So the day has come when windows 10 became available,
I did not have the patience to wait for the Windows Update so I downloaded an ISO and started to upgrade and on my Surface 3 Pro it was a matter of about 30 minutes and I had a working new version! It was a really smooth upgrade process!
Download your copy today!
Today was not only the day when Office 2016 for Mac was released but also the day when ASR for VMware and Physical was released as GA.
This is some awesome news for companies that want an easy way to create a DR plan and site for their most important systems and not only for those lucky guys that already run Hyper-V and can utilize Hyper-V replica.
I did some evaluations for a presentation about ASR for VMware VM´s when it was in preview and it requires some additional VM´s for management of the replication such as the process server and on the Azure side, Master target and config server. If you like me evaluate this with an MSDN Azure subscription, be sure to shut down the servers on the Azure side when not using it as it otherwise will drain your money 🙂 , that of course should not be done when in production. It uses when protecting Windows workloads the built in VSS to create consistent replicas.
And the supported OS´s are the ones supported in Azure:
So if you still use Windows 2003 and earlier OS then you need upgrade before utilizing this.
Are you possibly going to the TechDays Sweden this autumn ? Me self and my friend and former colleague Fredrik Nilsson will have a session on this conference about automation and how to use Chef and PowerShell DSC for your deployment.
We will also look at how Chef can interact with PowerShell Desired State Configuration to deliver a consistent and compliant infrastructure. In this session you will learn the basic paradigms of Chef, launching VM instances and deploying applications to these instances. It is DevOps times now with a faster and agile world where the IT-Dinosaurs will have to watch out!
I am very proud to tell you that I have a new sponsor on my blog and that is VirtualMetric.
Have you not heard about them then it is time to go and check out their website at http://www.virtualmetric.com to learn more because they have an awesome monitoring and reporting platform for your Hyper-V environment!. It is agentless and it also reports Hardware status for the hosts via IPMI.
There will be a more thorough post about how to get the platform up and running and how to use it later on!
I have been evaluating Nanoserver that was released and wanted to try if I could get it to work in Azure IaaS as a VM. And as you can see, it works!!
I had created a VHDx with the packages that was described on the “getting started with Nanoserver” So first of all as only vhd is supported I had to convert the disk and then I used Azure PowerShell to upload it to Azure storage:
After creating a VM I tried to connect to it from remote over the Internet but that did not work, probably something that needs to be configured with winrm setup on the Nanoserver or I just missed something. I created a VM with Winserv TP2 in the same Azure network and tried to connect to the nanoserver which succeeded:
And I can also change name and it reflects on the Azure portal:
Is this cool or what?!
I have been helping a customer with their environment and we had a problem that took me a while to figure out.
They were baking reference images for their SCCM environment and the best and easiest way is to use VM´s of course. The problem that occurred was that when the image was being transferred back to the MDT server the VM rebooted after half of the image had been uploaded….
So what was doing this crazy behavior? It took me a little while before I realized what it was all about and it had to do with the Hyper-V cluster platform and resilience and heartbeat functionality!
So at first the build VM boots from the MDT image, no integration tools yet then but then it restarts to install applications and stuff within the OS and as the customer works on a Windows 7 image you can see it starts to send heartbeat to the host.
As you might know, clients and servers since Windows Vista and 2008 have integrational services by default in them although best practice is to upgrade them as soon as possible if the VM shall continue to reside in Hyper-V.
The interesting part in this case was that the OS rebooted within itself when it was finished with sysprep to start the MDT image for transferring the WIM back to the MDT server and the cluster/hyper-v did not notice this and thus it thought that the heartbeat stopped.
And as it was a cluster resource this heartbeat loss was handled by default, and guess what, rebooted!
So what settings in the cluster resource does this madness? First of all, the Heartbeat setting on the cluster vm resource properties
This can be read on the technet site about Heatbeat setting for Hyper-V clusters:
And then you have policy what the cluster should do after it thinks the vm has become unresponsive:
There are different ways to stop the cluster from rebooting the machine and one of them is to disable heartbeat check and another is to set the response to failure to do nothing,
The customer uses mostly VMM console and for them when building a new VM for MDT reference builds they can set the integrational services to disable heartbeat check and thus not get their work postponed by unwanted reboots.
During the search for why I checked Host Nic drivers as I thought that it might have something with a transfer error but could not find anything, positively the hosts got up on the latest nic firmware and drivers 😉 . My suspicion that it had to be the cluster was awaken after I had spun up a test VM that was not part of the cluster and that one succeeded in the build and transfer.
