Carlos Alberto

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d2feca6d-81d7-430a-9b2d-b070a5f6ae50&DisplayLang=en

The new features focus on configuration change management and enhanced troubleshooting designed to help you identify and resolve ISA Server configuration issues within the ISA Server Management console.

The service pack includes the following new features and feature improvements:

• Configuration Change Tracking—Registers all configuration changes applied to ISA Server to help you assess issues that may occur as a result of these changes.
• Test Button—Tests the consistency of a Web publishing rule between the published server and ISA Server.
• Traffic Simulator—Simulates network traffic in accordance with specified request parameters, such as an internal user and the Web server, providing information about firewall policy rules evaluated for the request.
• Diagnostic Logging Viewer—Now integrated as a tab into the ISA Server Management console, this feature displays detailed events on packet progress and provides information about handling and rule matching.
Improvements for existing features, including:
• Support for integrated NLB mode in all three modes, including unicast, multicast, and multicast with Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). Previously, ISA Server integrated NLB-supported unicast mode only.
• Support for use of server certificates containing multiple Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries. Previously, ISA Server was able to use either only either the subject name (common name) of a server certificate, or the first entry in the SAN list.
• Support for Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD) cross-domain authentication. Credentials from users located in a different domain than the ISA Server, but in the same forest, can now be delegated to an internal published Web site by using KCD .
• Support for client certificate authentication in a workgroup deployment. This removes the requirement to map each client certificate to an Active Directory® directory user account.

For more information about this service pack, see Microsoft Article 943462.

For general information about installing ISA Server updates and hotfixes, see Microsoft Article 885957.

   Hoje e amanhã serão dias com muita informação sobre a Microsoft e principalmente o Bill Gates. No dia 27 de Julho, amanhã, o BillG estará se desligando como FTE da Microsoft para "novos desafios".

   Esses novos desafios não são aqueles que nós sempre escutamos dos amigos quando eles trocam de empresa, agora o Bill realmente vai enfrentar desafios de mudar o mundo. Ele já conseguiu isso mudando a maneira que vemos a tecnologia (ora, em 1980 quem acreditava que todos iam ter um computador em casa, e utilizando do jeito que nós utilizamos hoje), agora ele deseja mudar a maneira como vivemos, onde quem sabe um dia todos vão poder ter acesso a cultura, saúde e comida.

   Com certeza não será nada fácil, mesmo com todo recurso ($$) disponível, mas agora ele terá que enfrentar problemas que não são resolvidos apenas com linhas de código, mas sim com virus, doenças (que sempre estão mudando e evoluindo), política, culturas e por ai vai.

   O mundo é grato pelo o que ele fez e vai continuar fazendo (ele frequentará a MS uma vez por semana), eu como um nerd (claro que não daqueles que costumam babar) vou sentir falta dele. Estranho dizer isso não é? Sentir falta de uma pessoa que nunca nem falou comigo e nem sabe que eu existo. Mas com certeza eu sei que quando ele estava na MS, ele estava forçando as pessoas no limite, pessoas com um QI superior, trazendo idéias e construindo softwares que hoje nós não conseguimos viver sem. E eu quero viver muito esses momentos de mudança, softwares novos, quebras de paradigma e inovações. São as chamadas "ondas de softwares"! Eu quero passar por muitas outras, como Office 14, Windows 7, Exchange 13, 14, 15 e assim por diante.

   Quem mais fez isso para nós trabalhadores que hoje dependemos do computador, do Office, do Windows, do e-mail, do file sever e etc? Claro que nesse mundo existem ótimos criadores de softwares, pessoas que pensavam além do básico. Steve Jobs vale ser mencionado, tanto quanto os criadores do Google. As maiores concorrentes da Microsoft tem seu mérito, mas não é só porque sou apaixonado pela Microsoft, eu não vejo o Mac sendo utilizado em todas os lares do mundo. Eu ainda acho que seu marketing share vai subir, hoje ele ainda é muito pequeno, mas não vai ameaçar o Windows. Cada um no seu lado, fazendo o que é bom.

