“MOSS Setup error: This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions.”
From command prompt
basically run cmd from start, change to this folder ‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727′, then run the command ‘aspnet_regiis -i’ at the prompt.
From GUI
Or open above folder and run ASPNET_REGIIS.exe
Friday, August 14, 2009
Windows SharePoint Services Overview
Windows SharePoint Services allows teams to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration, benefits that help increase individual and team productivity. Windows SharePoint Services is a component of the Windows Server 2003 information worker infrastructure and provides team services and sites to Microsoft Office System and other desktop programs. It also serves as a platform for application development. Including such IT resources as portals, team workspaces,
e-mail, presence awareness, and Web-based conferencing, Windows SharePoint Services enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently, as well as connect to and work with others more productively.
Its free with your server 2003...........
e-mail, presence awareness, and Web-based conferencing, Windows SharePoint Services enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently, as well as connect to and work with others more productively.
Its free with your server 2003...........
Free Small Business Accounting Apps form Microsoft
If you're running a company of any size,(small or large scale) you'll need accounting software to help you track your income, expenditures, customers, and so on. But if your outfit is small, one thing you don't need to do is pay for that software—there are solid options out there that can get you the functionality you need without having to go through your AP person (or, more likely, your own wallet). These three free accounting software packages will help you keep your money and your focus where they belong: on building your business.
Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2009 It gives you all the basic general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, online banking, sales tracking, inventory management, and reporting capabilities you need. It also integrates very well with Microsoft Office (its interface even resembles Outlook's), which makes it even easier to get your work done.
more....
Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2009 It gives you all the basic general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, online banking, sales tracking, inventory management, and reporting capabilities you need. It also integrates very well with Microsoft Office (its interface even resembles Outlook's), which makes it even easier to get your work done.
more....
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Windows 7: The Good, and The Bad,
I've been testing the Win7 RC at home for a few months now on a five year old PC. My focus thus far has been on determining how well my oldest software and hardware can run on the new OS.
Basically, I think users of XP who plan to upgrade their old PCs to 7 and have old hardware that depend on included software for critical added functionality should proceed with caution, if at all. I encoutered issues where the accompanying software that came with the old hardware was unable to recognize and use the driver that Win7 had provided automatically.
The worst case was with the Audigy card that I had installed in the PC. Win7 installed a driver automatically but when I installed the software suite that the card came with and then tried to run it with the Win7 driver, it failed to recognize the device. I then tried to upgrade the software to the Vista-compatible version and Win7 crashed and subsequently refused to boot. I had to use a restore point to get Windows working again. So basically the card is installed, but without the additional card software, it can't be configured to take full advantage of the 5.1 surround sound speaker setup that's connected to the PC. I do get 5.1 surround sound with DVD movies played in WMP, but sound playback is otherwise limited to a 2.1 speaker configuration with no crossover, DSP effects processing, equilizers, 3D balance etc as those are provided by the additional software that refuses to work with 7.
If you've got old PC hardware whose accompanying software is not currently being updated by the developer to support the Win7 platform, you'll get the best use of your hardware if you stick with XP until you're ready to dump the old PC and buy or build a new one.
Basically, I think users of XP who plan to upgrade their old PCs to 7 and have old hardware that depend on included software for critical added functionality should proceed with caution, if at all. I encoutered issues where the accompanying software that came with the old hardware was unable to recognize and use the driver that Win7 had provided automatically.
The worst case was with the Audigy card that I had installed in the PC. Win7 installed a driver automatically but when I installed the software suite that the card came with and then tried to run it with the Win7 driver, it failed to recognize the device. I then tried to upgrade the software to the Vista-compatible version and Win7 crashed and subsequently refused to boot. I had to use a restore point to get Windows working again. So basically the card is installed, but without the additional card software, it can't be configured to take full advantage of the 5.1 surround sound speaker setup that's connected to the PC. I do get 5.1 surround sound with DVD movies played in WMP, but sound playback is otherwise limited to a 2.1 speaker configuration with no crossover, DSP effects processing, equilizers, 3D balance etc as those are provided by the additional software that refuses to work with 7.
