Quickie: MaxTokenSize increased significaly in Windows Server 2010 and Windows 8
Regarding to official blog article from Directory Service Team MaxTokenSize for Access Token tickets, which is four times more than before.
Regarding to official blog article from Directory Service Team MaxTokenSize for Access Token tickets, which is four times more than before.
What a cool command in PowerShell 🙂 It doesn’t even ask if you are sure 😀 Boooooooooom….server rebooted.
We do have access to Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. So I checked if we have right to download Windows Server 2012. And we do. So I downloaded and installed it. I wanted to Activate it. I went to Action Center // Windows Activation. I clicked button called Activate and I’ve got following error:
So I tried to google for an error: 0x8007007B. Nothing similar to my problem was found. I tried to call licence call centrum and they redirected me to support call centrum. After waiting on line to get to technician I checked status of our contract with Microsoft. I found out that all our contracts Expired or Ended. So in short: Error message:”0x8007007B The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.” means you don’t have right to activate Microsoft Windows 2012 Server product 🙂
Thank you Microsoft to make your error messages more and more understable.
Today is a day when Windows Server 2012 was released and it’s available for download. First new feature I wanted to test is Data Deduplication.
Theory
Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 is performed as background job, which runs by default every hour. This process runs when server is idle and it doesn’t eat all server’s free resources. One job can run per one volume. It can deduplicate/check 100GB/hour. It does deduplication of variable-sized chunks (32-128KB) of files. Nice picture is on the bottom of this page. By default it deduplicates files which were not accessed for more than 5 days. It doesn’t deduplicate following file types: aac, aif, aiff, asf, asx, au, avi, flac, jpeg, m3u, mid, midi, mov, mp1, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpa, mpe, mpeg, mpeg2, mpeg3, mpg, ogg, qt, qtw, ram, rm, rmi, rmvb, snd, swf, vob, wav, wax, wma, wmv, wvx, accdb, accde, accdr, accdt, docm, docx, dotm, dotx, pptm, potm, potx, ppam, ppsx, pptx, sldx, sldm, thmx, xlsx, xlsm, xltx, xltm, xlsb, xlam, xll, ace, arc, arj, bhx, b2, cab, gz, gzip, hpk, hqx, jar, lha, lzh, lzx, pak, pit, rar, sea, sit, sqz, tgz, uu, uue, z, zip, zoo.
Let’s play
This feature is not enabled by default. You need to enable it by wizard Add Roles and Features:
When this is done you can use all Data Deduplication Powershell Cmdlets. To use these cmdlets you need to run Powershell as Administrator :-).
Microsoft engineers gave us one tool DDPEVAL.exe which can do little check data on our drives and tell us expected deduplication savings. You can copy utility DDPEVAL.exe to other system and run it to check deduplication expected ratio before even trying deduplication.
Today I installed final version of Windows Server 2012 and I noticed new copy window which looks very nice:
I hope Metro look have more than that 🙂
Today I was at the VMWare ThinApp forum answering questions and I found out nice question asked in very funny and nice way:
I tried to copy and paste it into google translator and it really translated even Simplified Chinese questions 🙂
Have a nice day,
Today one customer sent me an e-mail with a following problem. They wanted to use e-mail address microsoft@DOMAIN.TLD, but when they assigned this e-mail address to someone they received error that e-mail address is already in use.
Once upon the time I was at one campus and I wanted to do presentation. When I they gave me IP address of projector I wanted to use, I started to wonder how to connect to it 🙂 Now I know, Windows 7 has utility to do so. It’s called netproj.exe. You run it, enter IP/host name, password and you are connected. Really nice to know 🙂
Today Microsoft released great utility to check health of Active Directory Replication in your environment.
More information about utility is HERE.
I tested it and it’s nice tool to check vitality. You don’t have to use command line utilities.
Just check it and you’ll love it 🙂
Recent Comments