   O Steve tem o poder de transformar algo bobo, fútil, em obra de arte, onde muitos invejam as pessoas que possuem seus produtos. Mérito todo dele, ele é bom nisso. E a Google? Quer um sistema de busca mais rápido e completo que o Google? Quem demora mais de 4 segundos para receber cerca de 2.000.000 de sites com a palavra que foi digitada? É impressionante. Mas a Microsoft não se limita a isso, ela atua em mais mercados que muitos imaginam (minha mãe por exemplo, ela com certeza só conhece o Windows e dificilmente o Office, que são produtos da MS).

   Essa mudança será apenas uma transição, como em qualquer outra empresa, mas ela tem o seu destaque por estarmos falando de Bill Gates. Não só o homem mais rico do mundo por 13 anos seguidos, mas sim um líder para muitos.

   Claro que a Microsoft não vai parar sem ele, mas certamente esta perdendo uma grande peça da sua estrutura. Espero que esta peça seja muito bem compensada com outros pilares, que vão continuar fortalecendo a Microsoft.

Agora aqui vai uma coleção de páginas sobre o Bill Gates e essa transição:

  - Microsoft Presspass
  - Channel 9 - MSDN
  - Albuquerque Picture Re-Created - Atenção especial para a Microsoft "Mamma", a primeira secretária e ainda funcionária do Bill
  - Interview- 'There's No Year That I Didn't Love My Job' - Newsweek - June 22, 2008
  - Microsoft Without Gates; Gates Without Microsoft - Fortune, June 20, 2008
  - Exclusive- The Bill Gates Exit Interview - PC Magazine - June 23, 2008
  - Ballmer Heads New Age of Microsoft Leaders - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 24, 2008
  - Q&A- Bill Gates Unfiltered - Forbes.com, June 23, 2008
  - Bill Gates Looks Into the Future of the PC - USA Today, June 25, 2008
  - Video - From Boy Genius to Billionaire - Fortune - June 20, 2008
  - Video - Gates- Different From You and Me - Fortune - June 20, 2008
  - Video Tribute- Looking Back, Moving Ahead (.wmv, 15 min 14 sec) - Microsoft Presspass
  - Carta de um ex funcionário que trabalhou no time de Excel, sobre como era trabalhar com o Bill Gates. Vale ler o texto inteiro. - Inc Magazine

   Aqui fica a minha singela homenagem a uma pessoa especial, que pensa sempre na mágica do software.

UPDATE:

Employees Welcome Gates (00:22)
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduces Chairman Bill Gates at the Employee Town Hall. June 27, 2008
Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)

Gates - Starting Microsoft (00:17)
Bill Gates describes how he and co-founder Paul Allen started Microsoft with the dream that software would be important one day.
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Ballmer - Microsoft Vision (00:21)
CEO Steve Ballmer describes Bill’s vision of a computer on every desk and in every home.
Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)

Gates - Microsoft Leadership (00:51)
Gates describes the opportunities ahead for Microsoft’s leadership.
Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)

Ballmer - Microsoft Culture (00:37)
Steve Ballmer talks about how Bill Gates has instilled a culture of intensity, tenacity and passion at Microsoft.
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Ballmer - Changing the World (01:14)
Steve Ballmer thanks Bill Gates for the opportunities Microsoft employees have to change the world and realize their true potential.
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Gates - The people he worked with (02:04)
Bill Gates describes what has made working at Microsoft so special to him: smart people, making an impact in the world and having fun every day.
Download: Zune-quality (.wmv) | Broadcast-quality (.mpeg)

 
Bill Gates: 'I'm still pretty hardcore'

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Carlos Alberto

É isso ai pessoal, os dias de Full Time Employee do Bill Gates estão chegando ao fim, e com isso muitos sites estão postando as suas memórias desse gênio que revolucionou a forma com que trabalhamos hoje. Se não fosse o Windows, muitos de nós (eu principalmente :) não teria emprego hoje. O cara é phoda em muitas coisas, essa carinha de bobo não engana ninguem.

