The Nerd Herd – Avsnitt 31 – Fredagsmys med Media Portal

Hej på er,
Den här gången ägnar vi programmet åt bakåtlutat användande av Windows, dvs. koppla PC:n till TV och använd den som mediahubb i ditt hem. Vi har i tidigare avsnitt pratat om Windows eget Media Center; Den här gången pratar vi om open source lösningen Media Portal och passar dessutom på att introducera en ny kollega till oss – Jörgen Brandelius.
Vi nämner ett antal länkar och plug-ins med mera i programmet, de kommer som utlovat här:
Skin: StreamedMP – XBMC clone, samma killar som gjort nämnda är dom som har utvecklat detta skin/plugin paket (Plugins som följer med är bland annat Moving pictures, TV-Series och TRAKT sistnämnda är det som hämtar bakgrund info om artister skådepelare osv)
Plugins:
Rockstar – för att köra spotify och Grooveshark – koppla till Last.fm
Youtube.FM – för att rulla musik videos från just Youtube 😀

IFC – det ställer om sorgkanter och ”streatchar” bilden så den hamnar på hela rutan, används främst för SD material
        Online Videos – har en stor samling med online tjänster som har olika material som kan streamas bland annat svensk TV               

Codec:  SAF – Stand Alone Package, minimaltiskt paket för Media-Portal, http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/saf-v6-based-on-lavf.95635/
Mvh/TNH
Jingle av David Lilja (cutpaste.org)
Source: The Nerd Herd

Hej på er, Den här gången ägnar vi programmet åt bakåtlutat användande av Windows, dvs. koppla PC:n till TV och använd den som mediahubb i ditt hem. Vi har i…

Installing Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Microsoft has released a public beta version of Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Today I am going so show you the setup experience. The first screens are exactly the same as Windows Server 2012.

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So, when the Windows install is done we kick off the Essentials part.This looks very much like the old SBS/SBSE install.

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One difference is that we now have a GUI for migrating to Essentials. I will go into more detail on this a little bit later.

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The setup is now down. I will continue in the next post with the configuration.

Avsnitt 29 – Semesteravsnittet

I dag tar vi oss en till på semesterfirande…
Som stressad IT-pro måste man kunna slappna av på sin semester, njuta av det fina vädret, besöka lite turistattraktioner, kanske bada lite och ta en glass då och då… Vi passar därför på att komma med lite tips för sysselsättning 🙂
Teched North AmericaMicrosoft MMS
Any Video Converter
Trevlig semester
/The Nerd Herd
Source: The Nerd Herd

I dag tar vi oss en till på semesterfirande… Som stressad IT-pro måste man kunna slappna av på sin semester, njuta av det fina vädret, besöka lite turistattraktioner, kanske bada…

Server 2012 Licensing Changes

Microsoft just released the Licensing for Windows Server 2012. This is a write up as far as I have understood so far. Just to clarify… this is my interpretation and I will of cource edit it if I find out I missed something or got something wrong.

Here are some of the changes

Editions

Windows Server 2012 Standard
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Windows Server 2012 Foundation

As you can se this is a great simplification. The differences between Standard and Datacenter is only the virtualization rights. Both versions will be licensed per 2 CPUs. You can add additional standard server licenses to a Standard virtualization server to add more virtualized servers. This also means that you cannot license an OS to a Virtual machine.

Virtualization Rights

Standard will get 1+2 (2008 R2 was 1+1) and Datacenter will get 1 + infinite (just like before). This also means that you will not be able to mix the two license forms on the same box. You have the right to downgrade the license for a virtual machine but you will still have to be completely licensed for the physical box. This means that you get to use for instance a Windows Server 2008 R2 instance but it will have a Server 2012 license.

Windows Server Essentials

This the new version of Windows Small Business Server Essentials. It has the same limitations. The SBS Standard Server has been discontinued instead there will be an option to upgrade the server to standard when you reach the 25 user limit. You will also be able to add an Exchange server on premise but then you will have to buy en additional Windows License, an Exchange license and Exchange CALs. The Premium Edition has also been discontinued. The same thing holds true here as in the Exchange case, you will have to buy and additional server license, SQL license and SQL CALs. If you want both Exchange and SQL and it is OK to virtualize them on the same hardware you will only need one Server OS license since you with each license get 2 virtualized instances.

UI will be back with more information in this and Windows Server Foundation as soon as I know more…

Windows Server Web Edition

Windows Server Web Edition has also been discontinued which means that you will have to use the standard edition instead. The CAL waiver that applied to web applications on Web Edition is also present in standard as long as the server is only used as a Web Server.

