I don’t think there will ever be another IT industry expo that doesn’t focus on cloud.

In light of the shift to cloud technology and the benefits it brings, we are now offering discounted support to our customers who use Cloud services like Office 365. By reducing your operational complexity, we think it’s only fair to reduce the cost of supporting that reduced complexity. Are you getting a discount from your IT Support company for using Cloud services?

On a lighter note, we had a lot of fun taking pictures of all the marketing gimmicks there. Enjoy.

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Issue while installing SP1 on a SQL 2008 R2 Cluster–Resolved

On November 14, 2011, in SQL Server, by AshleyL
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Came across this odd issue yesterday while patching a SQL 2008 R2 failover cluster. After moving over all the services to the passive node the service pack failed to install on two out of three instances. The instance that worked was an Analysis Services instance the other two that failed were Database Engine instances.

After a another reboot and further patching attempt I poked around Failover Cluster Manager and wouldn’t you know it, The Cluster Name was offline.

Once I brought it online, Service Pack 1 went on fine. If only the Service Pack Installer spotted that, could have saved me a few worried minutes!

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Overall Summary Contents

Instance InstanceName overall summary:

Final result: The patch installer has failed to update the shared features. To determine the reason for failure, review the log files.

Exit code (Decimal): -595541211

Exit facility code: 1152

Exit error code: 49957

Exit message: The patch installer has failed to update the shared features. To determine the reason for failure, review the log files.

Start time: 2011-11-13 12:22:06

End time: 2011-11-13 12:23:12

Requested action: Patch

Log with failure: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20111113_121410\InstanceName\Detail.txt

Exception help link: http%3a%2f%2fgo.microsoft.com%2ffwlink%3fLinkId%3d20476%26ProdName%3dMicrosoft%2bSQL%2bServer%26EvtSrc%3dsetup.rll%26EvtID%3d50000%26ProdVer%3d10.50.2500.0%26EvtType%3d0xBF50B949%400xDC80C325

Details.txt Contents

The first error I found was “The RPC server is unavailable”. After that error, several more errors were logged but the RPC server error is where it all started.

 

2011-11-13 13:42:25 Slp: Sco: Attempting to write hklm registry key SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall to file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20111113_133842\InstanceName\Registry_SOFTWARE_Wow6432Node_Microsoft_Windows_CurrentVersion_Uninstall.reg_

 

2011-11-13 13:42:25 Slp: Sco: Attempting to write hklm registry key SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MSSQLServer to file C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20111113_133842\InstanceName\Registry_SOFTWARE_Wow6432Node_Microsoft_MSSQLServer.reg_

 

2011-11-13 13:42:25 Slp: The RPC server is unavailable

 

2011-11-13 13:42:26 Slp: Watson bucket for exception based failure has been created

 

2011-11-13 13:42:26 Slp: Error: Action "SqlEngineConfigAction_patch_configrc_Cpu64" failed during execution.

 

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Error result: -595541211

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Result facility code: 1152

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Result error code: 49957

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Sco: Attempting to create base registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, machine

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Sco: Attempting to open registry subkey

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Sco: Attempting to open registry subkey Software\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW\Installed

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Sco: Attempting to get registry value DW0201

2011-11-13 13:42:28 Slp: Submitted 1 of 1 failures to the Watson data repository

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Installing Search Server 2010 SP1 on Search Server Express 2010 RTM

On October 28, 2011, in Office365, Systems Management, by AshleyL
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I was on client site today patching a small SharePoint Search Server Express 2010 environment in preparation for installing a third party app on SharePoint. This being Foundation + Search Server Express RTM, I opted to install all the outstanding patches for SharePoint & Search Server. These are my notes. Feel free to comment if you think it could have been done differently.

Preparation

Downloads

SharePoint Foundation SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26640

SharePoint August 2011 CU: http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Microsoft%20SharePoint%20Foundation%202010/sp2/sharepointfoundation2010kb2553050fullfil/14.0000.6109.5005/free/438521_intl_x64_zip.exe

SharePoint Search Server SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26633

Backups

Of course backing up is critical all through the process so take (or have) a full backup of Windows on your web front ends and backup your SQL server databases before and after.

This being Search Server Express 2010 you might find that you are using SQL Server Express which means your databases should be pretty small so the process shouldn’t take long, not so in my case though… it look at a little while.

