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Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Unified Platform (Isvet Laclaustra)

May 3, 2011 § Leave a comment

Acronis ABR 11 will be out by June 21st 2011…

Acronis^® Backup & Recovery™ 11 is built on a unified platform that supports backup and recovery at both the file and system levels, as well as data protection for physical, virtual and cloud environments. It also supports various backup media, including disk, tape and cloud targets for off-site replication.

This fully integrated platform offers a suite of modules that protect business data and applications with unprecedented ease-of-use. The common code base allows the modules to work together seamlessly or operate standalone, depending on your particular needs.

One solution performs a single-pass backup all at once for all your files, folders, applications and operating systems. You benefit from intuitive, easy-to-implement technology that reduces your IT operating and maintenance costs.

More details at:

http://www.acronis.com/new-backup-recovery/#overview

Isvet – MVP

Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0.– IS OUT! (Isvet Laclaustra)

April 27, 2011 § Leave a comment

The latest MOF IT Pro Quick Start Kit includes new materials and updated references to the most recent MOF supplemental materials, all designed to help you get up and running with MOF 4.0. Get MOF. Get to work.

Download it at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c

BCDEDIT–Windows 2008 R2–Boot From .VHD (Isvet Laclaustra)

April 18, 2011 § Leave a comment

The beauty of BCDEDIT… Windows TIME!

The BCDEDIT continues to support the Windows OS including Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. If you have the need to boot your machine with a different OS [Full Capable, full use of all PERIFERALS] you might need the OLD school DUAL Boot.

Well the solution if you are in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 is to:

1.Start a CMD

2.In CMD invoke BCDEDIT

3. As a result you will receive the BCD current boot information / order and the {current} OS boot configuration.

4. Use the identifier {current} as your base for duplicating the required parameters necessary to have a 2nd option {identifier} during your machine’s boot process. To do this just use the following via CMD:

BCDEDIT /COPY {current} /d “Windows 2nd OS Option”

5. As a result you will receive a duplicated BCD entry yet the identifier {XXXXXXX}would be different, you need to copy that as it will be required to update / correct the following parameters:

osdevice

device

6. In the CMD now you need to edit the parameters to point / located the .VHD you want to use as the 2nd OS option during the boot process. To do so just modify the parameters noted above with the /SET command.

BCDEDIT /SET {XXXXXXXXXX} device VHD=[c:]\specific_path_to.VHD

BCDEDIT /SET {XXXXXXXXX} osdevice VHD=[c:]\specific_path_to.VHD

With this you are now able to select the OS to boot from, the default time is 30 seconds.

7. Have fun!

Isvet – MVP

MDOP 2010 Training AGPM & DART in One Day (Isvet Laclaustra)

February 17, 2011 § Leave a comment

AGPM – Change Management for GPOs

DART – Support the OS and provide Remediation’s – Solutions for Desktops

The MDOP family of products includes the AGPM & DART among other tools. AGPM is a great tool for optimizing GPOs, it can be set on a Non-DC Host and can be managed from an Administrators workstation via the AGPM console. The tool is a server –client model software made available by Microsoft via the Software Assurance package. DART is a support package ready to help with the day to day issues like; data recovery, diagnose faults, manage acco8unt passwords plus many others.

Join us on this 1Day session covering the AGPM & DART tools made available in MDOP 2010.

We start at 9:00 am and finish at 5:00 pm.

Isvet Laclaustra – MVP