This is a rare case and I would say that in 99% of the cases you want the default behaviour to happened as a VM can become unresponsive and then the cluster can try a reboot to regain into operations..
Clarification: If you spin up a VM with a OS or pxe image that does not have integrational services it will not reboot the VM after the cluster timeout, the OS has to start sending heartbeat to the Hyper-V host and then it will be under surveillance and managed by the cluster until properly shut down!
Hope that this helps for someone out there wondering what happens…
I have been quite busy after Ignite but wanted to share with you what sessions I attended and the recordings for those so you can watch them. There were some better quality sessions and I will try to guide you to them. My interest was of course Hyper-V, Nanoserver, Docker, Azure, Automation, System Center, Storage….
Monday
First of was of course the keynote https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/KEY01
Then I went to the foundation session “Bring Azure to your datacenter” with Jeffrey Snover and Mark Russinovich https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/FND1451 and in this session they where not allowed to show any demos but cheated a bit anyway 😉
After that I went to the Azure Operations: Enabling IT Organizations to Leverage Microsoft Azure https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3475 – “Shadow IT is here to stay”
Tuesday
First of I went to the second “Platform vision & strategy” foundation session https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2466
I had my own Community Theater Session at 1 PM and had to prepare so I did not attend other sessions prior to that
In the afternoon I went to my MVP-friend and Hyper-V colleague Aidan Finn´s “Hidden treasures in Hyper-V 2012 R2” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3506 which is a keeper as it gives you some hints on what to think about to make your hosts run better and that is with the version available for production today!
Wednesday
After a great party by Veeam I was a bit late in to the sessions on the morning but got a nice breakfast and chat with a Microsoft guy, after that I went to the Nanoserver session with Jeffrey Snover, always a pleasure to listen to a guy that can do presentations https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2461
After that It was lunchtime and then I went to watch my friend Fredrik Nilsson´s Community Theater Session “Getting started with Chef”
Then it was time for the Windows containers session with Hyper-V PM Taylor Brown https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2493
I guess that most of the Hyper-V MVP´s present at Ingite went to the what´s new with Hyper-V in Windows 2016 and watched the session given by Ben Armstrong and Sarah Cooley from the Hyper-V team https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3461
Thursday
The first session of the day for me was “Managing Windows and Linux on Azure with Chef” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3722
After that I went to the “Automating operational tasks with Azure Automation” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3451
During lunch I went into the Expo Area and watched my friend Jakob G Svendsen´s Community Theater Session with device management and a bit lego-robotstuff.. hilarious!
After lunch I attended “Azure Iaas for Azure Stack” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3479
And then I attended the “Enabling Private Cloud Storage Using Servers with Local Disks” https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3474
One of the funniest sessions was the “Exploring Storage replica in Server vNext” with Ned Pyle https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3489
There was a bunch of more sessions that I could not attend to in person but still was really valuable and I will do a follow-up post giving the links to the records of those so stay tuned 🙂
I have just updated my script that allows you to download all or selected roles of the newly released System Center Technical Preview 2 that was announced on Ignite.
Update 2015-06-12 : Now I configured a If that checks if the file already is downloaded…
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# Download SC Technical Preview 2 VHD Eval # # Niklas Akerlund / 2015-06-12 [CmdletBinding()] param([switch]$SCVMM,[switch]$SCOM,[switch]$SCDPM,[switch]$SCORCH,[switch]$SCSM,[switch]$All,[string]$Dest='C:\VHDEVAL') # Check if the folder exists if(!(Get-Item $Dest -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) { New-Item -Path $Dest -ItemType Directory } # SCVMM if($SCVMM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=46910' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCOM if($SCOM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=46912' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCORCH if($SCORCH -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=46913' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCDPM if($SCDPM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=46909' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } # SCSM if($SCSM -or $All){ ((Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=46911' -UseBasicParsing).links | Where-Object -Property href -Match -Value "exe$|docx$|bin$").href | Select-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object -Process { if(!(Get-Item ($Dest +"\"+ $_.split("/")[-1]) -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $_ -Destination $Dest } } } |
It will depending on your broadband connection take various of hours getting all the files..
Good luck in testing those new things you learned about from Ignite 🙂
I had an Community Theater Session this Tuesday on the Microsoft Ignite conference and so fun that there was about 100 people showing up in the area that was sized for about 40! I promised that I was going to put my slides on my blog so that you could see and get the links and info. The Session was about 15 minutes.