Quem ai já viu o filme Os piratas de Sillicon Valley? Cara, esse filme é clássico .. claro que nem tudo é a pura realidade, mas é muito bem dirigido e filmado.

Bom mas voltando ao tópico do post, vocês conhecem o verdadeiro Billg? Sabem que ele é duro com a sua equipe? Tipo, "essa é a pior idéia que eu já ouvi na vida" são coisas que ele fala para vários funcionários da MS, todos os dias, e eles já sabem que esse cargo de "pior idéia do mundo" não vai durar muito, pois logo outro vai ouvir isso dele.

Que tal um e-mail dele para o Jim Alchin, lá em 2003, sobre a usabilidade do então novo Windows XP? Ele estava apenas tentando instalar o Windows Movie Maker e o Digital Plus pack, mas acho que ele não gostou da experiencia .. ahahaha .. Recomendo ler tudo, o e-mail é muito engraçado:

---- Original Message ----

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system ... and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Acho que alguém levou uma chamada de canto !!!

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Carlos A.

Essa coleção de fotos é um tanto quanto peculiar, e o próprio Bill Gates não só disponibilizou para a revista Fortune, como também comentou cada foto! Fatos históricos narrados por ele mesmo, muito legal !!

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/gates_microsoft/index.html

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Bom, para aqueles que ainda não conhecem o novo plano de certificações Microsoft, ou vou falar bem rápido. Agora o antigo MCP que era uma certificação para qualquer produto Microsoft, está sendo substituido pelo MCTS, mais específico para cada tecnologia que você faz a prova. Já os antigos MCSA e MCSE foram substituidos pelo MCTS e MCITP.

Passando isso tem o MCA, que é uma certificação de Arquiteto, muitooo difícil. Então existia um gap entre o MCITP e o MCA, uma folga muito grande entre as duas. Com isso chegou o Master, que pode ser de Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008 ou SQL 2008.

Para saber mais, entre no link: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/default.mspx

As provas começam a ser agendadas em Julho, portanto se preparem.

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Carlos A.

Alguém vai para Las Vegas? Que tal brincar com o Microsoft Surface no iBar, dentro do Hotel Rio?

 
Video: Microsoft Surface at the Rio in Las Vegas

Parece interessante né? Tirando o casal forçado do filme, as formas de interação com o Surface estão crescendo.

E outra coisa, se você está ai sem fazer nada e quer jogar um daqueles joguinhos pela Net, que tal jogar um onde você é um administrador de rede? ahahahah

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Carlos Alberto

Opa, começou o TechEd US 2008 para os IT Pros, já com um keynote do Bob Muglia, que é o responsável por produtos como Windows Server 2008 e SQL Server 2008.

Quem quiser ver o vídeo, e ficar sabendo o que está rolando lá fora, entre no site: http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/default.aspx

Live Tech·Ed NA IT Professionals Keynote delivered by Bob Muglia
Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 8:30–10:00am EST
What better way to kick off this year's first Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals than with the return of Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. Join us as we blast forward "into the future" through the vision of the IT industry in the years to come.
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Também vale a pena acompanhar o blog do Danilo Bordini, que está postando diretamente de lá, junto com o Marcos Rodrigues e o Rodrigo Dias.

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Carlos A.

Chegou na newsletter do TechNet, mas como eu sou atrasado, só estou postando agora:

•  Windows Vista now supports more than 77,000 printers, cameras, speakers and other devices.
•  More than 2,700 software programs are “Certified for” or “Works with” Windows Vista-logoed; 97 of the top 100 consumer applications are compatible.
•  62% of small businesses said Windows Vista saves them time, and 70% said it makes them more productive, according to an independent survey.
•  More than 140 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold, making it the fastest selling operating system in Microsoft history. Even Macs run it.
•  71 percent of Windows Vista customers like it better than their last operating system.
•  People familiar with Windows Vista are two to three times more likely to have a favorable impression of it.
•  Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

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Carlos A.

