Fabrice Meillon BLog's (Archives)

Retrouvez moi sur mon nouveau blog...

2005-09-29T23:20:00Z

Qui dit Professionnel de l'informatique (IT Pro) dit Microsoft TechNet et oui j'ai donc migré moi aussi sur Technet...

Retrouvez moi sur mon nouveau blog sur http://blogs.technet.com/fabricem_blogs

Mais rassurrez-vous le contenu de mon ancien blog reste en ligne :)

Alors à tout de suite sur TechNet

Fabrice

Mise à jour de Windows Base Operating System Management Pack pour MOM 2005

2005-09-28T11:09:00Z

Mise à jour disponible du pack d'administration Windows Base Operating System Management Pack pour MOM 2005 sur

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=fr&FamilyID=0639e4a4-3457-4978-947c-fd6849fa0bde

Description rapide

Microsoft Windows Base Operating System Management Pack analyse les performances et la disponibilité des composants de base des versions 4.0 et ultérieures des systèmes d'exploitation Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft Windows Base Operating System Management Pack analyse les performances et la disponibilité des composants de base des systèmes d'exploitation Microsoft Windows. Par ses fonctions de détection, de déclenchement d'alertes et de réponse automatique en cas d'événements critiques et d'indicateurs de performance, ce pack d'administration permet de signaler, de corriger et d'éviter les interruptions de service potentielles du système d'exploitation. Windows Base Operating System Management Pack vous aide à garantir un fonctionnement correct des systèmes d'exploitation et de leurs composants.
Le Guide de Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack présente le contenu du pack d'administration et explique comment le déployer. Vous pouvez télécharger le guide du pack d'administration à partir du site Web Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8B3A868-F72C-4998-A7FF-D06FE7D31D12).

Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 disponible ....

2005-09-28T11:06:00Z

Enfin il est disponible sur http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a61d369-b785-4550-bde8-84e734ec5e40&DisplayLang=en

Pour rappel :

This management pack monitors availability and reliability for SQL, Exchange, IIS, AD and Windows and allows to determine whether the availability and reliability objectives are met.

Overview

The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Availability Reporting Management Pack collects and analyzes data from the event logs of your servers, and generates reports that you can study to improve server availability and reliability. You can identify the causes for planned and unplanned downtime and take preemptive actions to decrease downtime in the future.

Availability Reporting uses a number of metrics to provides data that you can view and customize to suit the needs of your IT organization. Each type of report includes tables or graphs with information about the availability and reliability of servers in your environment. You can input parameters, such as specific periods of time, to filter the data presented in the reports.

Availability Reports provide detailed and specific availability and reliability information for several Microsoft applications. For applications not currently supported, Availability Reporting provides basic availability and reliability statistics at the operating system level. In such cases, Availability Reporting measures whether the operating system is running but does not measure whether applications are running.

Annonce de la disponibilité de System Center Data Protection Manager 2006

2005-09-27T23:35:00Z

Annonce faite ce jour et relayé sur http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/sep05/09-27SCDPMLaunchPR.mspx et en externe sur http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=6944

SMS 2003 à l'IT FORUM 2005

2005-09-23T15:04:00Z

Quelques détails sur les sessions relatives à System Management Server 2003

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP2 Overview and Upgrade Best Practices

Interested in updating your SMS environment, but not ready for SMS v4? Come to this session to see what new features are being included in the next release of SMS 2003, SMS 2003 SP2. We’ll discuss new features, as well as cover how to upgrade from earlier versions of SMS to SMS 2003 SP2

Systems Management Server (SMS) v4 Sneak Peak

What’s on the horizon for change and configuration management of Windows systems? Why would I want to move off SMS 2003? Come and see a sneak peak of the next major release of SMS, SMS v4. In this session we’ll provide a look at some of the new features that SMS v4 will offer for management of Windows systems. This will include demonstrations of the product including a key theme of SMS v4, simplicity.