Sadly there was no recording on these sessions but here is the PowerPoint for you 🙂 NiklasAkerlund_May5_105PM_1
So after the first day of Microsoft Ignite I have altered the script I had for Teched and now I can present the first version that download the material,
Update # 2: I had some brainfreeze with the first version of the script so now Markus Bäker helped me with some fixes so now it actually works 😉 Thanks a million!!
UPDATE: It has started to appear videos on the channel 9 rss and I will monitor during the day. There are some categories now in the script so if you are only interested in cloud or iaas then you do not have to download all!, the plan is to have all categories in place so you do not have to download all 800+ sessions 🙂
You can though use the -All parameter to get all the files .. as I use logic to check if the file have been downloaded I will not download any material twice.
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# Download MS Ignite Content with BITS # # Niklas Akerlund v 0.5 2015-05-05 # # Borrowed code for making the folders from Peter Schmidt (Exchange MVP, blog: www.msdigest.net) DownloadTechEdEurope14VideoAndSlides.ps1 # Thanks to Markus Bäker for fixing some issues with the code for file name and -ALL !! [CmdletBinding()] param( [switch]$CH9, [switch]$KEY, [switch]$FDN, [switch]$DEV, [switch]$HYBRID, [switch]$VOICE, [switch]$CLOUD, [switch]$IAAS, [switch]$AUTOMATION, [switch]$ALL, [switch]$PPT, [switch]$MP4, [string]$Dest='C:\Ignitetest') # Check if the folder exists if(!(Get-Item $Dest -ErrorAction Ignore)) { New-Item -Path $Dest -ItemType Directory } $psessions = @() $vsessions = @() #$ = 'C:\techedtest' if($CH9){ $psessions = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object comments -cmatch 'C9' $vsessions = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object comments -cmatch 'C9' } if($KEY){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object comments -cmatch 'KEY' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object comments -cmatch 'KEY' } if($FDN){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object comments -cmatch 'FDN' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object comments -cmatch 'FDN' } if($DEV){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object category -Contains 'development' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object category -Contains 'development' } if($HYBRID){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object category -Contains 'hybrid' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object category -Contains 'hybrid' } if($VOICE){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object category -Contains 'voice' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object category -Contains 'voice' } if($CLOUD){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object category -Contains 'cloud' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object category -Contains 'cloud' } if($IAAS){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object category -Contains 'infrastructure-as-a-service' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object category -Contains 'infrastructure-as-a-service' } if($AUTOMATION){ $psessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' | Where-Object category -Contains 'automation' $vsessions += Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' | Where-Object category -Contains 'automation' } if ($All){ $psessions = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/slides' $vsessions = Invoke-RestMethod 'http://s.ch9.ms/Events/Ignite/2015/RSS/mp4high' } #$psessions if($PPT){ foreach ($psession in $psessions){ # create folder $code = $psession.comments.split('/') | Select-Object -last 1 $folder = $code + ' - ' + $psession.title.Replace(':', '-').Replace('?', '').Replace('/', '-').Replace('<', '').Replace('|', '').Replace('"','').Replace('*','') $folder = $folder.substring(0, [System.Math]::Min(100, $folder.Length)) $folder = $folder.trim() $folder = join-path $Dest $folder if(!(Get-Item $folder -ErrorAction Ignore)){ New-Item -Path $folder -ItemType Directory } #tage pptx [string]$pptx = $psession.GetElementsByTagName('enclosure').url $target=join-path $folder ($code+".pptx") if(!(get-item ($folder +'\' + $code +'.pptx') -ErrorAction Ignore)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $pptx -Destination $target -DisplayName "PPT $Code" -Description $folder } else{ Write-Output " $code ppt already downloaded" } } } if($MP4){ foreach ($vsession in $vsessions){ $code = $vsession.comments.split('/') | Select-Object -last 1 $folder = $code + ' - ' + $vsession.title.Replace(':', '-').Replace('?', '').Replace('/', '-').Replace('<', '').Replace('|', '').Replace('"','').Replace('*','') $folder = $folder.substring(0, [System.Math]::Min(100, $folder.Length)) $folder = $folder.trim() $folder = join-path $Dest $folder if(!(Get-Item $folder -ErrorAction Ignore)){ New-Item -Path $folder -ItemType Directory } [string]$video = $vsession.GetElementsByTagName('enclosure').url $target=join-path $folder ($code+".mp4") #$video if(!(get-item ($folder +'\' + $code +'.mp4') -ErrorAction Ignore)){ Start-BitsTransfer -Source $video -Destination $target -DisplayName "MP4 $Code" -Description $folder }else{ Write-Output " $code video already downloaded" } } } |
If you want to follow my script I have it on GitHub where you probably will find the latest version !