Uma questão interessante que eu gostaria de compartilhar com vocês. Não sei se todos já estão trabalhando ou utilizando a virtualização Hyper-V, mas dentro do programa do produto surgiu uma dúvida legal, que seria como utilizar os integration components dentro de uma mídia bootável com WinPE para manutenção na máquina. Segue how-to de como fazer:

The new architecture of synthetic devices with Hyper-V poses some unique challenges for system administrators. Specifically, how can a system administrator perform maintenance on a Hyper-V host from WinPE? Without the integration components, users are required to move their VHD's around to the IDE controller, which limits the amount of VHD's that can be used at any given point in time.

Additionally, legacy network adapters might need to be added to the VM to provide network access.
However, by adding the integration components to a WinPE image, those are no longer concerns.
For those of you not familiar with WinPE, here's a brief overview:

Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) is a minimal operating system designed to prepare a computer for Windows installation. It can be used to start a computer with no operating system (a bare-metal system), to partition and to format hard drives, and to copy disk images or to initiate Windows Setup from a network share. Windows PE is available as a stand-alone product to customers with the proper licensing agreement. It is an integrated component of many Windows Setup and recovery technologies, including Setup for Windows Vista and Windows Deployment Services (WDS).

Windows PE 2.1 is the latest release based on the Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system.

Now, on to the steps:

1.    Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK). This allows you to create a custom WinPE image. The AIK can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a5-5b50c657de08&DisplayLang=en

2.    You need to extract two files from the c:\windows\system32\vmguest.iso file, which is part of Hyper-V RC1 (available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7EDAA89F-9F64-488D-93C0-858D2D8799DF). You will need to use a utility that allows the mounting of an ISO image. You can also mount the ISO image in a VM and extract the files as well.

You are looking for two files. Copy the file that is appropriate for your architecture:
  32 Bit: \support\x86\Windows6.0-KB951633-x86.msu
  64 Bit: \support\amd64\Windows6.0-KB951633-x64.msu

3.    Create a directory on the same system you installed the AIK, and store the file(s) above there.

4.    Open up the Windows PE User’s Guide. This was installed as part of the Windows AIK, and can be found (by default) by browsing to Start -> All Programs -> Windows OPK -> Documentation -> Windows PE User’s Guide.

5.    Follow steps 1-4 under Customizing WinPE -> Windows PE Walkthroughs -> Walkthrough: Create a Custom WinPE Image.

6.    After step 4 under Customizing WinPE (Optional: Add Additional Customizations), run the following script from your Windows PE Tools Command Prompt. Create a new batch file with the script below. Make sure that the MSUSOURCE is set to the directory where the files you copied in step 2 and 3 are, and that PESOURCE is set to the directory you created in Step 5.

%echo off
set MSUSOURCE=D:\synth\rc1\amd64
set PESOURCE=D:\winpe_x64_synthetic
mkdir %temp%\IC
c:\windows\system32\expand.exe -F:* %MSUSOURCE%\Windows6.0-KB951633-x64.msu %temp%\ic
mkdir %temp%\IC\binaries
c:\windows\system32\expand.exe -F:* %temp%\ic\Windows6.0-KB951633-x64.CAB %temp%\ic\binaries
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wnetvsc.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_b331f76187e159c6\wnetvsc.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_ws3cap.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_f2dbb8abfcb9f757\ws3cap.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wstorflt.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_1ca7ba32d0b2bd99\wstorflt.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wstorvsc.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_835d97e82051b059\wstorvsc.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wvmbus.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_95947137626ceb80\wvmbus.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wvmbushid.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_4cc9f65464cd2f85\wvmbushid.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wvmbusvideo.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_af4c3664979a87cd
\wvmbusvideo.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows
"C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools\peimg.exe" /inf=%temp%\IC\binaries\amd64_wvmic.inf_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6001.18010_none_5df58a6c04d20690\wvmic.inf %PESOURCE%\mount\Windows

Once the batch file completes, refer back to the Windows PE Users Guide, and finish following the steps from Step 5 onward.

After you create the ISO, attach it to a VM and power it on. You should have full access to all synthetic devices!