If you've got old PC hardware whose accompanying software is not currently being updated by the developer to support the Win7 platform, you'll get the best use of your hardware if you stick with XP until you're ready to dump the old PC and buy or build a new one.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Release Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha-3
The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. The Karmic Koala Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 9.10, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.
New features
ext4 by default
New Intel video driver architecture available for testing
New default compiler
hal deprecation
Linux kernel 2.6.31
Ubuntu One file sharing
Download Alpha 3
Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Netbook Remix)
New features
ext4 by default
New Intel video driver architecture available for testing
New default compiler
hal deprecation
Linux kernel 2.6.31
Ubuntu One file sharing
Download Alpha 3
Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Netbook Remix)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
How to Virtualize
Data center virtualization projects
Executive Summary
Data center virtualization projects have a ripple effect throughout an organization’s infrastructure and operations. Collapsing multiple physical devices into software affects the people and processes supporting the data center. Before embarking on data center virtualization deployments, enterprises should account for how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring tools and security strategies will need to change.
Introduction
Virtualization projects are under consideration or already in progress at many organizations looking to decrease their capital and real estate expenses and to launch energy-conservation initiatives. Through the use of special virtualization products and services, data center managers can apportion computing hardware resources to operating systems and applications on a time-sharing basis. In doing so, they can significantly boost the utilization and efficiency of servers, network equipment and storage devices. Such projects reduce the overall number of physical devices needed, the floor and rack space needed to house them and physical equipment management requirements.
Virtualization, then, holds a number of potential capital and operational cost-saving benefits. But it raises a few questions, too. For example, a mature virtual infrastructure will cross many traditionally separate internal groups of employees, such as those responsible for servers, networks, storage and security. So a virtualization project is likely to have an impact on organizational structure and responsibilities. Therefore, getting executive commitment and support, particularly from chief financial executives able to see the big-picture savings potential of going virtual, is critical to organization-wide buy-in and cooperation.
There are basic technical and logistical questions to consider when considering a virtualization plan:
• How do you calculate the appropriate ratio to use when consolidating physical servers and other devices into software-based virtual machines (VMs)?
• What is the impact of VMs on current disaster recovery and high-availability plans?
• Do security requirements shift in a virtual environment?
• How might software licensing/pricing models, power requirements and patch management processes need to change?
Preparing a well-documented business case based on an assessment of the current environment will help answer some of these questions. In your assessment and business case, you’ll need to calculate the physical host metrics needed – such as processor type and speed; RAM amount and utilization; network interface speeds and quantities; disk resources and other metrics.
The business case should also delineate the problems you expect virtualization to solve. For example, are you currently experiencing low utilization rates on servers while growing numbers of servers are becoming unwieldy to house and manage? Going through the exercise of calculating the hard benefits will help you answer some of these questions and drive acceptance and adoption of the virtualization project throughout the organization.
Let’s also take a look at each of these virtualization questions in a bit more detail.
Determining Consolidation Ratios
A primary benefit of virtualization is optimizing the use of physical equipment, such as servers, rather than letting them run underutilized much of the time and wasting money. However, it’s best to avoid extremely high consolidation ratios that push physical hosts to near 100% utilization. Rather, data center managers should leave some wiggle room for moving VMs around in the event that there is a planned or unplanned outage. About 65% to 75% utilization is generally a good average to shoot for to make virtualization worthwhile but safe.
Something to consider when calculating maximum consolidation ratios is moving off of small-form-factor blade servers and onto larger chassis, the enclosures for the server blades, to allow for greater consolidation density. An approximate maximum consolidation ratio of a 1U blade server is 6:1, for example, where a maximum consolidation ratio of a 4U chassis is 30:1. So consolidation ratios might be bigger, and savings greater, with larger chassis.