Troubleshooting Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003

Do you already have SMS 2003 implemented, and want to be aware of issues that others have run into? Whether or not you are new to SMS 2003, this session will cover the most common issues involving SMS 2003. Come and learn what others have encountered to help you prepare your environment to prevent the same issues from appearing in your site.

et bien d'autres.... http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/Pre/Content/sessionsearch.aspx

http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx

Enjoy et inscrivez-vous !!

Sessions MOM 2005 à l' ITFORUM

2005-09-23T14:57:00Z

Voici les principales sessions sur MOM 2005 à l'IT FORUM 2005

Cross-Platform Monitoring with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005

How do you leverage MOM 2005 for cross-platform monitoring? We will show you how you can use MOM 2005 to monitor non-Windows Operating Systems, network infrastructure, hardware, and more. Come to this session to learn how to make MOM 2005 the primary monitoring solution for both Windows and non-Windows environments. You will never need another monitoring tool for your enterprise ever again!

Microsoft Management Roadmap and Dynamic Systems Intitiative (DSI)

The Dynamic Systems Initiative is Microsoft's long term strategy to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of developing, deploying, and managing applications. Come to hear how the progress we have made can help you today, and learn about the investments we are making to solve your problems tomorrow. This session will cover Microsoft’s management product plans for the next 12 months, including new product releases, as well as outline the new System Center family of products and discuss how they integrate to provide a complete management solution

Microsoft Operartions Manager (MOM) Product Roadmap: How MOM is Changing the Face of Operations Management

This session will discuss Microsoft's roadmap for Operations Management. Come to this session to learn the objectives for the next releases of MOM and the powerful set of features that will be implemented in the next version.

Monitoring Web Applications Using Web Sites and Services Management Pack

Learn how to use the Web Sites and Services Management Pack to monitor availability and performance of your Web applications, or the Web Services they may be consuming. This MOM 2005 Management Pack monitors Web applications by performing one or more HTTP requests against the monitored entity and measuring performance metrics for threshold comparison or collection. This session will cover installation and deployment of the Management Pack, basic monitoring functionality (response time, content matching), and typical customizations. It will also cover monitoring from geographically dispersed "watcher nodes," monitoring in heterogeneous environments, and how you can integrate this Management Pack in an already established operations process.

http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx

Enjoy et inscrivez-vous !!

Sessions Virtual Server à l'IT Forum

2005-09-23T14:47:00Z

Voici un extract des sessions de l'IT FORUM sur Virtual Server 2005

Automating a Dev/Test Lab with Virtual Server

Virtualization can significantly reduce the cost of developing and testing complex multi-tier applications. Multiple servers can easily be provisioned and manipulated 'virtually' without requiring large amounts of physical hardware. In this Chalk-&-Talk we will discuss how virtualization is changing dev/test and provide some real world examples

Understanding and Working with the Virtual Server Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Disk Format

Microsoft has standardized on the VHD file format for the running and management of virtual machines. This file format provides for a range of disk types, including dynamically expanding, linked, undo and differencing disks. In this session we will take a deep dive into the file format, and discuss best practices and partner offerings for disk image management and migration

Virtual Server - Advanced Scripting and Other Secrets

Virtual Server provides a powerful selection of COM interfaces for manipulating all facets of a virtual machine. This can support everything from provisioning to day-to-day management operations. In this session we will showcase the COM API and demonstrate a range of scripting examples. We will also demonstrate how partner offerings are using the API to productize key provisioning and management functionality

http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx

Enjoy et inscrivez-vous !!

Tous à l'IT FORUM à Barcelone du 15 au 17 novembre

2005-09-22T23:19:00Z

Microsoft IT Forum à Barcelone du 15 au 17 novembre, 3 jours de formation technique pour voir toutes les nouveautés

La future édition de Microsoft IT Forum se déroulera du 15 au 17 Novembre (14 novembre pour les séminaires pré-conférence) à Barcelone, en Espagne. C’est la première conférence européenne réservée aux professionnels de l’informatique, afin de les aider à planifier, déployer et administrer l’entreprise connectée.