É isso ai, aproveitem.
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Carlos A.

Faz tempo que não publico uma propaganda da Microsoft... eu amo todas elas, mas essa em especial é uma das melhores que eu já vi !!!

Your Digital Lifestyle: Girl from Mars

Utilizando o novo Microsoft Video! Check it out. Como ele funciona com o Microsoft Silverlight, alguns não vão conseguir ver .. portanto segue outro link do Soapbox: 
Video: Your Digital Lifestyle

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Carlos A.

Segue imagens do novo Windows Small Business Server 2008 RC0.
Cortesia do Paul Thurrott:

Veja mais em Win SuperSite

Pessoal, quem lembra quando os primeiros notebooks com Windows SideShow foram mostrados e todo mundo ficou muito curioso para saber como isso iria ser utilizado no dia-a-dia? Os notebooks parecem que não vingaram, ou pelo menos, não foram lançados logo em seguida (talvez alguma falha no projeto), mas com isso o SideShow está meio de lado.

Mas as coisas estão para mudar. A Microsoft lançou uma versão do Windows SideShow para Windows Mobile, assim o seu celular smartphone, via Bluetooth, será um dispositivo SideShow para comunicar com o Vista. Isso vai ser interessante!! ainda mais depois dos Developers mandarem bala na programação e criar uma versão mais RTM (agora a versão ainda é Preview).

Para baixar e saber mais sobre este programinha, vá ao site da Microsoft agora!

Source -> Bink.nu

Quando eu criei meu blog, era apenas um lugar para guardar informações que eu achava interessante, até para eu mesmo ter um repositório.

Com o tempo começei a cadastrar mais coisas, claro que sempre voltada para o mundo Microsoft. Outras tecnologias que eu acho interessante eu também ia postando.

O tópico mais acessado do meu blog é com certeza o Windows Vista Language Pack, porém acho que muitos ficam frustrados com o conteúdo. Muita gente compra um notebook lá fora e quando chega no Brasil que transformar para Português-BR. E também eu não consigo responder todas as perguntas que são feitas naquele post, eu acabo não recebendo elas no meu e-mail e nunca lembro de ficar entrando no post para responder, preciso melhorar isso.

Já consegui ultrapassar os 23.000 acessos. Claro que eles não são únicos e também ele contabiliza acesso via RSS, mas para mim, um pobre mortal da área de TI, fico muito feliz em saber que o povo acaba caindo no meu blog procurando a resposta de alguma dúvida.

Gostaria de dedicar mais tempo para o blog, postar mais reviews de cada produto com que trabalho e aprendo mais, só que o tempo é curto e todos sabem disso!

Vou continuar postando coisas interessantes e espero estar ajudando as pessoas que passam por aqui.

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Carlos Alberto

Parece que o time do Microsoft Surface andou passando alguns códigos para a equipe de Windows. Olha só algo que virá no Windows 7:

  
Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

Essa foi uma demo feita pelo Bill Gates e Steve Ballmer no D6 deste ano.

Source -> D6 Highlights

A Microsoft, seguindo com a sua política de "eats its own food", acaba de migrar a estrutura de sites do MSDN e TechNet, dois dos seus maiores sites, para servidores virtuais utilizando a tecnologia Hyper-V.

Os servidores de banco ainda estão em máquinas físicas, mas todo o pool de servidores Web, rodando IIS7, estão virtualizados em Hyper-V com 4 CPU's virtuais e 10GB de memória RAM. As máquinas físicas possuem 2x Intel Quad-Core e 32GB de memória.

Algumas curiosidades sobre a performance também foram publicadas. Para saber mais, vá ao Source.

The performance report after this migration is very interesting:

• Hyper-V CPU overhead (as measured by the parent partition utilization) was 5% to 6% with linear progression as the number of requests increased.
• CPU oversubscription (three four-processor VMs on an eight-processor physical server) resulted in 3% lower overall performance per physical server based on overall requests per second per 1 percent CPU.
• Requests per second per 1% CPU performance of MSDN over the previous physical server platform improved. This demonstrates to us the viability of efficient consolidation from dedicated older physical servers to shared virtualized platforms.
• Physical MSDN handled 21% more requests per second per 1% CPU than virtualized MSDN.