Installation Order and process

From this page it links you through to this page which implies you should have all the latest bits installed beforehand… although it’s not super clear as to whether you could install all three in a row without running psconfig until the end.

I’m following a cautious approach: Backup > SharePoint SP1 + Latest CU stuff and run psconfig > validate > Search Server SP1 stuff and run psconfig > validate > backup. Using this approach adds time to overall process but certainly doesn’t hurt. I’ll try to personally validate this “three in one approach” at a later time and/or when my interpretation or understanding changes for certain from someone older and wiser I’ll update this post. Until then, a little too much caution never hurt anyone. Bottom line, it worked just fine. SharePoint is well known for it’s sensitivity to installation order despite the latest advice from Microsoft since the August 2011 CU.

Patching SharePoint 2010 Foundation RTM up to August 2011 CU

  • Install SharePoint Foundation SP1
  • Reboot when prompted.
  • Install SharePoint August 2011 CU
  • Reboot when prompted.
  • Run PSConfig (psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force) or the GUI version, SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. I prefer the GUI because I like to watch grass grow but that’s just me. It also helps that I’m just going a single WFE. Otherwise I’d start with my App Server/Central Admin box and work out from there, one at a time and use psconfig.

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    This process took about 30 minutes with reboots and the time psconfig took to run. Obviously that has got more to do with the size of the databases and the performance of the SQL server but most SSE2010 installs are probably going to be something similar since while this environment is SQL 2K8 R2 it has very little content and still fairly small search databases.

    SP1 & August CU 2011 Installation Validation

    Central Admin > Upgrade & Migration > Check upgrade status

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    Central Admin > Upgrade & Migration > Check product and patch installation status

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    Patching Server Server Express RTM to Search Server Express SP1

    1. Install Search Server 2010 SP1 (no reboot required)
    2. Run PSConfig (psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force) or the GUI version, SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.

    Search Server 2010 SP1 Installation Validation

    Central Admin > Upgrade & Migration > Check upgrade status

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    Central Admin > Upgrade & Migration > Check product and patch installation status

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    Central Administration > Search Service Application > Content Sources

    Start an incremental crawl of one of your content sources and make sure it works. You could do more, e.g. a full crawl + search for something if you felt so inclined just to give it a slightly more thorough going over.

    References:

    Install a software update (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806338.aspx

    SharePoint Foundation SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26640

    SharePoint August 2011 CU: http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Microsoft%20SharePoint%20Foundation%202010/sp2/sharepointfoundation2010kb2553050fullfil/14.0000.6109.5005/free/438521_intl_x64_zip.exe

    SharePoint Search Server SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26633

    Known issues when you install Office 2010 SP1 and SharePoint 2010 SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2532126

    List of all SharePoint 2010 and Office Server 2010 SP1 packages: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2510766

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    Some images from IPEXPO Earl’s Court 2011

    On October 21, 2011, in Blogging, Tech, by AshleyL
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    We were at the IPEXPO yesterday to meet with some partners, friends and business associates. As is always the case with these events – you get out what you put in and we made an effort to get to as many of the seminars as possible while touching base with people before and after.

    It has reaped some rewards for us already so to anyone who is unsure – IPEXPO continues to a be a valuable networking event and once you’re done you can always pop over the Ski show next door afterwards and get kitted out for the slopes.

     

    Where has all the content gone?

    On October 21, 2011, in Blogging, by admintfcsupport
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    Dear Readers,

    As you will have noticed all our old posts are not available right now. Fear not, we are working on getting them back. We’ve had some issues with the export from our old blog to this new hosted platform – timeouts and other nastiness.

    In the mean time we will continue to post new content and soon the old content should be back with you.

     

    Thanks for you patience,

    The Full Circle team

     

    Removing SBS 2008 – Step 3: remove from domain / DCPROMO

    On August 29, 2011, in Microsoft, SBS, SBS 2008, by ReubenC
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    The final step in removing your SBS server is to demote it as a domain controller using the DCPROMO tool.

    DCPROMO will do a number of things in terms of removing the server’s ability to operate as an Active Directory server, however the main domain functional ‘operation’ (sorry pun!) you will see from other servers in the network is the moving of the ‘Flexible Single Master of Operation’ (FSMO) or now just ‘Operations Masters’ roles to another AD server.