Rendez-vous sur http://web.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx pour consulter le programme basé sur les prochaines technologies : Windows Server R2, SQL Server 2005, BizTalk Server 2006, Windows Vista et la prochaine version de Microsoft Office.

L’IT Forum réunit plus de 3000 personnes, vos pairs, mais aussi des experts de Microsoft, ainsi que ceux qui développent nos produits à Redmond. Nous vous proposons 170 sessions techniques, 100 d’ateliers interactifs, et 65 séances de travaux pratiques (hands-on labs).

J'y serai et vous ?

Virtual Server 2005 R2 et l'hyperthreading

2005-09-22T15:17:00Z

Pour ceux qui avait lu mon post sur Virtual Server 2005 et et l'hyperthreading (cf http://blogs.msdn.com/fabricem/archive/2005/05/25/421673.aspx) et bien cela change avec Virtual Server 2005 R2, il ne sera plus nécessaire de desactiver l'hyperthreading en cas de sollicitation importante de la CPU par les machines virtuelles.

Des évolutions au niveau du driver Virtual Machine Monitor avec la version R2 permettent maintenant de s'affranchire de cette contrainte et donc laisser l'hyperthreading activé (bien sur cela ne veut pas dire qu'un serveur host bi processeurs hyperthreadés ou dual core soit aussi performant qu'un quadri mais il n'y aura pas de pénalisation à utiliser de tel processeur).

Matériel émulé avec Virtual Server 2005

2005-09-21T11:02:00Z

BIOS

Virtual Server 2005 emulates an American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) basic input/output system (BIOS) using the Intel 440BX with the PIIX4 chipset and the following on-board components:

• Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)

• Real-time clock

• Random access memory (RAM) and video RAM (VRAM)

• Memory controller

• Direct memory access (DMA) controller

• Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus

• ISA bus

• System Management (SM) bus

• Power management

• 8259 programmable interrupt controller (PIC)

• Programmable interrupt timer (PIT)

Floppy disk drives

Virtual Server 2005 emulates floppy disk drive support for floppy disk drives of up to 1.44 megabytes (MB). Virtual Server 2005 also supports mapping to real floppy disk drives or to floppy drive images.

Serial ports (COM ports)

Virtual Server 2005 emulates two serial ports. These ports can be mapped to the host computer's serial ports.

Note You can only map to the standard COM 1 to COM 4 physical serial ports. Additionally, you can do this only if the ports are using standard I/O address ranges. Therefore, many add-on serial cards do not work with Virtual Server. However, older ISA cards that contain jumper switches may work.

Printer port (LPT port)

Virtual Server 2005 emulates a single printer port that maps to the host computer's parallel port.

Note You can only map to the LPT1 physical parallel port. Additionally, you can do this only if the port is using the standard I/O address range of 378h to 37Fh. Therefore, add-on parallel cards are not supported in Virtual Server 2005.

Mouse

Virtual Server 2005 emulates a standard PS/2 Microsoft IntelliMouse device that can be mapped to either a PS/2 mouse or to a USB mouse on the host computer.

Keyboard

Virtual Server 2005 emulates a standard PS/2 101-key Microsoft keyboard that can be mapped to either a PS/2 keyboard or to a USB keyboard on the host computer.

Ethernet controller

Virtual Server 2005 emulates a multi-port Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 21140 10/100TX 100 megabit Ethernet network adapter with one to four network connections, multiplexed on a single Virtual Server slot. An unlimited number of virtual networks are supported. All supported versions of the Windows operating system include drivers for the DEC 21140 network card.