Source -> Virtualization.info (via Bink.nu)

Dois novos betas no Connect.com, olha só:

Service Level Dashboard
IT departments need ever more sophisticated tools to monitor the performance of applications that make the organization run. These tools need to go beyond traditional server-based monitoring where server health equals service health.

The Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007 is a new Solution Accelerator that addresses IT Service Managers' need to measure and report SLA compliance for line-of-business (LOB) applications. This new accelerator measures LOB performance from end to end by collating performance metrics from both the server side and select client locations. The accelerator provides an easy to read dashboard with performance status for the service through which the service manager can perform a data drill down.

Solution Accelerator Components

This accelerator ships the following software components:

- An Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack (SLD DAT, SLD report)
- A sample unsealed Management Pack targeted at monitoring a Web site

The accelerator provides the following guidance and examples of how to set up a SLA reporting solution, configure the distributed application template and create synthetic transactions for a line of business application in an OpsMgr Pack:

- Executive Overview on TechNet
- User's guide included in Beta
- Design guide - available at TRM

The Service Level Dashboard for Operations Manager works with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and SQL Server Reporting Services.

MAP 3.1
As you may have known already, MAP has replaced WVHA since February 2008 and MAP now has all of WVHA's functionalities for Windows Vista Hardware Assessment and Office 2007, and more!

You can now use MAP tool to analyze readiness of your servers for a Windows Server 2008 upgrade as well as Server or Application Virtualization migration.

MAP 3.1 will include features such as Hyper-V modeling support and 64-bit installation support.

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Carlos Alberto

Pessoal, achei um vídeo de 35 minutos muito interessante sobre a integração do MDT com o System Center Configuration Manager 2007 para um deploy de Sistema Operacional (no caso, Windows Vista) utilizando a metodologia Zero Touch Installation (ZTI).

O vídeo é bem auto explicativo, apenas com telas dos programas, mas as vezes é preciso pausar, senão você não consegue acompanhar todas as mudanças que tem que ser feitas nos softwares.

Para assistir, basta clicar na imagem abaixo:

Eu montei os principais passos que tem que ser feitos no texto abaixo:

PRE SCCM
Install MDT
Install and Configure WDS - PXE not respond
(MDT)Configure Integration MDT with SCCM
(MDT)Configure PXE with WDS

SCCM Config Site Management
Create Boundaries - Client Agents account - Site System Roles (PXE service point)

SCCM Computer Management
Collection, New Collection (no computers selected)
Software Distribution Packages (Conf Mang Cli Upgrade), Obtaing from the source directory, browse SMS_LAB\Client, New Distribution Point (Standard point, not PXE)

SCCM OS Deploy
Add Boot Image (SMS_LAB, OSD, Boot, i386), Enable WindowsPE command support (Properties), New Distribution Point (normal and PXE)
Operation System Image, Add .wim (Vista-Sources-Install.wim), New Distribution Point(normal), Add OS Install Package (Vista folder), New Distribution Point(normal)
Drivers Import, add drivers to boot images, udpates distribution point when finish
Create Driver Package, Point to share, Add drivers to the package, Update Distribution Point(normal)
Task Sequence, Build and capture, Choose boot image, Choose OS package, Choose Conf Manager Client Package, Don't install updates and software, Point capture share, Edit and customize Task Sequence, Advertise Task Sequence to Collection (make task available to PXE), Mandatory, Always Run, High Priority, Access content from distribution point, when no local distribution point available use remote, when no protected use unprotected

SCCM MDT Integration
Import MDT Task Sequence, Client Task Sequence, Config, Choose Boot image, Create MDT tools on share, Choose OS image, Choose Conf Man Cli, Create USMT package, Create Settings Package, New Distribution Point to all packages created.

SCCM Config Collection
Computer Association, Import Computer Information, Import single, input MAC Address, Add to Build Collection.

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