Pricing

Edition Ideal for…
High Level Feature
Comparison
Licensing Model Pricing
Open NL (US$)
Datacenter Highly virtualized
private & hybrid
cloud environments
Full Windows
Server functionality
with unlimited
virtual instances
Processor + CAL* $4,809**
Standard Low density or non-
virtualized
environments
Full Windows
Server functionality
with two virtual
instances
Processor + CAL* $882**
Essentials

Small business
environmentsSimpler interface,
pre-configured
connectivity to
cloud based services; no
virtualization rightsServer (25 User
Account Limit)$425**

FoundationEconomical general
purpose serverGeneral purpose
server functionality
with no
virtualization rightsServer (15 User
Account Limit)OEM Only

*CALs are required for every user or device accessing a server directly or indirectly. See the Product Use Rightsfor details.

**Pricing represents Open No Level (NL) ERP. For your specific pricing, contact your Microsoft reseller.

Reference

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/D/B/4DB352D1-C610-466A-9AAF-EEF4F4CFFF27/WS2012_Licensing-Pricing_FAQ.pdf

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/2012-editions.aspx

Adding and removing the GUI in Windows Server 2012

In Windows Server 2008 R2 you could select whether you wanted to run Standard (GUI) och Core version of Windows Server. In Windows Server 2012 the GUI is a feature which you can add or remove.

To remove the GUI you use the following Powershell one-liner:

Remove-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell, Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra

You can also uninstall the GUI, which removes the binary files from the disk. To completely uninstall the GUI you use the following Powershell one-liner:

Uninstall-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell, Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra

If you realize you are in over your head you can add it back in using:

Add-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell

… or:

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell –Restart –Source c:\mountdir\windows\winsxs

You can also do all of this using Dism:
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:ServerCore-FullServer /featurename:Server-Gui-Shell /featurename:Server-Gui-Mgmt

Links

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831786

Avsnitt 30 – System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2

Normalt sett brukar vi få vänta på uppdateringar till produkter. Dessutom är vi vana vid att Service Pack är en liten uppdatering… det gäller inte riktigt med System Center 2012 SP1 CTP… det är en GIGANTISK uppdatering.
Mer information hittar du här:
Announcing Availability of System Center 2012 SP1 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2)
System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 Now Available
Microsoft Updates System Center 2012 SP1 With Windows Server 2012 Support
Mvh/TNH
Jingle av David Lilja (cutpaste.org)
Source: The Nerd Herd

Normalt sett brukar vi få vänta på uppdateringar till produkter. Dessutom är vi vana vid att Service Pack är en liten uppdatering… det gäller inte riktigt med System Center 2012…

The Nerd Herd – Avsnitt 28 – MDT 2012 Update 1 och Windows 8

Hej på er,
(more episodes in English will follow… but this particular one is in Swedish)
Dax igen för the Nerd Herd… idag skall vi kika lite närmare på den kommande uppdateringen till MDT 2012, nämligen Update 1. Den innehåller blandannat:

Fullt stöd för Windows 8
Mindre images
Snabbare installation
Nya ADKn
PE 4

.NET FW 4
Powershell 3

USMT 5
Stöd för System Center Orchestrator

Ladda ner Avsnitt 28 här, eller varför inte helt enkelt prenumerera på den, via RSS, via iTunes eller via Zune Marketplace?
Mvh/Micke N och Johan

Jingle av David Lilja (cutpaste.org)
Source: The Nerd Herd

Hej på er, (more episodes in English will follow… but this particular one is in Swedish) Dax igen för the Nerd Herd… idag skall vi kika lite närmare på den…

TrueSec on The Scripting Guys

As you might know Microsoft has a site called The Scripting Guys. My colleague Niclas Goude will be writing a couple of guest blogs on The Scripting Guys regarding security from the 2:nd to the 6:th of July.

The specific subjects will be:

Monday: Scanning
Tuesday: Brute Force
Wednesday: Shares and Metadata
Thursday: Give yourself System Permission without psexec
Friday: LSA Secrets

Intel® PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter and VLANs

I have my own lab server at home and the other day I finally reinstalled it with Windows Server 2012 RC. One of the NICs in the server is an Intel® PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter which is connected to a VLAN trunk in one of my switches to be able to put VMs on different VLANS. To configure the NIC to be a VLAN trunk you historically needed to download drivers from Intel.

Herein lies the problem. Intel does not provide new drivers for Windows 7/2008R2. Instead they refer to Microsoft built-in drivers. This means that there is no way that they will provide drivers for Windows Server 2012 Smile

After some searching I found a solution:

The only way to find and change advanced settings for the Intel NIC is the Registry. Start regedit and browse to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{GUID}\XXXX\VlanFiltering registry key (where {GUID} is the GUID containing the network adapter configuration and XXXX is the NIC to be confgured) and change it from 1 to 0. Then you reboot.

Link:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/11584256-b924-4945-a2f4-aefca0c3a43a/