Note To obtain MS-DOS drivers for the DEC 21140 network card, visit the following Intel Web site:

http://www.intel.com/design/network/drivers/index.htm#21143

Note The DEC 21140 network card may appear on the virtual machine as "Intel 21140." These are equivalent network adapters.

Processor

A virtual computer uses the CPU of the physical computer. Therefore a virtual machine has the same type of CPU as the physical computer where Virtual Server 2005 is installed. Although Virtual Server runs on systems that have up to 32 processors, guest operating systems only see a single CPU for each virtual machine. Virtual Server is optimized for industry standard hardware that has up to eight CPUs.

Memory

Virtual Server 2005 supports up to 64 gigabytes (GB) of RAM on the host computer and up to 3.6 GB for each virtual machine. Highly scalable systems can only support very large memory configurations if PAE (Physical Addressing Extensions) and AWE (Advanced Windowing Extensions) are installed on the host operating system.

Video card

Virtual Server 2005 emulates the S3 Trio64 graphics adapter with 4 MB of VRAM, Visual Electronics Standards Association (VESA) 2.0 compliant VGA and SVGA support, and support for DirectX.

Note Before a virtual machine can recognize every available resolution, you must install the virtual machine additions.

Integrated device electronics (IDE)/ATAPI storage

Virtual Server 2005 emulates up to 4 IDE devices, such as hard drives, CD drives, DVD-ROM drives, or ISO images. Additionally, Virtual Server 2005 emulates virtual disk images of up to 128 GB per IDE channel.

Note IDE is limited to one transaction per bus, whether it is a physical IDE device or a virtual IDE device. If you have two IDE disks attached to the same virtual or physical IDE bus, you are limited to a single transaction for both devices.

Small computer system interface (SCSI) storage

Virtual Server 2005 emulates the Adaptec 7870 SCSI controller chip set. This chip set has up to four virtual SCSI adapters. Each SCSI hard disk can be up to two terabytes. Each virtual SCSI adapter can support up to seven virtual SCSI hard drives. Therefore, the total direct-connect storage capacity is over 56 terabytes per virtual machine. Virtual Server supports simple active or passive clustering between virtual machines.

Note SCSI controllers and disks support multiple, concurrent input/output (I/O) to increase the performance of both physical SCSI devices and virtual SCSI devices. We recommend that you use SCSI whenever you can.

Sound card

Virtual Server 2005 does not include an emulated sound card.

Nouvelle organisation chez Microsoft Corp.

2005-09-21T08:57:00Z

Microsoft shuffled the deck of top executives on Tuesday, consolidating its seven divisions into three and naming four presidents to report to CEO Steve Ballmer. One of the new presidents, former senior vice president Jim Allchin, will retire at the end of 2006 when Windows Vista ships.

http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=6932

The three new divisions are Microsoft Platform Products and Services Division; the Microsoft Business Division; and Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division.

Allchin and Kevin Johnson are co-presidents of the Platform Products and Services Division, which includes the current Client division (consisting primarily of the Windows client); the Server & Tools division, formerly run by Eric Rudder; and MSN. Johnson is supposed to take over the division when Allchin retires.

Chat Microsoft TechNet : Nouveautés de Virtual Server 2005 R2 le 28 septembre de 17h à 18h

2005-09-20T22:55:00Z

Quelles sont les nouveautés de Virtual Server R2, mais aussi toutes questions sur Virtual Server ?

Plus performante, plus simple, découvrez la nouvelle version de la solution de virtualisation Microsoft.

Vous pourrez également poser vos questions sur la stratégie et les futures évolutions concernant la virtualisation et la plateforme Windows Server System.

Un Chat TechNet animé par Fabrice Meillon (Microsoft France).

c'est moi :).