Note, too, that the deployment of emerging applications, such as real-time presence and video streaming services, might require greater network capacity for shuttling communications quickly among VMs. These applications might also lower the consolidation ratio that can be achieved compared to an existing data center environment without these applications in operation.
High-Availability Implications of VMs
The wiggle room afforded by retaining a spare 25% to 35% capacity helps address failover and disaster recovery when determining the appropriate number of VMs to consolidate onto a single physical host. Fortunately, the failure of a given VM on a physical host will not affect the operation of another VM on that host, because each VM has its own isolated set of compute, memory and power resources. So a VM could fail over to another VM on the same physical host or, in the case below, to a VM on a separate physical server.
Physical Redundancy
Virtualization, again, reduces the number of physical hosts in operation by consolidating multiple VMs onto a single physical machine. The greater the consolidation ratio, then, the greater the impact will be if a single physical machine should go offline.
For example, if a single server in the past hosted a single application and served a handful of users, only that one application and those users would be affected if the server went offline. If you put 10 applications and support for hundreds of users on a single physical device, however, and the host becomes unavailable, the failure affects many more applications and users, and has greater impact throughout the organization.
You need to have a disaster recovery plan in place to address that issue. For example, a given physical host might be configured to fail over to one or more other physical hosts. Traditional high-availability configurations often require a 1:1 ratio of primary device to backup device. A virtualized environment, however, could be configured such that a physical server can fail over to one of a set of backup servers, determined, in part, by the load balancing equipment that front ends the physical servers. This allows, then, for a many-to-one backup-to-primary configuration ratio, which increases service availability .
Security in a Virtual Environment
Moving to a virtualized data center means moving to two-tier security. The physical hosts must be secured, as always, and, now, so do the VMs. In unvirtualized data centers, most security is provided by special-purpose physical appliances that protect static resources, such as servers with unchanging IP addresses. In a virtual environment, however, enterprise security teams will need to deploy security tools that account for devices that might change addresses frequently in response to changing workloads.
cont....................
Executive Summary
Data center virtualization projects have a ripple effect throughout an organization’s infrastructure and operations. Collapsing multiple physical devices into software affects the people and processes supporting the data center. Before embarking on data center virtualization deployments, enterprises should account for how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring tools and security strategies will need to change.
Introduction
Virtualization projects are under consideration or already in progress at many organizations looking to decrease their capital and real estate expenses and to launch energy-conservation initiatives. Through the use of special virtualization products and services, data center managers can apportion computing hardware resources to operating systems and applications on a time-sharing basis. In doing so, they can significantly boost the utilization and efficiency of servers, network equipment and storage devices. Such projects reduce the overall number of physical devices needed, the floor and rack space needed to house them and physical equipment management requirements.
Virtualization, then, holds a number of potential capital and operational cost-saving benefits. But it raises a few questions, too. For example, a mature virtual infrastructure will cross many traditionally separate internal groups of employees, such as those responsible for servers, networks, storage and security. So a virtualization project is likely to have an impact on organizational structure and responsibilities. Therefore, getting executive commitment and support, particularly from chief financial executives able to see the big-picture savings potential of going virtual, is critical to organization-wide buy-in and cooperation.
There are basic technical and logistical questions to consider when considering a virtualization plan:
• How do you calculate the appropriate ratio to use when consolidating physical servers and other devices into software-based virtual machines (VMs)?
• What is the impact of VMs on current disaster recovery and high-availability plans?
• Do security requirements shift in a virtual environment?
• How might software licensing/pricing models, power requirements and patch management processes need to change?
Preparing a well-documented business case based on an assessment of the current environment will help answer some of these questions. In your assessment and business case, you’ll need to calculate the physical host metrics needed – such as processor type and speed; RAM amount and utilization; network interface speeds and quantities; disk resources and other metrics.
