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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is RTM
Microsoft release one of their best free tools. With MDT the deployment of operating systems becomes so easy. If you haven’t tried it so for I highly recommend it. Download it from the link below.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25175
Key changes from the previous release are:
- Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 365.
- An enhanced user-Driven Installation (UDI) deployment method that utilizes System Center Configuration Manager 2012. UDI lets end users initiate and customize an OS deployment on their PCs—via an easy-to-use wizard.
- Ease Lite Touch installation through integration with Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT).
- This release provides support for deploying Windows 8 Consumer Preview in a lab environment.
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012 and Microsoft
Continuing my previous post about Microsoft and Linux interoperability here is another interesting download. Linux Foundation published videos and slides from their annual summit. One of the sessions on the summit is named
Microsoft’s Journey to the Linux Kernel presented by Tom Hanrahan and Ky Srinivasan. From the slides it seems it was very interesting presentation. The most interesting part is that Microsoft is the fifth largest contributor to Linux kernel 3.0 after Red Hat, Intel, Novell and IBM,
You can download the slides form the link below.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lfcs2012_otsc.pdf
OpsMgr 20120 Design and Planning Guide released
Microsoft has release the final version of Design and Planning Guide for SCOM 2012. This guide can help you in implementing SCOM 2012 or updating from SCOM 2007. Download and more information on the link below.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04/13/opsmgr-2012-design-guide.aspx
Troubleshoot nodes being removed from active Failover Cluster membership
John Marlin [MSFT] wrote a very useful article on how to troubleshoot when a node is removed from active Failover Cluster memberships. As Hyper-V uses Failover Cluster for clustering technologies these tips also apply to Hyper-v Clusters. Read the full article on the link below.
Cloud Administrator in Azure World 