Hyper-V How To: Free Tools for Hyper-V Management

High Speed Networking Deployment Guide Released

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Update

Troubleshooting and data gathering for WSUS

Bootable USB Drive Recipe (by Will, from the Technet Ireland blog)

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Wizard Editor

CSV LUN sizing Best Practices from the MVUG Blog

TechNet Webcast: Automating Windows 7 Deployments Using System Center Configuration Manager

TechNet Webcast: Understanding Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability

Article on Troubleshooting Operations Manager Console Performance in large environments

Fixing Troubled Agents from Kevin Holman’s OpsMgr Blog

Setting up an image factory, part 1: Using MDT 2010 Lite Touch with SCVMM 2008 R2 from Michael Niehaus’s Blog

Troubleshooting Slow Logons from the Directory Services Team blog (Part 1, Part 2)

Common Issues accessing DFS Namespace as seen by the Directory Services Support Team (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

Stop Error 0x0000007e after enabling Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2

I was working on replacing a Terminal Services Gateway running on Windows Server 2008 to Remote Desktop Services Gateway on Windows Server 2008 R2. Remote Desktop Services is the new name for Terminal Services in Windows Services 2008 R2.

The migration was relatively easy, on the TS Gateway open the TS Gateway Manager MMC, right click on the gateway server and select “Export policy and configuration settings”

Select where you want to save the configuration file to, it is in an XML format and then click Ok

I was the changing the server name as part of the upgrade process and I had to edit the XML configuration file and just change the name of the server at the top of the exported configuration before performing the import on the RDS Gateway.

On the RDS Gateway open the RDS Gateway Manager MMC, right click on the gateway server and select “Import policy and configuration settings”

Select the location of the XML configuration file and click Ok

Overall it took less 3 hours to get it up and running (including the OS installation), nice and and easy and once I get MDT 2010 in place that will cut down my deployment times.

Links

Remote Desktop Services Product Website

Remote Desktop Services Technical Resources Website

Group Policy References for Windows and Windows Server can be downloaded from here.

Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 documentation

Hyper-V Update List

Chapter 8 from the Hyper-V Resource Kit : Moving from Virtual Server 2005 R2 to Hyper-V

Downloadable System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 documentation

A 2 part video series on Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration using MDT2010 – Part 1, Part 2

Microsoft Security Update Guide

WDS F11 Server Selection Feature

System Center Callback – troubleshooting for System Center products

Updated Virtualization Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides now available to download

Some links to stuff I found interesting

Building PRO Enabled Management Packs - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1d7fb014-9826-47e8-a69b-018f785cb963&displaylang=en

SCVMM 2008 and 2008 R2 Microsoft Product Support Reports RTW - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4e3dc013-c299-4b80-9735-64a8b9fa60c7

Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer for SCVMM 2008 and SCVMM 2008 R2 - http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/archive/2009/09/17/announcing-the-rtw-of-virtual-machine-manager-configuration-analyzer-vmmca-for-scvmm-2008-and-2008-r2.aspx

Active Directory Web Service for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 RTW - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=008940c6-0296-4597-be3e-1d24c1cf0dda

SCCM 2007 support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/16/clarifying-windows-os-support-and-configuration-manager-2007.aspx

I  checked on the Volume Licensing Web site earlier and SCOM 2007 R2 is now available for download. I am looking forward to getting this into production as soon as possible.

One thing to watch out for is some new licensing for the System Center Server Management Suite CAL kick in when you start using SCOM 2007 R2. Another article on the transition and migration path is here.

Since I have not posted in a while I thought I might post a few links to some products and guides that may be useful and are of interest to me.

Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide 1.2 released

SCVMM 2008 R2 Beta released and can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect.

Microsoft and Red Hat have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another’s hypervisor. More here on the Port 25 blog.

RichCopy is a bulk file copy utility.

Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer Update 1 released and available to download from here. There is information about the original release of the product here.

A article on creating a Windows Server 2008 template in SCVMM 2008