The business case should also delineate the problems you expect virtualization to solve. For example, are you currently experiencing low utilization rates on servers while growing numbers of servers are becoming unwieldy to house and manage? Going through the exercise of calculating the hard benefits will help you answer some of these questions and drive acceptance and adoption of the virtualization project throughout the organization.
Let’s also take a look at each of these virtualization questions in a bit more detail.
Determining Consolidation Ratios
A primary benefit of virtualization is optimizing the use of physical equipment, such as servers, rather than letting them run underutilized much of the time and wasting money. However, it’s best to avoid extremely high consolidation ratios that push physical hosts to near 100% utilization. Rather, data center managers should leave some wiggle room for moving VMs around in the event that there is a planned or unplanned outage. About 65% to 75% utilization is generally a good average to shoot for to make virtualization worthwhile but safe.
Something to consider when calculating maximum consolidation ratios is moving off of small-form-factor blade servers and onto larger chassis, the enclosures for the server blades, to allow for greater consolidation density. An approximate maximum consolidation ratio of a 1U blade server is 6:1, for example, where a maximum consolidation ratio of a 4U chassis is 30:1. So consolidation ratios might be bigger, and savings greater, with larger chassis.
Note, too, that the deployment of emerging applications, such as real-time presence and video streaming services, might require greater network capacity for shuttling communications quickly among VMs. These applications might also lower the consolidation ratio that can be achieved compared to an existing data center environment without these applications in operation.
High-Availability Implications of VMs
The wiggle room afforded by retaining a spare 25% to 35% capacity helps address failover and disaster recovery when determining the appropriate number of VMs to consolidate onto a single physical host. Fortunately, the failure of a given VM on a physical host will not affect the operation of another VM on that host, because each VM has its own isolated set of compute, memory and power resources. So a VM could fail over to another VM on the same physical host or, in the case below, to a VM on a separate physical server.
Physical Redundancy
Virtualization, again, reduces the number of physical hosts in operation by consolidating multiple VMs onto a single physical machine. The greater the consolidation ratio, then, the greater the impact will be if a single physical machine should go offline.
For example, if a single server in the past hosted a single application and served a handful of users, only that one application and those users would be affected if the server went offline. If you put 10 applications and support for hundreds of users on a single physical device, however, and the host becomes unavailable, the failure affects many more applications and users, and has greater impact throughout the organization.
You need to have a disaster recovery plan in place to address that issue. For example, a given physical host might be configured to fail over to one or more other physical hosts. Traditional high-availability configurations often require a 1:1 ratio of primary device to backup device. A virtualized environment, however, could be configured such that a physical server can fail over to one of a set of backup servers, determined, in part, by the load balancing equipment that front ends the physical servers. This allows, then, for a many-to-one backup-to-primary configuration ratio, which increases service availability .
Security in a Virtual Environment
Moving to a virtualized data center means moving to two-tier security. The physical hosts must be secured, as always, and, now, so do the VMs. In unvirtualized data centers, most security is provided by special-purpose physical appliances that protect static resources, such as servers with unchanging IP addresses. In a virtual environment, however, enterprise security teams will need to deploy security tools that account for devices that might change addresses frequently in response to changing workloads.
cont....................
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Windows 7 RTM
The future of Windows is upon us. On July 22, Microsoft released its next major operating system, Windows 7, to manufacturers. The final version of the OS (called GA, for "general availability) will ship on October 22. In the meanwhile, however, I spent a week with the latest version of the code, and, I have to say, Windows 7 continues to look to look solid. It's bolder in terms of new capabilities and user interface design than Apple's soon-to-be-released Snow Leopard, but it shares with that update a firm basis in its predecessor OS, in this case, Vista.
Till you purchase new license you can you Windows 7 RC (ONE YEAR FREE)
The program closes on August 15, 2009.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx
Till you purchase new license you can you Windows 7 RC (ONE YEAR FREE)
The program closes on August 15, 2009.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd353205.aspx
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