    You can control the transfer of the essential FSMO roles to a preferred AD server (if you have multiple) using the a script e.g. to transfer our roles to our UK/GB Infrastructure server GBINF01 the script is:

    ntdsutil

    roles

    conn

    connect to server gbinf01 q

    Transfer infrastructure master

    Transfer naming master

    Transfer PDC

    Transfer RID master

    Transfer schema master

    q

    q

    And checked with:

    netdom /query fsmo

    Schema master GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    Domain naming master GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    PDC GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    RID pool manager GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    Infrastructure master GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    The command completed successfully.

    Of course if you just have one other AD server (not recommended as best practise but totally feasible and supported by Microsoft) you don’t need to manually control who gets the roles, and DCPROMO will just transfer the roles to the other server.

    If you do have multiple servers (with multiple AD sites) then the next available local site server will get the roles.

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    Move those roles!

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    Summary review

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    Remove Active Directory Domain Services from this computer.

    When the process is complete, this server will be a member of the domain thefullcircle.local

    Remove DNS Delegation: Yes

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    Good bye domain services!

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    Checking the FSMO roles to confirm transfer:

    C:>netdom query fsmo

    Schema master GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    Domain naming master GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    PDC GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    RID pool manager GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    Infrastructure master GBINF01.thefullcircle.local

    The command completed successfully.

    You can log back onto your SBS server with either the local creds provided earlier, or with a domain account – it is still a domain member server.

    Note this machine may no longer be licensed (certainly if an upgrade e.g. to SBS2011).

    If the server was an OEM install you can leave what remains (demoted mostly broken SBS server) on the same hardware for whatever use you feel (within license limits – e.g. this is not a 2nd Exchange server!), but the chances are this is now an old and out of warranty bit of kit that is no longer production worthy anyway – reuse, renew, recycle responsibly (see http://blog.thefullcircle.com/2011/05/06/sort-it-out-and-learn-the-3rsreduce-reuse-recycle/).

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    Removing SBS 2008 – Step 2: ADCS

    On August 29, 2011, in Microsoft, SBS, SBS 2008, by ReubenC
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    Active Directory Certificate Services removal..

    Check the FSMO roles are on your SBS server..

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    (you don’t actually need the forward slash "/" after the netdom command anymore but that’s a personal hangup from the old LANMAN days.. ;-)

    As for any server role just remove the role from within Server Manager

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    (Note the red crosses – this is from a pretty sick SBS 2008 install that had been replaced by Server 2008 R2, SCE (WSUS), and various other Windows network services over a year prior)

    Once you’ve started the role removal (after confirming an informational/reading) – head out for a walk / mow the grass / build a model aeroplane.. Basically – leave it some time as you could be watching the screen below longer than paint drying

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    Later in the process you should see ‘Verifying removal’ and then ‘Collecting removal results…’ – ours took almost an hour between the major application events:

    Information        29/08/2011 08:57:51        CertificationAuthority        38        None

    Log Name: Application

    Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority

    Date: 29/08/2011 08:57:51

    Event ID: 38

    Task Category: None

    Level: Information

    Keywords: Classic

    User: SYSTEM

    Computer: SBSSRV01.thefullcircle.local

    Description:

    Active Directory Certificate Services for thefullcircle-SBSSRV01-CA was stopped.

    And

    Warning        29/08/2011 09:43:15        ServerManager        1619        None

    Log Name: Setup

    Source: Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager

    Date: 29/08/2011 09:43:15

    Event ID: 1619

    Task Category: None

    Level: Warning

    Keywords:

    User: THEFULLCIRCLEAdministrator

    Computer: SBSSRV01.thefullcircle.local

    Description:

    Removal succeeded. A restart is required.

    Roles:

    Active Directory Certificate Services

    Warning: You must restart this server to finish the removal process.

    When complete (if successful) you should get:

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    And once ‘closed’ the only option is to restart..

    You do need to log back in again (recommend same account as started this process) for the server to finalise the removal of ADCS and report ‘Resuming Configuration’ per:

    clip_image005

    clip_image006

    Also event

    Information        29/08/2011 10:10:47        ServerManager        1618        None

    Log Name: Setup

    Source: Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager

    Date: 29/08/2011 10:10:47

    Event ID: 1618

    Task Category: None

    Level: Information

    Keywords:

    User: THEFULLCIRCLEAdministrator

    Computer: SBSSRV01.thefullcircle.local

    Description:

    Removal succeeded.

    Roles:

    Active Directory Certificate Services

    The following role services were removed:

    Certification Authority

    And then next to DCPROMO out of the domain!

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