Inscription sur http://www.microsoft.com/france/events/event.aspx?EventID=118763496

Appliances HP pour System Center Data Protection Manager

2005-09-20T08:23:00Z

HP announces line of hardware appliances build on System Center Data Protection Manager

HP introduced a new line of data protection products built on Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager at Storage Networking World Europe. The HP ProLiant DL 100 G2 and HP ProLiant DL 380 G4 Data Protection Storage Servers (DPSSs) help eliminate complexity for customers with one-click data protection that is easier to use and deploy than other offerings. The network-attached storage appliances are built around Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager and Windows Storage Server 2003.

Fully configured and optimized out-of-the-box for disk-based protection of Windows file server environments, DPSSs provide near continuous data protection for Windows file servers, combined with simple end-user file recovery. These servers can be configured for small and mid-size businesses as well as for enterprises that need data protection for corporate and branch office file servers. The DL100 G2 server starts at $5,499 for a 1-terabyte model ranging up to $20,499 for a 6-Tbyte unit. The DL380 G4 is priced at $54,999 for a 9-Tbyte model. Both server types are available Sept. 26, according to HP.

For more information: HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Server DL100 G2 and HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Server DL380 G4

Outil d'inventaire SMS 2003 pour les mises à jour Microsoft (Inventory Tool For Microsoft Updates : ITMU) disponible en Français

2005-09-20T08:15:00Z

Enfin, il est disponible, Outil d'inventaire SMS 2003 pour les mises à jour Microsoft

sur http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=fr&FamilyID=ba59d1a1-ff98-4103-824d-bbe6e414346b

Présentation

L'Outil d'inventaire SMS 2003 pour les mises à jour Microsoft est le tout dernier outil d'inventaire en matière de mises à jour de sécurité pour Systems Management Server. Issu de la technologie des services WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), il offre un système de gestion fiable et flexible pour les mises à jour de sécurité, les correctifs cumulatifs et les Service packs. Cette version comprend une installation complète de cet outil d'inventaire, ainsi qu'une fonction de redistribution de l'Agent Windows Update en vue de la détection et du déploiement des derniers Service packs, mises à jour de sécurité et correctifs cumulatifs publiés par Microsoft et destinés à un grand nombre de produits, dont Windows, Office, SQL et Exchange.

Important : L'outil d'inventaire ne peut s'installer et fonctionner correctement que sur les sites et les clients avancés SMS 2003 SP1. La mise à niveau de certains composants sera nécessaire avant de pouvoir utiliser cet outil. Pour plus d'informations sur les mises à niveau requises, voir le Guide de préinstallation fourni avec le produit téléchargé.

Configuration minimale

Systèmes d'exploitation pris en charge : Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003

Serveur SMS : SMS 2003 SP1 ou version ultérieure
Client SMS : Client avancé SMS 2003 SP1 ou version ultérieure
Système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur géré : Windows 2000 Server SP4 ou version ultérieure, Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 ou version ultérieure, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition ou version ultérieure, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition ou version ultérieure, Windows 2000 Professionnel SP4 ou version ultérieure et Windows XP SP1 ou version ultérieure
Langues : cet outil est disponible en anglais, en français, en allemand et en japonais.

ADS 1.1 disponible en téléchargement

2005-09-19T15:13:00Z

La nouvelle version de ADS est disponible (elle inclu Virtual Server Migration Toolkit et le support du 64 bits) : version 1.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D99A89C9-4321-4BF6-91F9-9CA0DED26734&displaylang=en

Overview

With Windows Server 2003, Microsoft extends the platform to make it easier for administrators to build and administer very large, scaled out deployments of Windows servers. Automated Deployment Services (ADS) includes a new set of imaging tools developed by Microsoft and a more secure, remote-able infrastructure for rapidly deploying both Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 onto bare metal servers. In addition, ADS offers a more secure, reliable script execution framework that lets administrators perform script-based administration on 1,000 servers as easily as they once did on a single server.

The preferred solution for use in deploying Windows Server operating systems in your data centers. ADS v1.1 point release includes a rollup of bug fixes and adds support for x64 platforms and Windows PE

Plus d'information sur http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/ads/default.mspx